Goodbye to the Rock

This season is the last of one of my favorite shows on television, 30 Rock. The show is an irreverent portrayal of life working at Rockefeller Center, the home of NBC in New York as well as its parent company General Electric. Tina Fey, the lead writer and series creator, pens a show about he hi-jinks of those involved with the production of TGS, or The Girlie Show, a Saturday Night Live parallel. In reality the show is about Fey's experience as a writer for SNL, with Alec Baldwin playing Jack Donaghey, a stand in for Lorne Michaels, the producer of SNL and 30 Rock. As you can tell the show has many layers of reality and fiction layered on the other, creating a consistent meta-humor which pokes fun at the relationship between television production and the corporations that own networks, along with the silly humor one would expect from a normal comedy.