30 Rock

By Dan Hopper The 82nd annual Academy Awards will be hosted by a duo of two-time solo host Steve Martin and first-timer Alex Baldwin: “I don’t play the banjo but I’m thrilled to be hosting the Oscars—it’s the opportunity of a lifetime,” added Baldwin, a veteran movie star and past nominee… “Steve will b...

By Dan Hopper Last night’s Office episode involved Michael learning from Jim the art of self-parody, which segued surprisingly nicely into a 30 Rock episode which featured no fewer than three cameos of other celebrities doing exactly that. With Extras off the air, it appears 30 Rock has become the hot...

By Dan Hopper The pilot episode of NBC’s Community aired last night (it was actually online months ago but you had to become a Facebook fan of it to watch, and I stubbornly refused to become a Facebook fan without first seeing it — I have integrity, dammit, and I reserve “fanness” for friends of mine for wh...

By Dan Hopper NBC’s “Thursday Night Actual Goodness” returns tonight with a prime-time Saturday Night Live special (but no 30 Rock just yet). Like all SNL seasons, last one had its ups and downs (or if you’d prefer the prevailing lazily angry sentiment, “It used to be great but sucks now grrrr I miss the J...

By Michelle Collins Let's play a little game: Think of the two celebrities you'd most like to go to Disneyworld with. Got two folks in mind? Good. Because we have news for you... THEY WENT THERE WITHOUT YOU. Find out who was spotted in D'world ahead. It's Tina Fey and John Stamos!! According to the Orlando Sentinel:It'...

By Dan Hopper Last night's episode of 30 Rock involved Salma Hayek's romance-obsessed character demanding commitment from Jack Donaghy before sleeping with him, and Jack clears his entire work schedule to devote himself to Salma completely, ultimately learning that in the end, work is nothing an...

By Michelle Collins Last night, for the first time in history, the Superbowl Game was actually more exciting than the billion dollar ads that run in between plays. And that Kurt Warner's not so bad looking either: We digress. Even though, on the whole, the ads were lackluster, there were some gems gleamin' from...

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By Michelle Collins Last night's new episode of 30 Rock, "Senor Macho Solo", was arguably one of the best, tightest episodes of any season ever. There was the perfect amount of each of our favorite characters interwoven into 21 minutes of brilliantly written bliss. Even Salma Hayek was good!! And that is sayin...

By Dan Hopper NBC, please give "The Office" and "30 Rock" to ABC, move Conan to Fox, throw "Friday Night Lights" on the CW and absorb "Sunday Night Football" into CBS' coverage, because you no longer deserve to be a network. In case you haven't seen the ads that I've been blocking out of my mind because they...

By Michelle Collins Michelle's Top 5 TV Shows of 2008 5. The 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremony Minutes before the 2008 Summer Olympics kicked off in Beijing, many Americans about to watch the coverage on NBC were probably thinking "Cammannnn, what kind of backward pony-show are these pinko Commie basta...

By Michelle Collins polls) ps: Is there anything better than when Tracy, Kenneth and Jenna get together? No, there isn't. pps: How has Jane Krakowski never been nominated for an Emmy Award? On last night's brilliantly titled episode of 30 Rock ("The One With The Cast of Night Court"), it was Hollywood Cameo Ga...

By Michelle Collins Britney Spears' mother claims in a new book that Britney started drinking at 13, lost her V card at 14, and at 15, used drugs. She forgot to mention that at 26, Britney cut off all familial ties.EAST COAST WEST COAST: 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin has messed with the wrong TV executive when he decide...

By Dan Hopper No, I'm not gonna whine about The Office "jumping the shark," because it clearly hasn't, and I'm not gonna chalk up the recent episodes' weirdness to some fundamental change in the show's quality as opposed to just some unusal individual episodes with a bunch of funny lines ("I'd never sa...

By Dan Hopper 30 Rock was solid again last night -- "The bird managed to dial 9-1-1 and say 'fire' into the phone, only because he didn't know the word 'rape'" -- but beyond all the show's usual weekly staple of Blackmericans and off-brand Mexican Doritos, I couldn't help but be taken aback by the rather c...

By The Hater Thursday’s episodes of “30 Rock” and “The Office,” each included coy references to a vulgarity: in one case it was bleeped out; in the other it was winked at in an acronym [MILF Island]. While not unprecedented, the occurrences in the back-to-back prime-time shows were jarring. They also r...

By Michelle Collins Tonight, hearts will rejoice nationwide as some of our favorite sitcoms, including 30 Rock and The Office, return to the small screen after the painfully long writer's strike. And as you probably know, Judah Friedlander, who stars on 30 Rock as writer Frank Rossitano, also happens to be a...

By Alex Blagg So let's pretend you're Zach Braff and I'm this impossibly quirky-but-troubled indie chick who just stumbled into your life at the most unexpected time, and as you're trying to figure me out, I hand my big headphones over to share with you the songs, movies and TV shows of 2007 that will CHA...

By Dan Hopper Just a few quick thoughts about last night's "30 Rock". Feel free to do likewise in the comments. - How legitimately tense was it when Jack and Liz's parents sat down to dinner together? I was sitting there hoping that Jack's mom wouldn't successfully break Liz's lovable mom and dad, complet...

By Dan Hopper Last night's episode of "30 Rock" was, interestingly, the episode that the cast read at the UCB Theater a couple weeks ago. Because I enjoy discussing "30 Rock", and there isn't much else going on today, here are a couple quick thoughts on last night's episode in comparison to the live perfo...

By Dan Hopper I attended last night's live performance of "30 Rock" at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater -- just another perk of being a member of the virtual media elite (or possibly just a nerd who bolted online and bought tickets the millisecond I heard the news) -- and without resorting to exagge...

By Michelle Collins It is an extremely trying time for television and the entertainment industry at large, as you all by now know. Which is why I would like to point out that even if we are left to rot without any new episodes of The Office, or 30 Rock, or Grey's, or any of the other 100 shows that will suffer because o...

By Dan Hopper After seven months of Bee Movie trailers, Jerry Seinfeld appearing on "Oprah," "Larry King," "The View," and every other talk show in existence, a special tie-in appearance on "30 Rock", a bunch of confusing, unfunny segments during every single commercial break during "The Office" f...