High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Live Show" is the fourth episode of the fifth season of the American television comedy series 30 Rock, and the 84th overall episode of the series. It was directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, and co-written by series creator Tina Fey and co-showrunner and executive producer Robert Carlock. The episode originally aired live on the NBC television network in the United States on October 14, 2010, with separate tapings for the East Coast television audience as well as the West Coast. "Live Show" featured appearances by Rachel Dratch, Bill Hader, Jon Hamm, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.