Tina Fey

By Heather Salerno Mad Men and 30 Rock were the big winners at last night’s Emmy awards, scooping up the trophies for Best Drama and Best Comedy. But those shows didn’t sweep the ceremony: Mad Men didn’t pick up a single acting award, and in one of the night’s biggest surprises, Toni Collette (United States of T...

By Brian Howard I swiped that headline from a faux Drudge Report page that caps the video below. By the time you see it, you’ll be laughing as hard as I was. Yeah, it hits home a little bit. OK, a lot. But like Tina Fey would say, it’s funny because it’s true! (Jayson Blair bit notwithstanding.) The Daily Show [...]

By Brian Howard I didn’t even watch the 30 Rock finale until last night, so down on the show I’ve been this season. All that was missing from this episode, really, was the ending to Liz’s fifth-grade body parts song. They cut her off at “And the colon pushes out…”

By Brian Howard By the way, writer/actress Mindy Kaling, who plays Kelly Kapoor, is going to be pretty busy next year. Variety reports she’s in line to be the next Tina Fey, landing a deal with NBC to develop her own comedy, in which she’d star. According to the story, she’d remain on both sides of the camera at...

By Brian Howard This might have been the least surprising news out of today’s NBC in-fronts, if not for the several outlets that put the Amy Poehler vehicle on the bubble. Now throw in SNL’s Amy Poehler—the closest thing to Tina Fey at SNL since Tina Fey left for 30 Rock —and it was like this show came with a fal...

By Brian Howard I would watch a show based entirely around Jane Krakowski, Tracy Morgan and wild monkey. After watching her struggle with that five-gallon water cooler bottle, I reached one conclusion: Tina Fey shouldn’t do physical comedy. Tracy said “Twist!”

By Brian Howard Some people can get a way with jokes that others just can’t, and that kind of self-awareness is a nice comedic asset. How else to explain the hilarity of Liz Lemon shouting “Puerto Rican!” every time she saw Salma Hayek’s Elisa. Tina Fey can pull that off, and she knows it. “The Ones” was a pretty...

By Brian Howard I don’t have the stomach for most awards shows, so I have a great appreciation for Heather Salerno’s most excellent wrap-up of the Golden Globe Awards. I’m also loving Hulu’s mini-clips, giving me the good parts and basically watching TV so I don’t have to. That said, there’s a few things I wa...

By Heather Salerno “30 Rock” triumphed with a trifecta: Best Comedy Series, Best Actress in a Comedy (for Tina Fey) and Best Actor in a Comedy (for Alec Baldwin). Plus, Tracy Morgan delivered what might be one of the best acceptance speeches ever: ” I’m the face of post-racial America. Deal with it, Cate Blanch...

By Brian Howard I’ll be honest. Before last night I’d about had it with 30 Rock’s guest stars. That said, Salma Hayek and Peter Dinklage brought a lot to the table in last night’s episode, “Señor Macho Solo.” Watch the full episode after the jump, followed by a detailed recap. Jack: No.

By Heather Salerno In comedy, the nominees are: “30 Rock” (NBC); “Californication” (Showtime); “Entourage” (HBO); “The Office” (NBC); “Weeds” (Showtime). And in the comedy categories, Tina Fey continued her march toward world domination: She and “30 Rock” co-star Alec Baldwin were nominated, as well...

By Brian Howard The thing is, something seems to have happened to Liz Lemon between last season and this one. Maybe it was Tina Fey’s high-profile trip to Palinville. Suddenly she was getting the plaudits her work on SNL and 30 Rock had long ago earned her.

By Brian Howard There’s a lot riding on what Tina Fey has planned for the third season of 30 Rock. An entire genre may be at stake, according to one writer. She turns around and mentions to Tracy about how the rapper Lil’ Wayne rewards his crew every time a new album drops. “I know what you’re hinting at Liz Lemon,...

By Brian Howard 30 Rock is finally back! Sort of ! The line of the night: Lorne Michaels explaining to Palin that a 30 Rock sketch was nixed because nobody knows that show. Don't get mad at him. Blame the people who are tuning in elsewhere. Fox strikes deal with Will Arnett for comedy series—chicagotribune.com

By Brian Howard Not that things didn’t get dicey for a while. Baldwin’s voicemail tirade coincided with Tracy Morgan’s drunken driving issues and was followed shortly after by Baldwin’s seeming threat to quit the show when he went on The View and said he didn’t care if he never acted again.

By Heather Salerno And I'm pretty sure no one fell off the couch when Alec Baldwin finally scored his trophy for his scene-stealing performance on "30 Rock," or when Tina Fey snagged Lead Actress in a Comedy and Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.

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By Brian Howard Photos: AP, NBC) I would vote for Tina Fey for president in a heartbeat. I don't even care if her politics are more like Alec Baldwin's—OK, maybe not that wacky—than mine. A Fey administration would be the funniest, snarkiest, most surreal since Rutherford B. Hayes ran amok on Pennsylvania A...

By Brian Howard Jack (Alec Baldwin) wants Liz (Tina Fey) to book "The Subway Hero," New York's newest celebrity, who jumped in front of a train to save a total stranger who had fallen on the tracks. It turns out that the hero is none other than Liz's ex boyfriend, Dennis (guest star Dean Winters), "The Beeper...

By Brian Howard In an hour with reporters the other day, Tina Fey touched on every conceivable topic. This is the last installment of what the 30 Rock star/producer/writer had to say in advance of the show’s April 10 return. (Parts One, Two and Three, if you’re curious.)

By Brian Howard I confront a particular dilemma while blogging about 30 Rock: Tina Fey and Co. say a lot of things in their prime time slot that I could never print in this space. Meanwhile, don’t expect any of the upcoming episodes to be about the TGS writers hitting the picket lines.

By Brian Howard Buck Henry. Gladys Knight. Jackie Mason. Nathan Lane. David Schwimmer. Carrie Fischer. Practically the entire cast of Saturday Night Live. Al Gore. “We couldn’t get her,” Fey said, laughing at a reporter’s tongue-in-cheek suggestion. “Small world. One of our writers used to live in the same apar...

By Brian Howard On endorsing Hillary on SNL (more…) When Saturday Night Live returned from the writers strike and wanted to make a splash, producers turned to former SNL veteran Tina Fey. And what a splash she made. Her “Bitch is the new black” endorsement of Hillary Clinton made headlines for weeks. But in a...

By Brian Howard Fey: Laughter. You can prompt applause with a sign. My friend, SNL writer Seth Meyers, coined the term clapter, which is when you do a political joke and people go, “Woo-hoo.” It means they sort of approve but didn’t really like it that much. You hear a lot of that on [whispers] The Daily Show.

By Brian Howard Yes, there is a new episode of 30 Rock on tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET., and Gladys Knight and Edie Falco round out what has been a season of zany (Carrie Fisher) and brilliant (Will Arnett) star-caliber guest appearances.  That’s right, Gladys Knight, of The Pips fame.

By Amy Vernon Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Christina Applegate / Samantha Newly – Samantha Who? (ABC) America Ferrera / Betty Suarez – Ugly Betty (ABC) Tina Fey / Liz Lemon – 30 Rock (NBC) (my pick) Mary-Louise Parker / Nancy Botwin – Weeds (Showtime)

By Brian Howard I did dig up some 30 Rock tidbits to tide you over until tonight, though. (more…) This is almost it, 30 Rock fans. You’re going to wish every week was Shark Week because the prime-time pickings are getting slim, and you won’t have Tina Fey and Co. to kick around for a while, whatever that means. Aft...