Never go with a hippie to a second location

For my money, no one has better timing nor uses their voice, their body, their face better than Alec Baldwin.  The guy is a monster.  From his characters in the Departed, Glengarry Glen Ross, the Good Shepherd, Running with Scissors, the Cooler to name just a few film roles, even the narrator as the Royal Tenenbaums  to his legendary work as Stanley Kowalski on Broadway and other stage work, the man is an acting monster.  And with the brilliant mind (and not too shabby a performer in her own right) of Tina Fey, they have created one of the best satirical commentaries on class, capitalism, the mythology of our political parties, corporate culture, masculinity / femininity, consumerism, and entertainment via the character Jack Donaghy – it is devastating in its sharp wit, pointed criticism – and I am routinely amazed to find it via the usual crass, over-simplified and formulaic genre of the half-hour television situation comedy broadcast by a multi-national corporation.  Of course it would be better to have the audio/visual component, even on the page the humor and critique shines.  Here is a sample:


Liz: Cross-promotional... deal mechanics... revenue streams... jargon... synergy.
Jack: That's the best presentation I've ever heard.



Avery: I don't know why our daughter would be afraid of Reagan.
Jack: Are you accusing me of not doing enough Reagan time with her?



Jack: I'm tired of talking this much to a woman I'm not having sex with.



Jack: Ambition is the willingness to kill the things you love and eat them in order to stay alive. Haven't you ever read my throw pillow?



Jack: In my defense, every April 22nd I honor Richard Nixon's death by getting drunk and making some unpopular decisions.



Jack [about GE]: We brought good things to life. And bad things to Chinese rivers.



Jack: All you have to do as the writing staff of an NBC show is incorporate positive mentions, or 'POS-MENS' of GE products into your program. For example you could write an episode where one of your character purchases, and is satisfied with one of GE's direct current drilling motors for off-shore or land-based projects.



Liz: Why are you wearing a tux?
Jack: It's after six. What am I, a farmer?



Jack: Lesson number one: you don't need anyone. Sure, Josh tests well with female viewers 12 to 24, which is important to advertisers because young women will buy just about anything



Jack: I think Angie is right-handed so you have to work her clockwise.
Liz: Wait, you've already thought about fighting her?
Jack: Every time I meet a new person I figure out how I'll fight them. You have a gimpy right knee, right?



Jack: She needs to lose thirty pounds or gain sixty. Anything in between has no place on television.



Jack: All of my summer replacement shows were big hits - America's Next Top Pirate, Are You Stronger Than A Dog, MILF Island.
Liz: MILF Island?
Jack: 25 super hot moms, 50 eighth grade boys, no rules.
Liz: Oh yeah, didn't one of those women turn out to be a prostitute?
Jack: That doesn't mean she's not a wonderful, caring MILF.



Jack: She is my lover. That's right. She's my liberal, hippy-dippy mama; my groovy chick; my old lady. She was our chief adversary during the Sheinhardt Wig hearings. She wants to tax us all to death and make it legal for a man to marry his own dog. But I think what we have is special, and I'm proud of her. And I'm not going to hide it any longer. I'm Jack Donaghy, damn it! And this is my woman.



Jack: Look how Greenzo's testing! They love him in every demographic - colored people, broads, fairies, commies. Gosh we gotta update these forms.

Jack: Never go with a hippie to a second location.



Jack: Lemon, you may be witnessing history here. Making it through a full twenty four hours without a single misstep is called "Reaganing." The only other people who've ever done it: Lee Iacocca, Jack Welch, and -- no judement -- Saddam Hussein. So, what have you got for me?