Why do you think people continue to tune in and watch the show?

Jack McBrayer: Well I think it's pretty - what we found is just that - it is - it's so relatable just as a workplace comedy. And anybody who's had a job has had a, you know, a domineering boss or, you know, very needy coworkers or just crazy people around. And so I think in that sense people can just relate to that a bit. But...

Robert Carlock: But, yeah, I mean, I think that's very well said. I mean, we do try to always think of it as a workplace comedy just in a slightly exotic workplace. And...

To say the least.

Robert Carlock: Yeah. And, you know, so at the core our stories do try to be, as Jack was saying, relatable. And at the same time I think we have a tone in the show where I hope viewers are open to being surprised. I hope that's part of the appeal is that, you know, sometimes Jack Donaghy is showing up playing Thomas Jefferson in a green sequence for Tracy and at other times, you know, we're having sort of more emotional scenes say between Liz and Jack.

So I hope that part of the appeal is that you don't know what's going to happen.

Jack McBrayer: Lots of surprises.

Robert, I'm wondering what makes you and Tina Fey click so well. She had a very moving acceptance speech in (unintelligible) didn't she?

Robert Carlock: That was, yeah, very, very nice of her. You know, Tina and I have worked together for a long time, we worked together for five years at Saturday Night Live when she started doing - we were writers together there when she started doing Weekend Update.

I was the producer of Update for her first year there before leaving to go try to get experience doing this kind of show. And so it made a lot of sense for us to come back together. But we've always - going into this project we knew that we shared a sensibility and we knew that we shared a work ethic which is a big part of getting this thing done every day week to week.

And so we've been friends and kind of coconspirators and co-religionists in the temple of comedy at least for a long, long time. So stepping into doing this - that was one of the best things of it was knowing exactly what she can do ad having a shorthand already with her. So we've been doing it for, well, 12 years so.