I’ve said it before, but I’m going to repeat it until the whole world sits up and takes heed: 30 Rock is the best. The NBC comedy series, set behind the scenes at a TV show based on Saturday Night Live, is consistently the funniest, most absurd, and most spot-on comedy on the tube these days.

If you haven’t seen it, 30 Rock stars writer/creator Tina Fey as the head writer of the show-within-a-show; Tracy Morgan as her magnificently insane star, Tracy Jordan; Jack McBrayer as a hayseed NBC page, and last but not least, the marvelous Alec Baldwin as network boss Jack Donaghy. (Incidentally, the profile of the tortured, fascinating Baldwin in The New Yorker’s September 8 issue is one of the best pieces of entertainment journalism of the year).

Though the show’s second season was truncated by the writers’ strike, the show barely seemed to suffer (unlike The Offce, which felt a little derailed). Season Two is out on DVD right now, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. In addition to 15 episodes of hilarity, there are some really excellent special features here. I really enjoyed the 30 Rock Live segment, a video of a benefit performed at the Upright Citizens’ Brigade theatre in NYC during the strike to benefit the show’s production assistants, where the cast acted out the entirety of the “Secrets and Lies” episodes, complete with improvised fake commercials and a live soundtrack. There’s also deleted scenes, a videotaped table read of one of the episodes, and more. Can’t wait for Season Three.

I enjoyed very few movies this year as much as I did Mongol, Sergei Bodrov’s epic telling of the early days of warlord Genghis Khan, played by the excellent Japanese actor Tadanobu Asano. An unabashedly epic film, with sweeping landscapes, raging battles and even a passionate romance, this is a solidly made and highly entertaining film.