Liz's parents, Dick and Margaret Lemon, are very supportive of her, at least outwardly. She created and writes for the fictional comedy-sketch show The Girlie Show and later TGS with Tracy Jordan. In "Many episodes of the show have dealt with Lemon's ongoing search for love. "Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. She always replies that she is really a girl and "that doctor was a quack." They said this, in each case, while we were breaking up." Liz is also a very skilled writer and is generally highly regarded and appreciated by her staff. See our top-ranked characters and read their profiles. RELATED: 30 Rock: 10 Smartest And Cleverest Quotes. Liz is from a town called "White Haven". Every character who made it into, say, the Elite Eight, is a perfect character. The character's last name, "Lemon", is apparently intended to imply an acerbic personality and possibly also to make her full name alliterative.

She is also the first per Liz has been seen singing "Maybe"Among the child actors who portrayed Liz in flashbacks to her youth was Fey's own daughter, Alice Richmond, in "Liz uses her temporary formal name of Elizabeth Donaghy when announcing the Jack and Elizabeth Donaghy High School for Teen Drama, The Arts, and Feelings in "Name as author of the Chinese counterfeit copies of her Jack Donaghy: "The American public doesn't want your elitist, east coast, alternative, intellectual, left-wing..." Liz: "Jack, just say Jewish, this is taking forever." Fey is known for creating and playing female characters which open up conversation around the representation of women in media. According to Fey, the character is not bulimic; "she just likes to eat. The Don’ts of Liz Lemon’s Dealbreakers I really hope you’re watching 30 Rock .
Her optimistic family are introduced in season 2. The chaos of Liz Lemon is portrayed brilliantly by Tina Fey, who pitches her disarray and ridiculousness to a level of mastery. She appeared in Slate, discussing how the show covers politics and feminism, assessed Lemon's character as being drawn from other genres of comedy in unexpected ways: "the man-child is a venerable comic tradition, from The Jerk to Billy Madison to everything Lemon has a sandwich named in her honor, consisting of hot housemade pastrami, turkey, swiss, coleslaw, Russian dressing and potato chips on rye, at 7a Foods in West Tisbury, Massachusetts.Fey has reported incorporating some of her own quirks and history into the character, saying that she tries to "share as many of Liz's habits as possible so it feels truthful".

Immediately after church choir member Tracy fell and realized his talent for getting laughs as a performer, Liz placed a prank call to the pledge line which was answered by Jack, then a young executive from GE's poisons division. She is portrayed by Tina Fey, who is also the creator of the series and its showrunner. Fey has stated that she wanted Liz to have a good last name since she knew the character would often be called by it.Liz currently lives in an apartment at 168 Riverside Drive, which is a real apartment complex in New York City, her apartment number is 3B.Jack, at a mere glance, described her, apparently accurately, as a "New York third-wave feminist, college-educated, single-and-pretending-to-be-happy-about-it, overscheduled, undersexed, you buy any magazine that says 'healthy body image' on the cover and every two years you take up knitting for...a week." Jenna once got mad at Liz when she overheard Liz describe her to Tracy as being "paranoid" and "neurotic.

A recurring gag is Liz having relationships with men who share the names of celebrities or fictional characters, including In her longest onscreen relationship, Liz dates Criss Chros (Lemon was ranked #1 on Yahoo's Greatest 100 Television Characters since 1990. (the name of her home office furniture from As demonstrated over the course of her appearances, Liz seems to have When Liz and Jack first meet, and for several seasons thereafter, neither realised that they had spoken to each other by telephone twenty years before.In the beginning of the series, Liz and Jack had an Despite their close friendship, Jack rarely addresses her as "Liz", generally preferring to call her by her surname. Her brother Mitch had a skiing accident on Sunday, December 8, 1985 when he was a high school senior. She has frequently been shown to be a stress eater, a trait she shares with Jack.Some of Liz's social problems stem from past slapstick events that left her with long-suppressed traumas and phobias. For instance, in "Liz also has a tendency to say "blërg!" "Since that time, each man that I have dated has made a point of saying how much I remind him of the main character on that show, Liz Lemon. Jack's loyalty to GE and his handsomeness impressed Don Geiss, who transferred Jack to the microwave ovens division.Throughout the seasons, several people have questioned Liz's gender.