“Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane was on Piers Morgan last night. I’m not a real “Family Guy” fan, but I recognize how gloriously obnoxious and funny it can be and I love how it pushes boundaries. There was a joke on “Family Guy” back during the Writers Guild strike of 2007-2008 making fun of Jon Stewart for continuing to produce shows instead of honoring the strike. (I can’t find that footage from “Family Guy,” so if any of you have seen it, please comment with a link!) After that happened, Jon Stewart personally called Seth MacFarlane up and bitched to him about it for an hour. On the show last night, Morgan questioned MacFarlane about this phone call with Stewart, and MacFarlane was all “how did you find out about this,” but he actually talked about it in a 2008 Time interview*. (I was ready to blame wiretapping.)

During the taping for tonight’s Piers Morgan, the muckraking Brit sprang questions about a never-revealed war of war of words between guest Seth MacFarlane andThe Daily Show anchor Jon Stewart. According to Morgan’s crack investigators, Stewart called the Family Guy creator up in 2008 after MacFarlane lampooned Stewart for continuing to air The Daily Show during the 2007 Writers Guild strike. MacFarlane described Stewart as “angry” and himself both “shocked” and “frustrated” during the hour-long the telephonic ambush. He explained, “I think [Jon’s] response was ‘Who the hell made you the moral arbiter of Hollywood?’”

When Morgan noted, “There’s a certain irony in Jon Stewart ringing up and haranguing you for mocking him, isn’t there?” MacFarlane responded, “If I say yes, he’ll crucify me on his show for a year.” MacFarlane, who admitted he was outmatched by Stewart’s phenomenal debate skills, was surprised Morgan even knew about the altercation, saying, “My publicist has forbidden me to talk about this ever since it happened.”

[From Entertainment Weekly]

Well MacFarlane did talk about this in 2008 as we mentioned, and after he told Time I bet that was when his publicist told him to can it.

I used to not get the appeal of this guy that so many of you adore, but now that I’ve seen him interviewed I get it. He has an infectious enthusiasm, and he’s open, funny and smart. I like what how he explained his position on this to Morgan. “In that situation I think it is incumbent on people in a certain position to stand up for the people who haven’t made it yet, if that can, if it’s low risk.

“My argument is that you’re the most successful guy on that network and arguably the most successful television personality in the genre…. He was not pleased. I think his response was, ‘who the hell made you the moral arbiter of Hollywood.’”

I really like Stewart’s humor and politics, and I get the urge to continue to put out shows during a long strike, but MacFarlane made a very good argument here. He also stood up for the union during the strike. Here’s a link to a video of him speaking at a WGA event in 2007. He said “A novelist receives fair royalties for their books, a musician receives fair royalties for their songs, screenwriters deserve fair royalties for their work.”

*Thanks to VideoGum for a lot of the background links!

The Screen Actors Guild is having its 120,000 members vote in January on whether they’ll strike. The reason they’re striking is similar to the writers’ strike last year – members feel they should get more compensation for internet broadcasts. In this case there appears to be clear dissent among members as whether they should strike.

More than 130 Hollywood stars including Oscar winners George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Charlize Theron, Morgan Freeman and Sally Field, joined on Monday in opposing a strike authorization vote by the Screen Actors Guild.

The A-list performers registered their opposition in a letter that circulated on the Internet as union leaders, including SAG President Alan Rosenberg, met in New York City with rank-and-file members to seek support for a strike authorization.

The letter marked the latest sign of sharp divisions within the 120,000-member union over tactics employed by Rosenberg and his allies to squeeze a better contract offer from major studios, especially for pay from work put on the Internet.

A smaller group of stars including Mel Gibson and Martin Sheen on Friday voiced support for a strike vote, while board members from SAG’s New York division came out against it.

[From Reuters]

A-list, even B-list actors are less likely to be affected by the poor contracts given to actors who are working for productions that are broadcast over the Internet. But the actors who oppose the strike vote have a very clearly directed opposition to the “threat” of a strike used as a tool to get the studios to negotiate.

