Video: The Goracle on 30 Rock
posted at 4:07 pm on November 9, 2007 by Bryan
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NBC’s nauseating green week continued Thursday night. I’ll say at the outset that I’ve never watched 30 Rock. Not one time. And I can’t say I’m a fan of anyone in this scene, not David Schwimmer, not Alec Baldwin, not Tina Fey and certainly not Al Gore.
But it’s a funny scene, if you’re into beat-you-over-the-head propaganda dressed up as entertainment. Click to head over and watch.
NBC’s green week exposes one truth about liberalism that they would have been wise to have kept to themselves. Namely, they’re perfectly fine with creating and using overt propaganda if it fits their agenda. For instance, if the NBC or any other network (cough Fox cough) had decided to have a jihad awareness week, can you imagine the noise the left would make? And if Dick Cheney or some other top tier Republican starred in it? Can. You. Imagine it? They would use such a week to bash the network, the Bush administration, the war and the nation itself until the end of time. They would come unhinged.
But NBC’s green week? No problemo. Because it fits their political agenda.
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A million carbon offsets couldn’t make me watch that.
fogw on November 9, 2007 at 4:10 PM
I’m a 30 Rock regular and I thought it was pretty funny in a make-fun-of-yourself kind of way. Green Week is stupid, but I didn’t think this was too bad. I don’t like Baldwin’s politics offscreen, but on the show, he’s very funny.
CP on November 9, 2007 at 4:12 PM
at least “The Office” didn’t preach anything about global warming or the environment. It was just Michael in the woods by himself with Dwight watching him.
jayj on November 9, 2007 at 4:12 PM
You just named four of the most nauseating people on television, then you say click the link?
FUHGEDDABOUTIT.
MadisonConservative on November 9, 2007 at 4:13 PM
We missed the writers strike by *that* much.
The Ugly American on November 9, 2007 at 4:14 PM
Sounds like a moonbat dream team. I couldn’t bring myself to watch the clip.
forest on November 9, 2007 at 4:15 PM
Wait, somewhere there’s a whale that needs saving
I saw it and it was mildly amusing. But thinking afterwards it a role that Gore was born for. Comedy Television and SciFi.
Kini on November 9, 2007 at 4:15 PM
Agreed.
I think he’s a scream on SNL too.
The Ugly American on November 9, 2007 at 4:16 PM
But if Fox News says anything not, oh, Liberal, it’s referred to as “Faux News”.
amerpundit on November 9, 2007 at 4:16 PM
Can anyone tell me what is so great about Tina Fey? I hear a lot of guys talk about her like she’s some kind of goddess, but she’s really rather ordinary looking.
And funny? Not.
thirteen28 on November 9, 2007 at 4:17 PM
And lastly….
I love to make passes at hot chicks who wear glasses.
Hubba-freakin’-hubba
The Ugly American on November 9, 2007 at 4:17 PM
Gore was pretty good. He seemed like a real person. If he would have been that loose in the 2000 campain he might have won.
saiga on November 9, 2007 at 4:18 PM
GE owns NBC, GE has a sizable stake that it can claim with the envirocrap and the billions that will be spent.
It’s a money grab. Just get some addle-brained actors to go out and spout off about it, call it noble, rake in the money.
Tina Fey is a terrible comedy writer. Mr. Mike would have driven steel needles, say, 12 inches long, into her eyes.
benrand on November 9, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Thirteen28: See…”librarian glasses”….. ; )
Also, that little scar thingy. I digs imperfection.
The Ugly American on November 9, 2007 at 4:19 PM
LOL…
Funny, I just watched his cameo in “Manhattan” the other nite.
The Ugly American on November 9, 2007 at 4:20 PM
The week should end with a special interview of the Weather Channel founder who says it is the biggest scam going.
bbz123 on November 9, 2007 at 4:21 PM
God help me, I love Alec Baldwin. He had a line in the episode where he referred to NBC’s outdated survey forms which indicated that NBC’s new environmentally conscious mascot (played by the annoying Schwimmer) was going over big with “colored people, broads, fairies, commies.” When he said that, and followed up with “we’ve got to update these forms,” I laughed longer and harder than I have at anything all season.
In a lot of ways, 30 Rock may be the most daring comedy on network television right now, if only for the way it casually flaunts PC standards for the sake of a good joke.
Last week, Baldwin did a series of racially charged impersonations, from Redd Foxx to a generic hispanic woman, during a therapy session with Tracey Morgan, that was similarly gut-busting for its taboo-breaking boldness.
