30 Rock: Jane Krakowski is seriously hot

[dropzone]

Yeah, I have a thing for Polish girls. Have heard that German soldiers in WWII were hard to cycle out of Poland for the same reason. Can't prove it, but understand it.

[Revtim]

I agree.

[The Second Stone]

You are not supposed to post drunk. Greek girls got it. Tina Fey is hot.

[Frostillicus]

To each his own, I guess.

[Swords to Plowshares]

Eww, no. She's 41 and she looks it - then again I'm only 21 so I could see the appeal if we were closer in age.

[The Second Stone]

She's younger than me, but Jenna is such an asshole that I wouldn't want anything to do with her. I can't remember seeing Jane in anything else.

[Labrador Deceiver]

Originally Posted by The Second Stone

She's younger than me, but Jenna is such an asshole that I wouldn't want anything to do with her. I can't remember seeing Jane in anything else.

She's been in a ton of other things. She was a regular on Ally McBeal and also played Cousin Vicki in National Lampoon's Vacation. I feel like I see her in a bunch of random roles.

[Leiko]

Jane was in an episode of "Due South" playing a character possibly even stupider than Jenna. It was pretty awesome even though it was one of those plots that would go nowhere if the story-specific characters were slightly more aware.

And she does Broadway too.

[Bryan Ekers]

Fey's hotter, as is that blonde production assistant.

[Sampiro]

The role of Jenna was created by Fey for Amy Poehler, and she was very upset when Krakowski was brought in instead. (I don't think she was upset with Krakowski- she's just an actress taking a high paying job- but she was at the producers.)

I absolutely can't imagine the show with Poehler in that role. Jane's Jenna is one of the greatest thoroughly delightful absolutely insane narcissists in TV history. I've actually been watching the actress since I was a kid (she was on SEARCH FOR TOMORROW when we were both in our early teens) and I knew she could sing because I'd heard her Broadway recordings, but I had no idea that she had such dead-on 'can't even be upstaged by Fey' comic timing. The episode when she begins wearing orthopedic corsets and crutches because of other people getting attention and her 'in-no-way-intended-to-represent-Janis-Joplin' performances are among the funniest of the series.

[2ply]

Actually, it was Rachel Dratch who was originally cast as Jenna and played her in the pilot. Liz and Jenna being old friends who got their start in Chicago is based off of Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch's real life.

[Sampiro]

Originally Posted by 2ply

Actually, it was Rachel Dratch who was originally cast as Jenna and played her in the pilot. Liz and Jenna being old friends who got their start in Chicago is based off of Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch's real life.

I stand corrected. The rest stands though: I don't think Dratch would be a fraction as good as Krakowski. She plays demented so perfectly.

[Mach Tuck]

Something about her voice that is really sexy.

I hate to admit it, but if Jenna were a real person that I knew, I'd probably be attracted to her despite her dementia.

[Stranger On A Train]

To me, there is something vaguely plasticine and not properly human about her face. (I think the same about Reese Witherspoon and Kirsten Dunst.) She may be a fine actress (though I'm not really impressed with her acting in anything I've seen, which always seems to be over the top) but I don't find her remotely attractive.

Stranger

[choie]

I like her performance a lot and though she's a bit odd-looking due to the excessive makeup, she's quite pretty too.

Since rewatching the whole series, one thing I've noticed, and now find almost distracting, is how very red her skin is. She looks as if she has perpetual sunburn. Every now and then she'll touch her collarbone and you can see the white fingerprints where her fingers were.

It wouldn't be so noticeable if the women on this show didn't wear such ridiculously low necklines. (Even Tina Fey does this now; I miss her Liz being the 'normal' member of the cast.)

[FriarTed]

I humbly suggest the hotness debate of Krakowski vs. Fey vs. Blond Production Assistant be settled in a jello wrestling match.

[cochrane]

Originally Posted by Labrador Deceiver

She's been in a ton of other things. She was a regular on Ally McBeal and also played Cousin Vicki in National Lampoon's Vacation. I feel like I see her in a bunch of random roles.

