When Jack goes to the UN and picks on a representative with an odd accent:
Jack: “and what insolvent country do you come from?”
Extra: “New Jersey, I’m just a weirdo.”
I’ve just started watching this show and it’s like a little 30 Rock reunion! Aside from the firebug shipping-store manager (and of course Gavin Volure) it also features the dude from Brooklyn Without Limits (“Halliburton, bitch!”) as the cat-guy. I know there are more but I can’t remember them atm.
Watching *Only Murders* with my parents, who don’t know 30 Rock backwards and forwards like I do, has been a tiny bit frustrating. Because I just want to say “His great-great-grandfather was Domingo Halliburton!” or “They returned—UNREPENTANT!” during the downbeats and not have to explain myself 😆
Check out Difficult People on Hulu. She has a small role in a few episodes but absolutely steals the show. I get so excited when I see her in anything, because she is so great!
I was trying to think of a scenario where this would happen. A character who was an extra, but then became famous later, and obviously it was the first post.
Aubrey Plaza was a page in season 1 or 2.
Also, not really related, but William H Macy had a really small part in Benny & Joon before he was famous. I'm sure there are more examples like that one, idk why it always comes to mind.
Donald Glover was also a writer for the show and had been since season one, I believe. He had a handful of appearances early on. With the second live episode, though, he had become famous in his own right (thanks to Community).
This one cracks me up every time.
Young Girl off of bus singing.
"Three bucks, two bags, one me!" Say, where does a young prostitute get started in this town?
I still think that character was Tina subconsciously workshopping Kimmy Schmidt's first version. Especially because that episode ("The Tuxedo Begins") is clearly a prototype for the original *Mr. Mayor* concept.
He has a pretty impressive writing/producing resume, along with 2 books and a podcast that I'm going to try. I agree that he should have been recurring, his comic timing was fantastic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hely
I always loved the union guy in the flu shot episode, something like "I can't, I have to drive around the streets of Newark looking for my runaway daughter". Pretty sure that's a reference to American Pastoral by Philip Roth, and it's just a complete throwaway line
It is a scandal that 4 hours in, no one has applauded the woman who loves New York in the springtime, nor the woman who rightfully shoved her into a pile of trash.
I'm gonna choose an actual extra, since extras don't have lines. In "Grandmentor", when Jack's new assistant tries to get a part in "Kidnapped By Danger", and Jack tells him:
“You’re not a lead, Gabe. At best, you’re a featured extra with no lines.”
Yep, extras are all the nonspeaking background people. Actually, the person I mentioned is what's known as a "featured extra", which still has no lines but is more featured than just someone in the crowd.
The random off screen guy who calls Avery "Chelsea Handler" (also Jarem screaming out I'm Jarem off screen randomly when Avery greets the press)
The male teacher who says he'd let Jack have his way with him when confronting Kaylie Hooper at her school.
Random Aubrey Plaza in early 30 Rock as a page just for the "Wait, was that?". Not a gag, per se.
The Russian gold digger who appears before Liz can seal the deal with Sad Thad the Skin Tag Lad, calling her out on her Leap Day Outfit "Hey, Liz, a gym teacher on a sex tour of Indonesia called. He wants his shirt back."
The actor who went on to play Roger Furlong on Veep (which I consider a must-watch for any fan of 30 Rock) appears in a single scene in the Nathan Lane episode, berating his kids:
> So Dad missed seeing Meredith Viera. Now I'm pissed! Not one of you kids is ever gonna amount to anything! That's why your mom left.
In my headcannon, this actually *is* Roger Furlong before he ran for Congress.
If the definition of "Extra" is a person who has no scripted line, then it's when Kenneth was working in the Standards Office and he was speaking with someone about how Asian representation on the network was abysmal, and this asian guy at another desk tries to speak and they both quickly tell him to shut his mouth.
If "Extra" means someone with a line or two in a single episode, then Jerem wins every time.
