Best Of Jack's Disappointed Mom, Colleen (ft. Elaine Stritch) | 30 Rock

[@jayar7436]

“IT SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE OTHER BOY!” is still one of the funniest lines on television.

[@saigelevi]

One of the best lines ever!!!!

[@letsnotbefriendly]

😂

[@jeibal02]

Lmao!!! One of my favorite lines

[@melaniejohnson4937]

​@@saigelevi😮😊😅😅😅😊😅😅😅😅😅😅😊😊😅😊

[@charlesbird781]

I don’t know. “She got JetBlue to accept an Amtrak ticket” and “Olympic-class racist” always kill me

[@StromBugSlayer]

A nymphomaniac virgin widow with a latex allergy. I love the way this show just slips the jokes in quietly...

[@xamalion7334]

And Rebecca Mader perfectly delivered those subtle lines. ❤

[@allthatjazzspaz95]

The joke was pretty obvious there

[@MrBarneyDinosaur]

“She got JetBlue to accept an Amtrak ticket” the power of fear. 🤭

[@printezstroman]

Bruh.

[@cgreen399]

I wish I can do that🤗

[@aliciad8553]

It's the low-key highlight of this video, I can't be the only one who pictured how that convo went?

[@riorio982]

It wasn't in this one, but my fave is "I once saw her provoke a Buddhist monk into whipping a battery at her.'

[@felipecodes]

Reminds me of my mom.

[@lacouerfairy]

"What are my chums at the Deathshore Retirement Community gonna say when I tell them my unmarried son has knocked up a Protestant!?" My favorite Colleen quote.

[@KnowledgeSeeker78491]

"It should have gone to the other boy!!!" Is my favorite

[@ascent8487]

“SAY NO MORE! Shark eyes,” is mine.

[@lakehayden]

Yep that’s a howler 😂

[@somedude7938]

Our Lady of Reluctant Integration has a grapevine on hot tea that would make the CIA jealous, no doubt.

[@jefftobbin6833]

Terrible thing to happen to a woman 😢

[@Robert-hz9bj]

"Two women, Jack! At the same time! What are you? Italian?" That line is funny enough on its own, but Elaine Stritch's delivery elevated it to transcendental. God she was amazing XD

[@Skyfalcon12345]

"I know it's gay! But it's my gay problem"

[@jefflabbecomedy]

"And I'm handling it."

[@VenetusAlpha]

And right before when she just immediately looks directly at Jack after the seemingly innocuous conversation between him and Avery.

[@turbojon8117]

Just bring my son one of everything, that way he doesn't have to choose

[@keeshiabrie]

I like the juxtaposition that Colleen never like any of the women Jack dated or married, but she was always okay with Liz, the only female friend of Jack :)

[@lchristovale01]

i liked that also, the fact that she approved of Liz the moment they met, says a lot.

[@printezstroman]

She sees Liz as a peer.

[@LinhNguyen-bx8qv]

She is not acceptance of kindness or weak. And Liz is neither of those.

[@peacheskong2245]

She also says"oh brother"lil detail

[@Aced84]

She did give her thanks to the peanut gallery … and that says a lot for Colleen lol

[@quiroz923]

RIP Elaine Stritch. Legend of the stage.

[@Kirby02140]

Everybody RISE 🥂

[@Hammerton32]

And legend of the small screen - this performance was note perfect!!

[@TC-ym1vk]

Here Here 🍸

[@ShnNar1000x]

"Nymphomaniac virgin widow" gets me every time.

[@ShwetaGupta-hd6yk]

"with a latex allergy". How could you forget, "with a latex allergy"?

[@kenalexandremeridi]

LMAO

[@absurdwordslearns]

scrolling just for this, i love to think about hoe this would come about with how contradictory it is lmao

[@Iinvest2day]

@@ShwetaGupta-hd6yk Nymphos like it raw.