“We feel very strongly that SAG members should not vote to authorize a strike at this time,” Monday’s letter stated. “We don’t think that an authorization can be looked at as merely a bargaining tool. It must be looked at as what it is — an agreement to strike if negotiations fail.”

Citing worsening economic conditions, the letter urged SAG leaders to accept as “an imperfect agreement” the studios’ latest contract proposal and to join with other Hollywood unions three years from now in pressing for better terms then.

The industry is still recovering from a 14-week strike by screenwriters that ended in February, after idling thousands of production workers and costing the local economy an estimated $3 billion.

The letter, addressed to SAG board members, officers and staff, was signed by 134 prominent film and television actors, including numerous Oscar winners and nominees.

On Friday, the governing board of SAG’s New York branch also issued a statement urging the union’s national leadership to call off its strike authorization vote, saying widespread layoffs and cutbacks had altered the labor landscape.

[From Reuters]

A strike at this point in the economy could devastate actors who are already struggling. Where the reasoning is just as valid as the screenwriter’s strike in early 2008, now is just not the economic climate to be demanding more money and potentially putting thousands of working actors on the unemployment rosters. A person should get paid fairly for the work they do, but there are precious few people who would give up a paycheck in exchange for negotiations that may or may not succeed in getting them a few extra dollars later.

Some of the actors supporting a strike are Mel Gibson, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter and Martin Sheen, as well as SAG President Alan Rosenberg.

Tara Reid has got to be one of my favorite idiots ever. She’s always seemed plastic and empty, but it turns out that Tara’s idiocy is more than skin deep. Tara Reid is so stupid that she actually thinks the writers’ strike is still going on. The very same strike that ended in mid-February. Nine months ago. The weirdest part is that Tara seems to have relatively current information about the economy. And then ties together her massively out-of-date information with current events into some bizarre theory about how she’ll start working once the strike is over and the economy is better. Probably best to wait until all those head wounds heal too.

Someone needs to tell Tara Reid that the writers’ strike has been over for quite a while now, because it seems the “American Pie” actress didn’t get the memo.

“I totally plan to go back into acting once the strike stops,” Reid told Pop Tarts last week at Eva Longoria-Parker’s Padres Contra El Cancer’s 8th Annual “El Sueno De Esperanza” benefit gala in Hollywood. “The economy is so bad right now that people are afraid to put money back into acting. Even the shows that seem new, they really shot six months ago. So when it’s all back up again, I will go back into it. That’s my heart,” she said.

So instead of performing, Tara has been busy in her new career as a fashion designer … inspired by “The Secret.”

“I have a clothing line coming out called Mantra by Tara Reid. It’s like the book ‘The Secret’ — the whole line is about colors,” she explained. “Red means love, blue means love, white is peace, black means protection. So when you wear these colors, you might attract love, or green, you’ll get lucky tonight. You put the energy out there, that’s what the line is all about.”

[From Fox News’ Pop Tarts]

Tara’s statement that “‘The economy is so bad right now that people are afraid to put money back into acting,’” is about the economy and is true and accurate information. Her next sentence “‘Even the shows that seem new, they really shot six months ago’” is about the writers’ strike, and hasn’t been correct for a long, long time. And the thing about going back into acting when “it’s all back up again” would be nice, if it weren’t for the fact that it’s “all been back up again” for months.

I’m assuming someone told Tara the strike is still going on and that’s why she’s not working. It’s like a parent telling their kid they took their dog to live on a farm instead of saying, “Sweetheart, Daddy ran over the dog.” You say things like that to children – and people with the mental capacity of children – to soften the blow. As long as Tara still thinks the strike is going on, she won’t wonder why no one will put her in her films.

I wonder what color will attract money or work according to Tara’s clothing line? The clothes she has been wearing definitely look like working girl clothes, but not for their colors. Whatever it is, I suggest that Tara start wearing it night and day.

Here’s Tara leaving Il Pastaio restaurant in Beverly Hills last Wednesday. Images thanks to WENN.

