30 Rock’s Jenna Maroney still managed to stand out in a sea of hilarious characters. She was unbelievably vain, shallow, manipulative, unstable, thin-skinned… but instead of being annoying and unlikable, she became one of the most entertaining, iconic characters of modern television. So, how did Jenna manage to capture that ‘beloved star’ status that she was so desperate for on the show in real life? Let’s take a deeper look at Jenna’s character arc, the way she perfectly embodied all of the wild pressures that the industry puts on aging actresses, and how such an outlandish character managed to be so oddly relatable.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Jenn Maroney, c-list superstar
00:48 Real life struggles made hilarious
04:17 Satirizing stardom (& the desperate desire to keep it)
08:28 Incredibly over the top, but somehow still relatable
10:40 Why Jenna Maroney will always be famous


CREDITS
Executive Producers: Debra Minoff & Susannah McCullough
Chief Creative Director: Susannah McCullough
Associate Producer: Jessica Babineaux
Writer: Cassondra Feltus
Narrator: Charly Bovina
Video Editor: Daniel Wolff