Jack Blackmails Robert De Niro | 30 Rock

Jack wants to boost ratings, but how? Tape a natural disaster response special to get ahead of the game. But when a disaster does ACTUALLY strike, it devastates everyone.
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Season 5 Episode 12, "OperationRighteous Cowboy Lightning": Tracy (Tracy Morgan) has a reality TV crew following him around which Liz (Tina Fey) tries to use to her advantage, while Jack (Alec Baldwin) attempts to make a profit by pre-recording natural disaster telethons. Lutz (John Lutz) lies to the writers to make him more valuable in the event of an apocalypse.
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[@regemusic33]

Jack was using ChatGPT to write music way back in 2010

[@mitchellhughes5180]

I was looking for this comment😂

[@oscarmarek7746]

“But we’re not laughing now. Because our laughter excites the birds, sexually”

[@masterxl97]

I'm going to assume that Robert De Niro being completely terrible at doing an English accent is part of the joke and that this is pure comedic genius.

[@rosemicheals6289]

Love the implication that everytime De Niro speaks he's actually just putting on an American accent

[@stellaroj]

Nobody ever gives credit to the wonderful wildfire that dried up that horrible flood.

[@relazar]

This actually happened in BC in 2021

[@mitchellhughes5180]

🤣

[@cabronicusmaximuschingonic1062]

The fact that DeNiro said all of that, with a straight face, always gets me! 😂😂😂😂 Thanks for uploading this!

[@JACKXK]

The Brits are great actors.

[@lasecretariable]

​@@JACKXK 😂😂😂

[@Ares08080]

Nah they had cuts in between. I’m sure it took multiple takes.

[@terrenusvitae]

"I'll do it, but I hate my dress!" Jenna is the best.

[@Mary.R.]

🎵"Help the people, the thing that happened, happened to..."🎵

[@andremestre7443]

This song was so good! "when the stuff we know occurred... WEEENT DOWN" So singable 😂

[@pikiwiki]

at the absolute utter limits of comedy, so fine

[@AirWolfAT6]

Jack is still my favorite TV character of all time.

[@tonysmith7632]

Operation Righteous Cowboy Lighting is my new name.

[@gbonkers666]

That's my pronoun....

[@adamdevlin4533]

I like that DeNiro is corpsing in the British scene like he can barely get it out

[@Rams4life94]

I have to stop the video at Jacks “Good God!” when Mel Gibson is revealed.

[@Lafemmefutile]

JD was dying 😂

[@AlbertV90]

I know Alec Baldwin is a massive fan of Robert De Niro and I'm sure he was very giddy and nervous standing near De Niro lolol

[@fryncyaryorvjink2140]

I don't know about that, they're kind of on the same level I'd guess

[@AlbertV90]

@@fryncyaryorvjink2140 Well I'm talking behind the scenes when this was filmed

[@ASKMEABOUTMYGARDEN]

​@AlbertV90 just happy he didn't get so nervous that he started shooting.

[@withsugaront0p]

This is my favorite episode of Succession.

[@oliviabb73849]

I’m crying omg 😂. How did I ever miss this.

[@david-pb4bi]

Rumour has it, Dick Van Dyke taught De Niro that cockney accent.

[@joseville]

This what they meant by "Don't let a good crisis go to waste."

[@Renegade_2023]

I remember when lightning struck the Jewish space lazer starting wild fires while simultaneously restarting Mel Gibsons gibbon heart! If only there was a song!

[@ChrisMartindale-z1m]

This is clip is super well written

[@susanmcmasterson956]

If only we’d known that Gibson was warning us.

[@cactustree505]

Mother MAGA ... the OG

[@skipr5811]

God, it's hard to believe that back then Jack was supposed to be an exaggerated PARODY of a Republican. Not wanting to broadcast Holocaust denial on live TV would probably make him "woke" by today's standards.

[@cactustree505]

Murdock got the idea for fake news from this episode...

[@jacktoma21]

I feel if I saw that on tv, I’d just assume it was a very funny joke NBC was doing on Mel Gibson.

[@leonhardeuler675]

They definitely called the island Mongo for some reason because that's what people are saying and then wrote "Mago" over it. Seems to be a big mistake to me.

[@scottshanahan3827]

I hate to start a sentence with actually, but... actually ago is pronounced with an n in the Fijian language. So it's an incredible example of attention to detail.

[@allacds0901]

Reminds me of the great SNL sketch where Dana Carvey plays Tom Brokaw pre-taping big news headlines.

[@antourte1]

Dang good call. That sketch was not as fast paced but went to more places. Both crack me up :)

[@martinsorenson1055]

Was that SNL or was that on Dana Carvey's under-viewed show?

[@allacds0901]

@@martinsorenson1055 Looks like SNL's KZbin channel posted a link to it. But I had forgotten about Dana Carvey's show!

[@martinsorenson1055]

@@allacds0901 Ah makes sense. I was just going off of recent memory - I had seen The Dana Carvey Show episodes on Hulu I think? It's no longer there, I checked. But there is the documentary about the show on there.

[@martinsorenson1055]

@@allacds0901 Ah, a little research provides some clarity! Apparently, Carvey and Smeigel repeated the sketch on SNL when Dana Carvey was the Guest Host (after his regular stint on SNL). So, there are two versions out there! It had never officially aired on The Dana Carvey show; for some reason, it had been shelved.

[@stellaa302]

Comedy gold 🤣

[@frankbonini7085]

It Ends Up Being on a Private Island Owned by Mel Gibson & Visited by Jon Gosselin ... KARMA!

[@Norp-i7m]

May Dorga’s Trident PIERCE them from the skies! - 2:33

[@betpow]

SNL-Brokaw-Carvey

[@irubberyouglueonethousand5384]

Nobody ever thinks about how Mel Gibson feels . . .

[@gbonkers666]

I wonder if they knew that Mel Gibson isn't really Australian?

[@stephanleo]

Jenna's generic Pop singing style :-D

[@frankbonini7085]

You Wasted Jane's Angelic Voice on THAT!

[@8440k]

What is Jonathan’s deal with Kashmir? lol I don’t think majority in India feel anything strong about Kashmiris..

[@stellaa302]

They are a separatist region

[@james_9190]

Jennas incredibly generic song lol

[@Mehrdad-f7x]

fswegviufftghfdewdgunlog vy farah shomalieh khoda mikhamesh mammani cheshameh areh chesham aziztarin jameh mikhamesh

[@lowlygrinder2977]

Hey Mel could be worse, he could be protecting child traffickers and shooting women on movie sets.

[@Geojr815]

De Niro stopped being a good actor after around like 50

[@gbonkers666]

now he's just mad about everything....

[@tonysoprano7372]

Shitting on Mel Gibson when he's better than NBC in general

[@theglowcloud2215]

Did Jack ever shoot someone on the set of 30 Rock and then blame the prop person and then avoid any jail time or any legal consequences at all, even though he murdered a woman in cold blood? Hah, good times.

[@halkon4412]

"Murdered in cold blood" we really are in a post-fact world, huh

[@VirajasKulkarni]

He actually did accidentally discharge a gun killing Michael Keaton in the episode with the gas leak

[@5556665012008]

I'm surprised he never shot him :P

[@Elros04]

the real star of the clip is cue card Wally.