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As reported earlier, some USAToday windbag thinks 30 Rock is flailing. Now, I find the show to be the funniest thing ever made and thought the last few episodes were wonderful. So, clearly I disagree. But some of you don't! In fact, this morning we received a crazed, homo-hating Tips email defending the USAToday article. First off, the emailer thinks that our commenters are all "gay." (Which is not true. Just Conbon is.) Well, more specifically he thinks you are all "gay urban liberal art school grad white people." So, OK. He's not entirely off base, but still! Jerk! After the jump, you can read the entire peculiar missive, as well as participate in an important poll: Does 30 Rock now suck?
God I wish I could comment on your gay blog...your commenters are fucking dorks and complete retards if they thought the last couple of episodes were genius. The last episode was so poorly written I was aghast. I dont believe there was even a semblance of a joke made through out the entire episode. Plot is stupid and non-sequitur, jokes are gay and stupid, Alec Baldwin is being wasted with this crappy material, which I cant even dignify by saying its trite or hackneyed, because most of the time it doesn't even make sense...Also, whats up with all the lame ass vh1/human giant/arbitrary humor/hipster comedians that are on this show? Tina Fey's jokes are completely nerdy and the type crap gay urban liberal art school grad white people would like....fuck this show and fuck your commenters. I applaud Robert Bianco for being a contrarian in an ocean of diarrhea that is the media that loves this truly awful show. ...Yes I know its completely pathetic that I would get this angry over a tv show, but its like the time back in college when everybody on my dorm room floor thought Armageddon was good...I basically made it my project to explain to each individual scene by scene why it was so absolutely terrible. Thank you for letting me get this off my chest.
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I'm sorry but that "Like having a burrito before sex" comment last night was priceless.
either that tipster is a Commonwealth transplant or Americans have started using crap as an adjective.
It's not that it sucks... still my favorite comedy airing at the moment (Until episodes of Its Always Sunny In Philadelphia come back).
It's that they have abandoned the structure of the show... its still funny as hell but the jokes are coming from situations that couldn't exist in previous seasons. It's gone from quirky to whacky, and to keep coming up with these kind of jokes that continue to get laughs, Tracy Jordan will soon be jumping a shark tank on a rocket powered jet ski.
Which will be %*$&ing awesome... but where do you go from there?
Like Lenny Bruce said about Jews, in New York you're gay even if you're straight. In Minnessota you're straight even if you're gay.
I would've voted for genius, except for that dumb-ass middle school pregnancy line in the poll. So yes, the show is still genius. This poll is offensive, and decidedly not.
"Fuck this show and fuck your commenters". Brilliant!
I have been fucking dorks for years now and very few of them are gay.
John Bolton wants to comment on Gawker?
@Hiphopopotamus: jumping into a shark tank with TWO jetskis. brilliant.
You know I don't like the word "gay." I'd rather think of myself as "inflamed."
@themediatrix: Is this a joke? Tell me that this is a joke.
"Help me Liz Lemon, you're my only hope."
@themediatrix: But that's from the show!
As a hetero, state school grad, born and raised in a small town (but now Chicagoan) person...I find the show funny and endearing.
Tina Fey is beautiful, smart and funny.
Alec Baldwin cracks my crap up.
And this person seems to be projecting a little latent self-loathing homosexuality, as well as general hating on people on not-really-important issues that should get a body this riled up.
Simmer down, sonny-boy!
Oh, and I'm not gay, but I'm willing to learn. Will they send me someplace special?
"...but its like the time back in college when everybody on my dorm room floor thought Armageddon was good...I basically made it my project to explain to each individual scene by scene why it was so absolutely terrible."
Well, that sounds pretty cool and socially adept. We nerds have been schooled.
@Richard: Whatever, racist.
Guy's got a point about the nerdiness. Let's keep Tina as the lead but let the writers from King of Queens take a hand.
@MyCubeHas3Sides: I know! Where's his ire for Ugly Betty? Or maybe I shouldn't ask.
@Richard: Really? when?
(and I totally love your avatar pic, is that you, you swanky Rat Pack looking noirish cool person!)
