tracy morgan - classic or dud?

wow that was a pretty sad in parts.

wow man i love him even more now which i didn't think that was possible

i've read arguments that terry gross is an emotional bully, but they were not convincing till now.

this was like t gross had never had anyone cry on her show

wow, the pion in that interview where gross is like 'lots of people never know if it's tracy morgan or tracy jordan, why are you being so real with me now?' and he's like 'because you're the first person that wanted to talk about this stuff' was really throwing me. like, the whole interview felt so emotionally honest and then it almost seemed like he was winking at the camera (microphone) at that one spot.

I believe Smokey Robinson said it best when he said, "Well there's some sad things known to man, but ain't too much sadder than the tears of a clown, when there's no one around" (even though Terry Gross was around in this instance).

even sadder is that all his facelift work means that Smokey Robinson's tearducts can no longer access the surface of his face ;_;

Tracy Morgan tells Playboy why he likes to kiss the no-no with his peen:

"I like fucking ass! Ain’t nothin’ like the butthole. The ass is a delicacy, goddamn it. I’d put hot sauce on it. When you eat the brown hole, that’s when her toes do this. [sticks legs out and curls toes] You got to be willing to do anything to please your woman, to satisfy her. I didn’t invent it. You think I was the first one to think of having anal sex with a girl? Hell, no. I’m quite sure Adam fucked Eve in the ass. In the Garden of Eden he tore her ass up, and she was screaming like a motherfucker."

Is it true his kids go to MIT?

like, the whole interview felt so emotionally honest and then it almost seemed like he was winking at the camera (microphone) at that one spot

yeah, this

This guy's book is a really great read!

he's got an HBO special on Saturday night. Looking forward to it.

http://unicornbooty.com/2011/06/tracy-morgan-threatens-to-kill-his-son-if-gay-during-homophobic-tirade-onstage/

30 Rock star and former SNL alum Tracy Morgan’s June 3rd stand-up routine drove offtrack, and eventually off a cliff when the comedian went on a homophobic tirade while onstage in Nashville, Tennessee. Morgan reportedly attacked President Obama for supporting the LGBT community, called homosexuality a choice, and even threatened to stab his own son to death if he ever came home from school and told his father he was gay.

When the audience began to turn on Morgan, he reportedly remarked that “if gays can take a dick up their ass, they can take a joke.”

lol

how can you be a "former alum"?

hes funny on 30 rock but his standup is awful

i saw him and jay mohr together, and jay mohr was funnier than him. JAY MOHR

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20061128213539/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/5/5b/Richmorg.JPG/200px-Richmorg.JPG

there's a great tracy morgan standup special...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvwHcaIus6Y

in front of a champagne-on-tables/white people audience in san francisco or somewhere, where he seems to be purposely digging up the least appropriate material (gagging on dicks and crazy mike from the projects and heroin addiction) for the room. it's an amazing performance. even better for the heckles, including "take a shower!"

i guess i'm in the minority here. i fucking hate that 30 rock tracy jordan bullshit and think his standup is where it's at.

have only seen him on SNL, has never made me laugh

also, has issued standard showbiz apology

what the hell

something about the way this guy on the People magazine comments thread about this (stfu don't judge me) makes his case is really giving me the lols

Rukus1981 4 minutes ago
Tracy Morgan is the man and shouldn't have to apologize for anything. HE'S A COMEDIAN!!! Get over it! Gay people need to learn to tolorate his stance on gays.

stop homophobophobia

this sucks, but i do remember liking that stand-up special

Tracy at :50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqighD_Zd44

This is worse to me than a Mel Gibson meltdown. Fuck his apology.

tina fey and NBC respond, not too happily: http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/10/tina-fey-tracy-morgan-statement-30-rock-nbc-chairman-bob-greenblatt/

http://ll-media.tmz.com/2011/06/10/0610-tina-fey-tracy-morgan-ex-getty.jpg

the entire world suddenly = the audience from that standup special, shifting uncomfortably. i hope nbc and tina fey can use this as a springboard to end homophobia.

"I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian co-workers at '30 Rock', without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket."

damn hardbody tina

i hate the forced "it wasn't funny" thing with this kind of stuff. like, he has to say it wasn't funny IN ANY CONTEXT. it's not cool but it's not suddenly unfunny for being offensive, you know?

i hope nbc and tina fey can use this as a springboard to end homophobia.