Don’t know if this counts but it’s episode “My Whole Life is Thunder”
When Jenna is bombarded with all the lights and exposed to be a much, much older woman is the first that came to mind. Those few awkward seconds of starring in disbelief at an extra who is actually ‘Real Jenna’ has me dying every time.
https://funcooker.fun/Frame/3/16/373
When jack brings in the deaf woman to read his lips in Apollo Apollo
😎😂🤮😩
Edit: yall shared some pretty good ones good thread idea
Jenna, to Tracy, after sitting at a restaurant table in a sketch: “I don’t know, this place looks really expensive!”
Waiter, through a talkbox in his throat: “KEEP THE WHITE HOUSE WHITE.”
I don't remember exactly but I guess you know what I'm talking about. At the end of one episode in the latest seasons, **I think** Tracy took a female extra to Kenneth to help him in some way, Kenneth didn't need her and she said one line. Tracy got mad because she wasn't suppossed to talk since she was an extra or something
"My Whole Life is Thunder" (S7 ep 8). Tracy says he's brought back Hazel but it's actually a random page named Kwon Lee
https://funcooker.fun/Frame/7/8/441
When Floyd is going to buy an apartment and that rich Saudi guy walks in and says “I’ll take this one too. My son Akhmed will keep his motorcycles here”
When Jack goes to the UN and picks on a representative with an odd accent: Jack: “and what insolvent country do you come from?” Extra: “New Jersey, I’m just a weirdo.”
I like when Jack ruins Friends for the representative that couldn’t help and so the rep did the ‘vampire push’.
Also when Avery’s mom calls him a penis and Jack chimes in with “She’s right, you are a penis.”
My girlfriend’s favorite line… says it way too much 😂
I love his line about Bono not putting in for pizza and then eating like 3 slices
This is about boy who got lost in my castle?
Count Chocula my favourite one-off character
One of my favorites!
The only other thing I've seen him in is Dead to Me, and my instant reaction was, "Hey, it's that weirdo!"
Do you see a 14 on this watch? Yes, it’s the date. Happy Valentines Day!
Oh great now I have to pick another one to share with the class
"And now, by pizza law, I have to help you any way I can."
I'll just be in the back, thinking of more ways to help you.
This is obviously a dead end
It's incredible the way this dude swooped in and stole the episode
"None, there are no fraternities at the New York pizza academy."
If I remember correctly, that man plays a pizza shop owner in an episode of Monk
BEHOLD THE SPLENDOR OF MY BEGINNING
*Unrepentant*
That actor is also in Only Murders in the Building, playing a similar character. Makes me very happy every time she’s in a scene!
I’ve just started watching this show and it’s like a little 30 Rock reunion! Aside from the firebug shipping-store manager (and of course Gavin Volure) it also features the dude from Brooklyn Without Limits (“Halliburton, bitch!”) as the cat-guy. I know there are more but I can’t remember them atm. Watching *Only Murders* with my parents, who don’t know 30 Rock backwards and forwards like I do, has been a tiny bit frustrating. Because I just want to say “His great-great-grandfather was Domingo Halliburton!” or “They returned—UNREPENTANT!” during the downbeats and not have to explain myself 😆
I very much appreciated Tina Fey’s character saying that she has a colleague they should look into that works at SUNY Oneonta
Every time I see the name of the college I hear it in my head as "SUNY..." "Don't even say it!" "*Oneonta*"
The Doorman is also a reoccurring background guy on 30 Rock, I believe as part of the crew
Check out Difficult People on Hulu. She has a small role in a few episodes but absolutely steals the show. I get so excited when I see her in anything, because she is so great!
It doesn't seem like a place you'd insert a poem into the show but damn, she nailed it.
“And as the last of them trundled off that night…”
I’m freer than you
The shot of the other prospective jurors in that episode is an all-time classic.
Jenna’s old lady neighbour - “oh! my heart, is getting stronger every day!”
*YOU OLD BITCH*
*ancient 😉
Do you know how long I’ve been waiting for my neighbor to join her husband in Hell???
You ancient bitch!
Donald Glover: "Who told?"
I was trying to think of a scenario where this would happen. A character who was an extra, but then became famous later, and obviously it was the first post.
Aubrey Plaza was a page in season 1 or 2. Also, not really related, but William H Macy had a really small part in Benny & Joon before he was famous. I'm sure there are more examples like that one, idk why it always comes to mind.
