Brilliance

30 Rock showed a rerun tonight of the episode when Liz thinks Tracy is illiterate and Jack can't act. One of the better episodes.

Baldwin's performance in the episode is pretty incredible. First off, the depiction of "bad acting" and having trouble acting is great and I would imagine, not easy to do. His walking alone, but also the moment of snickering pride at the audience reaction. Awesome. Second, the one line zingers he pulls off when Liz tries to one-up him throughout the episode are amazing little moments when he reestablishes power over Liz after feeling weak. Three examples:

"Don't gloat, it makes you seem mannish."

"If you were any other woman in the world, I'd be sexually aroused right now."

"Don't be cute, you're too old."

"Nuff said.