Alec Baldwin, ‘My Name is Earl’ Creator Exchange Insults
Actor Alec Baldwin, who has made it clear over the past season that he’d rather be let out of his contract with NBC for “30 Rock” than spend another season racking up more critical accolades and award nominations, had some sharp words for the network’s execs in a recent “New Yorker” profile.
“If the show does succeed, it’ll be something of a fucking miracle, because NBC hasn’t done a fucking thing to help this show at all. This show is the red-headed stepchild in the lineup. They’ve gone out of their way to wring the last drops out of ‘My Name Is Earl’ and ‘Scrubs.’ Those shows are done! They’re cooked! Yet they do a one-hour episode of ‘Earl’! You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!”
For some strange reason, “My Name Is Earl” creator Greg Garcia took exception to Baldwin’s rant in remarks to Defamer.
“Maybe the reason enough people aren’t watching 30 Rock to make Mr. Baldwin happy is because Alec Baldwin is so unlikable as a person. 30 Rock is a really funny show. And Alec Baldwin is funny as long as someone else is writing his words. When left to his own devices, he sounds like a psychotic narcissist who whines about being rich for 8 pages in The New Yorker.”
We can only imagine what Baldwin has had to say in NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker’s voice mail after that.
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Good post, Dana. I’m not as wild about Alec Baldwin as some folks are. I just can’t get past the way he treated his daughter.
I think that’s a very valid reason not to like him. I also dislike him because he seems to feel no obligation to a show that keeps getting him more awards than he deserves, possibly.