tracy morgan - classic or dud?

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

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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/

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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.

when tracy says something i usually don't take it anymore serious than i would a statement from gary busey or flavor flav

I smell a bad reality show in the making...

Tracy + Gilbert Gottfried in The Odd Couple 2011.

idk tracy was obviously trying to be offensive and in a "character" but you should still be FUNNY when doing standup

“if gays can take a dick up their ass, they can take a joke.”
-- this is decent enough

threatened to stab his own son to death if he ever came home from school and told his father he was gay.
-- wtf this is not funny

to be fair, you didnt hear the delivery

or if what he was going to stab his son with

maybe it was his penis

seems like this stuff was totally not in line with tracy jordan black-people-wear-jewellery material and totally in line with aggressive cathartic material that he's done for a long time. the reports from the show are all...

Rogers says before the rant, Morgan’s humor (specifically his comments about enjoying when women choke during oral sex) had proved too much for many audience members. But once Morgan launched into his anti-gay comments, more began to leave. Rogers said he stayed for the entire show. “I had to fight myself. I don’t really give in easily and I thought…if I stand up and leave, he wins. It shows him, ‘Hey, I got to you.’ He didn’t get to me. I wasn’t angry; I was just disappointed.I thought he was more intelligent than that,” he says.

you know...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQATFC4UA1g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvxByzdSRg0

I love Tracy- but this is sad as hell. It sounds more like an AA meeting than standup.
shermanhelmsleyIII 3 weeks ago

This is the saddest comedy I have ever witnessed.
jojolynne100 5 months ago

They weren't offended...it was just a dose of reality they weren't prepared for. You can't force 'em to laugh at other peoples misery.
mads888 1 year ago

That's pretty amazing for a standup routine.

yeah that is pretty next level.

HIS LEGG WUZ BLOWED OFF.... IN VIETNAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMM

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.

huh? that norm clip is funny, not offensive

i guess i wanted to show that like the killing your gay son shit is fucked up but it makes sense in the context of the fucked up mean shit that he digs up onstage and it might be jarring and extra fucked up if you're a 30 rock fan that also digs safari planet.

it's like... there must be a lot of examples of people accidentally discovering redd foxx from corny sitcoms or like someone really loving sanford and son and buying a lawanda page album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4LJQY6WLxg

"And then I find out my son is a nerrrrd"
"I'm laughing already!
"...Its not a comedy"

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/