30 Rock Rocks With Liz Lemon

Posted on October 12, 2006

Tina Fey has a winner with her new half hour sitcom, 30 Rock. Fey plays Liz Lemon, who is the head writer of a comedy show called The Girlie Show, a Saturday Night Live-type sketch show aimed at women. When the corporate brass sends in a new boss (hilariously played by Alec Baldwin), chaos erupts.

Baldwin's character, Jack Donaghy, has been sent by NBC-GE-Universal-Kmart to oversee production of The Girlie Show and the new GE Trivection Oven which he helped invent. "You can cook a turkey in 22 minutes," he tells a shell-shocked Lemon. Donaghy wants to change up the show in ways that horrify Ms. Lemon. Some of his changes have very funny results.

Fey is likeable and funny, Baldwin is absolutely fantastic and Tracy Morgan does an excellent job as the crazy movie star brought in to liven up the show. This workplace sitcom is in the vein of The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. It brings the funny. And that makes it worth another look next week.

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