Check out all our lists for BuddyTV's Top 7 of '07 to relive the best and the worst of the year in television.
Oscar Dahl ranked 30 Rock 3rd. He says...
The beauty of
30 Rock is in the diversity of its humor. The three main players all have distinctly different, equally funny ways of making the audience laugh.
Alec Baldwin has his deadpan, arrogant scumbaggery,
Tina Fey has her self-deprecating neurosis, and
Tracy Morgan has his Tracy Morgan (which is, to say, pure insanity mixed with unintelligible gibberish...and that's a high compliment). While most TV comedies often come from one clear comic voice,
30 Rock is able to balance the humor thanks to Tina Fey and her experience with
Saturday Night Live.
During her time as head writer on
SNL, Fey wrote extensively for Baldwin, Morgan and herself. She didn't need much time to "find" her characters' voices. She knew how to utilize each of her main characters and, ever since the mid-way point of the series' first season, you can make a sound argument that
30 Rock has been the funniest show on TV.
(click here to read Oscar Dahl's complete Top 7 list)
Don Williams ranked 30 Rock 5th. He says...
It's a shame that so few people watch
30 Rock, despite its critical acclaim and its Emmy win for Outstanding Comedy Series. Tina Fey's brilliant brainchild, set behind the scenes at a fictional
Saturday Night Live-style variety show, is easily one of the most hilarious shows on television. No matter what style of humor you find funny,
30 Rock has it. There's a mixture of slapstick, dry wit, referential gags, skits, puns, and inside jokes, all written with a sharpness that has rarely been seen in the half-hour comedy realm.
Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin garner much deserved acclaim for their superb performances, but the supporting players of
30 Rock provide many of the laughs. Tracy Morgan is excellent as Tracy Jordan, the big star who is so completely detached from reality that he once tried to make mashed potatoes with laundry detergent.
Jane Krakowski plays Jenna Maroney, the self-obsessed starlet whose biggest trauma was gaining 20 pounds while starring in "Mystic Pizza: The Musical." And
Jack McBrayer plays Kenneth, the NBC page who is such a nice Southern boy that he studied TV Theory at Kentucky Mountain Bible College. They often steal every scene they're in, which is no small feat.
With its spirited mix of comedy styles, superb writing, great guest stars, and its endless skewering of NBC,
30 Rock easily beats out all other live-action comedies on television.
(click here to read Don Williams' complete Top 7 list)
<<MAIN ARTICLE NEXT SHOW>>
(Image courtesy of NBC)
