’30 Rock’ Goes Live and Parodies Brooklyn-based ‘Honeymooners’
By Brooklyn Eagle Staff
NBC’s “30 Rock” went live Thursday night with an episode that honored both its roots in live television and its New York City connection, featuring a spoof of Jackie Gleason’s 1950s Brooklyn-based sitcom “The Honeymooners.”
Gleason’s Ralph Kramden character would threaten his ever-suffering, ever-loving wife — Audrey Meadows’ Alice — with one of television’s classic lines: