Tracy Jamal Morgan was born on November 10,1968 and is an American stand-up comedian and actor.
46 Facts About Tracy Morgan
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Tracy Morgan is best known for his television work, particularly his tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1996 to 2003, as well as his role as Tracy Jordan in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock from 2006 to 2013, each of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
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Tracy Morgan starred as Tray Barker in the TBS comedy The Last OG.
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Tracy Morgan is the second of five children of a homemaker, Alicia, and Jimmy Morgan, a musician who left the family when Morgan was six years old.
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Tracy Morgan's father named him Tracy in honor of a platoon mate and friend who shipped off to Vietnam with him and was killed in action days later.
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The target of bullies as a child, Tracy Morgan attended DeWitt Clinton High School.
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Tracy Morgan married his girlfriend Sabina that year and dropped out of high school just four credits short of his diploma to care for his ailing father.
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Tracy Morgan made his screen debut playing Hustle Man on the television show Martin.
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Tracy Morgan was a regular cast member on Uptown Comedy Club, a sketch-comedy show filmed in Harlem that aired for two seasons, from 1992 to 1994.
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Tracy Morgan joined the cast of the comedy series Saturday Night Live in 1996 and performed as a regular until 2003.
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Tracy Morgan returned to host on March 14,2009, and reprised his roles as Brian Fellow and Astronaut Jones.
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Tracy Morgan then made a guest appearance on the 2011 Christmas show, hosted by Jimmy Fallon, and hosted again on October 17,2015.
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Morgan had his own sitcom, The Tracy Morgan Show, in 2003, which was canceled after one season.
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Tracy Morgan returned to the role in July 2020 for a reunion episode during the COVID-19 pandemic that was an upfront special for NBCUniversal.
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In 2018, Tracy Morgan began starring in the TBS series The Last OG.
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Tracy Morgan appeared in a stand-up special, One Mic, on Comedy Central.
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Tracy Morgan hosted the first Spike Guys' Choice Awards, which aired on June 13,2007.
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Tracy Morgan was the voice of Luis in the animated film Rio.
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Tracy Morgan acted in commercials for NFL 2K, NBA 2K, and NHL 2K, co-starring with Warren Sapp, Ben Wallace and Jeremy Roenick.
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Tracy Morgan appeared in Adam Sandler's film The Longest Yard as a transgender inmate.
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Tracy Morgan has hosted the VH1 Hip Hop Honors for two consecutive years, and hosted the 2013 Billboard Music Awards.
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Tracy Morgan appeared in two episodes of the Animal Planet series Tanked, first having a Jaws-themed shark tank built in the basement of his house, then having a replacement tank built for his giant Pacific octopus.
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Tracy Morgan is only the ninth recipient of the prestigious comedy award, and the first Black recipient.
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Tracy Morgan has listed Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, and Richard Pryor as among his primary comedic influences.
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In 1987, while in high school, Tracy Morgan married his girlfriend Sabina.
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Tracy Morgan filed for divorce in August 2009, after having been separated for approximately eight years.
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In September 2011, on the red carpet at the Emmy Awards, Tracy Morgan announced he and model Megan Wollover had become engaged six months earlier in San Francisco.
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In 1996, Tracy Morgan was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus and for years has struggled with alcohol use disorder.
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Tracy Morgan has conceded that many of his own troubles were incorporated within 30 Rock episodes.
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In early December 2010, Tracy Morgan received a kidney transplant necessitated by his diabetes and alcohol use disorder.
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Tracy Morgan admitted that he initially did not take his diabetes seriously but later realized the care for it would end up being a matter of life and death.
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Tracy Morgan appeared on National Public Radio's Fresh Air hosted by Terry Gross, at times becoming very emotional about his former life in a New York ghetto.
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On June 7,2014, Tracy Morgan was a passenger in a Mercedes Sprinter minibus involved in a six-vehicle crash in New Jersey.
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On June 20,2014, Tracy Morgan was released from the hospital and was transferred to a rehabilitation facility to continue recovering from the injuries sustained during the crash.
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Tracy Morgan was released from the rehab center on July 12,2014.
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Tracy Morgan filed the suit on behalf of himself, comedian Ardie Fuqua, Tracy Morgan's personal assistant Jeffrey Millea, and Millea's wife Krista.
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Fuqua and Millea were both on the bus with Tracy Morgan and injured in the crash, while at the time of the crash, Krista Millea was eight months pregnant, and the suit charges that she suffered loss of consortium due to the injuries suffered by her husband.
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On June 1,2015, Tracy Morgan made his first public appearance since the crash, in an interview with Matt Lauer on Today.
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Tracy Morgan stated that he had no memory of the crash.
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Tracy Morgan then hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live on October 17,2015.
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On January 27,2011, Tracy Morgan appeared on the NBA on TNT pregame coverage of the Miami Heat and the New York Knicks nationally televised live basketball game.
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Tracy Morgan said Palin was "good masturbation material," for which TNT apologized on live camera.
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Mr Tracy Morgan has an incredibly powerful platform from which to fix this, and if he's learned anything in the last few weeks, he can't bomb this apology.
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Tracy Morgan said she returned the following day and was allowed five minutes with Morgan, who was still comatose at the time.
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In June 2019, Tracy Morgan was involved in a minor collision in his newly purchased Bugatti Veyron with a female driver, and he was captured on video tapping on her window and yelling "bitch, get out of the car".
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CBS News reporter visited Tracy Morgan to get his side of the story and Tracy Morgan allowed the reporter through his gate, answered the door himself, but refused to talk.