I always enjoy reading stories about what Hollywood folk did to entertain themselves during the WGA strike. A lot of them worked the picket lines, until that got boring. Many took tropical vacations. A few did some lovely charity work. The creator and producer of NBC’s “My Name Is Earl” did something no one else did – he worked the counter at a fast food restaurant. No he wasn’t strapped for cash – at least that’s not the reason he’s going with. Greg Garcia says that as a producer and writer, he spent so much time cooped up in his office that he had lost touch with his fan base. And that didn’t help him be a good writer. So he spent the month of January working as a cashier and janitor at a local restaurant, which he declines to name.

This stemmed from an idea I got while I was working on ‘Yes, Dear,’ ” Garcia says. “I’ve wanted to do a book about taking different jobs and what it was like to do them. This was the first. It may be a while before I do the second. But it’s just about the fact that we live behind gates and work behind gates, and as a writer you start to lose touch with the audience. You start running out of life experience.”

It likewise was perhaps an opportunity for Garcia to mine story ideas for his NBC comedy series, though he downplays that idea. What he’s enthusiastic to promote is how fulfilling his adventures in minimum wage turned out to be.

“This wound up a really positive thing,” Garcia said. “It didn’t turn me off from fast food. In fact, it was really the opposite. The place was unbelievably clean. The people whom I worked with were great. And the work itself was fun. Really. I worked hard — cashiering, cleaning the bathrooms. A few days in, they liked me so much they asked me to join their management team.”

[From the Hollywood Reporter]

The experience will probably lend itself to more writing ideas than sitting on his ass in Jamaica. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But it’s pretty cool for a big producer and writer to not just be willing, but actually want, to spend his days at a McDonald’s, or some version thereof. Garcia kept his real occupation to himself, with the exception of the managers. At first they were worried he was doing an expose, but once he explained his real purpose, they were on board. When he left, he told his coworkers what he really did for a living. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Garcia had closely befriended one co-worker. Upon his departure, he gave them a check for $10,000.

That’s a pretty cool way to spend your downtime. I’ve actually had several friends who claimed they enjoyed working at fast food restaurants back in the day. Supposedly it’s a good fit if you’re really into teamwork and such. Greg Garcia has a really good point: it’s going to be hard to write accurately for and about the average guy when you spend all day sitting in a fancy office. It’ll be interesting to see how he incorporates his experiences into the plot line of “My Name Is Earl.”

Header of the cast of “My Name Is Earl” at Academy of Television Arts and Sciences October 2006. Below is Greg Garcia and his wife at the Emmys in 2006. Images thanks to PR Photos.

I now have no idea what I’m going to go on long and angry rants about. After a long and tempestuous three months, the Writers Guild of America strike has officially ended. Though they haven’t formally accepted the tentative deal made by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, WGA members voted yesterday to end the strike and return to work. I will most likely have to burn the sandwich board that I angrily wear around the house, as I now no longer have a cause. In happier news, we all have television again, which means we can stop reading, going outside, and talking to our kids – you know, those pesky things we did to fill the time we’d normally spend in front of the tube.

WGA members voted overwhelmingly to get back to work: 3,492 voted yes, 283 voted no. The most contentious issues between the WGA and the AMPTP was that of payment for digital media. Under the tentative contract (which WGA members have until February 25th to ratify via mail) writers will get a maximum flat fee of $1200 for streamed programs for the first two years the program is streamed and then 2 percent of the distributor’s gross after that. They’ll also get larger residuals on downloaded shows and movies.

Speaking of which, what will happen to our beloved shows?

The latest thinking on Jack Bauer’s strike-interrupted season on Fox’s “24″ is that it will just wait until January 2009 to try again. Producers didn’t want to present a fraction of the shows it had done without being able to present 24 in a row as usual. NBC’s “Heroes,” too, probably won’t be back until the fall. But another handful of episodes will be shot to round out the shortened season of ABC’s “Lost,” which recently returned.

And some shows thought to be kept alive by the strike — airing episodes because there was nothing else to replace them with — won’t be back at all, from “Bionic Woman” to the CW dud “Life Is Wild” and possibly “Cane” on CBS.