[@ShwetaGupta-hd6yk]

@Iinvest2day Dude, I don't need to know what they like, I am just a fan of the shows' humour and super clever writing.

[@lakehayden]

“You give me ten minutes with the Lemon family and I’ll have them tearing at each other like drag queens at a wig sale” One of my all time favourite lines ❤️

[@briancox9357]

The restaurant scene between Colleen and Phoebe is brilliant. 'I can hear you, I just wanted to make sure you could hear you.'

[@annespan65]

Colleen's expression when she first set eyes on Phoebe is EVERYTHING!

[@Hammerton32]

Colleen to Liz "Say No more, Shark Eyes" and then the wink - Classic!

[@ascent8487]

I know that face. I’ve given that face.

[@mauriciokrebs2913]

"oh god"

[@cowtron2000]

Hated her ON SIGHT! Always makes me laugh!

[@georgeh4171]

“Like a white geisha” 😂

[@Jkatt23]

I just know that in another universe, Colleen and Lucille Bluth are BFFs

[@coco_penexplore]

My two favorite TV moms! I so want to be like them 😂

[@roujin518]

probably bitter rivals really.

[@restreven4455]

Dude Malory Archer is more accurate. She hated Sterlings girlfriends and straight up wanted to kill Katya. Only person she ‘liked’ was Lana. Whose basically Archers second best friend.

[@annika_panicka]

_"We forget, but we never forgive!"_ - Lucille Bluth

[@OfficerFriendly2006]

​@@restreven4455who's his first?

[@care4557]

My grandma was just like Colleen. She even faked a seizure when we were being bad when our parents were out of town. We thought we killed her. But she promised not to tell our parents if we behaved the rest of the time. I miss her so much.

[@katc5051]

That's awful but such a great story!

[@katealeksen4168]

I literally come here and watch this video when I want a free laugh, works everytime

[@rotciv1486]

amazing I wanna be this messy when I'm old

[@saigelevi]

I'm so doing that!!!

[@t3hpenguinofd00m]

D:

[@hutch1197]

Her legs sticking out behind the car like the Wicked Witch in "Wizard of Oz". Tears of laughter.

[@AbbasIdris]

"...before I meet the Grim Reaper who's black, I assume what with the hoodies he wears!" 😂😂😂😂

[@Lafemmefutile]

That was some classic “racially insensitive” line of pre-boomer quality! 😂. I’m black and laughed at this.

[@jayar7436]

@@Lafemmefutile Oh, she had a lot of them! LoL

[@lindsayjmolina]

Like when she kept calling the doctor Aladdin?

[@mfanakithi2002]

Some lines are soo improper and stereotypical but you can’t help but laugh 😂 😂. We do turn to wear hoodies 😅

[@subterraneanhomesickalien666]

Jack mentions she refers to Martin Luther King day "as that day in January when the post office is closed"😂

[@MrJbolding23]

Elaine Stritch was just being herself. Props to Tina Fey for using her. 2 WOMEN!!! What are you Italian?!?!

[@daverage4729]

I just love her outrage as she says "How do I tell my chums at the Deathshore retirement home that MY SON KNOCKED UP A PROTESTANT!!!?"

[@micahsnow346]

“Cause you know when you’re pregnant, one bottle of wine a day and that’s it!” 😂😂😂 I died

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Are you six fee under, dear? Cause if you're not, you didn't "die"🙄🤦

[@laceandribbonsviolin]

It explains Jack’s Scotch obsession

[@stubes3483]

Jack steering Colleen’s food platter into the coughing woman’s path gets me every time

[@vanessashaw5365]

Colleen is the only person who can rattle Jack just by entering the room. He always looks like a scared rabbit with no place to run. Hysterical.

[@jonluke1077]

Not true. The babysitter rattled him too lol.

[@LinneaSanchez]

Let’s not forget Beeyanka lol!

[@jimbrown5091]

"My thanks to the peanut gallery" 🤣🤣🤣

[@scottsaffran2550]

I’ll forever be grateful that this show allowed us to have a final moment of closure with Ms. Stritch.

