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[JEFF WAYNE] (ep. 403) – a popular Southern ventriloquist, age 25-45. Jeff is a “good ol’ boy” comic who, along with his dummy, Pumpkin, impresses Jack with his insult act. GUEST STAR.

[JAYDEN MICHAEL TYLER] (ep. 404) – a 28-year old, up-and-coming comic. Jayden is Liz’s top pick for the new “TGS” cast member position. Although he seems perfectly nice at first, Jayden eventually reveals himself to be a psychopath. Must be able to do character voices; Russian accent, gay theater critic, Christopher Walken, etc sptv050769. GUEST STAR.

[DANNY] (ep. 404) – a handsome, all-American guy, ages 22-30, who performs a robot act in Times Square. Danny is new in town and hoping to make it in show biz. RECURRING GUEST STAR.

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Comedian Tracy Morgan may have a lot on his plate, but he’s still smiling his way through life.  In addition to starring in the Disney animated movie G-Force, the 30 Rock
star just received his first Emmy nomination for his role on the show.  He’s also spending the summer shooting another film, Kevin Smith’s A Couple of Dicks.

While he’s still got time off from promoting his memoir I’m the New Black, Tracy Morgan spoke to USA Today about the current state of his life now that success is definitely coming his way.

“You want to know what happiness is?  It’s having something to look forward to, and I have all that stuff to look forward to,” Morgan said.  “Right now, I’m just basking in the glory.  I’m just enjoying my time in the spotlight.”

The actor also has other plans besides staying in the public eye.  “I might buy Coney Island,” Tracy Morgan joked.  “That’s the hardest part: to get the money to catch up with the funny.”

Lucky for him, he has 30 Rock
co-star Tina Fey who admires him enough to give him a role on the series.

“She told me to fly right,” Morgan declared.  “Tina Fey is down like four flat tires.  I love her. That’s my girl, Tina Fey-Fey.  She’s the coolest.  That’s my sister from another mother with a different color.”

With most of his success being brought about by his wacky TV alter ego Tracy Jordan, Tracy Morgan couldn’t help but smile about that as well.  “Tracy Jordan is a part of Tracy Morgan.  Tracy Morgan isn’t a part of Tracy Jordan.  Tracy Jordan is just a figment of somebody’s imagination.  Tracy Morgan isn’t as unstable as Tracy Jordan.  This is weird for me to talk in third person.  Tracy Morgan doesn’t run down the street in his underwear.  I don’t party no more.”

Steve Carell and Tina Fey, who are both on hiatus from their respective hit NBC shows, The Office and 30 Rock, are currently filming the movie Date Night in which they play a married couple whose weekly night out goes seriously awry. The two were recently spotted shooting their scenes.

Aside from Carell, who plays Michael Scott on The Office, and Tina Fey, who stars as Liz Lemon on 30 Rock, Date Night boasts an equally impressive cast supporting the duo, including Ray Liotta, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Mila Kunis, Mark Ruffalo, Taraji P. Henson, Common, Kristen Wiig, William Fichtner, Jimmi Simpson, Olivia Munn and Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester.

Date Night marks Shawn Levy’s next directing assignment following Night at the Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian.

“I wanted to do a relatable, grounded character comedy about marriage and the lengths we go to preserve the spark,” Levy told Daily Variety. “Tina and Steve are smart and relatable, and the tone of their comedy perfectly fits this film.”

Carell is credited for his work in Horton Hears a Who!, Dan in Real Life, Even Almighty, Get Smart and will be part of several upcoming films such as Despicable Me and High T. Fey, on the other hand, has starred in Mean Girls and the comedy Baby Mama, and has recently wrapped up This Side of the Truth opposite Ricky Gervais.

What happens when you put together two of the funniest people on TV in one movie? We’ll soon find out when Date Night hits theaters on April 9, 2010. While that’s about 10 more months of waiting, Carell and Fey’s comedy is already shaping up to be next year’s most anticipated comedy.

