the second season had a cast of ten actors who received star billing. tina fey portrayed liz lemon, the head writer of a fictitious live sketch comedy television series named "tgs with tracy jordan" (commonly known as just "tgs"). the "tgs" cast consists of three actors. the lead actor is the loose cannon movie star tracy jordan, portrayed by tracy morgan. the co-stars are the dense, limelight-craving jenna maroney, portrayed by jane krakowski as well as the playful josh girard, who is also a writer for "tgs", portrayed by lonny ross. jack mcbrayer played the naïve kenneth parcell. scott adsit acted as the witty and wise "tgs" producer, pete hornberger. judah friedlander portrayed the wise-cracking, trucker hat wearing, repulsive staff writer frank rossitano. alec baldwin played the high flying nbc network executive jack donaghy. donaghy's full corporate title for the majority of the season is "head of east coast television and microwave oven programming." keith powell played the harvard university alumnus and "tgs" staff writer toofer spurlock. katrina bowden acted as writers' assistant cerie xerox. the cast also included some recurring characters including maulik pancholy as jonathan, grizz chapman as grizz griswold, kevin brown as "dot com" slattery, john lutz as j.d. lutz, and chris parnell as dr. leo spaceman.