30 Rock welcomes a Friend, chases O and hits stores next month
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I’m pretty interested to see Jennifer Aniston’s guest stint on 30 Rock this season, and I don’t know why.
I liked Friends a lot, even though it seems pretty trendy to criticize it these days. And I used to think she was going to be a pretty successful movie actress, though besides Office Space and The Good Girl, I can’t think of she’s been in that I really liked. And I surely don’t care about any of her tabloid headlines of the last several years.
Still, she was always pretty funny as Rachel Green, and it is nice to see her return to her NBC roots, even if only for a guest stint on the funniest show on television.
According to reports, she’ll play a “Fatal Attraction”-like stalker of Jack Donaghy, so really, how could that not be funny? Here she talks really briefly about what it was like working with Tina Fey & Co.
Now someone I couldn’t really care less about seeing on 30 Rock is Oprah Winfrey. I know she’s the queen of all media and one of the great American success stories. But A. she’s never given me a car, and B. how funny could she possibly be?
I jokingly say the show has taken stuntcasting to a new level, but every big-time guest star has brought something great to the table that kept them from being a distraction. Even Al Gore was funny. (No, seriously.)
But it’s Tina Fey’s dream, and apparently she and the Big O are in talks. And if nothing else, you know you can count on this group of writers to make her stint funny. (They did it with Al Gore.)
Oprah’s been at the center of a flap over her support for Barack Obama and her refusal to have Sarah Palin on her show before the election. I don’t care who she supports or who she interviews, personally, (though Palin seems like a natch for Oprah’s demographic—women ages 12-92). But given this controversy, and Fey’s much publicized resemblance to Palin, it’s worth asking an important political question: Who is Liz Lemon voting for?
For the answer, I refer you to Season 1’s “Fireworks” and Liz’s nervous rant to her beau Floyd. Pay close attention around the 49-second mark…
In other news, if the Oct. 30 season premiere still feels like a long way off (which it is), Hulu has your back. The most awesome video site is streaming several premieres, including 30 Rock’s and Chuck’s, one week in advance.
Lastly, the Season 2 DVD set hits stores Oct. 7. I am very excited about that, especially after checking out this set of bonus features…
- 10 Audio Commentary Tracks
- Deleted Scenes
- “Cooter” Table Read
- 30 Rock Live at the UCB Theater
- Tina Fey Hosts Saturday Night Live
- The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Presents: An Evening with 30 Rock
The table read should be hilarious to see the actors reacting to a very funny script for the first time. That’s also a ton of commentaries. I love love love that we’ll see the Upright Citizens Brigade show that the cast put on during the writers strike. Very cool to include that. And obviously the ATAS show should be great.
(Photos: Jennifer Aniston at the Toronto Film Festival yesterday/AP; Oprah Winfrey in Whitesboro, N.J. Aug. 30/AP
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THAT is what a DVD set is all about. Those extras might be the best for any single season of any show ever. And I never use hyperbole ever ever ever.