30 Rock Live

Last Thursday, NBC's 30 Rock had two live shows.  One for East Coast and one for the West.  This gave 30 Rock a real SNL vibe from back in the 90s-early 00s.  The live show takes place when they are filming an episode of TGS.  It also falls on Liz Lemon's 40th birthday which no one remembered.  Also in the episode, Jack stopped drinking because his girlfriend can't while pregnant and Tracy wants to "break" (the act of messing up lines and start laughing during a act) during one of the shows. 

This episode(s) were different and funny, but I had a few beefs. During the East Coast taping,  many of them were holding scripts and some of the jokes they said didn't really land.  After watching some of the West Coast taping (which is basically the same episode), no one was holding scripts and some of the jokes were adjusted or were better told. 

There were some nice cameos like Julia Louis-Dreyfus as “flashback Liz”, Matt Damon as Liz’s airline pilot boyfriend Carol, Bill Hader as his co pilot, and Chris Parnell as a doctor for a commercial. 

Overall the episode was funny and entertaining and definitely something different.