[@AGH331]

'I suppose you think that they are more ... nurturing ... than I am.' 'Mother, there are terrorist cells that are more nurturing than you are.' One of their best exchanges.

[@hmacklemore2226]

"A white geisha? Say no more, shark eyes!" 😂😂😂

[@tipdub]

I didn’t get that part..would you mind explaining? Lol

[@m4tth3w967]

@@tipdub there's an episode earlier in the season where Jack says to Liz "you know what I like about you? Those eyes. You have those black shark's eyes. Very intense." So I think the joke is just how similar Jack and his mom really are, that they both pinpointed that same aspect of Liz that they both appreciate.

[@tipdub]

@@m4tth3w967 hahaha! what a jack thing to say. thanks so much!

[@jamesdooling4139]

I always snort when, "...I'm a nymphomaniac, virgin widow... with a latex allergy..." pops up.😂❤

[@Norvo82]

What a ballsy scene stealer she was. Elaine's performance on 30 Rock will be gold long after we're all circling the globe in our own coffin rockets.

[@joannasowinska6789]

It's very expensive.

[@stephaniestanley8041]

Well said Jef

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

That's a bit too much. There are much more important worthwhile and worth remembering things in life than acting in sitcoms, no matter how great it was...

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

​@@stephaniestanley8041 No, it was too much, I would even say cringe.

[@renataklein4776]

She's referring to my birth. I almost died that was so unexpected 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thomasbowling7458]

And she shrugged her shoulder like... it's true

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

I burst out laughing too. She's such a talent.

[@laceandribbonsviolin]

It makes me think she has a lot of unresolved trauma and still sees Jack as a child about to have a tantrum😆

[@farnoosh88]

"paralyzing irish guilt" 😆🤣🤣

[@ryankeefe6222]

I was dying because how accurate that is

[@momcatwoo]

Redundant.

[@sandybear61]

Elaine Stritch as Colleen is the crowning jewel of this, my all time favorite show. What a joy to watch!

[@christiankrenek7689]

The best casting EVER. No one could have played this role but Elaine Stritch. I’m convinced that half the time the producers didn’t give her a script-they just told her a vague outline and let her loose on the other actors. :p

[@MrNeboff]

Let her loose . Lol

[@kazkazzie3906]

😆😆

[@dangerradiorocks]

Had the exact same thought. You can tell she truly relished the role.

[@jayr3053]

🤣😂

[@shakirakurosawa1740]

Jessica Walter would have easily worked, but yes, Elaine Stritch is everything in this.

[@joannasowinska6789]

The writing is unbelievable. The acting is the best. This show was GOLD. Thank you for putting this together! @

[@stephaniestanley8041]

Agreed Joanna. It was a funny and moving compilation.

[@embe1]

'mother there are terrorist cells that are more nurturing than you are'

[@imperialdagger]

Thank you TINA FEY !!

[@jeibal02]

So iconic

[@whodatninja439]

I wish 30 rock would return For real not as a commercial for peacock

[@gheller2261]

"No no, I can hear you. I just wanted to see if you hear you." My favorite line in the series with the exception of Tracy's wife "getting my hair did."

[@katongokatongo6384]

It’s difficult to stand out as a guest star in 30 rock. But Elaine stood out and shined. RIP Madam Stritch

[@stefanie7823]

“She got JetBlue to accept an Amtrak ticket!” 🤣 Colleen and her powerful Irish Guilt!

[@rlowethewitch8417]

Missed one of my favorites, even though it's in one of the scenes featured, specifically in the hospital room. Colleen said something like "Can you believe this is the best room they have? This is supposed to be a *hospital*, not a Japanese internment camp I volunteered at. During the war."

[@zhonguocha]

They left out some of her most horrifying and hilarious lines. My favorite is when she yells to Jack on his way into the ER “I love you… but not in a queer way!”

