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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot tries to make the War in Afghanistan Funny. Fails.

March 4, 2025 by thestakemag Leave a Comment

Tina Fey just isn’t Tina Fey enough

Filed Under: Featured, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: 30 Rock, Forest Lewis, Kim Barker, Tina Fey, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

Can 30 Rock Explain The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s Race Problem?

April 1, 2025 by Christopher ZF 5 Comments

Tina Fey’s brand of TV is racially explosive-with a joke and a joke and a joke.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: 30 Rock, Jane Krakowski, The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan

The 10 Best Halloween TV Episodes on Netflix Instant Right Now

October 24, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

The funniest and scariest Halloween TV streaming

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: 30 Rock, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Frasier, Friends, Futurama, Halloween, Netflix, Supernatural, The Office, The X-Files, TV, Twilight Zone

RIP: Elaine Stritch, Colleen Donaghy

July 17, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

the octogenarian spent 70 years in the business, but to the Stake will always be Mrs. Donaghy

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: 30 Rock, Elaine Stritch

Women in film and television: young, aimless, silent

March 12, 2025 by Christopher ZF 4 Comments

The world according to film and television remains, unsurprisingly, male

Filed Under: Media, Movies, TV Tagged With: 30 Rock, Bling Ring, diversity, Film, gender, representation, Sofia Coppola, Television

List: 5 Moments in Pop Culture from 2013 to forget (Chris version)

December 19, 2024 by Christopher ZF 1 Comment

The other half of the story. Those moment we’d all like to take from our brain forever.

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 30 Rock, DC Comics, Miley Cyrus, Quvenzhane Wallis, Seth McFarlane, The Onion, VMAs, Worst

List: 5 Moments in Pop Culture from 2013 to remember (Andrew version)

December 11, 2024 by Andrew DeYoung 2 Comments

Lena Dunham getting down with Patrick Wilson, “Rural Juror”, and a hairy man singing “Wrecking Ball” top Andrew’s list of favorite 2013 pop culture moments.

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 30 Rock, Best of 2013, Breaking Bad, Girls, Jennifer Weiner, Jonathan Franzen, Lena Dunham, novels, Vince Gilligan, Walter White

List: 5 Moments in Pop Culture from 2013 to remember (Chris version)

December 11, 2024 by Christopher ZF 4 Comments

Chris’s 5 personal favorites pop culture moments from the year 2013.

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 30 Rock, Best of 2013, Jason Collins, Jennifer Lawrence, Kanye West, List, Robbie Rogers, Saga

Tina Fey Returning to Television

October 31, 2025 by Christopher ZF Leave a Comment

TV can never have too much Tina Fey.

Filed Under: TV Tagged With: 30 Rock, Ellen Kemper, NBC, Saturday Night Live, Tina Fey

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