Avery Jessup is the hot new host of the hit CNBC show Hot Box, which had on Jack Donaghy as a guest last night.

Well, actually, it was just part of the storyline to 30 Rock – where a right-wing lovefest turned into a steamy love affair.

Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming Jack Donaghy has a new crush, and it’s a conservative TV host.

Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly reports 30 Rock‘s newest guest star will be Elizabeth Banks – and she has an interesting description of the way she’ll play the character.

When Jack Donaghy looked at Liz Lemon as she rambled on Thursday night on 30 Rock and quipped, “This is like watching Hemingway write—Mark Hemingway,” was Jack referring to C-list conservative pundit Mark Hemingway at the Washington Examiner (and formerly at National Review Online)?

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It’s been a big week for Brian Williams. Tonight, he guest-stars on 30 Rock. Last night, he emceed “Stand Up For Heroes,” the star-studded annual charity show benefiting wounded returning soldiers via the Bob Woodruff Foundation, sharing the stage with Elvis Costello and his idol Bruce Springsteen. Sunday, he returned from a week spent in [...]

The New York Times is rarely a bastion of backlash, but for Tina Fey — whose NBC comedy 30 Rock had its fourth season premiere last night — TV critic Alessandra Stanley will make an exception. In her review yesterday, Stanley was especially pointed with detailed jabs at the much-loved comedienne. And yet she loved her last year!

In response to Glenn Beck‘s stunning critique of the “communist art” that surrounds GE and NBC headquarters at Rockefeller Center, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann fought back last night with the accusation that Beck himself is in possession of a “communist paper weight.”

Leave it to master entertainer Glenn Beck to find the most creative way yet to attack Fox nemesis NBC.

After MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann turned his attention to the FNC host (and away from his usual target, Bill O’Reilly) earlier this week, Beck responded, in a way, last night – based around art history.

Did Conan miss the part where everyone is excited about Mad Men? All the reviews and previews and tie-ins excuses to write about Mad Men because people love it? Sesame Street is doing a parody this year, for God’s sake. Conan, wake up!