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30 Rock is an off-brand comedy cult classic. In her book Bossy Pants, Tina Fey said of the show's quirkiness, "We were trying to make Home Improvement and we did it wrong. You know those scientists who were developing a blood-pressure medicine and they accidentally invented Viagra? We were trying to make Viagra and we ended up with blood-pressure medicine."
Though it attracted a niche market, its success was still big enough to last for seven seasons, create a cannon of jokes and jump-start the career of Donald Glover. Here is the cast of 30 Rock, ranked by net worth.
Judah Friedlander ($3 Million)
Actor, writer, and comedian Judah Friedlander is easily recognizable by his slightly disheveled look: a full and unkempt beard, a baggy t-shirt, oversized glasses and a trucker hat bearing a witty slogan. But you will most likely recognize him for his role as Frank Rossitono, one of the frequently off-task, lunch demanding writers that Liz Lemon has to wrangle in her daily foibles in the writer's room at 30 Rockafeller Plaza. Friedlander has, however, appeared in other films like The Wrestler, Date Movie, Along Came Polly, How High and Zoolander.
Chris Parnell ($3 Million)
Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, funny man Chris Parnell studied at the Groundlings before getting asked to audition for Saturday Night Live, where he became a featured player. In 30 Rock, he plays the gibberish talking quack doctor who Tracy Jordan visits for his health issues, Dr. Leo Spaceman. Parnell, however, has had a long career in film, TV, and voice acting and even stars in the hit animated series, Rick and Morty as Jerry Smith. Parnell has also acted in other huge series like Archer, Adam Ruins Everything, Grown-ish, and American Dad.
Scott Adsit ($5 Million)
Scott Adsit, also known as the responsibility adverse and unhappily but outrageously married Pete Hornberger, got his start with Chicago's Second City (where improv legends Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch, Steve Carell, and Amy Poehler attended). His character provides a great foil for Liz Lemon as she is always overworked, he is largely underperforming.
Scott Adsit, however, has had a career to the contrary. Once he got his start in Chicago, Adsit continued on to act in Mr. Show, Monk, Robot Chicken, The Goldbergs, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and We're The Millers.
Keith Powell ($5 Million)
Keith Powell played the haughty Harvard graduate and yet still somehow unproductive writer, Toofer on NBC's 30 Rock. His nickname is explained early in the season because he fulfills two diversity requirements for the network, which is also a bit self-reflective of the 30 Rock casting as well. Keith Powell studied at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before he began working on stage and onscreen. Powell is also in the TV series version of About a Boy, Train Baby, Keith Powell Directs a Play and These People.
Jack McBrayer ($6 Million)
Jack McBrayer is from Macon, Georgia and is often typecast as playing dimwitted southern characters, but he does it so well. After meeting Tina Fey at Second City, McBrayer got the role of the iconic well-meaning but easily steered off course, glass-half-full page Kenneth Parcell. McBrayer has also had notable parts in many well-known movies, like half of the religious newlywed couple trying to figure out their honeymoon in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, or the country club waiter in Arrested Development. He's also appeared in Drunk History, Bob's Burgers and Big Mouth.
Jane Krakowski ($12 Million)
Jane Krakowski is truly a triple threat of an actress. She hass starred on Broadway, in film and television. You may remember her as the actress who is so self-obsessed that she dates her own impersonator, Jenna Maloney in 30 Rock. Krakowski, who played this role flawlessly, also went on to star in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt in a similar role as an upper-class money and status-obsessed housewife married to a millionaire who later comes into her own.
Krakowski has also appeared in Modern Family, Drunk History, Dickinson, and Bojack Horseman.
Tracy Morgan ($50 Million)
Tracy Morgan starred as Tracy Jordan, a character loosely based on his actual persona. Although Jordan was usually over the top wacky and unreliable, one startlingly-progressive thing this role did on 30 Rock was spotlight a black male lead who was open about his mental health. Tracy Morgan is a comedian who had a long run on Saturday Night Live and even had a short-lived show called The Tracy Morgan Show. He's also appeared in Cop Out, What Men Want, and will appear in Coming 2 America in 2020. Part of Morgan's fortune came in terrifying fashion as he sued Walmart for negligence after one of their drivers caused a massive accident that left Morgan in the hospital and killed one of his friends.
Elizabeth Banks ($50 Million)
Although she appeared only in the later, and typically less revered seasons of 30 Rock, Elizabeth Banks did a brilliant job of playing career-oriented journalist and young spunky wife to Jack Donaghy, Avery Jessup.
Elizabeth Banks has had an exciting career onscreen and since her stint playing the journalist captured by Kim Jong-Il, she has gone on to star in many blockbuster hits like The Hunger Games, Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2 (which she also directed), and TV series like Modern Family, and Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.
Alec Baldwin ($65 Million)
Alec Baldwin is known for many things: for his appearances on Saturday Night Live (his Donald Trump impersonation is perfection) and for being a member of the famous film family the Baldwins. His role as the network executive with a flair for the arts, and the mentor to Liz Lemon, Jack Donaghy, is without a doubt one of his most iconic TV roles. Alec Baldwin, of course, has had a long career both onstage and onscreen, most notably his role in The Departed, BlacKkKlansman, Beetlejuice and It's Complicated.
Tina Fey ($65 Million)
Tina Fey is the writer and creator of 30 Rock and she also stars as the overworked, junk food addicted, unlucky in love New Yorker, and head writer, Liz Lemon. Tina Fey is not only responsible for hits like Mean Girls, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and many Saturday Night Live sketches you know and love, she's also a brilliant improviser from Second City, and the first female head writer in SNL history. Tina Fey is also known for Date Night, Sisters, Wine Country, and Modern Love. She truly does it all.