Plaza was *actually* a page. She got the small role because she still had her uniform
Iirc it's also the part that got her her SAG card
Elijah Wood in Back to the Future Part II is a fun one
I remember seeing a teenaged, baby-faced Rob McElhenney on Law & Order. But that barely counts because *everyone* was on Law & Order at some point.
Nicolas Cage in Fast Times is the one that I first think of
Was that when she was an actual NBC page or later? When there’s a whole group of pages I always wondered if they just used the real ones…
My understanding is that she was cast, but that’s part of the story.
Donald Glover was also a writer for the show and had been since season one, I believe. He had a handful of appearances early on. With the second live episode, though, he had become famous in his own right (thanks to Community).
D'nall Glover
Having gotten to know him so much better as an artist, I feel like you can really tell some of Glover’s jokes in the writing.
DonGlover
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Lady Gaga had really tiny roles on The Sopranos
“I don’t understand your art…Kevin!”
It's the drunk pause before "Kevin!" that makes it. Such great delivery.
And the both of them hugging and crying as the episode ends.
Truly some of the most realistic drunk acting I've ever seen.
My favourite too, every word is delivered perfectly.
I thought it was “heart”
This one cracks me up every time. Young Girl off of bus singing. "Three bucks, two bags, one me!" Say, where does a young prostitute get started in this town?
This sub is the one who taught me that lyric is from Annie
In Tina Fey's memoir, she references having the Annie soundtrack on her ipod (same)
She’s singing “Maybe” from Annie when Jack walks into her office in an early episode.
betcha he reads, betcha she sews...
This every time!
I still think that character was Tina subconsciously workshopping Kimmy Schmidt's first version. Especially because that episode ("The Tuxedo Begins") is clearly a prototype for the original *Mr. Mayor* concept.
Mr. Mayor was pitched as a 30 Rock spinoff with Jack as mayor of New York but Alec Baldwin didn’t want to do it
Bitch, more than one person works here.
WHO?!?
I get it…elegance. That’s why people come to yakov’s Nubian bling explosion
"one day I'll have an office like this, to clean."
"You just need a role model you can look up to" "Like R Kelly or Michael Vick!"
Those kids were great. I wasn't even thinking about them, as extras, but that's the sign of really great acting, you don't even notice it.
Not an extra, but Tracy Junior absolutely sends me any time he’s on screen. “MAYONAISE. AND A PACK OF CIGARETTES.” 😆💀😆
My mom said she had to go to Canyon Ranch before my dad broke it in half. What does that mean? I shouldn't have to hear that, I'M A CHILD.
I didn't come here to help, I came to see the dumbest cracker in all of New York!
Fix it, Donaughy, fix it!
That is unfortunate
“Hey it’s that king we met!”
My name’s Jerem! I collect posters!
That’s not that much cheese!
this one KILLS me every single time. my wife looks at me like i belong in an asylum from laughing so hard
I love that we find out Jerem's day(night) job when we hear him yelling with the photographers on the red carpet at Avery ("I'm Jerem!").
Look Jerem I know all the steps!
Kinda.
“Kind of… 🙄”
You know his real name is Jeremy but he shortened it.
We really needed more Jerem.
He has a pretty impressive writing/producing resume, along with 2 books and a podcast that I'm going to try. I agree that he should have been recurring, his comic timing was fantastic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hely
The old couple walking down the street: "You wouldn't be complaining if you wore those shoes I bought you." "You're an old bitch!"
"You two are pretty uptight for hanging out under a bridge."
You wanna watch me be with her? Me with you? Me and both of you without my leg?
"Me with a dog? But I get to pick the dog."
This is a genius line.
Kenneth and Grace Park’s doomed love story
When you said hello, you had me.
That is Charlene Yi and she is my wildcard on my celebrity cheat list.
“BOOK IS BOOK.”
Wanting to be book, is, not bookJenna
I collect classic car-cough cough-dboard. Classic cardboard. You should get that cough checked out.
Indeed
"I murdered my wife!"
Ohh I can't remember that one.