[@zhonguocha]

She won’t talk to the doorman at Jack’s building because “he has a beard, and she’d rather not get raped today.” Absolute lol.

[@pixelated23-b9z]

LOLLL I forgot about that one.

[@jandreidrn]

I'd like to propose a toast... to the incomparable Elaine Stritch.

[@shaolinotter]

*wipes mouth and holds up cheesy blaster*

[@Mel.U]

I loved Elaine Stritch's broadway-style influenced voice quality, so smooth like she just finished the last sip of her gin and tonic before putting her cigarette out in an ornate ashtray. Truly a one of a kind that is sorely missed,,,,

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

You miss your loved ones that are gone, and not someone you didn't actually know.

[@Lily-gu5pi]

“IT SHOULD HAVE GONE TO THE OTHER BOY”

[@thomascrown6422]

My favorite Colleen moment is when Jack showed up to take her to dinner: Colleen: Jack, what are you doing here? Jack: I came to take you to dinner. Colleen: Not dinner. Breakfast. I told your girl. Jack: My assistant's name is Jonathan. Colleen: Yes I know I've met him. Viciously funny.

[@hughjazzole2037]

i told your girl!! when its a guy!!

[@walkingstick6655]

30 Rock was one of the best shows, ever, on television. Still so funny. The NBE combo of The Office, Parks & Recreation, and 30 Rock might be all anyone needs. One thing that amuses me, is that I know there are people who never found any of those funny.

[@prentisjackson1601]

He was wailing and wailing it was awful, Jack : she’s referring to my birth.😂😂😂

[@RaulieGonzo97]

“Unclaimed Irish Stowaway” 😂😂😂

[@allys744]

“Numbers, unlike children, don’t lie! 16-8 is EIGHT!” *She even had a flash card to prove it* 🤣✋

[@6demonbag542]

Elaine and Alec's chemistry was incredible. "She will be treated humanely; there will be no escape"

[@rexman9002]

"I suppose you think they are more nurturing than I am." Jack: "Mother, there are terrorist cells more nurturing than you." 😂

[@heliopyre]

Liz - "you are a sassy old broad aren't you?" Colleen - *nods in agreement

[@reginabutler5214]

Her expression is priceless!

[@trenaesumter2902]

Never watched 30 Rock. Now I must binge it.

[@Godschild02068]

OMG, I am so jealous you can watch it now for the 1st time ever

[@shaolinotter]

i wish i was you

[@candicemirisha912]

You won’t regret it !

[@helenjohnson7180]

your life will forever be changed

[@zhonguocha]

I’m jealous you get to watch it for the first time.

[@Ghostmaker-c4u]

This is so much like my mother.😂 “He’s useless in a hospital. I recall this one time where he cried and cried…it was like welling..it was awful.” “She’s referring to my birth.”😂

[@hortanokilli7608]

Alec Baldwin and Elaine Stritch were absolutely fantastic together. Just a fantastic program and she will definitely be missed.

[@christophermichael5764]

Some of the best jabs in the show were written for this character. Grade A writing.

[@garvisyearack931]

“I know it’s gay, but it’s my gay problem” that’s basically my whole life in a nutshell

[@katealeksen4168]

Hahaha

[@kenalexandremeridi]

Lmaoo real af

[@alanlally9734]

The fact that this is over 17 minutes long gives me so much life.

[@wanealy1]

"...before I meet the Grim Reaper. Who is Black I assume because of all the hoodies he wears." I laughed way too hard at that. And yes I'm Black. ES= comedy legend.

[@garyfayman5976]

I may have missed this, but I remember Colleen having a line about orbiting the globe in her coffin rocket, which I thought was hysterical.

[@pixelated23-b9z]

That was gold

[@MarcusC68]

Elaine auditioned for "Dorothy" in The Golden Girls". She tells a funny story how she blew the audition. I'm so happy she got a role just as good on an extremely popular show. 😊

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

I didn't know this! Now you say it, she would have made a fantastic Dorothy. I wonder what The Golden Girls would have been like as a show, how much better it could have been if she'd have been cast instead of Bea Arthur?