Yes, because Tina Fey and the 4th place broadcast network in the country can bring about the end of a problem that is thousands of years old.

if anyone's up to the job, it's this C-list celebrity and her floundering, irrelevant network

fuck this guy

xp umm pretty sure nobody has any illusions about ending homophobia? like is anybody saying or implying that there'll be broader effects of telling this guy "stfu w/the homophobic shit"? besides ppl saying "you're not going to solve the problem" I mean

"I caught this guy who threw a rock through my window"
"great job hero, does nothing to solve the problem of vandalism"
"my bad, you're right, sorry rock throwing guy"

i just wanted to make fun of nbc

fair enough princess tam tam but it does nothing to solve the broader problem of shitty tv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX_gUQeZcB8

lol

Fuck this guy for ruining my good name.

Sincerely, Max Powers.

Dammit, Max Power, even.

what a disaster for nbc

also: maybe they should hire CHARLIE SHEEN to replace him !!ONE!

fuck this guy

but only if you're a woman, he's not into any of that other stuff!

"It also doesn't line up with the Tracy Morgan I know, who is not a hateful man and is generally much too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person."

lol

lol al

i thought about that norm macdonald bit when this happened too. the difference is he did't say he'd stab his kid in the stomach.

it's not cool but it's not suddenly unfunny for being offensive, you know?

true, but, from the accounts of this, it doesn't sound like a lot of people thought it was funny at all; i know there is no video, but the person who reported it claimed morgan's entire demeanor changed and it no longer seemed like he was telling a joke. I'm going to assume that some of that is probably overblown and not really the case; however, it also doesn't sound like this is new, I read elsewhere that there was a big walk-out on one of Morgan's performances in NYC in 2009 over the same material (why it didn't blow up then I'm not sure).

from Chris Rock:

Tracy morgan is a tad off we all know that so when tracy says something i usually don't take it anymore serious than i would a statement from gary busey or flavor flav .when i first heard the statement i thought it was offensive but it also reminded me of my father saying ill kill you if you ever bring home a white girl but after reading everything tracy said . wow i get it that shit wasn't called for and i don't support it at all. now can i please go to the tony awards without getting my ass kicked .

June 11, 2011

http://www.whosay.com/chrisrock/content/57677?code=dJvpdQ

Haven't really been following this story. But i kinda find it hard to believe in this day and age there wasn't anybody filming a newsworthy career-shifting rant on their iphone.

NJSP says the driver of the tractor-trailer failed to observe slow-moving traffic ahead," Williams said. "At the last minute, he swerved to try and avoid the Mercedes limo bus but struck it from behind, forcing the limo to rotate and overturn."

Apparently the person killed was Tracy's writer.

Update - he'll live but may lose a leg.

http://www.commdiginews.com/entertainment/updates-on-crash-that-seriously-injures-tracy-morgan-kills-jimmy-mack-19157/

Man, talk about the best with the worst.

According to the criminal complaint, Roper was operating the truck “without having slept for a period in excess of 24 hours resulting in a motor vehicle accident.” It doesn’t specify the basis for that assertion

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/walmart-faults-tracy-morgan-not-736398

"By failing to exercise ordinary care in making use of available seatbelts, upon information and belief, plaintiffs acted unreasonably and in disregard of plaintiffs' own best interests," states Walmart's answer.

can someone involved in law confirm/deny if it's standard to take into account whether or not a plaintiff in a case of vehicular negligence was wearing a seatbelt when awarding damages?

I've seen a lawyer from North Carolina say the seatbelt argument is a non-starter in that state. Don't know about New Jersey, but it's pretty fucking thin just on the face of it.

If I were on a jury, I might knock a bit off the award based on the contributory negligence of the plaintiff, but not fucking much.

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/05/28/tracy-morgans-first-tv-interview-car-accident-air-today

Doing an interview tomorrow with Matt Lauer. Kinda scared to see what shape he's in now.

yipes, yeah

http://www.today.com/popculture/tracy-morgan-speaks-today-show-matt-lauer-first-interview-crash-t23521

I had hoped—no cynicism intended—that settling the lawsuit would speed up his recovery and maybe begin to return him to the spotlight a bit. Still hoping that's the case, but looks like it's going to be a long process.

is Top Five the last thing he did pre-accident?

Well, shit. That was both encouraging and heartbreaking.

Reflecting on his life...“Can’t complain...besides, who would give a f”

would be curious to see this
https://consequenceofsound.net/2021/03/tracy-morgan-playing-louis-armstrong-biopic/