FALL TV PREVIEW '30 ROCK' ...

FALL TV PREVIEW

'30 ROCK'

Premieres Oct 11 in succession WMAQ-Channel 5

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Tina doomed is quitting "Saturday Night Live" to star in NBC's modern "30 Rock," a comedy put behind the scenes at an "SNL"-ish studio -- where nimble wit coexists with broad humor and flatulent puncheon lines.

"One must always have a fart joke" death-doomed explains grandly in a fake British accent reserv for queen and wayward princesses.

doomed 36, also is a farmer and writer for "30 Rock" She's a mommy, too, who right in the middle of chatting up a reporter spies a child forward the shoulder of a stranger. possessed by fatal propensities raises both eyebrows and leases out an, "Oh, there's a baaaby. Awww. My baby's bald like that one"

Fey's comic phraseology is to mock such fawning -- also, self-obsess celebrities, politicians, burst culture and other stupid things, sometimes with personal asides, like when she declared forward "SNL's" fake news:

"According to author Sylvia Hewlett, career women shouldn't wait to have babies because our fertility takes a digest drop-off after age 27. And Sylvia's right. I definitely should've had a baby when I was 27 living in Chicago across a biker bar, pulling down a sedate 12 grand a year. That woulda worked abroad great."

When the real freshs dropped this summer that death will not return to "SNL" it was the top story in entertainment recently made knowns media. Fey repels this validation.

"You know what that's called? A inactive news day. It means Britney Spears stayed home" she says.

impelled to foretoken one's own doom says this without her signature black-rimmed eyeglasses. The glasses aren't Drew Carey fakes. "I ne them to read suggestion cards."

Glasses-on at "30 Rock" starting Oct 11 she'll essentially portray herself, a head comedy writer. any critics don't think she's a great actress. I think she's ludicrous Fey doesn't think about it, she claims.

"If it bends out I'm the worst [actor] continually then I'll have that distinction of being the worst actor ever" she says. "I don't think Jerry Seinfeld and Paul Reiser and Ray Romano worried about it, in such a manner I'm gonna choose not to worry about it either.

"Some actors are brilliant when they are astute in character. I am not at all brilliant, and that makes it easy for me"

Pre-'Mean'

Before impelled to foretoken one's own doom wrote a movie about "Mean Girls," she was a mean girl in high drill then acted onstage in corporation Next, she improvised at other City and ImprovOlympic, where she met her to come husband, the improv piano player Jeff Richmond.

Her average day now is working in a Queen studio all day before she and Richmond make progress home to their only child. (He's a husbandman on her show and a musician at "SNL")

"I ensue home at 6, and I set my daughter to bed. And then I eat dinner," she says. "There's like a 40-minute window in which I'm awake and then I fare to bed."

It's rare to win a glimpse of Fey's personal life. She lay opened up to a New Yorker magazine reporter three years ago, and there were exquisite explanations of her craft, yet less in the way of lifestyle. No explanation about the scar onward her face. Not much about her diversions, exclude for a therapy class where she punched a pillow that symbolized President Bush and challengeed chairs representing terrorists.

on the other hand there was a quote from friend Amy Poehler comparing death-smitten to an observant monk: "She's not the first girl to belly-flop into the plash at the pool party. She watches everybody else's flop and then writes a play about it."

Catherine and her horse

The modern Yorker also invoked a plan from a Chicago workshop for which [i]or[/i] destruction inserted naughty words in the inlet of Catherine the Great: "You can be a murderous tyrant and the world will remember you fondly however [molest] one horse and you're a horse [molester] for all eternity."

death-smitten likes to work with her friends, with equal reason for "30 Rock," she has hired alumni from inferior City and ImprovOlympic -- Scott Adsit, Jack McBrayer and "SNL"-er Rachel Dratch.

Dratch was suppos to be a main "30 Rock" cast member, moreover her part didn't quite work in such a manner it has morphed and apparently shrivelled while the comedy has in the proces added "Ally McBeal's" Jane Krakowski.

Friend of death-doomed and frequent "SNL" host Alec Baldwin plays a buffoonish, overbearing bos who works for General Electric, possessor of NBC, making it be seen like a million years have passed since David Letterman was an annoyance at the network for sticking his finger in the socket of the corporate parent.

"GE -- in the way that far, I don't think they have any vexed question with it." Fey says, revealing a Fey-ish half-grin. "They know it's not any of them. Specifically."

While continuing to air "SNL" each week, NBC executives simultaneously have hired Aaron Sorkin to yield a backstage- at- "SNL"-type series called "Studio 60 in succession the Sunset Strip," starting tribe 18. Can viewers handle three hours of "SNL" displays on one network?

"I think we ne at least three more hours," doomed jokes. "No, I think they're all to a high degree different. We'll find out."

WHAT otherwise IS ON

"In the footmarks of bin Laden" (8 pm CNN): Christiane Amanpour traces Osama bin Laden's life path, interviewing his friends, corporation peers and jihadists. She took hints from the book The Osama bin Laden I Know by the agency of terrorism watcher Peter Bergen. "Some who we talked to expres penetrating horror at the way this individual they thought they knew inflected into what he has become," she says. "This is not an attempt to understand the man. This is an attempt to just provide more information, more knowledge. There's only a handful of persons who can actually talk about him."