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John Francis "Jack" Donaghy (/ ˈ d ɒ n ə ɡ iː / DON-ə-gee) is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, airing from 2006 to 2013.The character was created by series creator Tina Fey, and is portrayed by Alec Baldwin.
[11] [12] Actress Elizabeth Banks returned as her 30 Rock character Avery Jessup, a CNBC television host and Jack Donaghy's girlfriend, in this episode, [13] and reprised the Avery role for the eighth time. [14] Comedian actress Sherri Shepherd reprised her role as Angie Jordan, the wife of Tracy Jordan, for the seventh time. [15]
Elizabeth Miervaldis "Liz" Lemon (), the series' protagonist, is head writer of TGS with Tracy Jordan.Jack Donaghy calls her a "New York third-wave feminist, college-educated, single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it, over-scheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that says 'healthy body image' on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for... a week" person.
At the beginning of this 30 Rock episode, Liz tells Jack that she and Jenna used to perform improvisation at corporate retreats. In a flashback, the audience shout out Sling Blade and Oprah as suggestions for Liz and Jenna to do. Liz does the impression of the Sling Blade character, but Jenna believed that Liz was Oprah. [10]
On April 2, 2008, NBC announced 30 Rock 360, an online extension of the 30 Rock series. The extension featured Jack Donaghy's Online Business Courses (or Jack U). Users could also read Jack's blogs and upload their own business advice in video form. Users could submit sketches for TGS with Tracy Jordan and act out skits from TGS.
On April 26, 2007, she began guest appearances on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock as Colleen, the fearsome mother of Alec Baldwin's lead character, Jack Donaghy. [25] Stritch was reportedly considered for the role of Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls but, as she related in her show Elaine Stritch at Liberty, she "blew her audition". [26]
In a 2014 Atlantic analysis of a dozen popular U.S. comedy shows, “30 Rock” came out on top as averaging just over seven jokes per minute — making it so that there were plenty of clips to ...
Jack acts semi-repulsed by the idea, and tells Liz to give it up. Finally, at the 30 Rock studios, after overhearing Pete impersonating Elmo from Sesame Street while Pete was encouraging his son to do better with his potty training, Tracy compares Pete's relationship with his wife to that of Samson and Delilah.