[@adelebz7]

@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 Bea Arthur allegedly was mean to Betty White. Elaine Stritch would have been fantastic in Golden Girls. She is a gem 💎!!

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

@@adelebz7 Oh she is, I loved her in Interiors too (the Woody Allen film). I've just been binge watching episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm with Tracey Ullman-- another astonishing talent. She's so good in the show. Perfect casting choice. Good comedy in our era is so thin on the ground, both 30 Rock and Curb are head and shoulders above the rest. :)

[@MarcusC68]

@@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293 I never watched 30 Rock and had no idea Elaine played Alec Baldwins mother until I saw this!! Hysterical!

[@roc2588]

Wow. She would have made a great Dorothy. But I love Bea Arthur.

[@pixelated23-b9z]

“One bottle of wine a day and that’s it!” LMAO

[@lenwelch2195]

“ It should have gone to another boy” priceless. That laugh is worth two years of misery as my mom used to joke.

[@ryanr1701]

13:49 “Sew up your cabbage hole” is my new favorite way to tell someone to be quiet!

[@Tol1as]

has KNOCKED UP a _P R O T E S T A N T_ !!!

[@SimonTrepanier1]

Favorite line ever : "It should have gone to the other boy!" 😂

[@nonid5627]

Love seeing Elaine and Tina play off each other with such subtle facial expressions.

[@andresfernandes5906]

Genius actress 81+ years when she started the role

[@themaggattack]

All her constant, multi-layered, covert accusations. It's ALLL in *THE WAY she says it.* Elaine Stritch's delivery was impeccable. "Jackie didn't MEAN to run me over... not the cartier watch like I WANTED."

[@johnneyjohnson8607]

"My thanks to the peanut gallery"

[@ATRTAP]

“Let’s all meet at the soda shop while this country turns into Mexico” classic Colleen!

[@markhager2216]

A master class from a master cast. Her and Alec Baldwin look like they are having the MOST fun. I can’t think of any other actor who could have brought Colleen Donanghy to life. Amazing work. Their time at the piano singing the Christmas Song, you could tell Baldwin was having a hard time keeping it together.

[@randysills4418]

She and Alec Baldwin do look like you they are having the most fun...

[@darrinconroy4232]

You're flat, Jack.

[@martinsorenson1055]

@@randysills4418 The reply I was hoping to find. Love it!

[@nexigram]

“You are a sassy old broad, ain’t you?” *Vigorous nodding *

[@bar-jean]

I absolutely miss this show. Jack's and mother Colleen's dynamic was one of the best bits on TV.😂😂

[@leechesnut8523]

I can't believe they didn't include this classic exchange: Jack: Mother, don't talk to me about secrets. I know some things you've done that you would not want me to bring up right now. Colleen: Most people thought I was a hero for killing Lydia's parrot!

[@AdhiPratama]

3:54 I just love the fact at AT NO PRIOR CONTEXT, a NYMPHOMANIAC VIRGIN WIDOW who's going on ONE YEAR OF MOURNING came up onto the scene! 🤣🤣🤣

[@d.c.9012]

With a LATEX ALLERGY!

[@johanstinson]

so Liz is literally the only person on the show that Colleen was nice to lol

[@marge9563]

Elaine Stritch is a genius.

[@LuisRodriguez-bo4xg]

"you give me 10 minutes w/the Lemmon family and I 'll have tearing at each other Like drag queens at a wig sale."🤣🤣

[@danielboothe3394]

Watch Alec's acting when Alan Alda at 8:30 starts talking about time lost and going on about road trips in his VW Van. That kind of active listening and technique is what makes Alec so amazing.

[@Nick-ty9us]

Hawkeye from mash seriously what is he doing here?