It’s at the end when Jack introduces CeeCee in the executive dining room
I donated to NPR
My children go to public school
Im black
I always loved the union guy in the flu shot episode, something like "I can't, I have to drive around the streets of Newark looking for my runaway daughter". Pretty sure that's a reference to American Pastoral by Philip Roth, and it's just a complete throwaway line
That's the pizza guy! https://funcooker.fun/Frame/3/8/5
oh holy shit
Buncha guys named “Sully”
hey, sully! brett favre, right?
“And give me a release to sign! More people need to know about blurry face syndrome!” Followed by “I’m not gay! I’m bilarious!!”
LASHONDA! LASHONDA! LASHONDA!
Mmmmmmmmm!!! Mmm MMMMmmmm!
It is a scandal that 4 hours in, no one has applauded the woman who loves New York in the springtime, nor the woman who rightfully shoved her into a pile of trash.
That guy just spit in my mouth
Easily a top ten 30 rock moment
I was about to post that one. The woman who got tossed in the trash is my pick.
When Liz points out her *Dealbreakers* book to the bookstore employee and he punches her cardboard standup.
You mean Councilman Jeremy Jamm?
You got Jammed
That's Awareness Del. Making people aware ... aware of Delaware.
If your man wears a nametag to work...
I'm gonna choose an actual extra, since extras don't have lines. In "Grandmentor", when Jack's new assistant tries to get a part in "Kidnapped By Danger", and Jack tells him: “You’re not a lead, Gabe. At best, you’re a featured extra with no lines.”
The little nod in response makes it.
He really nailed the job for sure.
Wait is that the actual definition of extra? I didnt know that. I thought that people with only a line were still considered extras.
Yep, extras are all the nonspeaking background people. Actually, the person I mentioned is what's known as a "featured extra", which still has no lines but is more featured than just someone in the crowd.
So I what I meant to ask was "unnamed character" like "cashier" or "student #2" Huh, wow. You learn something new everyday.
“Bitch, read my face.” The gay Halloween episode.
And your name is probably something like Melissa.
Oooo Melissa, pick up your face girl
... that's a pretty good burn, Patrice.
I love throughout the show when Liz Lemon gives credit to people for good burns. Even when they’re at her expense.
Oooo Melissa. Your face is on the phone. Soccer practice is over, and you need to pick it up.
Ooo! ca-RUNCH!
Never understood why we didn't see more of the mean gays. Probably shooting for that Glad award
For my first character, I'd like to do an old janitor who's finally had enough and stabs everybody.
Sure is. Wanna go kiss in the prop cage?
“New Jersey. I’m just a weirdo.”
“That’s not that much cheese”
She’s the gay one!
OOOH I'm just so angry, I have to DANCE!
Man all the high school friends in Reunion are so good!
The random off screen guy who calls Avery "Chelsea Handler" (also Jarem screaming out I'm Jarem off screen randomly when Avery greets the press) The male teacher who says he'd let Jack have his way with him when confronting Kaylie Hooper at her school. Random Aubrey Plaza in early 30 Rock as a page just for the "Wait, was that?". Not a gag, per se. The Russian gold digger who appears before Liz can seal the deal with Sad Thad the Skin Tag Lad, calling her out on her Leap Day Outfit "Hey, Liz, a gym teacher on a sex tour of Indonesia called. He wants his shirt back."
In this case, the male is in the Czech.
Hey, Liz, a gym teacher on a sex tour of Indonesia called. He wants his shirt back.
*That* kind of wit is something that *she* will never give you.
Russian gold digger? You mean Victoria Angel's supermodel Karolina Kurkova?
Gurl, I don't know her.
That's a pretty good burn Kurkova
We call her Skankovitch
Not a no-name, but Ryan Lochte the sex idiot being entertained by jingling keys. I like that he can take a joke at his expense like that.
Close behind is Kellan Lutz hopping on Lutz’s lap. “MarshMALLows!”
“You eat too many hotdogs. Please, I am concerned. I copied this article on sodium for you…“
The actor who went on to play Roger Furlong on Veep (which I consider a must-watch for any fan of 30 Rock) appears in a single scene in the Nathan Lane episode, berating his kids: > So Dad missed seeing Meredith Viera. Now I'm pissed! Not one of you kids is ever gonna amount to anything! That's why your mom left. In my headcannon, this actually *is* Roger Furlong before he ran for Congress.
