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Tina Fey’s ‘The Four Seasons’ Has Nothing Funny to Say About Middle-Aged Problems

In the series premiere of 30 Rock, created by Tina Fey, TV showrunner Liz Lemon (Fey) meets Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), GE’s new Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming and, thus, her new boss. Most of the time, the humor of their relationship derives from the gap between Liz’s quasi-adolescent mess of a life and Jack’s suave self-assurance. Liz is the one who can (for instance) eat a foot-long sandwich in a few gigantic bites rather than abandon it at a TSA checkpoint, whereas Jack is the one who’ll change into a full tuxedo after 6 p.m. on an average weekday because he’s not “a farmer.” 

But Jack can get up to nonsense too: picking up an Eastern European sex worker and bringing her to ruin one of his stars’ Valentine’s Day plans; bringing a seemingly catatonic patient on a date with his girlfriend Elisa (Salma Hayek), the man’s caregiver; intentionally backing over his mother Colleen (Elaine Stritch) with his car. Being in his 48th year, in other words, doesn’t preclude Jack from being ridiculous sometimes. But based on The Four Seasons, it seems like many of the people who have created and starred in some of the most ridiculous comedies of the past 25 years are done being silly.

John Redcorn Actor Jonathan Joss Opens Up About Being ‘Shut Out’ of ‘King of the Hill’ Reunion

If John Redcorn doesn’t come back to King of the Hill for its Hulu revival this summer, then who is going to help Nancy Gribble with her headaches?

This May 30th, King of the Hill co-creators and executive producers Mike Judge and Greg Daniels will headline a reunion event at Austin, Texas’ ATX TV Festival for the animated Fox sitcom about a traditional Texas family living in a fictional small town that’s filled with lovably Southern eccentrics. King of the Hill cast members Pamela Adlon, Lauren Tom and Toby Huss will join their once-and-future bosses at the reunion event, but, for all the returning stars who will accompany Judge and Daniels at the publicity summit in the Texas capital, the King of the Hill reunion and subsequent new season will be missing some key pieces of the cast, some of whom have sadly passed away since we last saw the Hill family grilling with their neighbors while others will be absent for unknown reasons.

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