Kidnapped by Danger - wikipedia Kidnapped by Danger This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( March 2012 ) `` Kidnapped by Danger '' 30 Rock episode Episode no. Season 6 Episode 14 Directed by Claire Cowperthwaite Written by Tina Fey Featured music Jeff Richmond Production code 614 Original air date March 22, 2012 Guest appearance ( s ) Mary Steenburgen as Diana Jessup Cynthia Nixon as herself Jimmy Fallon as himself `` Weird Al '' Yankovic as himself William Baldwin as Lance Drake Mandrell Seth Kirschner as Shawn Connelly Chiquinquirá Delgado as herself Episode chronology ← Previous `` Grandmentor '' Next → `` The Shower Principle '' 30 Rock ( season 6 ) List of 30 Rock episodes `` Kidnapped by Danger '' is the fourteenth episode of the sixth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 116th overall episode of the series. It was directed by Claire Cowperthwaite, and written by series creator and star Tina Fey. The episode originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) network in the United States on March 22, 2012, immediately after the previous episode, `` Grandmentor ''. In the episode, Jack ( Alec Baldwin ) and writer Liz ( Tina Fey ) have creative differences over the Avery Jessup TV movie project ; Avery 's mother ( Mary Steenburgen ) returns to oversee production, rekindling her chemistry with Jack ; Kenneth ( Jack McBrayer ) copes with his new job as an NBC janitor ; and Jenna ( Jane Krakowski ) reacts poorly to a `` Weird Al '' Yankovic parody of her new single. Contents 1 Plot 2 Reception 3 References 4 External links Plot Avery 's mother Diana ( Mary Steenburgen ) arrives to make sure that the TV movie about her daughter shows her in a good light. Liz ( Tina Fey ) promises to help Jack ( Alec Baldwin ) overcome his chemistry with Diana and keep him out of an inappropriate relationship. Liz eventually fixes Diana up with the actor playing Jack ( William Baldwin, Alec Baldwin 's real life brother ) to keep her away from Jack. At the table reading of Liz 's script, Jack is appalled that Liz has included some seedy details about Jack and Avery 's courtship. He fires Liz from the project and rewrites the script himself. Jack eventually realizes that Liz is right that he had been idealizing his relationship with Avery. Liz consoles him and helps him rewrite the script to be a total fabrication. Kenneth, having quit the job he had in `` Standards and Practices '', tries to find a new job at NBC. He eventually finds a position as a janitor, in many ways lower than where he started as a page. He admits to Jack that he makes it through each day by lying to himself. Jenna 's new single to promote the movie is immediately parodied by `` Weird Al '' Yankovic. Furious, she and Tracy try to write a new song that can not be parodied. They eventually come up with a song as silly as a typical Weird Al offering and she debuts it on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Weird Al counters by creating an entirely serious song set to the same tune. Reception The show attracted 3.42 million viewers in its time slot. Andy Greenwald of Grantland thought the episode was `` no-less brilliant '' than the episode that preceded it, but that it `` suffered slightly '' for being `` richness on top of richness. '' He says `` it 's only in retrospect, looking over my notes, that I realize the material in the second half - hour might have actually been stronger. ''. David Sims of The Onion A.V. Club liked that `` the successful - joke - per - minute ratio of 30 Rock is still pretty high, and I got quite a few laughs out of a lot of the random gags, '' but feels that the series suffers from `` struggling to make the onscreen insanity at all relatable. '' He gave this episode and the one before it a combined grade of B -. References Jump up ^ Seidman, Robert ( March 23, 2012 ). `` Thursday Final Ratings : ' American Idol, ' ' Touch, ' ' 30 Rock, ' ' Up All Night ' Adjusted Up ''. TV by the Numbers. Retrieved March 23, 2012. Jump up ^ `` NBC Comedy Recap : Community Returns to Its Casual - Viewer - Alienating Wheelhouse ''. Jump up ^ `` Onion A.V. Club ''. 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'' `` Double - Edged Sword '' `` It 's Never Too Late for Now '' `` TGS Hates Women '' `` Queen of Jordan '' `` Plan B '' `` I Heart Connecticut '' `` 100 '' `` Everything Sunny All the Time Always '' `` Respawn '' Season 6 `` Dance Like Nobody 's Watching '' `` Idiots Are People Two ! '' `` Idiots Are People Three ! '' `` The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell '' `` Today You Are a Man '' `` Hey, Baby, What 's Wrong '' `` The Tuxedo Begins '' `` Leap Day '' `` Alexis Goodlooking and the Case of the Missing Whisky '' `` Standards and Practices '' `` St. Patrick 's Day '' `` Grandmentor '' `` Kidnapped by Danger '' `` The Shower Principle '' `` Nothing Left to Lose '' `` Meet the Woggels ! '' `` Murphy Brown Lied to Us '' `` Live from Studio 6H '' `` Queen of Jordan 2 : Mystery of the Phantom Pooper '' `` The Return of Avery Jessup '' `` What Will Happen to the Gang Next Year ? '' Season 7 `` The Beginning of the End '' `` Governor Dunston '' `` Stride of Pride '' `` Unwindulax '' `` There 's No I in America '' `` Aunt Phatso vs. Jack Donaghy '' `` Mazel Tov, Dummies ! '' `` My Whole Life Is Thunder '' `` Game Over '' `` Florida '' `` A Goon 's Deed in a Weary World '' `` Hogcock ! '' `` Last Lunch '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kidnapped_by_Danger&oldid=804214132 '' Categories : 2012 American television episodes 30 Rock ( season 6 ) episodes Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from March 2012 All articles needing additional references Tv.com template using numeric id Talk Contents About Wikipedia Português Edit links This page was last edited on 7 October 2017, at 14 : 43. About Wikipedia

Question: who plays jack donaghy in the avery jessup movie
Answer: William Baldwin