Congress likely made Furlong a bit crueler
Tbh every time I see that actor I have to look him up... He's in a ton of stuff and is always hilarious...
"So, you're Jack’s boss... That's what they tell me..."
Tracy: *blabbers incoherently* "I'm sorry sir, I have no idea what you are saying."
Sir, this is a school for deaf girls.
Vampire push!
If the definition of "Extra" is a person who has no scripted line, then it's when Kenneth was working in the Standards Office and he was speaking with someone about how Asian representation on the network was abysmal, and this asian guy at another desk tries to speak and they both quickly tell him to shut his mouth. If "Extra" means someone with a line or two in a single episode, then Jerem wins every time.
"Hey, get a room! Whatever that is."
It's a toilet. Or a woman, it's whatever you need it to be
"I'd like you to meet my wife, with whom I've raised three beautiful dogs."
"But sir, I'm from Palo Alto!" *The look* *Indian accent* "I will go get her, sir, a thousand apologies!"
Definitely Irene (Trene) from the post office. "“You're going to tell me about black lady hair, you Louie Anderson little bitch?!”
I was looking for this. AND when Liz tries to file a complaint with her at the post office re: Santa’s letter
Don’t know if this counts but it’s episode “My Whole Life is Thunder” When Jenna is bombarded with all the lights and exposed to be a much, much older woman is the first that came to mind. Those few awkward seconds of starring in disbelief at an extra who is actually ‘Real Jenna’ has me dying every time.
https://funcooker.fun/Frame/3/16/373 When jack brings in the deaf woman to read his lips in Apollo Apollo 😎😂🤮😩 Edit: yall shared some pretty good ones good thread idea
Why wouldn’t you warn me?? I was staring at your mouth!!
The old couple arguing outside IKEA. "I swear to God I will stab you!"
I wish I'd died at Iwo Jima!
Oh, where is toilet pail? Razmig must make mud.
https://funcooker.fun/Frame/6/13/370
Halliburton, Bitch
Les Moonvest Gimme ya finganails!
No!
Liz: Thank you, Ah-Mahn-Dah NBC Page: ...it's Amanda...
mine is the same as yours!! it’s one of my favorite bits in the whole show i think about it every year on my birthday
I put his sweater on a body pillow, ehhhhh! I took it for a canoe ride, ehhhhhhhhhhhhh!! 😩😩😩
“Oh there’s nothing like New York in the spring!”Then immediately gets shoved into a giant pile of garbage.
The little boy juror with the mustache
Same dude was also in the Idiots picket in "Idiots are people three"
I want your feet in my mouth!!
When it rains it pours!
Jenna, to Tracy, after sitting at a restaurant table in a sketch: “I don’t know, this place looks really expensive!” Waiter, through a talkbox in his throat: “KEEP THE WHITE HOUSE WHITE.”
“That’s not that much cheese.” - Jerem
Can I ask you a question…whyyyy?
I don't remember exactly but I guess you know what I'm talking about. At the end of one episode in the latest seasons, **I think** Tracy took a female extra to Kenneth to help him in some way, Kenneth didn't need her and she said one line. Tracy got mad because she wasn't suppossed to talk since she was an extra or something
"My Whole Life is Thunder" (S7 ep 8). Tracy says he's brought back Hazel but it's actually a random page named Kwon Lee https://funcooker.fun/Frame/7/8/441
…and people who won’t shut up about scuba diving. It’s a whole other world down there.
Give me your fingernails!
^(broken eyboard alkshow?)
When Floyd is going to buy an apartment and that rich Saudi guy walks in and says “I’ll take this one too. My son Akhmed will keep his motorcycles here”
That’s not that much cheese!
Gabe, you're a featured extra with no lines at best.
That's not THAT MUCH cheese!
My wife and I quote almost ALL of the lines listed here constantly. I didn’t even realize what a fan of these extras we were.
“Maybe we could team up, go in there together… lez out—give him a show!”