 

30 Rock and My Sister’s Keeper star Alec Baldwin bares his soul for Playboy’s July/August issue, in it describing a Baldwin-less 30 Rock. “I’m done in 2012. In March 2012 I’ll wake up and say, ‘What am I going to do now? Am I done?’ I think I will be done. I may finish a play or something, but I’m retiring at the wrap party,” he told the magazine. Frankly, a future without John Francis “Jack” Donaghy is one we never hope to countenance. But I guess that’s what Hulu is for.

Also in the profile is the 51-year-old actor’s admission that he considered suicide after a nasty voicemail he left for his daughter was leaked online. “”[I was] very serious … I spoke to a lot of professionals, who helped me … If I committed suicide, they [Kim Basinger's side] would have considered that a victory. Destroying me was their avowed goal.”

Following are selected quotes:

On TMZ’s Harvey Levin: “Everybody knows Levin is a human tumor, a graceless character who lives in that weird netherworld. I don’t blame those pathetic people; they are what they are.”

On the thought of committing suicide after the voicemail was leaked: “[I was] very serious … I spoke to a lot of professionals, who helped me … If I committed suicide, they [Kim Basinger's team] would have considered that a victory. Destroying me was their avowed goal.”

On his retirement after 30 Rock: “I’m done in 2012. In March 2012 I’ll wake up and say, ‘What am I going to do now? Am I done?’ I think I will be done. I may finish a play or something, but I’m retiring at the wrap party.”

On running for office: “I’ll put it this way. The desire is there; that’s one component. The other component is opportunity … If I run for office, my goal is to recognize that government doesn’t need to have lower taxes, a smaller budget … Government needs to spend money more responsibly.”

On President Barack Obama’s approach to dealing with big corporations: “The reason I think I would want to run for office and be good at it is, the way all this should be done is overwhelmingly obvious to me. You want business, but you’ve got to stand up to business. This is the thing that excites me about Barack Obama: He gets that you’ll pay now or later. Tell that corporation to drop dead, get out of your state and move someplace where they need jobs so bad they’ll sell their souls for short-end money.”

On Twitter: “This society is very wired together, and it’s the most neurotic a society has ever been. Twitter, all this stuff, I don’t view as anything good. Everyone is so hyperaware of what everybody else is doing. Everybody has been convinced their opinion should count. We all need to be spouting opinions.”

On promoting his films: “Promotional activities for films and television shows have replaced talented marketing and publicity departments … They’ve relieved themselves of any responsibility by tying the marketing to the star’s name. They psychologically abuse talent by going, ‘Hey, if the movie bombs, it’s bad for you.’ They’ve psyched you into thinking you’ve got to run around the country for four weeks, telling the same anecdotes over and over until you want to drop dead. You miss your child’s volleyball game because if the movie doesn’t do well, it reflects on you. They’ve conspired to wash their hands of any responsibility.”

On Lindsay Lohan and the nightly celebrity TV shows: “I would be so happy if those shows went off the air. It is a huge problem in our business—this microcosmic analysis and elevation of people who are just witless and talentless, or people with talent, like Lindsay Lohan, who struggle. Who gives a shit about their personal trivialities? Its hurts the business.”

On why he will never go back on the Today show: “I’m on an NBC show, and Today was considered vital. But when that voice-mail tape thing happened, Matt Lauer interviewed [Harvey] Levin before he even called me. Lauer put Levin on Today, and they never phoned me. When it’s in their interest to reach me, they know how. I saw that and said, ‘My relationship with the Today show is over.’ I’ll never do Today again, ever. Life’s too short.”

On why he trusted The View after the voicemail was leaked: “Whoopi Goldberg is a friend. I called her and said, ‘Do you think I can get a fair shake?’ Because when you talk about family law and parental alienation, there is this unfortunate gender-based dynamic. Could I walk into a show with a strong female audience? Would they understand my point of view? I trusted Whoopi and Barbara Walters. Whoopi is an impeccably decent person, and I am grateful she gave me a forum.”

