John Francis "Jack" Donaghy is a fictional character on the NBC sitcom 30 Rock, airing from 2006 to 2013.
51 Facts About Jack Donaghy
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Jack Donaghy was introduced as the Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming for General Electric.
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John Francis Jack Donaghy had an unhappy and impoverished childhood in South Boston and in the fictional suburb of Sadchester, Massachusetts.
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When he was two, Jack Donaghy's presumed father lured him to the edge of a swimming pool with a puppy and pushed him in the pool, and later abandoned his family.
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Young Jack Donaghy took to calling his collie "Pop" until the dog was accidentally run over by the mailman and intentionally left to die in the street by his mother.
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Jack Donaghy played hockey, the piano and the flute as a child, prompting his mother to embarrass him by having him play "The Star-Spangled Banner" on said flute in front of the hockey team, which he captained.
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Jack Donaghy attended Princeton University on a handsomeness scholarship, where he played football and baseball for the Tigers, joined the Princeton Charter Club, played Maria in an all-male production of West Side Story, was a member of the "Twig and Plums" secret society, and was a classmate of Michelle Obama.
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Jack Donaghy was cast in the role of Mr Conductor in Thomas and the Magic Railroad in 2000.
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Jack Donaghy later attended Harvard Business School, which he paid for by working as a Swan Boat operator, and where he was voted "Most" by his classmates.
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Post-college, Jack Donaghy worked as an intern for Senator Ted Kennedy, where Jack Donaghy displayed an extremely liberal political world-view, even by the standards of a young Al Gore.
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Jack Donaghy once practiced martial arts under Chuck Norris, but they had a falling out after he switched to another dojo.
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Jack Donaghy made sure that Tracy was the main star and ensured the show's name was changed to TGS with Tracy Jordan after bribing a focus group with pizza.
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Jack Donaghy refuses to believe this since Phoebe had told him that Liz is infatuated with him and he decides to continue with their wedding.
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The situation is resolved when Jack Donaghy has a heart attack while in bed with Phoebe, and realizes while recovering in the hospital during a conversation with Liz, Phoebe and his mother that he is in fact not in love with Phoebe.
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Jack Donaghy recovers from his heart attack and becomes a candidate to succeed Don Geiss as CEO of GE, competing against his arch-rival, Vice-President of West Coast Television Devon Banks, who, despite being openly gay, has gotten engaged to Geiss' oblivious daughter Kathy.
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Jack Donaghy contemplates sleeping with Kathy Geiss to save the company from Banks' plan to shut GE down completely for two years, but is able to avoid this with Liz's help.
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Jack Donaghy remains in his position as head of NBC, telling Liz Lemon how many times an episode she can use the phrase "cat anus".
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Jack discovers that Jimmy Donaghy is not his real father.
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Similar to the plot of Mamma Mia, Jack Donaghy finds that he has three possible fathers.
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Liz invites them to TGS saying they won a contest, and Jack Donaghy quickly finds that his father is Milton Greene, a Bennington College professor.
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Jack Donaghy finds that he is not a match and organizes a "We Are the World"-type charity called "Kidney Now," with celebrities singing a song that asks anyone who is a match to give Milton a kidney.
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When Liz and Jack Donaghy finally agree to exchange gifts, they agree on spending zero dollars for each other.
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Jack Donaghy has Jonathan drive all over Pennsylvania to find a program of Liz's production of The Crucible, framed in wood from her stage and not reimbursing Jonathan for gas.
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Finally, Jack Donaghy brings in Liz's childhood crush, Larry Wilcox, as a date for her.
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Still, Jack Donaghy is less than satisfied at Kabletown, in large part because the company manufactures no tangible goods.
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Jack Donaghy is able to recover some of the investment by selling the otherwise unmarketable to the CIA as torture devices; doing so serendipitously benefits Jack when one of the couches causes an interrogated North Korean to reveal information vital to Avery's rescue.
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Jack Donaghy's trip succeeds within a matter of seconds; having barely left the riverbank, he conceives of his greatest innovation: transparent dishwashers that allow the consumer to observe the cleaning action.
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Long before the events of the series, Jack Donaghy had married an Italian woman named Bianca, with whom he made love on the floor of the Concorde shortly after their wedding, though he claims his mother deliberately had a heart attack to prevent him from going on his honeymoon.
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When Bianca shows up, Jack Donaghy passes Liz off as his girlfriend to make Bianca jealous.
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When Liz pretends Jack Donaghy has proposed to her, Bianca attacks her and Jack Donaghy is finally satisfied that Bianca still wants him.
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Jack Donaghy acquires "full stake in the Arby's franchises [he and Bianca] bought outside of Telluride" in the divorce settlement.
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Jack Donaghy had a brief relationship with Phoebe, an allegedly English auctioneer, and goes as far as proposing marriage.
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Jack Donaghy begins a relationship with liberal Congresswoman Celeste "CC" Cunningham.
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Jack Donaghy falls in love with Elisa and proposes marriage to her.
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Jack Donaghy has a reunion with Nancy Donovan, his old high school crush.
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Jack Donaghy is torn between her and his new flame, CNBC anchor Avery Jessup.
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Unbeknownst to Avery, Liz and Jack Donaghy are accidentally married to each other in the Caribbean.
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Liz uses the situation to blackmail Jack into restoring TGSs budget, in exchange for signing the annulment documents and ceasing to give his [legally their] money away to fund projects like The Jack and Elizabeth Donaghy High School for Teen Drama, The Arts, and Feelings.
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Avery returns to the United States in exchange for a North Korean spy, Jack Donaghy having unwittingly facilitated the exchange when he sold horribly uncomfortable Kouchtown couches to the CIA as interrogation tools.
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Jack Donaghy admits that he and Avery only married because of Avery's pregnancy.
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Jack Donaghy admits to Liz that he slept with Jenna "a lot" in Season 3.
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Jack Donaghy has made it clear that he respects Liz's abilities and considers her a friend, albeit by calling for her advice at odd times.
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Jack Donaghy briefly tried to develop a friendly relationship with the writers, particularly Liz, and made it clear that his feelings were hurt when Liz told him to stay out of the writers' room.
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Nevertheless, Jack Donaghy remains close enough to his NBC coworkers to attend their social functions.
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Jack Donaghy convinces Hank Hooper to purchase the gay-themed network, TWINKS, and attempts to run it.
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Jack Donaghy is ostensibly Irish Catholic, and names his fists after St Patrick and St Michael.
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Jack Donaghy starts his own winery, "Donaghy Estates", after purchasing a vineyard on the north fork of Long Island.
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Liz suggests that Jack Donaghy finds Asian women in their twenties especially attractive, though he has intimate relationships with women of other races including African-American Condoleezza Rice, Puerto Rican Elisa Pedrera and numerous Caucasians.
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Jack Donaghy appears to agree with the other Kabletown executives that the most desirable trophy wives are half-Asian women.
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Jack Donaghy collected cookie jars and displayed them at conventions using the alias "Victor Nightingale", but gave his collection to Kenneth when a private investigator told him that it could hurt his chances at getting Don Geiss's job as Chairman of GE.
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Jack Donaghy appears to be an opportunistic substance abuser, given that, in various episodes, he drinks Kenneth's cough syrup in lieu of alcohol, sniffs paint to alleviate his alcohol withdrawal symptoms, scoffs at the notion of sober air travel, takes mysterious purple pills offered to him by Dr Spaceman, and is shown on the cover of a 1985 GE Quarterly Newsletter claiming that a wheelbarrow full of cocaine was just out of view.