I'm rewatching season one. Despite the left-liberal slant, it's still more edgy than anything I've seen in what I suspect is the comedy scene of current year. Not that I've really bothered to check things out. Is there anything really worth checking out?
Since the 'Summer Of Love' of 2020 the streaming services (Big Tech) have pulled many episodes featuring blackface as a gag. Most of them from shows of the same time period.
Apparently, even 'Golden Girls' did it at one point. Imagine that. 'Golden Girls' being more edgy than current year.
Even the '10 Jokes From 30 Rock That Have Already Aged Poorly' article on Screenrant, predictably written by a female blogger, is more a promotional ad than anything else. (Although, those tranny episodes were truly cringe. How could they not be?)
Social media, Big Tech and the Democrats really did a number on society.
30 Rock is great. Liz Lemon is obviously very liberal, but her politics are the butt of many, many jokes, especially in earlier seasons. You can see the leftist walls closing in during the final few episodes, complete with an embarrassingly retarded finale (which includes a 40 year old woman ending up with a supermodel boyfriend and two adopted black children - although I’d argue the insanity of that outcome is itself a sort of commentary on careerist women). Still a recommended watch. Alec Baldwin’s character is almost a lesser Rorschach in that the show tried to depict a conservative archetype - in this case, the capitalist - as insane but only succeeded in making him awesome.
only one of her adopted kids was black. The other was a blonde girl. The joke being that even though TGS was ending she was still going to have to manage a Jenna and Tracy. The kids names are even Terry and Janet to drive home the joke.
Jack Donaghy is a capitalist hero. Kind of like Ron Swanson, I think they intended to make him the crazy right winger, but as you said, accidentally made him awesome.