On his fantasy of a private life: “I have this silly fantasy. I get married again, I have a kid. I’d love another shot at that, with everything I’ve learned. My kid’s like eight, comes home and says, ‘Dad, Jimmy’s mom says you were a famous actor on TV and in the movies. Is that true?’ And I go, “Yes, Johnny, Dad was famous.’ I whip out my scrapbooks and my DVDs and say, ‘Believe it or not, that’s your dad.’ And my kid’s like, ‘You used to be on TV and everything? And now you stay home and just clean the house all day while Mom works?’ ‘That’s right, son.’ It’s a dream, that the kid doesn’t know anything about that part of my life. Our normal life is uncontaminated by it.”

On Tom Cruise: “I look at Tom Cruise, who made films that called for him to be young, fit and charming, and that appeal made him a star. When Tom wanted to give a real performance, he made Magnolia. It was like watching some alien that looked like Tom Cruise, because it was nothing you’d ever seen Tom do. That he was not given the Oscar that year for Magnolia was devastating to me.”

On Mel Gibson: “He has made great films in all genres. Mel is everything you want in a movie star, but there’s a layer underneath him. I don’t know if the word is danger or pathos, but there’s a complexity to Mel.”

On Leonardo DiCaprio: “I remember being around Leo DiCaprio in The Aviator and thinking, God, how gifted this guy is, how he’s taking advantage of his opportunities.”

On Johnny Depp: “There was always something boyish and puckish about Johnny Depp, but I’ll never forget watching Sweeney Todd and feeling profoundly impressed by his performance.”

On how to become a celebrity: “Don’t pay your federal income taxes, get drunk and try to bolt through airport security with a gun in your suitcase, and last but not least, get a DUI and be arrested in Malibu.”

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TINA Fey may not be known in the UK, but in America, she’s recognised as the woman who has everything.

The Golden Globe-winning comedienne is happily married to composer Jeff Richmond, has a two-year-old daughter Alice Zenobia, and her highly-successful career seems to be going only up. On top of that, she’s got the looks to boot.

Multi-talented Tina – she writes scripts, acts and produces – made history as the first female head writer on famed comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live, but left after 10 years to develop her own award-winning show, 30 Rock – loosely based on her experiences on the famous variety series.

The 38-year-old is also expanding into the big screen. She wrote and co-starred in Mean Girls, featuring Lindsay Lohan, and takes a break from writing in this summer’s Baby Mama, in which she stars alongside her ex-Saturday Night Live sidekick Amy Poehler.

In the film Tina plays Kate, an ambitious single businesswoman who finds an unlikely surrogate mother (Amy) to bear her a child.

She explains: “There’s a difference between wanting to prove that you could get pregnant and wanting to be a mother. Kate starts off as this achievement-oriented yuppie who wants to prove that she can get pregnant and then realises what she really wants is to be a mother which is a much more significant thing to want.

“The whole topic is fraught with so much. Then there’s the area of adoption, surrogacy, fertility clinics and the ways of the future to making babies, bringing questions about the ethics and repercussions.”

Following the success of pregnancy-focused comedies like Knocked Up and Juno, Tina says Baby Mama has arrived at the right time.

“I think this is such a loaded topic and an emotional topic. Hopefully, if people have been through something like this in any way, the film might be a relief for them and a way to find humour in the situation,” she says.

“I think the idea of wanting a family and wanting a baby in your life is a universal one, no matter how you arrive at it. But there’s something about big life milestone moments. Moments that are rites of passage always seem to lend themselves to comedy, whether it’s going to your prom, losing your virginity, getting married or having a baby.”

She quips: “We need more dying comedies, comedies about dying.”

Tina’s preparation for the role included remembering her own pre-motherhood feelings.

“It would be hard to imagine,” she readily admits about putting herself in Kate’s shoes.

“I personally got very lucky. I got a baby under the wire – that’s how I like to say it. I was 35 and I know I’m very, very lucky.

“I was able to remember the feelings of mid-30s baby lust that kind of overtakes you and surprises you, and then the fear that it’s not going to work out.”

However, she loves being a mum. “The baby is the only good part. The diapers are not great, the hours are dreadful, they really are. Babies are very cute.”

