Tee-hee. 30 Rock is the best show on television. Biting, rapidfire wit, impeccable casting, and an effective balance of the mundane and the absurd are all key components to this show’s success. Not that the show is a success by conventional standards. It’s still probably the best show that too few people are watching, but if their recent showing at the golden Globes a couple weeks back is any indication, they are still doing something right.
One of the absurd foils to Tina Fey’s straight woman, Liz Lemon, is Tracy Morgan’s thinly veiled homage to himself, Tracy Jordan. Jordan, like the actor portraying him, is a loveable oaf who is completely detached from reality due to his wealth and celebrity. The character barrels headlong through life, kept afloat only by the level-headed handlers he surrounds himself with (Lemon, Kenneth the Page, and his two entourage men, Griz and Dot-Com). Jordan is also “the black cast member” on his SNL-type sketch show. He is known for his tendency to star in “black” films like Who Dat Ninja? and the Honky Grandma series.
In the clip below, Jordan chimes in about how Lemon’s romantic woes remind him of some movies he’s been in, and I’m still repeating the line to myself and chuckling. Well done, 30 Rock writers. Add extra hilarity points for dressing him as an elvish warrior from Lord of the Rings.
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