[@Here4theComments9]

Wow. As if…it was….written……in the script?

[@danielboothe3394]

@@Here4theComments9 You think that the script tells Alec how to act? Is that what you are saying?

[@2605155]

12:51 This quick shot to her and the nod she does is THE image in my mind when I patronizingly nod at an idot.

[@halhuffman]

'...sew up your cabbage hole, girl...' - GENIUS

[@HJDietz-kl3qg]

This show got me through grad school, ‘07-‘09, and was in its prime. Elaine Stritch as Colleen was the perfect casting for Jack’s mother given who he is. 👍🏼

[@lazaromurad322]

¨...because you know when you're pregnant, one bottle of wine and thats it!!! LMAOOOO

[@jandreidrn]

one bottle of wine a day...

[@lazaromurad322]

@@jandreidrn you are correct

[@stevenmaza1372]

Colleen was the BEST!!!! They gave her some of the best lines that were written for the show.

[@yodabeeshdc8275]

Love her! She and Lucille Bluth should form a social club of Two to rag on their hopeless children 😂

[@claytonsanders6421]

Colleen is reading Urban Fervor by the great Kevin Grisham. Why I love this show.

[@Thesavageeye]

Elaine Stritch is a natural born comedienne. You can’t teach that.

[@FourEyesFive]

When Jack realizes Colleen is gone in the carriage, the shock brought a tear to my eye.

[@caraqueno77]

haha...same

[@annyone3293]

“It shudda gone to the other boy!”

[@ferrisbueller88]

Finally Colleen. There were so many "Best of" videos on the channel but now gone. Bring back Best of Lutz.

[@PDC-yb9qs]

Elaine Stritch was and is an absolute legend!

[@stephaniestanley8041]

Rest well dear Elaine 💞 A beautiful tribute to her. Alec was a wonderful counterpart.

[@lazaromurad322]

Jack in the ER Colleen: ¨Tell him that I love him!... but not in a queer way!¨ LOL she was one of the best characters that I loved when she appeared on an episode she was always hilarious!! RIP

[@zhonguocha]

My personal favorite Coleen line. I tell my boyfriend all the time that I love him… but not in a queer way.

[@YourBestPalCal]

7:49 She yells it so loud, it kills me every time

[@geoffreyblackmer]

A masterclass in timing and delivery

[@greens294]

At 3:51, y'all cut out one her best lines. "Just bring my son one of everything. That way he doesn't have to choose! (laughs)"

[@MrJbolding23]

I swear it used to be there

[@jackcarroll3575]

"Like that time I told you I made the diving team, and you said 'wow, what a great way to meet guys!'"

[@tcmaddox]

I know this is a comedy. But I'm not going to lie. I legit cried when Colleen died in that carriage.

[@evanfaust8672]

“Is she drunk Jack? Because you know when you’re pregnant, ONE BOTTLE OF WINE A DAY AND THATS IT!!!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bluth9754]

I wish Jack’s brother Eddie, who was played by the hilarious Nathan Lane was featured more. Nathan and Alec have great comedic chemistry

[@Lafemmefutile]

He was to busy running his check fraud scheme

[@jackcarroll3575]

There wouldn't be enough wigs on the island of Manhattan for them to snatch if you included all of them in the same room at the same time.

[@Excalibur833]

She knew from moment one that Liz was the one for him. She hints at that throughout the series

[@rodrigorealbeltran4706]

Elaine Strich The queen you were and will always be❤️❤️❤️ We miss your spark😔

[@crystalfairy912]

Aw man, they missed out on the Mother's Day episode! I love when she bosses Kenneth around and even calls him Carl.

[@ciganyweaverandherperiwink6293]

Elaine Stritch, god what a talent.

[@Jane-yr2cg]

There will never be another show with such fabulous writing (thx Tina Fey!) or impeccable timing! This show should be in the top ten best network television shows of all time. It will forever be my favorite! 😍❤️🤩