New 30 Rock Character To Be “Sean Hannity In A Skirt”

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.

Here’s the description from Ausiello:

Banks, who is on board for at least four episodes (the first of which airs in February), plays a right-leaning financial guru who falls for fellow conservative Jack (Alec Baldwin) after he appears as a guest on her CNBC talk show. “She’s basically Sean Hannity in a skirt,” she explains. “What’s great about her relationship with Jack is they’re equals. She’s not some [pretty] young thing that he has a fling with. She really challenges him.

“Sean Hannity in a skirt”? Try getting that image out of your head.

It’s interesting also that the chance encounter takes place on a CNBC talk show. Obviously it stays under the NBCU umbrella, but a conservative talk show host on the network? Maybe it’s more Larry Kudlow in a skirt.

It sounds like Banks is familiar with Fox News. She recently tweeted about Brit Hume‘s ‘Tiger should find Christianity‘ comment:

Brit Hume’s advice to Tiger. Perfect set-up for an SNL “Really!? With Seth & Amy”?!? – http://j.mp/7ZXskn

Anyone want to photoshop an image for us to put here?

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