Good news, ladies (or men, if you’ve grown up and feel that’s what’s inside of you)! Judah Friedlander (Frank) is available. He sounds like quite the catch as well, if you’ve got some very particular tastes.

“If you want marriage, kids, an outer-borough nonhipster residence, a guy that was just voted ‘Worst Dressed’ at the Emmy’s and the SAG Awards, does stand-up comedy just about every night, who is also the greatest athlete in the world, is banned from China because he’s too good at karate, collects ‘amazing art’ and bad movies, plays lots of Ping-Pong, was kicked out of the porn industry because he was too sexually powerful, and is a role model to children—then I’m your man.”

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While it may have seemed that Tina Fey’s calling out of some internet critics may have been just for comedic effect, the actuality is that the posters she mentioned by name are real.  Gawker has done some homework, and dredged up some of the things these people have posted to the LA Times Envelope Awards site.

Some of the posts they mention specifically and attribute to DianeFan:

I just hope they give the win to anyone but Tina Fey. Boy I can’t wait until Edie Falco comes back on the scene just to wipe that smug look off Tina’s face.

Tina Fey was simply like the pimple on my face – just there….  I think that the key issue here is the fact that when Tina is at her best, she’s just not that great.

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It’s a pleasure having 30 Rock back. I grit my teeth until the premiere. My jaws hurt and I wade my way through the new episodes of other shows, hoping for something that will make my skin crawl with glee, like when I watch 30 Rock. Nothing does.

No show compares to the rollicking fun of 30 Rock. The oblivious-ness of the characters is like a a tasty treat. And how it’s craziness seems more life-like than the strange behavior of the Barbie type characters on other prime time network shows, I don’t know. But it does.

But the main thing is, it makes me smile, and it makes me happy all over.

In the episode with the cast of Night Court (“What, court at night? I’m already laughing! Tell me more!”), Jennifer Aniston’s body also makes an appearance. Whoever made the second-skin Emmy dress for the fantastic Helen Mirren in 2007 must have made Aniston’s shorter, tighter dress for the “Happy Birthday” scene. Come to think of it, I think all her outfits in this show were like that — but with hats.

Coincidentally, or perhaps an off beat cultural reference, the meaning of life – as revealed by Monty Python in the movie of the same name – tells us that people simply are not wearing enough hats. So, thanks writers, for making my life more meaningful in a delightful, fun and seemingly meaningless way. I love hats.

The other part of the Meaning of Life has to do with spiritual growth, being caused by personal reflection. In this episode, Jack rejects any kind of self reflection and reverts to his favorite knee jerk reaction pattern, has some serious personal failures as a result, and thereby proves the Monty Python hypothesis.

Aniston plays Claire, the old roommate friend of Jenna and Liz, who is “staunchly in favor of Cocoa Puffs.” Jack doesn’t believe her, or chooses not to care after not really thinking about it, and makes some choices about being with her that Liz doesn’t approve of. He gets serenaded by a nearly-nude Aniston, who poses as his life coach “Ezmirelda Fitzmonster,” and gets to have sex in a meat locker with her, because “that’s okay, isn’t it?”

Back to the Night Court premise, Jenna is dealing with what seems to be the rejection of her and her “were-lawyer” character, who has pointy ears, hairy sideburns, and, sometimes, an English accent. Jenna could care less that her werewolf “Sparky Monroe” lawyer episodes were the ones that caused the show to jump the shark into oblivion. All she cares about was that they paid for her hand reduction surgery.

For those that haven’t noticed, NBC hosts a couple of 30 Rock related blogs over on their official site.

Tina Fey ran a blog during the airing of the first season that, much like the show, has gone on hiatus for the summer. However, it is still full of fun information. It also includes some live-blogging that took place during the season’s finale as well as the at the time of the premiere. You can catch up here.

Frank Rossitano also has a blog hosted by NBC, and it is updated fairly regularly. It is there you will learn which Bob’s Big Boy is biggest, what the grossest meal Frank has cooked is, and which TGS behind-the-scenes regular he has the hots for. You can catch a glimpse of Frank’s world here.

Congratulations Tina! Our favorite comedienne has been featured in this year’s Time 100 – a list, compiled by Time Magazine, of “people who shape our world.”

Fey, 36, has a few things in common with Mary Tyler Moore and Marlo Thomas, whose liberated-gal-in-the-city sitcoms the scene spoofs. It’s not just that she’s a funny, good-looking brunet or that 30 Rock may be on the way to becoming a TV classic. Fey is also a rising player in what has been a man’s game. In the ’90s, she became the first female head writer for Saturday Night Live, revitalizing the Weekend Update segment by delivering demurely cutting barbs, then wrote the 2004 movie Mean Girls, a sharply observed comedy about the teen pecking order.

With 30 Rock, which she also writes and produces, Fey combines an insider’s send-up of TV with subtle, self-effacing feminism, as Liz wrangles difficult stars and leads a mostly male writers’ room. Liz is funny but flawed, successful but insecure, political but not infallible woman we see a lot in our offices but too little in our pop culture. The show has won over critics, and though it hasn’t yet become a monster hit, NBC was impressed enough to pick it up for next season. Looks like she’s gonna make it after all.

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Variety reports that 30 Rock has been renewed!

NBC’s critically hailed “30 Rock” will roll on to another season.

Peacock has given an early greenlight to the Tina Fey-Alec Baldwin starrer from Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video. Net’s hoping “Rock” will follow the pattern of other slow-building NBC comedy success stories in years past, including current hit “The Office.”

“I’m seeing so many parallels right now (between ‘30 Rock’ and ‘The Office’),” NBC Entertainment prexy Kevin Reilly told Daily Variety. “I really believe it’s ready to break through.”

Reilly said NBC will continue to air repeats of the show over the summer and plans a major relaunch in fall. At least one major advertiser has already expressed an interest in helping promote the second season premiere, Reilly said.

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