I don’t want to like it. Baldin represents everything I hate about Hollywood and liberal actors, and Fey herself seems fairly Moonbatty, but 30 Rock is irresistible.
Kensington on November 9, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Agreed. SNL was the worst I had seen in years while she was head writer.
terryannonline on November 9, 2007 at 4:21 PM
Good question. I mean, wasn’t she a writer for SNL in the last decade or so when the show became unwatchable?
These days in Hollywood, wearing a big L for Liberal on your sleeve makes up for lack of talent. It works on the general viewing populace as well, I guess.
reaganaut on November 9, 2007 at 4:23 PM
The Gore cameo itself was no big deal. It’s really not that self-effacing. He’s willing to make a joke about himself, but only one that emphasizes how good and compassionate he is. In order to win me over, he’d have had to have been willing to suggest that he’s a self-aware fraud. Now that would have been daring.
Kensington on November 9, 2007 at 4:24 PM
Gotta defend Tina Fey. She’s the writing force behind 30 Rock, and 30 Rock is first rate. She’s cute, she’s funny, and she’s fealessly willing to make herself look like an idiot; all of that amounts to uber-sexy, in my opinion.
Give her a few more years, and she’ll come around politically, too, I’ll bet!
Kensington on November 9, 2007 at 4:26 PM
With the writers strike drying up new episodes and reruns and reality show to look forward to…., I’m thinking about investing in a Wii for an early Christmas, to help with getting head start to those Thanksgiving pounds. I may even, dare the thought, go outside.
Kini on November 9, 2007 at 4:27 PM
She wears pantsuits on every episode.
Kini on November 9, 2007 at 4:29 PM
Couldn’t tell the difference between Goracle’s lousy acting and real life persona…
Conclusion: There isn’t any.
infidel4life on November 9, 2007 at 4:30 PM
That bears repeating. She singlehandedly hurt that show. Let’s see, let’s advance a no talent hack broad, just because she has boobs, so we can feel good about our PC selves, where else has that happened? hmmm oh I dunno, I can’t think of any place else that has shot itself in the foot by promoting a broad beyond her talents *cough*Pelosi*cough*Reno*cough*Albright*Ginsburg*cough, cough.
Nope, got nothing.
CrimsonFisted on November 9, 2007 at 4:31 PM
The My Name is Earl bit on Green Week was the funniest because it spent the bulk of it poking fun at the “man” forcing them to insert the information into a show where it was wholly inappropriate.
But I still really enjoyed the 30 Rock bit also. Tina Fey can do no wrong. And Alec Baldwin, despite his bonkers politics, makes that show perfect.
Mindcrime on November 9, 2007 at 4:32 PM
I don’t think it’s fair to saddle Tina Fey with all the blame for her SNL tenure; yes, she was the head writer, but if you’re saddled with mediocre underlings and mediocre performers, you can only do so much.
I like to think that SNL would have been much, much worse if she hadn’t been there. My evidence for this includes the first rate 30 Rock, which has been consistently excellent since it premiered.
Kensington on November 9, 2007 at 4:35 PM
Wow, I was amazed at Fat Al’s smooth delivery of his lines.
But boy! what a lib convention.
TheSitRep on November 9, 2007 at 4:37 PM
Sorry, but it takes more than a pair of librarian glasses to get me going.
And I agree with the others that she’s a terrible comedy writer, and I would also add:
Worst.
Weekend.
Update.
Anchor.
EVER.
thirteen28 on November 9, 2007 at 4:37 PM
Hey Kensington,
Tina called, she wants to get back together.
fogw on November 9, 2007 at 4:40 PM
Interesting point of view. Blame the help, when the master fails, that is always a good
Clintonianweaslystrategery to talk a way out of failure.I use it all the time. IT WASN’T ME IT WAS THE TALENT, yea that’s the ticket, it was, the PRODUCERS, yea, yea, that’s it,it wasn’t me.
I am being unfair Kensington I know. I simply cannot stomach her and her smarmy, smug, attitude. She is fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
CrimsonFisted on November 9, 2007 at 4:41 PM
Have you forgotten about Jimmy Fallon already? He’s worse than she is, and they were on Weekend Update together.
jayj on November 9, 2007 at 4:44 PM
Well, again, CrimsonFisted, I’ll argue that 30 Rock is solid evidence that Tina Fey is a first rate writer — it’s right there for anyone to observe.
