ICONS OF COMEDY: TRACY JORDAN

He's everything you want from a fictional megastar comedian and so, so much more...

So last time out, we celebrated the life and work of Tina Fey, the big amazing brain behind 30 Rock. This time, we’re going under the wire into the show itself to big up the enormous talent that is Tracy Jordan – star of TGS, the show within the show. Still with us? Strap yourself in...

Tracy is the spoilt, egomaniacal manchild brought in to boost the TGS (formerly known as The Girlie Show) ratings. Genius chaos duly follows him (and his minders Grizz and Dot Com) everywhere.

If he isn’t falling asleep on Ted Danson’s roof, he’s on a talk show, trying to stab the host while claiming to be a ‘stabbing robot’. Or he’s stopping a short woman in the street, asking her if she’s “a large child or a small adult?”

Of course he might be away from the TGS studios, filming one of his many movies – who could forget classics like Black Cavemen, Fat Bitch, Sherlock Homie and A Blaffair to Rememblack. Then there was his recent role as Garfield, where he got paid “exactly one million teacher salaries.”

But even though Tracy’s life seems like one long party, he’s suffering due to a series of poor refuelling choices (“recently I realized that I have a hole in my heart and not the one I got from eating batteries”)

Tracy isn’t just an actor, he’s a philosophiser as well – as he says, “affirmative action was designed to keep women and minorities in competition with each other to distract us while white dudes inject AIDS into our chicken nuggets.”

Powerful stuff from the man who wants to “hold a mirror up to society and then win world record for biggest mirror.” Worship him.

Coming later in the week – Tracy Morgan, the actor who plays Tracy Jordan. Honestly, there really isn’t all that much difference between the pair...

30 Rock is on Comedy Central, on DVD and on iTunes. Seriously. if you haven't let it into your life yet, well... you should. We're saying that and it's technically the competition...