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Would 30 Rock's Kenneth Make It as an Actual NBC Page?

2008_10_mcbrayer.jpgDid you know that getting into the NBC page program is ten times as competitive as admission to Harvard or Yale? The Times takes a look into the position currently brought to life by Jack McBrayer as the character Kenneth on 30 Rock. The program's humble job description includes working six days a week and getting paid $10 an hour to "photocopy, fetch coffee and often stand sentry outside studio doors in empty hallways." (There's no mention if pages have to clean Brian Williams's dressing room before he gets back from the liquor store as Kenneth does.) The Times even suggests that competition to be a page is so cutthroat that in real life, the naive- but-gung-ho Kenneth might not make the grade. Meanwhile, McBrayer admits to the paper that when he is mistaken for an actual page around the building, he simply plays the part saying, “Instead of giving the whole spiel, that I’m an actor in a fake show, I just look down at the phone list and type ‘2379, Marci Klein.’

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  • robingee

    Kenneth rules!

  • JRod5417

    30 Rock IS an awesome show. Can't wait for the new season...

  • Dirk

    #6, that's part of a long running gag. You definitely should rent the DVDs, "30 Rock" is hilarious.

  • JMH

    He's 35? Really?

    Still, give Kenneth some credit - he may be naive, but at least he was smart enough not to give Moon Vest his fingernails.

  • Qraymond

    Kenneth is the man!!!

  • Nick S

    oh shit, i should really read the article before attempting to make a snarky remark.

    still...dude is 35!! play a new character in something.

  • Nick S

    Mcbrayer probably wouldn't be consider as a page... he's 35 years old.

  • famdoc

    I'm willing to bet Ms. Saechao has received countless offers of work for more than the $10 an hour she now received. That piece in the Times shows her to be a happy-go-lucky, hard-working, ambitious, not to mention good-looking young woman.

    I'd like to get follow-up on her in a year or so.

    She's headed for great things. Tina Fey: any room for her on 30 Rock? How about a PA position?

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