7:25AM Defamer Hollywood | Though we’ll miss you for the next half-hour, reading the
New Yorker’s brand-new,
8,168-word profile of
30 Rock star Alec Baldwin is most certainly the best thing you could do all day. Entitled “Why Me?”, it’s the story of a manic, magnetic actor having a mid-life career resurgence obvious to everyone but Baldwin himself. Though everyone around the actor tries to convinces him that his stint as Jack Donaghy is the role of a lifetime, Baldwin can’t quite settle down and enjoy himself; in fact, he initially wanted to do no more than six episodes of
30 Rock per season. That NBC wanted (and eventually got) him to sign up for more earned this hilarious,
My Name is Earl-lacerating monologue from Baldwin:
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