Other shows will wait to produce new episodes for the fall, including NBC’s “Chuck,” Las Vegas” and “Pushing Daisies,” which has received an early pickup for the 2008-09 season on ABC. Three episodes remain for both “Samantha Who?” and “Dirty Sexy Money”; ABC will determine whether to run them this season or save them until the fall. Both also have been picked up for the fall season.

Comedies will be able to return to air the quickest with new episodes, in as soon as four to six weeks. NBC’s “The Office,” for one, had one script ready before the cast walked out at the start of the strike. The show hopes to have five to 10 episodes starting in April or May.

[From the Hartford Courant]

So it sounds like we’ll get a little bit of many of the shows after all. It seems that the less established shows will essentially be starting again next year, while the older shows will briefly wrap up their seasons. There will be far fewer new shows next year, as the networks won’t be making as many pilots. It’s estimated that Los Angeles county lost over $3.2 billion dollars in the three months the writers have been on strike. The effects will trickle down into next year as well, but as of today, writers are back at work.

Update: Here’s a list of all the big shows and when/if they’re returning.

It’s over! Bring on “The Office,” “30 Rock” and “Dirty Sexy Money.” Well, not so fast. Yes, the three-month strike by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached a resolution. But reports are surfacing that we won’t see the results of the agreement for at least another eight weeks.

A deal has been reached to end the Hollywood writers’ strike, according to a U.S. media report.

“It’s over,” former Walt Disney chief executive Michael Eisner told CNBC. “They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. “

[From The National Post]

The terms of the agreement have not been released, but the WGA has stated several times throughout the strike that they would only sign an agreement that gives TV and film writers a percentage of the residuals from DVD sales and Internet downloads of programs – a market that has been raking in billions of dollars and that producers, studio heads and actors already receive. However, Eisner did say that many of the media production companies, especially the smaller, independent ones, were expected to make some cutbacks in staff. He also said many of the writers who went on strike are unlikely to return to the same big-money contracts they’d had as individuals with the studios.

So, what’s next for the writers– and more importantly, when do the “little people,” such as film crews, production assistants and such, get to go back to work? Many industry insiders think the production process will start slowly.

Churning out fresh episodes of hit dramas and comedies after a lengthy production shutdown is more complicated than simply hitting the “power-on” button of a remote control.

Industry executives say it will likely take eight weeks to restore favorite shows like House, CSI, Grey’s Anatomy, and Desperate Housewives to prime time once the strike ends.

Not all of the roughly 65 scripted series bumped off prime time by the writers’ strike will come back this year.

With dramas and single-camera comedies unlikely to get more than six weeks on the air from the time they return until the end of the broadcast season in late May, network programmers have some tough choices to make.

Hits like CSI, House and Grey’s Anatomy, are “no-brainers” to bring back this spring, one network executive said.

Lower-rated shows whose futures already were in doubt will either be placed on hold for possible relaunch in the future or be canceled altogether, in part because networks lack the time to build up marketing campaigns for them, he said.

Scripted series that come back will share the airwaves with many of the reality TV and game shows that have flooded the networks in recent weeks as strike-proof programming.

[From Stuff magazine]

The WGA has not issued an official statement saying they’ve accepted the agreement, but if Michael Eisner is talking about it, something must have happened. Hopefully everyone will be able to get back to work– and we will be able to watch some decent television before the summer hiatus.

Note by Celebitchy: This means the Oscars will be happening after all. They’re set to air on February 24. The Vanity Fair Oscar Party has been canceled, though, so celebs will have to get wasted at another venue that night.

Photos are of the WGA march on Hollywood Boulevard on 11/20/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

I don’t think I am alone in saying that this writers’ strike is really beginning to suck for those of us who enjoy intelligent, well-written programs. Don’t get me wrong, I understand and appreciate what these writers are picketing for, and I believe they deserve Internet and DVD residuals. However, if I have to hear about the premiere of another stupid reality show, I think I’m going to throw the TV out the window.

While some media outlets are reporting that the nearly three-month-long Writers Guild of America strike is very close to ending, others are saying that it’s not even close to being over. The AP has this to say:

An agreement to end the three-month-old Hollywood writers strike could be ready in time to avoid disrupting the Oscars but studios and the union are still haggling over the precise language, two people familiar with the talks said.

