A new 30 Rock thread because I can't find the old one

i think dan brings up a decent point

though if he was endangering himself the last thing he (or anyone) needs is britney/lindsay type attention. i would hope w/ the past shit he's had to deal with because of his DUIs that he's learned his lesson

i was actually weirded out by his letterman appearance, though that was probably the point (?)

although do crazy people constantly yell "I'M CRAZY!"?

I'm not trying to start a "SAVE TRACY MORGAN" movement or anything; I'm just unsettled by dude's public appearances and the fine line they skirt with Robin Williams in his cokehead heyday crossed with Kiefer Sutherland's booze rages. He may be perfectly fine; I don't know his life, I just know what gets reported.

I've probably done enough rants about how easily people slot black-men-acting-crazy into the "funny" category (including a long too-public one about Daniel Johnston and Wesley Willis), but I'm kinda on the okay side with Morgan, because:

(a) it's still at least a little difficult to separate his actual-crazy from his comedy-crazy, but I don't know that he's yet done anything too problematically nutsy, like anything violent or family-ruining -- so far he's just like the guy with the lampshade on his head, someone who drinks too much and starts over-the-top clowning in a usually non-destructive way. Mostly all he does is take his shirt off and talk about impregnating people, every time, which seems non-escalating and clowny

(b) sometimes it's easy to think he's nutsy and TV shows are corralling through the work, just like his 30 Rock character -- but then you watch him do the stuff, or even TV interviews, and he tends to seem more in control of it than that

(c) there was some interview where he said in a pretty casual, normal way that he promised his son he'd stop drinking, and while I don't have any particular faith he'll manage that, he talked about it in a way that seemed ... clear and rational, I guess? xpost - I guess n/a had the opposite reaction!

I wouldn't be surprised if he were having a kind of modified Chapelle problem, or something a little like that 30 Rock episode with the golfing -- kinda suffering under the weight of his schtick involving yelling "I'M BLACK" and "I'M CRAZY" and whatnot.

Instead of First Sunday it should have been a movie where Katt Williams is his therapist

Hasn't Tracy said that his whole public character right now is just based on one of his great uncles or something like that? It's 24/7 performance art.

^if this is true it's bs

cf this thread CRAZY RAPPERS

("I say, wouldn't it be funny if he'd said "I am not doing my seatbelt up... nigga!")?

-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, May 17, 2006 12:04 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

Haha now I am watching interview clips to try and figure out what he's REALLY like, and it's seriously impossible to tell when he's being weird and when he's going for laughs:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hex_w2JpLCk

But then he's totally fine when he wants to be normal on morning TV or kinda toeing the appropriate line on Rachel Ray:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L6ORRVDsxVw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7AZPDNRvqAU

(I had no idea his kids were, like, college-aged!)

HAHA Jack McBrayer talks about Morgan in the clip below: "It must be fun working with Tracy" -- "Oh yeah, Tracy is ... he's just ... a mess"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=A8sUMwj6-t0

(Have also now seen interview where Tina Fey calls Paris Hilton "a piece of shit" and says "up close, she looks like a tranny" !!)

Hasn't Tracy said that his whole public character right now is just based on one of his great uncles or something like that? It's 24/7 performance art.

-- Johnny Fever, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:05 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yeah, I always figured that Tracy's general M.O. with interviews and public appearances seemed very similiar to Will Ferrell's, where there's almost constantly some kind of put-on (although, admittedly, WF's is usually more random or about nudity, where Tracy's is about being high or getting people pregnant or other stuff that can potentially be read as black stereotypes).

(Have also now seen interview where Tina Fey calls Paris Hilton "a piece of shit" and says "up close, she looks like a tranny" !!)

link pls!

(I had no idea his kids were, like, college-aged!)

-- nabisco, Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:21 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

taking someone behind the middle school and getting them pregnant = not a joke, it turns out

That Tina Fey interview is LEGENDARY, nabisco!

Fraggle hair.

unrelated but funny

First Sunday I'm sad to say kind of sucked.

yeah, the first half hour or so was full of intentional Tracy Morgan lolz and unintentional "this L.A. soundstage is supposed to be East Baltimore?" lolz, but after that it kinda went offtrack, although I might've enjoyed it more if I could stand Katt Williams.

I might've enjoyed it more if I could stand Katt Williams.

#1 reason why I will not pay money to see this movie.

if i may chime in about the tracy morgan real-life antics thing, i think that because his character on 30 rock is all about sending up the crazy celebrity thing that it's easy to assume that the stuff he does in his public appearances is an extension of that. true or not.

He seems to be more serious in print interviews, maybe just because it doesn't make sense to showboat or do a bit when there's not a camera there, and he came off completely humorless in this interview, like it's completely offensive to him that someone could possibly confuse Tracy Morgan with Tracy Jordan:
http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/tracy_morgan

his dvd commentary track is pretty boring and normal.

I hate to say it, but Katt Williams is funny.

I agree ^^^^^

tracy is so fucking adorable
http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/tracy-morgan.article.jpg

his dvd commentary track is pretty boring and normal.

-- mizzell, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 3:13 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

yup.

http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/img/product/resized/00056289-845005_400.jpg%3F

absurdly expensive and yet 4 sale over @ nbc...

BOOOO

anyway.

http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/detail.php?p=56289&v=nbunbcnow30r

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vRqavy1W65I: Werewolf Bar Mitzvah, full version!

The bit where Will Arnett says "Thanks PHONE" - that was so much like "What kind of name is that, “MAGAZINE”?" from Arrested Development... an intentional ref?

taking someone behind the middle school and getting them pregnant = not a joke, it turns out

lol, though you don't actually have to be IN middle school to do this ;)

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The bit where Will Arnett says "Thanks PHONE" - that was so much like "What kind of name is that, “MAGAZINE”?" from Arrested Development... an intentional ref?

I think this is just Will Arnett's normal steez?

the mccain reference is going to date/has already.

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, July 30, 2007 5:34 PM (6 months ago) Bookmark Link

lol my bad

30 Rock
Expected to shoot 5 to 10 new episodes to air in April/May.

thank god

Can't wait for that strike story arc.

Dudes, I'm so sad there won't be a VALENTIMES episode this year. :(

floydster ;_;

Tina Fey's gonna host the first post-strike SNL on the 23rd.

http://idolator.com/assets/resources/2008/02/touch6.jpg

It's a bit big for this thread, but I'd like to see a billboard ad with this pic of tina/alec.

BANTER!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ALL-NEW episodes of 30 Rock return starting April 10th!

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