Remember when 30 Rock was on the ropes after its first season over whether it would return to the NBC airwaves? What a difference a couple of years makes when you don’t cancel a show too early. At last night’s Emmy Awards, Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and the 30 Rock crew picked up seven golden honors, with Tina Fey taking home the award for best actress in a comedy series, Alec Baldwin winning best actor in a comedy series, and 30 Rock nabbing top honors for outstanding comedy series.

After their wins, Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin met journalists backstage for a quick press conference to celebrate their victories, share their thoughts on the success of the series, and give us all insight into Fey’s recent SNL gig as Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin.

Tina, you won both best actress and best comedy series. Can you compare the two Emmys and what they mean to you?

TINA FEY: They look identical. [laughs] Alec was saying to me backstage, maybe this means I can stop apologizing for being an actor and being on the show. And he wants me to promise to stop apologizing all of the time for being an actor. So maybe that and the show, that one really belongs to everyone. So I don’t like it as much.

John Stewart called for you to play the Obamas as well, because you did so well with Sarah Palin. So I’m wondering what your first thoughts are when you hear President Palin and also do you think there’s any double standard there because she’s a woman?

FEY: I want to be done playing this lady November 5th. So if anyone could help me be done playing this lady November 5th, that would be good for me. But she seems like a perfectly nice lady.

Where are you at with everybody saying there’s such a striking resemblance for one, between you and Sarah Palin, and how hard is it for you to perform in something that you actually don’t have a hand in as far as being creator and writer?

FEY: Oh, to do that thing. Well, first of all, I was very resistant to acknowledge there was a resemblance. Then my kid saw Sarah Palin on TV and said, "That’s mommy," which was not great. So I was like, "Okay, there’s some resemblance." And it was great, the sketch I did. Seth Myers wrote it and Amy [Poeler] kind of chimed in a little bit, but he did all of the hard work. So, it’s great. I still know everybody there so it’s an easy place to go back and kind of collaborate with them.

Who would you like to have guest star on 30 Rock?

FEY: Boy, everyone that we dreamed of we’ve been so lucky. Everyone from Paul Reubens to Oprah Winfrey, we’ve been so lucky. We had Carrie Fisher. I mean we’ve had the real John Adams [laughs]... That’s how lucky we’ve been.

What do attribute the victory in outstanding comedy series to?

FEY: I think our cast is very diverse and talented and obviously Alec elevates the show to another level with his abilities and I think we have a very strong writing staff.

Alec, could you expand upon what you were saying in your acceptance speech about comparing Tina to Elaine May and what you think about her?

ALEC BALDWIN: Oh, here we go. Well, we have a lot of great writers. We have - In my acceptance speech I was going to thank Carlock, Riggi, Burditt, Hubbard, and Cannon and then say I never bothered to learn their first names in the three years we’ve been working because we call everybody by their last names. But we have the greatest writers, but the show was created by one woman, this is Tina’s idea. This is Tina’s thing and she is the head writer and is there every day, even the days she’s not shooting as an actress. So she goes back and forth between acting and writing and I just think that we’re very lucky. The interesting thing is, to me, there are a lot of funny shows on the air right now. There’s a lot of good comedy on all of the shows that were nominated, there’s some funny stuff out there. And I think we have the best writers and I think our show is the funniest in the writing, which I think says a lot right now.

Alec, I wanted to ask you how reactions to you have changed since being on this series from your fans. What sort of difference has it made in your life with your fans?

BALDWIN: When you’re on TV, you’re in people’s lives every week. So if you do a movie, you shoot a movie and it comes out a year and a half later. And in my case over the last six or seven years, a very select few people saw the movie and then they would see it on TV or a DVD. So someone comes up to you saying they loved your movie four or five years after you’ve done the movie. They say, "Oh, I rented your movie last night," and with this TV people come up to me all of the time. I mean every day, all day long, they come up to me and say how much they love the show, which is very gratifying.