“Great News”: Tina Fey, Harvey, Etc.
The NBC sitcom “Great News” frequently builds its comedy around workplace issues and slides cutting jokes about public figures into its dialogue. But one of the best comedies on television really outdid itself Thursday night with “Honeypot!,†an episode about sexual harassment that happened to air in the midst of a snowballing Harvey Weinstein scandal. The internet has frequently bowed down before “30 Rock”’s ability to call out the misogynistic, abusive actions of male celebrities, including Bill Cosby and, yes, Harvey Weinstein, long before the media fully reported on them. This half-hour of “Great News” — a comedy created by former “30 Rock” writer Tracey Wigfield and executive-produced by 30 Rock vets Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, and David Miner — is a sharp reminder of just how much DNA these two shows share.
