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    30 Rock: Tina Fey's satirical show-within-a-show mastered the art of the long-running gag

    What started as an above-average workplace comedy quickly became complex, hilariously layered and sharp as tacks
    by Andrew P Street Jun 04, 2020 2 minutes
    Tina Fey as Liz Lemon in workplace comedy 30 Rock. Photograph: Collection Christophel/Alamy Stock Photo

    There was a very clearly defined moment where I fell in love with 30 Rock. 

    It’s seven glorious seconds early in the second season, when comedian Tracy Jordan (played by Tracy Morgan) performs his Monster Mash-inspired novelty song Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, containing the immortal couplet “Boys becoming men / Men becoming wolves”. 

    Up until then 30 Rock was an above-average workplace comedy drawing

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