Late Night with Kenneth Parcell
June 26, 2009
Kenneth Parcell, on NBC's 30 Rock, is one of my favorite characters on the show. I especially like this clip of Kenneth from season 1, pretending to be a guest on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. (Click the screenshot on the right to watch the clip on Hulu, a joint venture of NBC that provides streaming content of popular shows and movies from various networks and studios.)
During Junior Bootcamp, part of our IMLP class got a behind-the-scenes tour of the NBC studios at 30 Rockefeller Center from our fellow IMLPs who were working there.
Here's a fun photo of some of us having our own "Kenneth moment" on the set of Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
If you're not familiar with 30 Rock, Kenneth Parcell is a fictional member of NBC's page program, which isn't fictional at all. The page program has been around for over 75 years at NBC, and many famous personalities have gone through the program (including Ted Koppel, Regis Philbin, and Willard Scott).
In some respects, the NBC page program is similar to the IMLP program. Pages rotate through different areas of the NBC business (including public relations, marketing, and production), just like IMLPs rotate through different areas within IT.
The page program recruits competitively from a pool of college graduates that demonstrate "leadership, strong work ethic, and outgoing personality" - add a strong technical background and you've got the characteristics of an IMLP candidate.
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