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― HI DERE, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

This is all Barbara Walters' fault. She's always making people say things they don't really want to say.

Everyone knows this whole voicemail business will blow over pretty soon, so I'd hate for Baldwin to blow both his own career and the progress of the best show on tv over this. Ireland's 11... she won't hate him forever.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

he said he'd fulfill his contract obligations if they wouldn't let him out. that could be good new...right?

― Gukbe, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

― Nicole, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

Re: voicemail, I'm still most surprised by his representative skipping over the apology part and pretty much saying "yeah, well, if you had to deal with Kim Basinger, you'd yell at people too."

I like to imagine they got in a fight about how, contrary to typical biology and Hollywood wife-replacement, Kim Basinger looks basically the same as she did when they were together, while Baldwin hit total middle-age huge-headed-Irish-guy beefiness.

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

I saw that article too I almost DIED NO ALEC STAY STAY STAY

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070426/ap_en_ce/people_baldwin;_ylt=Av2XybD3DmJ0rAw8.GK1GarQbbUC

― musically, Thursday, 26 April 2007 01:05 (nineteen years ago)

a friend of a friend claimed to be boycotting the show after alec baldwin's voicemail thingy

I was like wtf friend of a friend, if there is one thing I cannot get upset about in this day and age it is people yelling at their kids. if anythign we need more of that shit!

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

i don't care how many childrens' lives have to be ruined to keep 30 rock on the air.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine sez: "this is a travesty. it would be much funnier if jack had to reprimand someone on the show for being too mean to their kid via cellphone."

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

o shit! this is tonight isnt it. dem debate, 30 rock, phil hughes start all going at the same time omg what do i do

― deeznuts, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

is the only unfunny thing on this show the trucker hats?

― jergïns, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

is the only unfunny thing on this show the trucker hats?

-- jergïns, Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:48 PM

what i've been saying! NBC plz keep baldwin and dump horrible irony hat guy from the Dave Matthews Band video

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 26 April 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

i have some voiceover outtakes he did for a commercial a few years back

where? where? And is it as good as Orson Welles and the frozen peas?

― kenan, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

The big hoo-hah over the voicemail thing is crazy. So he lost his temper. So he was a bit of an asshole. He did not scar the child, he did not beat her, he angrily called her "rude". Please relax, people. If I got that speech from my dad, I would consider it getting off easy.

― kenan, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, seriously. he didn't do anything illegal, and certainly nothing worth losing/giving up an award-winning role for. even if he took a year off to get his shit together and be with his family or whatever, at the end of that year he'd be like, wait, I'm still an actor, why'd I throw away a perfectly good job.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well Kenan he did call her stuff like a "little pig," which isn't entirely normal for going off on your 11-year-old daughter.

But yeah, for the most part this isn't far from the middle of the bell curve in "normal instance of your parents going off and being dicks to you and/or saying awful post-divorce things about your other parent." Hell, considering the stuff lots of people do to their kids, this might still rank on the good side.

"Thoughtless little pig," though, it kinda hints at some issues beyond just getting mad once!

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

he claims he was directing the message (esp. the pig part) at Kim B.???

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

If I ever blew my stack and called my daughter a thoughtless little pig, I'd drink myself to death from shame. That said, I hope this all dies down and Baldwin stays on the show, or is kept on the show.

― Rock Hardy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

If I got that speech from my dad, I would consider it getting off easy.

OTM. most 11-year-olds are little shits, and most of them don't hear it often enough. the only upsetting part of this story is the message getting leaked -- totally unclassy move.

― bernard snowy, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Well Kenan he did call her stuff like a "little pig," which isn't entirely normal for going off on your 11-year-old daughter.

Oh, pish. I was often called a "little shit" when I was 11. I'm not saying it's right, I'm just saying that yelling at your kids is not the world's worst form of psychological abuse. And he wasn't making a crack about her weight, he was saying she has terrible manners.

― kenan, Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Well I guess it's just down to what people mean when they say words, but I actually feel like those two things are maybe two different level of mean? Or anyway "little shit" reads to me like "I'm really pissed off," whereas calling an 11-year-old girl a "little pig" somehow feels ... like, personal? (I didn't interpret it as having anything to do with weight.) But yeah, whatever, it'll scan differently depending who you are, and it's surely nowhere near the most awful thing said to a child that day.

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Pigs are adorable!

― kenan, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

wtf gis?

http://www.wayodd.com/funny-pictures2/funny-pictures-whoa-piggy-2a4.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I know what I'm wearing at Halloween this year!

― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ha also, you know, weight-related or not, calling an 11-year-old girl a "pig" in our culture in ANY context is just like asking for problems.

― nabisco, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

I hope that picture made you think of that addendum, nabisco.

― HI DERE, Thursday, 26 April 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Dr. Spaceman: "My techniques virtually guarantee male orgasm."

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 April 2007 01:04 (nineteen years ago)

i just can get past the fact that baldwin couldnt actually fuck that girl without killing her

― deeznuts, Friday, 27 April 2007 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

"Ride it all the way to hell!"

― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 27 April 2007 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

Kenneth is the best character on the show, sometimes.

― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 27 April 2007 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

Like when he's on screen.

― David R., Friday, 27 April 2007 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

How's the Dow?

― Clay, Friday, 27 April 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

disappointing episode to end the season on, I thought

― akm, Friday, 27 April 2007 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

Really? I thought it was the most consistently funny episode in several weeks.

― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 April 2007 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

Elaine Stritch as the mom!

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 27 April 2007 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

"They got pretzels downstairs!"

― en i see kay, Friday, 27 April 2007 08:22 (nineteen years ago)

"I was at a costume party. The host's dog attacked me, so I had to stab it."

Quite funny, but honestly, none of the last three have lived up to a lot of the rest of the season. Bit of an odd one to end on. At least there's another season of it at least, assuming something horrible doesn't happen.

― Gukbe, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:44 (nineteen years ago)

'can i play barack obama' 'no! its bad enough we had tracy playing him!'

― and what, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Stritch was reportedly considered for the role of Dorothy on The Golden Girls, but, by her own admission, offended the producers by improvising profanity into the script. The role was subsequently cast with Bea Arthur.

― and what, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

GOD DAMN YOU GOLDEN GIRL PRODUCERS

― David R., Friday, 27 April 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I love Dr. Spaceman.

― Nicole, Friday, 27 April 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

AB just announced on The View that he has asked to be let out of his 30 Rock contract.

― sunny successor, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

that was already announced earlier this week! and nbc said "no"

― akm, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, maybe it was calculated so that he could look contrite and still stay on the show.

― kenan, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

i just watched the last two on nbc.com having missed them. I thought they were pretty good...I just wanted more of a finale with Phoebe, I expected some kind of back-story about here being a gold-digger from cleveland or something, something about her losing the accent.

― dan selzer, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

What the hell was Phoebe saying at dinner "Petunlia"? or something. Stritich's comeback was beautiful. I can't paraphrase it to give it justice.

― brownie, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

something about petunias (flowers)

― akm, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but wasn't she mispronouncing it?

― brownie, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

or am I insane

― brownie, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I WILL CUT YOU OPEN LIKE A TAUN TAUN

― Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

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