30 Rock Runners Talk Emmys!

30 Rock is no newcomer to the Emmys. So what’s different about it this year?

They’re really pushing for a directing with for Beth McCarthy for the awesome (and incredibly difficult) live episode they did!

We’re sure they’re good enough to win all kinds of Emmys, it’s just really nice to see a group band together behind one person they completely respect.

Here’s a bit from the interview Tina Fey, Beth McCarthy, and Robert Carlock had recently:

ROBERT CARLOCK: We just want Beth to win.
DEADLINE: I know you are lobbying for Beth, but don’t you want the series to win, too?
CARLOCK: We just like to get dressed up and have a drink in a limo, too, so we’ll take all of it.
DEADLINE: Beth, how many times have you been nominated for an Emmy?
MCCARTHY: I think, like, seven. And I will graciously lose again to an episode of Modern Family.
FEY: Because that [mockumentary] style is so hard to shoot.
MCCARTHY: But you know what? I will say I love my category this year. I love all the directors that were nominated this year. There was no, like, ‘huh?’ Everybody is great.
CARLOCK: If somebody beats you, Beth, we’re going to do a live show next year and make them direct it.

We absolutely love how the three being interviewed maintain their sense of humor even when they don’t have to like they do for the show!

This was a pretty great interview, and the other interesting topic brought up was the whole Tracy Morgan anti-gay fiasco he went through earlier this year, and if it’ll be worked into the show:

DEADLINE: Do you think that Tracy Morgan’s seemingly anti-gay jokes in his standup routine [“I’ll kill my son if he acts gay”] will hurt the show’s Emmy chances or its reputation in general?
TINA FEY: Because of my real-life pregnancy, we don’t go back on the air until January. I’m hoping that Tracy will have, and the world will have, forgotten about that by them. He from the first has gone around very sincerely and done his best to try to make up for the foolishness.
CARLOCK: He’s horrified and embarrassed…certainly if we come home [from the Emmys] empty-handed, I’m not going to blame Tracy.
DEADLINE: Will you write the controversy into the show?
FEY: It’s the kind of story that even if it happened to someone else, we would probably turn it into a Tracy story. So we may use it.

It would be interesting to see how they make such a heavy topic into a funny one on the show if they do decide to use it as material. We’re sure Tina could pull it off somehow, though!

Oh, and is Alec Baldwin really leaving? According to the three, not if they can talk him out of it!

Do your best!

Good luck at the Emmys!

[Image via WENN.]