She first came to my attention as Betty 9O'Shale)Rubble in "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas" (2000). Much hotter than Rosie O'Donnell by any means.

[MPB in Salt Lake]

Originally Posted by cochrane

Much hotter than Rosie O'Donnell by any means.

I honestly never thought I would read that sentence in print!!!

[fusoya]

She's not bad, but Lesbian Lemonaide is still my #1 crush.

[Philster]

Not bad. Nuttin' to write home about.

[Clothahump]

I've only seen her in the Kelsey Grammer musical version of A Christmas Carol, where she played the Ghost of Christmas Past. Serious lustage occured. That woman is HAWT!

[The Second Stone]

Originally Posted by Bryan Ekers

Fey's hotter, as is that blonde production assistant.

That girl is so pretty that I cannot remember anything that she has ever said or her name. All the blood rushes away from my brain every time I see her.

And Betty White as SueAnn Niven on the Mary Tyler Moore show played the insane narcissist better. But Krakowski is pretty damn good at being differently maddening than Tracy Morgan's character.

[cochrane]

Originally Posted by MPB in Salt Lake

I honestly never thought I would read that sentence in print!!!

Well, if you compared the two Bettys. Actually, Elizabeth Taylor (at her age now) looks better in a loincloth than O'Donnel. But if I had a choice, I'd seriously share a cave with Krakowski.

[Krokodil]

I vividly recall a scene in Ally McBeal where she drops her dress and is wearing skimpy green lingerie.

Is that on YouTube?

[JpnDude]

I remember watching her in National Lampoon's Vacation. I was turned off by her back then. But when I noticed her again in Ally McBeal, I became a fan. And in 30 Rock, I love her!! But not as much as I love my brunettes....Go Tina!

Jane Krakowski in Vacation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDWYRXjQbC0
6:10 & 7:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znsDAyPlJQY
1:53 & 4:40

[Khadaji]

By TV standards she is at best OK. There are way hotter women on TV.

[Jolly Roger]

Originally Posted by Swords to Plowshares

Eww, no. She's 41 and she looks it - then again I'm only 21 so I could see the appeal if we were closer in age.

Well, I'm only 4 years older than she is, and while I wouldn't kick her off of a mattress I don't find her super hot. I mean, jeez, it looks like you could open a paint can with her chin. Its kinda creepy.

[Freddy the Pig]

I like Bailey and Mary Ann way more than Jennifer or Ginger, so logically I should think Liz is hotter than Jenna. But I don't. Jenna is just absolutely smoking hot. My god, that one episode where she wore a short skirt, she has legs that just won't quit. Of course the personality is written to be repulsive, but it can't cover the hotness.

[Spoke]

Put me in the Tina Fey camp. Jane doesn't do it for me at all.

[Beware of Doug]

Used to like Jane better than now. She's kind of gone Broadway - meaning you little by little start to change your face to plastic and your manner to camp, so as to appeal more to traditional drama/diva worshipers than those nasty old retrograde heterosexual males.

[dropzone]

Originally Posted by JpnDude

Jane Krakowski in Vacation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDWYRXjQbC0
6:10 & 7:40

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znsDAyPlJQY
1:53 & 4:40

Well, that's not fair, making me choose between (the current) her and Beverly D'Angelo.

[devilsknew]

Hot Shit! I didn't know that Jane K. was Cousin Vicki from National Lampoon's Vacation, one in the same. Man, I was 14 when I saw that and she was 15 at the time of filming... serious sexy crush, she just had such an "overtness"... something so primal. I loved her eyes... too bad she prunes her eyebrows to vogue. She had sexy eyebrows as cousin vicki...

[Evil Captor]

Confirmed: Jane Krakowski is seriously hot. It's not just her looks, she has a sexy thang going on with her personality, at least she did in Ally McBeal, winsome and vulnerable beneath all the brass. Haven't seen her in 30 rock. She prolly looked good naked too.

