Avery gives birth to Jack's daughter during "Double-Edged Sword" in Toronto (making her Canadian-American), and names her Elizabeth Donaghy after Liz Lemon (nicknamed "Liddy" in honor of "Liddy" Dole, G. Gordon Liddy and Jack's martial-arts instructor, Li Di.). [17] In 2019, the series was ranked 12th on The Guardian newspaper's list of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st century. Floyd DeBarber (Jason Sudeikis) is an attorney working at 30 Rock. Despite being horrible at everything from cooking to sex to not knowing how to perform the Heimlich maneuver, no one tells him the truth because he is so good-looking. Weinerslav is a self-described "overweight transgender". Kathy Geiss (Marceline Hugot) is Don Geiss' daughter. ", "Governor Dunston", "Mazel Tov, Dummies! Directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller. Because of what you did, we almost lost a monitor." [26] In "It's Never Too Late for Now", it is shown that she can become very violent: when Jack hires the writers to stage a fake fight, she beats up Lutz and even breaks Toofer's arm and her own wrist.[27]. He appears via a flashback to a raunchy TGS sketch with Tracy in the series finale. Dot Com once portrayed Boris Alexeyevich Trigorin in Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, a role which Tracy praised, saying he saw Walter "become" Trigorin. The storyline evolved into one that dealt with a head writer of a variety show who dealt with both of the stars, as well as the show's new network executive. A recurring motif in the show is Jenna's pursuit of fame through some ill-advised project ending up in public humiliation from which she never learns. At the 66th Golden Globe Awards, 30 Rock won the award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy, Alec Baldwin won Best Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy, and Tina Fey won Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy. During his investigations, Wosniak will occasionally don a disguise as he sees fit. Jack sets up Liz on a "blind date" with Kevin, a man Jack actually hates, but his true purpose is to introduce Liz to Kevin's "awesome" Lemon-esque young daughter (Bebe Wood). ", "Last Lunch". During the season, Jack develops a relationship with a Democratic congresswoman named Celeste "C. C." Cunningham (Edie Falco). (Dennis later claimed that he knew the girl was actually eighteen because, "She said her last boyfriend was Asian, and that crap doesn't start 'till college.") He finally identifies himself as bisexual while shouting at his fellow writers on their last day of work in "Last Lunch". Two shows debuting on 2006–07 NBC lineup, 30 Rock and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, revolved around the off-camera happenings on a Saturday Night Live-analogue sketch comedy series. The following characters have (at some point during the show) been Jack's girlfriend, wife or fiancée. The episodes that were removed are the third season episode "Believe In The Stars" and the fifth season episode "Christmas Attack Zone," both of which featured Jane Krakowski's character, Jenna, in blackface; the sixth season episode "Live from Studio 6H", which featured Jon Hamm in blackface; and the east coast version fifth season episode "Live Show." She sticks around to pack up the TGS writers' room, and orders both the writers' would-be last lunch which Liz dictates, and its replacement decreed by Lutz. He again finds himself directing Tracy in an advertisement for the Boys & Girls Clubs, each elaborate take of which is ruined by Tracy's incompetence, until Jack Donaghy arrives on-set, feeds Tracy a mouth-full of jelly beans, and imitates his voice. In "Hard Ball", it is implied that Josh is Jewish, and in a carry-over during "Ludachristmas", from the "Secret Rodney" ads that were running, Kenneth says "Merry Jewish" to Josh when passing out gifts. 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