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Tracy Morgan is interviewed in November’s Playboy Magazine. He’s not The Interview, he’s the “20 Questions”. Which is more than enough, because I really didn’t want to know most of this stuff. Now I kind of want to bleach my brain. Tracy is promoting both 30 Rock and his memoir, I Am The New Black. Tracy talks about everything from his love of Lorne Michaels (SNL and 30 Rock executive producer) to his love of anal sex. Try this for the full interview (content is really, really NSFW, but there are no bad pictures, thank God), but here are the highlights - if you want to call them that:
PLAYBOY: You suggest that you briefly sold drugs. Is it wrong to imagine you as the funniest drug dealer ever?
MORGAN: I was, man. As a matter of fact, my dealing partner—my best friend, God bless him—was murdered a month to the day after my son was born. We used to chop that crack, bag that shit up at three o’clock in the morning, and I’d make that motherf-cker laugh. And he was like, “Yo, Tray, why the f-ck you doin’ this, man? You should be at the f-cking Apollo or something.” I’d tell him “Shut the f-ck up.” He got killed, and I went into comedy. He’s guiding me right now. He’s probably sitting here next to us, him and my father and my grandmother. All of them are with me every day, every second of the day, leading me in the right direction.PLAYBOY: I Am the New Black details some painful memories from your life. Was there anything you were reluctant to share?
MORGAN: I was a little worried talking about my father’s death. That cuts deep. He got AIDS, and he went from about 200 pounds all the way down to maybe 90 pounds. He didn’t even look like my father anymore; he looked like a skeleton. When I was in the 12th grade I came home from football practice one day, and he was sitting outside our building. I said, “Dad, what you doin’ out here?” He looked so fragile, no teeth in his mouth, and he said, “I had to get out of the house, get some sun.” I picked him up, took him upstairs in my arms. We got to the door, and he started crying, blood coming out of his eyes. I said, “Dad, what you crying for?” And he said, “I remember when I carried you up here when you was a baby.” Two, three weeks later, he was dead.PLAYBOY: You play a character on 30 Rock named Tracy Jordan who is more than loosely based on you. When Tina Fey pitched the show to you, did you ever wonder, Wait, is she making fun of me?
MORGAN: Tina is my baby girl. She’s my sister from another mother of a different color. I’d do 25 to life for her. She is down like four flat tires. She pitched the show to me like, “Yo, this is your personality. It’s your alter ego.” She always says, “Keep the cameras rolling and let Tracy do what he do.” I love that about her.PLAYBOY: You’ve repeatedly insisted that [the 30 Rock character] Tracy Jordan isn’t based on Martin Lawrence, yet there are some glaring similarities. Are you sure there isn’t a little of Martin Lawrence in that character?
MORGAN: Martin Lawrence didn’t corner the market on doing crazy sh-t. You got Dave Chappelle, you got me, you got all kinds of crazy motherf-ckers out there. Everybody does something bizarre in his or her life. It’s just that black entertainers stick out. When we do something crazy, they go, “Oh sh-t!” Mike Tyson ain’t the first motherf-cker to put a tattoo on his face.PLAYBOY: So when Tracy Jordan stripped down to his underwear on an episode of 30 Rock and ran through traffic, that was pure imagination?
MORGAN: That was based on my uncle Fat Mike. He ran down the street in his underwear with a lightsaber—several times. He was way crazy. He was Tracy Jordan to the fifth power.PLAYBOY: Last year you told David Letterman that your hobbies include “doing karate and trying to get females pregnant.” Now that you’re older and wiser, have your hobbies changed?
MORGAN: I’ve got my third-degree black belt and I’ve gotten several women pregnant, so I’ve moved on to other things. These days I’m into bike riding and breaking water. I like breaking women’s water. If you’re pregnant and you need your water broken, you need your labor induced, give me a call and I’ll ride my bike over and take care of it.PLAYBOY: Your stand-up includes a lot of jokes about anal sex. Are you talking about it just for shock value, or are you really a butt fiend?
MORGAN: I like f-cking 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 f-cked Eve in the ass. In the Garden of Eden he tore her ass up, and she was screaming like a motherf-cker.PLAYBOY: You frequently refer to SNL producer Lorne Michaels as your Obi-Wan Kenobi. Does he have special powers we don’t know about?