And Tina was able to give “tips” to co-star Amy, who coincidentally is currently expecting her first child.

“My tips for her were your butt is not big enough. Your butt gets so much bigger when you have a baby,” she says, laughing.

The comic duo met as drama improvisation students in Chicago in 1993, before they teamed up on Saturday Night Live.

“It’s great to work with Amy, because we’ve known each other and worked together so long and we’re very comfortable with improvising together.”

The movie also features Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin, but Tina’s experience on Saturday Night Live helped her to be relaxed around them.

“It’s crazy!” she says. “We’re really lucky to have Steve and Sigourney.

“But, thankfully, working at Saturday Night Live you do get a little more accustomed to standing next to a giant movie star and find a way to just forget who they are and do the scene with them. It’s a great way to get used to it, otherwise the whole time you’d be freaked out that you’re looking at Ripley from Alien.”

Tina, a rarity in the male-dominated industry, was exposed to comedy at an early age when her parents took her to see Monty Python or Marx Brothers films.

“Then, seeing Saturday Night Live and a show called SCTV (Canadian sketch show, Second City Television), I just wanted to do that. Now it’s a different time, there are more and more female comics.”

She denies that comedians have to have a dark side or be depressed in order to be funny.

“I don’t think it’s the only way. I think sometimes you’re tapping into things that make you angry, or things that embarrass you,” says Tina. “I do think you have to be willing to be ugly or embarrassing at moments, but I think there are also people who are very normal in their lives who are great comedians. I think Jerry Seinfeld is normal, not a tortured soul at all from what I’ve observed. Even Steve Martin is very business-like and hard-working as a comic and isn’t putting his fist through a hotel mirror every night that I know of.”

Next up for the funnywoman is the next season of 30 Rock, as well as a small guest role in Ricky Gervais’ This Side Of The Truth, premiering in September at the Toronto International Film Festival. With her life all in order, Tina is very thankful with how things have worked out.

“A lot of things have gone in my favour,” admits the New Yorker. “30 Rock was shot in New York so I could go home every night, and I could bring my daughter to the set. And because I didn’t write the movie, I would have the weekends off and I would really be off, not writing.

“I work very hard but it’s a dream job. A lot of working parents have to work as many hours as I do at a terrible job, just to function financially. At least I love my job. It’s a luxury.”

Baby Mama is out now, but is it any good? Read the review on Page Four.

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Tracy Morgan is a stand up comedian, cast member on the hit series 30 Rock, past Saturday Night Live cast member and all around funny dude. He’s also in the latest movie “First Sunday” with Ice Cube. Watch the trailer below.

Tracy Morgan’s past “SNL” characters include Astronaut Jones, Brian Fellow’s Safari Planet, Bronx resident Dominican Lou, Reggie Owens of “Wong and Owens: Ex-Porn Stars,” “Good Morning With Liza!” sidekick Captain Munclair Vanderhousen III, Tate Witherspoon of the tough-talking law firm Russell & Tate, Uncle Jemima’s Mash Liquor and “Judge Judy” bailiff Bert. He has performed impressions of Maya Angelou, Marion Barry, Cuba Gooding Jr., Tito Jackson, Star Jones, Marion “Suge” Knight, William “The Refrigerator” Perry, Della Reese, Busta Rhymes, Mr. T, Mike Tyson, Maxine Waters, Thelma Weston, Reggie White, and Tiger Wood’s father Earl.

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NBC’s “30 Rock TV Show” has had its share of big guest stars — Jerry Seinfeld, Isabella Rossellini, Edie Falco — over the course of its two seasons, something for which creator-star Tina Fey is more than a little grateful.

“We’ve been so lucky,” says Fey, who won a Screen Actors Guild award earlier this year for playing the perpetually put-upon Liz Lemon. “We’ve been super-lucky to have people like — oh, here’s another guest star that we’ve got coming up … that was an amazing honor to work with is Tim Conway. He’s going to be in … our second episode back.”

