Last night on “30 Rock” — clearly the funniest comedy on TV — Liz hires her creative heroine (Carrie Fisher), once a radical “Saturday Night Live”-type comedy writer, now an alcoholic has-been.
Here are five things we loved about Thursday’s episode:
1. The writer lives in a “gentrifying” neighborhood known as Little Chechnya.
2. A reference to the “227” movie — “New Jackee City.”
3. The failed NBC show “Supercomputer” (a great homage to Fred Silverman’s fiasco, “Supertrain”). This show, we know now, was responsible for spinning off “Cosby” “Miami Vice” and “Highway to Heaven.”
4. The creepy guy as the power-mad head page, who forces the dreaded “page-off” with Kenneth.
5. Alec Baldwin’s brilliant therapy role playing as an inner-city deadbeat dad — done in an attempt to get Tracy to overcome his hostility to his absent father
Rock on, “30 Rock.” You’re the best
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One demerit for misidentifying Paul Scheer as Rob Corddry.