Plus, SNL was not the Tina Fey Show in the way that, say William Jefferson Clinton was the POTUS. Head writer isn’t even producer, for God’s sake. She had an important role, but not only wasn’t she the leader, she wasn’t even the figurehead.
Mind you, I did not say she has no responsibility for lousy SNL, merely that it’s not fair to saddle her with “all” of the blame.
Regardless, if her SNL record were the sum of her achievements and she had nothing else to testify on her behalf, then one would have a stronger argument against her, but 30 Rock simply isn’t dismissible.
Kensington on November 9, 2007 at 4:50 PM
I probably had blocked it out of my memory given that he was so incredibly terrible. But yes, you do have a point, so let me amend to say she’s tied with her pathetically unfunny co-anchor for worst Weekend Update anchor ever.
thirteen28 on November 9, 2007 at 4:50 PM
Nobody is as bad as Colin Quinn was on SNL.
Mindcrime on November 9, 2007 at 4:51 PM
Hey, look, I can find her annoying at times, too, but intellectual honesty requires me to stand up for her here. That’s all; this isn’t the case of some liberal nitwit who can’t string a sentence together yet wants everybody to listen to her shriek that Republicans are bad whilst she stumbles out of a cab without her panties. Tina Fey is a formidable comedic talent, and I’m not relucant to admit it.
Kensington on November 9, 2007 at 4:53 PM
See, and I liked Colin Quinn, too: a salt of the Earth fellow. He was salt, I tell ya. :-)
Kensington on November 9, 2007 at 4:54 PM
I love Colin Quinn’s stand up act, off camera. He’s raunchy as hell, and I can get behind that. But on camera, with the strictures of SNL, he was beyond bad. It was a mistake for him to ever go on that show.
Mindcrime on November 9, 2007 at 4:55 PM
Maybe her writing style just didn’t suit the medium at SNL(writing for a stcom has to be different than writing for sketches)…
and imperfections can really increase the attractiveness of a woman in my mind…
not Quasi-modo imperfections, but imperfections all the same.
MacScotsman on November 9, 2007 at 4:58 PM
Fair enough, Mindcrime; I don’t really remember him on SNL anyway.
Kensington on November 9, 2007 at 5:00 PM
I didn’t get Colin Quinn’s humor until he’d left SNL. I think it was his timing or something. After that, when he had that show “Tough Crowd” on Comedy Central, I thought he was pretty funny, and his jokes leaned conservative too if I recall.
CP on November 9, 2007 at 5:01 PM
FUHGEDDABOUTIT.
CloneTrooper on November 9, 2007 at 5:09 PM
Yeah, he was good on that show. It was right on not long after Sept. 11 and comics weren’t afraid to support our government and the President. Things have obviously changed.
terryannonline on November 9, 2007 at 5:12 PM
NSC green is increasingly like watching and listening to DDR Rundfunk / TV ( East German radio and TV ) in the 1980s.
Every program tried to advance the Party Line; every plot device, all the dialogue, usw., usw., ( und so weiter / and so on )
My favorite was a three-hour program about two teenagers going on a date to a lake: instead of making out they discussed the true role of the Party leadership in meeting legitimate worker demands in the DDR circa 1981
Even while they were changing bathing suits they continued the ‘politically correct’ discussion. Lakes in eastern Germany are cold even in the Summer, so after you have a swim you need to change into another suit if you want to sunbathe while explaining to the Hot Germannic Chick that you find her ideologcally stimulating
Janos Hunyadi on November 9, 2007 at 5:13 PM
Two words: Charles Rocket.
(man, I feel OLD!)
Lurking Vet on November 9, 2007 at 5:18 PM
say what you want about Alec Baldwin. he’s everything I despise politically, that being said, he also is one of the funniest actors ever. His SNL gigs are the funniest stuff that tired old show ever produced.
jojostan on November 9, 2007 at 5:20 PM
I must be as old as you, as I remember him. Not funny, but better than Jimmy and Tina.
With reference to Colin Quinn as discussed above, rarely funny, but a laugh riot compared to Jimmy and Tina.
thirteen28 on November 9, 2007 at 5:22 PM
I agree with kensington and jojostan here.
30 Rock is funny, and the bit last night completely made fun of the whole “GE making NBC put green into the programming thing”. I loved it.
Alec Baldwin may be a jerk in real life, and his politics are misguided, but even when he was a handsome leading man he knew how to laugh at himself.
I’m a fan.