Having had all those folks, plus the likes of Paul Reubens, Elaine Stritch, Conan O’Brien and Andy Richter on the show, Fey really only has one name on her list: “I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I feel like I haven’t — I want to spend time with Oprah, and I don’t know what I need to do to make that happen.”

Along with “The Office” and “Scrubs,” “30 Rock” returns to finish out its season on Thursday night. Though the show was idled by the writers’ strike, Fey and her staff decided that in the show’s world, which after all deals with the making of a TV show, the strike didn’t happen. “We sort of felt like for people viewing at home, the real strike was a big enough pain,” she says.

Instead, things at the bizarro-world NBC will pick up where they left off. Jack Donaghy’s ( Alec Baldwin) reality show brainchild “MILF Island” (”20 MILFs, 50 eighth-grade boys, no rules”) is now a huge hit, but someone on Liz’s staff has called him a “Class A moron” in the pages of the New York Post, possibly imperiling Jack’s ascendancy to chairman of the company.

Fey says she and her fellow writers “actually sat down and tried to figure out the rules of ‘MILF Island’ and were not entirely successful. It involves something where the boys vote the moms off if they don’t like them anymore. And then it involves physical challenges and that’s about all that we know. … But when I sell it to [real-life NBC boss] Ben Silverman, we’ll know more.”

With only five episodes to do this season, Fey says coming back post-strike hasn’t been quite the grind that the end of a season might otherwise be: “There was always a light at the end of the tunnel, where sometimes when the end — you know, the back half of last year when we had 12 to do, that becomes daunting.”

The writers also picked up a couple of stories that were in various stages of completion before the strike. “We had two scripts that were in the outline phase, and so we went back to those and kind of tried to adjust them with the mindset that now rather than being in the middle of a season, these were now sort of a mini re-premiere and relaunch to this mini-season that we’re having,” Fey says. “So we did have some story areas, and then it was a matter of taking — once again, taking what would have been the middle of the season and finding a way to build it to hopefully an interesting and climactic end to the season.”

In addition to Conway, the final five episodes will also feature returns by Dean Winters as Dennis the Beeper King, Liz’s on-and-off, last-resort boyfriend; Will Arnett (Arrested Development) as Jack’s nemesis Devon Michaels; and Saturday Night Live regular Jason Sudeikis as Floyd, the guy Liz let get away at the end of last season.

And then there’s this: “Liz does have a little bit of a pregnancy scare,” Fey says. “Liz, who probably hooks up once every seven years, seems surprisingly to — when it rains, it pours there for a week or two for her.”

Despite those developments, Liz’s love life will remain mostly nonexistent in the foreseeable future. That stems in part from who she is as a character, but Fey also says she doesn’t particularly enjoy writing those kinds of scenes for herself.

“There’s a certain contingency in our writers’ room. They’re always pitching them and I’m always saying no — no more love times,” she says. “So I don’t know what will be on the horizon for Liz. Maybe — you know who would be good? Peter Dinklage — that would be good. That guy is awesome. Let me go in there and say we need to start working on that.”

Incredibly talented, Tina Fey stands out in the entertainment scene as she branches out to different media outlets in film, theater, and television. Comical and undeniably pretty, she has established herself not only as an actress, but as a creative writer, a versatile comedian, and a brilliant producer as well. Ultimately, she became part of the hilarious show 30 Rock that showcases her uproarious antics.

Born on May 18, 1970 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Tina Fey studied drama at the University of Virginia. Previously, she became a part of The Second City where she performed in the award-winning Paradigm Lost. In addition, she is considered to be a veteran of The ImprovOlympic. As a comedic actress, she was popularly known for her inclusion on the show Saturday Night Live where she also became the first female head writer of the program. Her outstanding work on the show earned her a Writers Guild of America Award in 2001. In addition, she also wrote the script for the popular teen flick Mean Girls.

Playing Liz Lemon on the sitcom 30 Rock allows Fey to portray the central character of the show. Her depiction of the character comes out effortless since Liz is seemingly a parody of herself. Geeky yet highly skilled, she displays sidesplitting drama and provides out of the ordinary punch lines, a feature that gets viewers hooked.

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