tracy morgan - classic or dud?

AMAZING.

He is best known as a regular cast member on VH1's Best Week Ever. He has also appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brian and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He was one of the principal investors in the 2008 Paris Hilton film The Hottie and the Nottie.

THIS HONKY FRESHMAN ROOMMATE BE TRIPPIN'

those 2 are the most annoying best week ever dudes out of all the annoying best week ever ppl

― here gone grow

huh?

gear hung row

I can't believe there is no Uncle Jemima's Mash Liquor skit up on youtube.

those 2 are the most annoying best week ever dudes out of all the annoying best week ever ppl

I hate Kroll but love Mulaney.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/23/tracy_morgan_mommy_issues/index.html

Twelve minutes into his "Fresh Air" interview yesterday, "30 Rock's" Tracy Morgan was in tears. The rambunctious, notoriously volatile Morgan had been recalling his troubled childhood in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn -- he was both wistful and angry talking about his father, who returned after five tours of duty in Vietnam with a heroin addiction he eventually kicked -- but the conversation turned painfully emotional when Morgan explained how he left his mother to live with his dad, returning a year later to get his siblings.

“It was a terrible situation,” said Morgan. “It wasn’t my mother’s fault. Something just went off on me. I wanted better for me. That was the hardest day of my life, and I heard my mother cry. It just broke me down, and I think about it now. I never meant to hurt my mother.” Morgan’s voice cracked, and he began to weep.

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).

he was pretty calm and genuine on stern the other day which is in contrast to his typical appearances. i have the book but have yet to listen to it. i'm sure it's amazing.

audiobook?

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

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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/

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

as far as one can tell from outside, the guy seems genuinely trying to make amends.

tracy morgan is doing this right & bringing positive stuff out of his shitty behavior imo xp

sublimation yall

may be trying to learn something, no sin in that.

Yeah gotta say going above and beyond a boilerplate "I'm sorry" press-release is awesome, and shows that he genuinely cares.

I mean, even if it's straight-up cynical damage control, imagine a world where every time someone cracked a slur they put in a shitload of charity time to the offended party as well.

what i'd really like to see, when a public figure "repents" like this, is actually owning their original statements, in the sense of speaking publicly about where those homophobic statements came from, about why they held those opinions.

no one who operates on tracy morgan's level of fame is handler-free enough to speak openly about his feelings AFTER something like this happens

also while it's nice to see this kind of atonement, i think, if i were one of those gay teens, i would be more minded to punch this dude in the face than to smile inanely at his photo op

speaking publicly about where those homophobic statements came from, about why they held those opinions.

I mean, they come from, like, society, man. It would be nice for someone to say "This one time when blah blah happened is where I learned homophobic behavior" but more likely it's an atmosphere he was raised it. Be it schoolyard slurs, family prejudices, culture wars on TV, etc.

what i'd really like to see, when a public figure "repents" like this, is actually owning their original statements, in the sense of speaking publicly about where those homophobic statements came from, about why they held those opinions.

― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Monday, June 20, 2011 1:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think this kinda nails why im unimpressed, no matter how many gay teens he apologizes to

jeez

http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/07/showbiz/tracy-morgan-hospitalized/index.html

(CNN) - Actor Tracy Morgan was in critical condition after he was injured in a six-car accident early Saturday in New Jersey, authorities said.

The wreck killed at least one person, said Sgt. Gregory William of New Jersey State Police.

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/