The series finale of 30 Rock will air on January 31. Let’s all promise to be there for each other in our time of need and try to wave goodbye to it like human beings. We pay tribute to 30 Rock on the show today with excerpts from past interviews with Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan. In 2011, Fey talked about working with Baldwin and Morgan:

They are different. It’s funny because it’s rare that we’re all three together. The way that things are scheduled, I’ll go on and it’s either a day of all me and Alec … or all me and Tracy. It’s fun when we’re all together … but we kind of know each other by now, and we know the rhythm of who likes to shoot their coverage first and who likes to wait and go second.

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On today’s show

we remember cabaret singer Barbara Lea

rebroadcast an interview with Tina Fey

hear from David Bianculli about his weekend TV picks

and

hear David Edelstein’s review of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Tomorrow’s guest: Tina Fey.

aesalazar:

The cast of 30 Rock won’t stop until they all have a public radio show. First Alec Baldwin on WNYC, and now Tina Fey is host of The Kitchen Sister’s “The Hidden World of Girls.”

Tina Fey on Fresh Air Alec Baldwin on Fresh Air Tracy Morgan on Fresh Air Will Arnett on Fresh Air

thejeanicole:

Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon

Monday: Jimmy Fallon [Previously: Tina Fey on Fresh Air]

fallingforthefirsttime:

This is one of my favorite lines in the whole series.

Just realized I saved this as a draft in preparation for Tina Fey coming on Fresh Air and never published it. 

Audio for Tina Fey is now up. Enjoy!

Tina Fey on her mom forcing her to try on bras outside of dressing rooms at JC Penneys: “I developed very early. I was probably in 5th grade getting a bra. I developed breasts so early and so strangely high that the bra was more to clarify what they were. That they were not a goiter or something. It was mortifying, but I can absolutely see making that same mistake because you transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person’s nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: ‘No, I’m a person. You can’t fix my underpants on the subway.’”

You can find this freshly posted as of yesterday. ‘She should be ashamed of what she did to Sarah Palin,’ which I think is a discredit to both me and former Governor Palin. She’s not fragile. And I’m not mean. And to imply otherwise is a disservice to us both. No one ever said, ‘Oh that Will Ferrell. He should be ashamed of the way he’s conducting himself playing George W. Bush.’ No one would ever say that.

— From the Fresh Air interview: Tina Fey reflects on her Sarah Palin impersonation

“It’s just such a tangled-up issue, the way women present themselves — whether or not they choose to put their thumbs in their panties on the cover of Maxim and judge each other back and forth on it. It’s a complicated issue and we didn’t go much further on saying anything other than to say, ‘Yeah, it’s a complicated issue and we’re all kind of figuring it out as we go.’

In the episode [of 30 Rock called “TGS Hates Women”], we have a fake website called joanofsnark.com that the women at Jezebel.com immediately recognized that it was their website basically and it was. … I don’t have the answer. But I find it interesting that Olivia [Munn, a correspondent on The Daily Show] gets people who go after her on some of these sites because she’s beautiful and that’s part of it. I think if she were kind of an aggressive, heavier girl with a Le Tigre mustache posing in her underpants, people would be like ‘That’s amazing. Good for you.’ But because she’s very beautiful, people are like, ‘You’re using that.’ It’s a mess. We can’t figure it out.”

— Tina Fey on women in comedy on today’s Fresh Air [complete interview here]

Tomorrow: Tina Fey 

Related Fresh Air Interviews: Lorne Michaels Tracy Morgan Robert Smigel Amy Poehler Seth Meyers 

Fresh Air Offices, 9:39AM

Mel: Do you think I can slip into Tina Fey's suitcase after she leaves the studio but before she leaves the building?
Coworker: No.

Wednesday: Tina Fey.