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i loved when baldwin said the rural juror perfectly

― cutty (mcutt), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"I'm a huge Kevin Grisham fan."

― max (maxreax), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

hi, i'm whoopi goldberg and this is WORKING OUT WITH WHOOPI! ...

...

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

No, it's gotta be "oral germwhore".

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:43 (seventeen years ago) link

ONE DELICIOUS FOODBALL

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry I'll stop, I'm watching and posting at the same time now.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Saturday, 13 January 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

this show makes me love tv comedy again
(even though i love the office and AD, this is so TV COMEDY and awesome at it)

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

the flashback bit to liz waiting backstage for jenna, and then the same flashback from jenna's perspective = classic tv! and funny!

― rrrobyn, breeze blown meadow of cheeriness (rrrobyn), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:15 (seventeen years ago) link

"i'ma make you a mixtape! you like phil collins?"
"i have two ears and a heart, don't i?"

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I shouted with laughter at that line.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

"Cheese and crackers!"

― cws (cws), Saturday, 13 January 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

laugh all you want, 97% of American didn't get the Maureen Dowd joke

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link

with the ratings it gets it would be a prime suspect fort cancelation if it weren't for the way it cozies up to NBC corporate culture -- and being a product of Lorne Michaels, it's relatively safe, especially with Sorkin's show tanking and getting a pity extension.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:17 (seventeen years ago) link

don't get me wrong, it's the only sitcom i watch. even when i come home too late and miss The Office, this show destroys me.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Here's the old thread.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:02 (seventeen years ago) link

(G00gle doesn't work but I just looked at New Questions Culture Television and it was right there)

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"i'ma make you a mixtape! you like phil collins?"
"i have two ears and a heart, don't i?"

I wept when I heard that one.

― musically (musically), Saturday, 13 January 2007 07:08 (seventeen years ago) link

97 percent? Maureen Dowd *is* a bestselling author. Sure, I have a crush on her, what of it?

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link

A few weeks ago, when Tina Fey's character discovers that Morgan's character isn't illiterate, as she'd thought, Morgan gets caught reading the op-ed page: "Damn, George Will just keeps getting more conservative!"

― A Radio Picture (Rrrickey), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:48 (seventeen years ago) link

What was the Maureen Dowd joke? I missed part of the episode.

― Nathan P1p (hoyanathan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Alec Baldwin's latest lover affair.

― Super Cub (Debito), Saturday, 13 January 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

i can't believe how much i love this show.

"cheese and crackers!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link

What was the Maureen Dowd joke?

Baldwin on the phone: "You hang up, Maureen ... no, you hang up ... okay, on three ... one, two, three ... no, I didn't hang up either, Maureen ... wait, Maureen, you're breaking up ... I lost the call." [proceeds to have whole other conversation, then turns to assistant] "Get me Maureen Dowd back on the phone."

― nabisco (nabisco), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:21 (seventeen years ago) link

that reminds me one of my favourite arrested development jokes, "you're supposed to say 'away'".

one-sided phone jokes are a very fertile source of humour! ask bob newhart

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 14 January 2007 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Or Chevy Chase -- "no, you're not supposed to actually blow on it..."

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I have every episode of this downloaded, and have watched every one at least twice, save for the first couple, which I think everyone agrees aren't as good.

Anyway. Top five moments so far:

1. Dennis' speech to Liz. "I cried like a big dumb homo." And "You have chosen to abort me." (I miss Dennis.)
2. "I have two ears and a heart, don't I?"
3. Tracy falls asleep on Conan. It's all about the buildup to it.
4. "I already have a drink. Do you think he'll buy me mozzarella sticks?"
5. Pretty much every line delivered by Alec Baldwin. But maybe especially, "I know what I know. Next time I see Putin I'm going to kick his teeth in."
4.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:21 (seventeen years ago) link

And no, that's not Eugene Mirman.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Bread is one of the worst things in the world.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Big runner up: everything said by Tracy Morgan. "I once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent!"

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:34 (seventeen years ago) link

"Those shoes are definitely bi-curious."