MayBee on November 9, 2007 at 5:40 PM
I actually thought the clip was pretty funny. Gore was actually pretty good — the only bad performance was Schwimmer, but then that dope could never act. Friends was a gift from God for that no-talent.
D2Boston on November 9, 2007 at 5:51 PM
Please tell me this is true. I recorded it to watch this weekend, and I almost removed it for being on during NBC’s Green Week.
I only watch like 5 shows, and fortunately the others aren’t NBC productions.
(if you’re curious)… House, Pushing Daisies, Reaper, Earl, and Psych. I wanted to like “The Riches”, but I never really did.
gekkobear on November 9, 2007 at 5:58 PM
Sorry, but despite the liberal stance, I love this show.
SouthernDem on November 9, 2007 at 6:09 PM
Crapped all over an otherwise usually funny show.
Does anyone have a clip of South Park from about 10 days ago? The scenes of Gore flying around the room ala Superman, saving the world from ManBearPig are flippin hilarious.
dm60462 on November 9, 2007 at 6:16 PM
global warming = hoax of our times. as the weather channel founder said, give it 5-10 years and people will marvel at the unwarranted hysteria about it today
mainmann on November 9, 2007 at 6:54 PM
It may be liberal, but they jab at everything. Tina Fey is funny when she’s looking so starry-eyed at Al Gore while he’s on.
And come on. You know the line Kenneth gave about being the “son of a pig farmer” was a chuckle at John Edwards. Kenneth is so very John Edwards.
MayBee on November 9, 2007 at 7:19 PM
Must admit that it was entertaining… Gore was the best I’ve ever seen him, but that’s not saying much… I guess we could agree that he was less ‘wooden’ than usual. The Superman routine at the end was priceless, as that’s exactly how the Wrongists, including HIM, see the Goracle.
Rugged Individual on November 9, 2007 at 8:00 PM
AL GORE: Warm monger.
Dr. Charles G. Waugh on November 9, 2007 at 8:20 PM
Gotta agree with Kensington,et al.
I find Baldwin’s politics just awful but the man is a comedic genius on 30 Rock. Tina Fey is awesome too.
Politics aside, 30 Rock is the show I watch faithfully along with The Office.
It’s my “One-Two” comedy punch every Thursday night.
Oh yeah, and that “we’ve gotta update these forms” line just rocked me.
Did anyone catch last week’s episode when Lemon asks Kenneth if he can talk and walk with her and he says something like, “normally, but now you’ve got me thinking about it.” That whole bit had me p*ssing myself. Physical comedy is NOT dead.
Or Carrie Fisher as the washed-up, crazy hippie TV writer from the early 70’s all about abortion and standing up to “the man” but in reality she was a nutbar? Beautiful.
Here’s to Fey, Morgan, Baldwin and the rest who make this show worth watching.
Mistahtibbs on November 9, 2007 at 8:48 PM
Amen brother. Was ready to hate, learned to love (the comedy that is)
Green or not NBC put together a respectable Thursday night again. Earl’s take on green week was fantastic. Alec Baldwin’s timing is spot-on, and The Office is The Office.
sweeper on November 9, 2007 at 9:11 PM
I can’t believe I watch that… I have watched my first reality TV… I’m not sure who’s reality though…
vulcannomad on November 9, 2007 at 10:25 PM
CHUCK’s contribution to Green Week was also amusing. The eeevil assistant manager talked about promoting green week because it’s all the rage, and it’s another avenue for milking the sheep for more of their paychecks.
Also the scene where Adam Baldwin told an environmentalist to “take a shower, hippie” and threw his Green Week petition in the boy’s face, was also amusing.
Clearly, the concept was not received well by all. heh.
sulla on November 9, 2007 at 10:45 PM
I have to admit it. I have a thing for Tina Fey.
I’m so ashamed.
trigon on November 10, 2007 at 12:35 AM
The comedy shows this week clearly put up more resistance to — and engaged in more ridicule of — “green week” than NBC News.
Karl on November 10, 2007 at 1:32 AM
Funniest?
Are you confusing him with Christopher Walken? Walken is number 1 on SNL.
reaganaut on November 10, 2007 at 1:33 AM
Best. 30 Rock Episode. Ever.
Nonfactor on November 10, 2007 at 6:13 PM
30 Rock is actually a great show. Don’t care for the politics of the actors/writers, but it never fails to make me laugh.
John from OPFOR on November 10, 2007 at 7:55 PM
That’s what Friends are for.
Shy Guy on November 11, 2007 at 4:02 AM