You're gay.
sir:
just because there's no laugh track doesn't mean there are no jokes. I know you've been conditioned to rely on the soothing rhythm of such comic gems as "two and a half men" and whatever other crap shows are keeping the average USA today reader glued to his lay-z-boy every night, but us "gay urban liberal art school grad white people" can be entertained without Pavlovian cues.
@moff: I'm picturing him wearing headgear giving his door-to-door "Armageddon" talk to his floormates.
Wait! How exactly did he mean "gay"?
Hey, lookit me! I can comment on this gay blog! Gayity gay gay gayyyy!
And, sadly, since I did go to a gay liberal art school, I missed the experience of living in a dorm where everyone on the floor loved 'Armageddon'. And the added treat of some Wile E. Coyote (Supergenius) patiently sitting each of us down and deconstructing it scene by scene...
"Look, asteroids are gay and NASA is for fags. Bruce Willis, see here, look how gay he is looking when he looks at Ben Affleck, who is gay. Oh, man, look at that gay spacesuit. Gay!"
@BeRightBack: I'd be interested in his scene-by-scene dissection of that newer s(h)it-com "Up in the House" (I think that's the name) starring Flava Flav.
eeeww, I couldn't sit through the first 5 minutes, terrible; and I am usually forgiving/less hatey on sit-coms in general.
@MyCubeHas3Sides: First season.
Um . . . is it a problem that "gay urban liberal art school grad white people" literally describes me to a T? No wonder I love this show!
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@Nard38: Wrestling headgear or orthodontic headgear? I'm going with wrestling. And thank you for the awesome image.
@BalknChain: woo hoo!!
@Mediahohoho: 11 or 00. Not 10.
I bet this guys is like my irritating friends who say "gay" as a derogatory term, and insist that is has nothing to do with sexual orientation. "It just means stupid and freakish, it has nothing to do with being gay." Uh huh, tell me another one.
@BalknChain: It went through! So you're gay!
@moff: Right...of all my college memories, the ones I'll cherish most are those all-nighters we pulled listening the guy on the floor whose name no one was quite sure of telling us why movies we liked actually sucked.
@BalknChain: Welcome back!
Also, it looks like someone needs to lay off the fiber.
@moff: ...but its like the time back in college when everybody on my dorm room floor thought Armageddon was good...I basically made it my project to explain to each individual scene by scene why it was so absolutely terrible."
holy shit, i did that too. Did I write this e-mail in a drunken stupor last night? nah too many of his insults about Tina Fey's jokes apply to me: urban, grad school, artsy, liberal, friend of geighs...
@CrankYank: Should be using the word "queer" I think, right?
Queer = odd, strange, etc. Only later in its life turned toward meaning a sexual orientation.
Richard - WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?
Can I vote "No" more than once please? Like 10,000 TIMES?
@Richard: I knew Conbon was gonna plotz. He just got us to stop doing it, and here you go.
I also have a feeling no one left any erasable messages on this guy's dorm room door.
Can you let this JFPesque fuckstick comment here? At least for the day? Imagine the fun! Imagine it!
Ahem, "gay urban liberal art school grad white people" AND THEIR HAGS, thank you.
@MyCubeHas3Sides:
Yes, but can you do that in reverse? Just like you can't use queer now without having a "gay" undertone, you can't say gay without some inference to sexuality. Harumph!
@Spirit Fingers: I don't know what plotz means. It sounds gay.
@moff: well, I do like men@Bell County: it's good to be home
That is angry letter writer who needs to calm the hell down before I bring it down to his level and get all "I'm rubber you're glue" on his ass.
Ironically, he thought Deep Impact was brilliant.
@moff: That hit a bit too close to home, eh, Daredevil-lover?
The Office and 30 Rock is by far the wonderful-est hour of television. Tipster can go to hell.
And should really, really look into what his selective use of apostrophes says about his own gayness.
(Yeah, I don't know what that last part mean, either.)
@Don Is: I'm with you. And when we're done, we're gonna send him off with the DVD set of "Quarterlife" he's always wanted.
The sad truth is that sometimes, when a show can't book real comediennes like Britney Spears, they have to settle for "lame ass vh1/human giant/arbitrary humor/hipster" guest stars. I think it's a sign that the recession has started to hit sitcoms.
I'm sorry, but the Alec Baldwin/Matthew Broderick stuff last night was pure gold. I am installing a pen closet at work immediately.