Jack McBrayer Talks Up His Accent and John Edwards Hair

In a chat with Salon.com, Jack McBrayer talks up his John Edwards hair, the location of his chin, and his work on 30 Rock. In addition to his role as Kenneth the Page, McBrayer has a boiling side career making YouTube vids, and in what clinches his role as the Opie Cunningham of the Aughties, he was once the Applebee's Employee of the month in Conyers, Georgia.

The following passage provides some good intel on Jack's accent, which they make a big deal out of but honestly on 30 Rock doesn't sound any more extreme than the average southerner living in New York:

But [the accent] is a novelty in your industry. I was thinking today, what other celebrities have that heavy an accent? And the only person I came up with was Jeff Foxworthy and the Blue Collar comedians.

First of all, thank you for lumping me in with that group.

Of course. I know you loved that.

I did. I mean, Holly Hunter has an accent, too, but she can hide it a little bit better. She owns her accent.

Oh, good point. If you watch "Broadcast News," she has a heavy Southern accent in a role that has nothing to do with the South.

Exactly. But it's not like I keep my accent out of vanity or stubbornness or anything. Asking me to lose it would be like asking a tall actor: Can you be shorter? I guess there are ways to remove a shinbone or something. But this is who I am. This is what I'm working with, people.

But Hollywood is about that kind of cruel sameness. People probably do remove shinbones. You would know better than I would.

Yeah, because my appointment is next Tuesday.