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 10:56 (seventeen years ago) link

My fav line:

lemon: "You're wearing a TUXEDO?"

baldwin: "it's after 6, i'm not a farmer"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i love it when he calls her pizza "greasy peasant food"

― max (maxreax), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Oprah and Stedman are the same person

― A B C (sparklecock), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

My fav line:
lemon: "You're wearing a TUXEDO?"
baldwin: "it's after 6, i'm not a farmer"

-- M@tt He1geson (matt@game[remove]informer.com), January 14th, 2007. (Matt Helgeson) (later) (link)

i was trying to remember that one!

― zombierza (tehresa), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Dowd joke also a bit of a dig at Sorkin (she's one of his famous exes-- Lahti character on his show is based on her (just like Christian lady is based on ex Kristin Chenoweth... guess he's got ex issues)).

― sydz (sydz), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I did not know that.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I have asked about this before but we are all supposed to get that the skinny white guy is a mock-up of Jimmy Fallon, right? Hence the impersonations and overall annoyingness.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I had to re-watch the Meat Machine infomercial at least 4 times before I could stop laughing enough at one joke to hear the next.

― baron kickass von awesomehausen (nickalicious), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost - Yeah, I've thought that too about skinny dude as Jimmy Fallon character.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

the way tracy chews that meat and talks is great

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link

skinny as alterna-fallon, also check

― m@p (plosive), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Hence the impersonations and overall annoyingness.

also they made him really dumb.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link

i enjoy his ray romano

― m@p (plosive), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:47 (seventeen years ago) link

(I think) no one mentioned yet how hilariously shit the TGS skits continue to be:

"No, when Paris Hilton makes out with the bear, the bear should act like he's into it."

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"tracy to the stage for 'pull your own wisdom teeth'"

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:00 (seventeen years ago) link

ok, Baldwin is about to get the Golden Globe

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link

fuck yeah i'm right

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:22 (seventeen years ago) link

It only just occurred to me that NBC's entire Thursday lineup was nominated.

Buck Henry is a writer on 30 Rock?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"Lemme tell ya about 20 year olds: half of them are 16."

― Dean Winters (rogermexico), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 03:17 (seventeen years ago) link

hah! I was like "buck henry?!?!". Makes such good sense.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:27 (seventeen years ago) link

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― j., Monday, 29 June 2020 18:03 (three years ago) link

esby: ilxors are woke hive-mind
nearly every ilxor on this thread: actually the blackface in 30 rock is cool
real woke people: tina fey must be killed

― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:07 (three years ago) link

The context of the Tosh outburst wasn't "this statement is wrong", it was "stfu and stop interrupting my show", which is why comedians engage hecklers.

― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link

Esby is more like, "if you defend 30 rock, you must also defend my right to laugh at blackface, regardless of context."

― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Monday, 29 June 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/peep-show-blackface-netflix-scene-removed-dance-class-a9591021.html

Was joking about this being removed and now it is.
It's a punchline as to how batshit Nancy is as she gets Jez to 'break more and more taboos' and iirc the reveal is he's in blackface going 'Are you sure this isn’t racist?' and she says 'f*** me and pretend I'm your mother'. So obviously meant to be all kinds of wrong.

― kinder, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:11 (three years ago) link

People's taste for shock humor over the years seems to come in and out like the tide... it's either all the rage or causing it.

― Evan, Monday, 29 June 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link

really thought the joke was p straightforwardly 'that man meets two corporate diversity check marks and will definitely be the hire' but interesting to hear other perspectives

This is what I and my partner got originally as well - it's not that we missed the lampooning of the old boys' club but it also seemed to be making this joke at the same time. I'm not sure it did critique the idea of the 'advantages' someone gains by 'ticking these boxes', esp since it is implied that Garkel might be faking his disability (whereas the irl response of the old boys' network would probably be closer to "ah, but then we'd have to install push buttons at the doors, which goes far beyond reasonable accommodations; sorry, guess my boy Floyd is the only practical choice" than "no way Floyd can compete with that"). And I'm not sure Tina Fey would have made this joke with a middle-aged white woman as the prop, in a wheelchair or otherwise.

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 29 June 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link

And I mean, Garkel got the job. I don't recall any suggestion that it was because of his qualifications - if anything, the larger joke was that merit doesn't enter into it one way or the other.

― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 29 June 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link

one month passes...

https://i.chzbgr.com/original/6991674880/hB5A468F0/fake-criterion-the-rural-juror

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 2 August 2020 18:36 (three years ago) link

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