MORGAN: Yeah. Motherf-cker took me out of the ghetto. That’s my dude, man. He’s been like a dad to me. I remember when I was on Saturday Night Live my first year and I wasn’t getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit. It was three o’clock in the morning, man, I’ll never forget. Makes me want to cry sometimes when I think about it. I love that man. I love that man. [long pause; starts to cry] I’m sorry, man. Excuse me. [another long pause] Son of a bitch… motherf-cker’s good. I remember one time Lorne took me to his office, and he said, “Tracy, you are here not because you’re black. You’re here because you’re f-cking funny, man.” [bursts into tears again; wipes face with shirt] Changed my whole perspective. I wasn’t so guarded anymore. I knew white people weren’t so f-cked-up. I could’ve fallen into some dark shit, but he wouldn’t let me. I left his office, and I was crying for, like, two hours. It made all the difference to me, not just for my career but for my life. They say every Jewish man is supposed to love one black motherf-cker in this life. I’m glad Lorne Michaels chose me.
[From Playboy]
Yeah… it’s an intense interview, and this is only half of it. I like that Tracy is deeper than off-the-cuff one-liners. He’s got some soul, and that story about his dad made me tear up. The Lorne Michaels stuff was touching too. But Tracy is also a dirty, dirty man. It’s an interesting dichotomy, and I might have to order his book!
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Playboy, Sex, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan
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26 Responses to “Tracy Morgan’s filthy, heartbreaking, insane Playboy interview”
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I love Tracy Morgan. I think he’s one of those guys that could just about do anything, and I’d still love him. He taught us to live every week like it’s shark week.
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I’m sitting here going ‘Ha, ha, ha - Oy! - ha, ha, ha - Oy!’. Interesting dichotomy indeed!
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Hey, at least he’s focusing on pleasuring a woman rather than just f***ing her in the behindis.
Honestly, he’s no more filthy than any other man (or woman) I know, just a little more intense when he expresses it publicly.
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“he started crying, blood coming out of his eyes.”
Can that actually happen? Or was he speaking metaphorically?
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I really think he is awesome, Truely funny without looking like a jackass.
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Is it wrong that I found anal humour so funny this early in the morning? Or that I explained to coworkers why I was laughing?
I love him. I’m not sure where the boundaries are between Tracy Morgan / Tracy Jordan, but I love them both.
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Wow, it mad me sad. And I don’t get the part about breaking water for pregnant women. Maybe this is a joke. Not funny to me, but I am clearly in the minority.
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I like the way you put that Roma, about the boundaries between himself and his character. I love them both. Man, that dad story sucks - brutal.
The breaking water bit is clearly a joke, but my sister-in-law would probably LOVE his services right now.
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I love this guy! I was not put off by the anal comments at all. I laughed several times throughout the interview and I cried too
I love that he says what is on his mind, he’s genuine.
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I guess I am in the minority too. Ick.
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This is why I love Tracy Morgan .
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Dude is JACKED! Brian Fellows!
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Man, I needed that laugh this morning!
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rather selfish to think that everyone who has died in your life spends their afterlife revolving around you. Like they didn’t know other people too that they might want to follow around if that’s in fact what we were forced to do in the afterlife.
I’m being a little facetious so no need to comment back and tell me I’m being insensitive. I was just making a general point.
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I love this guy.
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@Mollination- Why you insensitive….! Just kidding. I agree. : )
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God Bless Tracy Morgan and his filthy, filthy mind.
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wow - that stuff about his father dying is heartbreaking.
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@Mollination
Yeah, it’s a little selfish, but if it’s something that he feels keeps him on the right track, more power to him. (IMHO)
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He’s funny. Have you ever seen him do the spaceman skit? LOL.
He was here (Union Sq) yesterday doing a reading of his new book at B&N. I was going to go but it was sooo nice out I went for a walk and then went home and stuffed my belly! LOL.
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I may not always find his brand of humor funny, but any guy who can turn his life around and find a way to channel all the crap life dealt him is okay by me. Yea, he’s a drunk and he’s not always nice to women but he could be a lot worse considering his life before fame. I mean, think about it: he could be sitting in jail or homeless or something. Instead he found a niche for his humor and is making a good living. Way to go, Tracy.
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Not a particular fan or hater. Well, I thought I heard he was more or less bat-sh-t crazy years ago so the fact that he is still going great guns is good and I guess you can’t get rid of all the crazy. Like he says, Martin Lawrence doesn’t corner the market on bat-sh-t crazy.
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I think it’s great that he remembers those that have been with him but aren’t with him no more. What a guy!
Kudos to TM for speaking freely… -
I’ve always liked Tracy even when he first started on Martin’s show. Huslte man selling chiterling loaf wrapped in foil.
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LOVE HIM!!!!!!!
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I may heat for this, but I don’t dislike him. Sure, I could have done without his views on anal and breaking women;s water, but I have to say, I laughed.
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