Guest Characters
30 Rock has featured a number of guest appearances (including cameos and featured fictional roles):
- Clay Aiken as himself
- Buzz Aldrin as himself (former lover of Liz's mother, Margaret Lemon (then Freeman), to whom she "repeatedly lost her virginity" while Waldo, the town pervert, watched from the bushes)
- Jennifer Aniston as Claire Harper (a wild college friend of Jenna and Liz)
- Fred Armisen as Raheem Haddad (Liz's new neighbor, whom she believes is a terrorist)
- Sara Bareilles as herself
- The Beastie Boys as themselves
- Mary J. Blige as herself
- Michael Bloomberg as himself
- Nick Cannon as himself
- Jim Carrey as the lead in Leap Dave Williams
- James Carville as himself
- Tim Conway as Bucky Bright (an idol of Kenneth's who turns out to be a prejudiced, bisexual, womanizer); he points himself (Conway) out in a McHale's Navy publicity photo)
- Elvis Costello as himself
- Sheryl Crow as herself
- Robert De Niro as himself
- Jeff Dunham and Bubba J as Rick Wayne and his dummy Pumpkin respectively (whom Jack finds hilarious and demands that he be hired over Liz's objections—until Pumpkin insults Liz and is then killed by Jack.
- Steve Earle as himself
- Jimmy Fallon as himself / a young Jack Donaghy in "Live from Studio 6H"
- Will Ferrell as the lead in Bitch Hunter
- Carrie Fisher as Rosemary Howard (a book author and Liz's girlhood idol, who has become mentally unstable)
- Mick Foley as his wrestling persona Mankind
- James Franco as himself
- Paul Giamatti as Ritchie
- Kathie Lee Gifford as herself
- Whoopi Goldberg as herself
- Al Gore as himself
- Kelsey Grammer as himself / a member of the "Best Friends Gang" who steal from Carvel
- Tom Hanks as himself
- Edward Herrmann as Walter, a co-op board member (Episode 210, 2008)
- Lester Holt as himself
- Norah Jones as herself
- Jon Bon Jovi as himself
- Michael Keaton as a maintenance man
- Larry King as himself
- Calvin Klein as himself
- Gladys Knight as herself
- Talib Kweli as himself
- Padma Lakshmi as herself
- Nathan Lane as Eddie Donaghy, Jack's brother
- Matt Lauer as himself
- Cyndi Lauper as herself
- Adam Levine as himself
- John Lithgow as himself
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus as Liz Lemon in cutaway flashbacks in the "Live Show"
- Patti LuPone as Sylvia Rossitano (Frank's mother)
- Steve Martin as Gavin Volure
- Michael McDonald as himself
- John McEnroe as himself
- Rhett Miller as himself
- Andrea Mitchell as herself
- Conan O'Brien as himself
- Suze Orman as herself
- Queen Latifah as Representative Regina Bookman
- Denise Richards as herself
- Andy Richter as Liz's brother, Mitch
- Al Roker as himself
- Andy Samberg as himself
- David Schwimmer as Jared (a global warming mascot)
- Jerry Seinfeld as himself (to discuss SeinfeldVision)
- Mary Steenburgen as Diana Jessup, Avery's mother
- Emma Stone as herself
- Meredith Vieira as herself in two episodes, and mentioned as a sexual predator of Kenneth in another
- Oprah Winfrey as Liz Lemon's hallucination of Oprah Winfrey
- Jack Welch as himself
- Adam West as himself
- Betty White as herself; Tracy attempts to call and scare her to death, but fails.
- Brian Williams as himself
- Rachael Yamagata as herself
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