[choie]

I probably shouldn't enable you boys, but what the heck.

Possibly not safe for work, but only in a very mild way (no nudity, just sexiness with a telephone).
A scene from Jane's Tony-winning performance in Nine.

[FriarTed]

The video is not that clear, but I give you the Jane Krakowski of Christmas Past Pole Dance!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toQky...49D6C2&index=3

[FriarTed]

Originally Posted by dropzone

Well, that's not fair, making me choose between (the current) her and Beverly D'Angelo.

I feel depraved.

And every time I've seen that movie on TV, her French kiss punch line is "my teacher says I'm the best".

[Ají de Gallina]

Sorry dude, she's good looking and sexy, but not worthy of the big-girl table. But if you think she's hot (a very pretty she is) I'm not gonna say anyhting else, enjoy her.

BTW, Tina Fey is not hot, not even geek-hot. Good looking and that's that.

[Raguleader]

Originally Posted by Leiko

Jane was in an episode of "Due South" playing a character possibly even stupider than Jenna. It was pretty awesome even though it was one of those plots that would go nowhere if the story-specific characters were slightly more aware.

And she does Broadway too.

Hah, for a few seconds there, I thought you were saying she played Ray's sister (who spent the entire series persuing Fraser like some lust-crazed skunk), but then I remembered that Fran was, of course, an Italian girl and not Polish (man, that'd be hard to explain...). THEN I remembered the utterly retarded episode with the blonde bride-to-be, which I had blocked out with fond memories of "The Deal".

What ever happened to the lady cop who was such a better choice for Fraser than either Fran or the Ice Queen? The dispatcher lady? I liked her.

But I digest.

Really, I don't understand this thing where one woman has to be hot to the exclusion of the other. They're both hot in different ways, and I'll take them both if you folks can't be reasonable about this. I bet if they help with keeping the apartment clean and pitch in for rent, my girlfriend might not immediately kill me for it.

[singular1]

Feh. Hot requires an upper lip.

[Leiko]

Originally Posted by Raguleader

Hah, for a few seconds there, I thought you were saying she played Ray's sister (who spent the entire series persuing Fraser like some lust-crazed skunk), but then I remembered that Fran was, of course, an Italian girl and not Polish (man, that'd be hard to explain...). THEN I remembered the utterly retarded episode with the blonde bride-to-be, which I had blocked out with fond memories of "The Deal".

What ever happened to the lady cop who was such a better choice for Fraser than either Fran or the Ice Queen? The dispatcher lady? I liked her.

Elaine? She started as a civilian aide and then attended the police academy while working at the station. In real life she was written off because Catherine Bruhier decided to move to LA to pursue her career. Character-wise, Elaine went off to be a cop after her graduation, which had been interrupted by a totally awesome fight in the woods. ("I Coulda Been a Defendant" episode 3 of season 3)

(I think if I was more clever I could say something interesting here about Ray Kowalski being Polish.)

[Raguleader]

Originally Posted by Leiko

Elaine? She started as a civilian aide and then attended the police academy while working at the station. In real life she was written off because Catherine Bruhier decided to move to LA to pursue her career. Character-wise, Elaine went off to be a cop after her graduation, which had been interrupted by a totally awesome fight in the woods. ("I Coulda Been a Defendant" episode 3 of season 3)

(I think if I was more clever I could say something interesting here about Ray Kowalski being Polish.)

Hah, yes, but of course, Frannie wasn't Ray's sister, but rather she was Ray's sister. Simple, non?

[Push You Down]

Originally Posted by Bryan Ekers

Fey's hotter, as is that blonde production assistant.

Suri?


I thought part of the joke with her is that she's wasn't particularly hot, just young. And someone young translated to "hot" for the unattractive middle-aged men on the show.

[Raygun99]

Cerie. And she's scorchingly hot.

[dropzone]

I can tell she's very pretty, but she's way too young for me.