The Writers Guild of America bargaining committee and board of directors received updates on the status of informal talks with studio executives, the pair said Monday. They were not authorized to comment publicly and requested anonymity.

One of the people has said a formal deal is possible by the end of this week.

[From The Associated Press]

Let’s all cross our fingers and hope that’s accurate– although other reports contradict this and say that the strike is still far from over.

Even though most of Hollywood is acting as if the strike is already over, as if the ink just needs to dry on the dotted “i”s and crossed “t”s, the Writers Guild of America’s leadership doesn’t want its membership to exhale just yet.

During today’s upset Giant win, I received this from the WGA’s mailing list:

While fully mindful of the continuing media blackout, we write you to address the rumors and reports that undoubtedly you have been hearing.

The facts: we are still in talks and do not yet have a contract. When and if a tentative agreement is reached, the first thing we will do is alert our membership with an e-mail message. Until then, please disregard rumors about either the existence of an agreement or its terms.

Until we have reached an agreement with the AMPTP, it is essential that we continue to show our resolve, solidarity, and strength.

Picketing will resume on Monday. Our leverage at the bargaining table is directly affected by your commitment to our cause. Please continue to show your support on the line. We are all in this together.

[From Wired Magazine]

The LA Times says that the WGA has been presented with a preliminary contract, but are still waiting for the final version. They also say that not all the members are happy with the contract, including the directors who are WGA members.

However, the directors’ contract sparked heated debate among members of the writers guild.

Last week, one of the guild’s prominent board members, writer-director Phil Alden Robinson (“Field of Dreams”) picked apart several aspects of the directors’ pact.

“It’s my strong conviction that if an unaltered DGA [Directors Guild of America] deal were put before our membership for a vote today, it would fail resoundingly,” Robinson wrote in a blog on the United Hollywood website. “If they insist on trying to shove this deal down our throats without improvements, this strike will not end any time soon.”

Reaction to Robinson’s missive was mixed, with some members supporting his message and others privately blasting him for what they viewed as an inappropriate move for a board member at a crucial juncture in the writers talks.

[From the LA Times]

Right now, the big rush to get a contract approved is to save the Oscars ceremony, scheduled for Feb. 24. I could care less about that– I just want more episodes of “The Office” and “30 Rock.” For all of you out there who are missing shows, let’s hope this agreement can be resolved soon.

Picture note by Celebitchy. Images are of The Writers Guild of America March on Hollywood Boulevard on 11/20/07, thanks to PRPhotos.

I missed have missed a memo stating that Maggie Gyllenhaal is now the go-to girl for sex appeal. First, she’s the spokesmodel for Agent Provocateur Lingerie, and now the “Stranger Than Fiction” star is appearing in a short film urging Hollywood producers to start negotiating an end to the WGA Strike that has Hollywood in a strangle hold. While many other celebs, including Felicity Huffman, Conan O’Brien and Jenna Fischer, have been making videos to support the Writer’s Guild Association, Maggie is taking it a step further with a black-and-white, porn-inspired video that hints at some girl-on-girl-on-girl action:

MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL has taken part in a spoof lesbian orgy, as part of a video campaign supporting the Writer’s Guild Association’s strike.

In the clip, the Secretary star turns up to a hotel room to meet a man only to find two other beauties waiting to see the SAME fella. The man, called AMPiTePa – short for Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers – has stood them all up.

After a period of frustration, Maggie takes a swig from her glass of wine and says: “We don’t need him. We’ve got everything we need right here. Girls – you want to make an interim agreement?”

The other ladies join her on the bed, but, as things start to get interesting, the lights fade and the film ends with a sexy pizza delivery girl entering the bedroom.

[From The Daily Sun]

The clip is actually well written and pretty clever. “Is it too much to ask to be treated fairly? It’s not like we’re asking for anything crazy,” Maggie says to the other girls in the clip. “The last time I went on a date with AMPiTePa, he said he didn’t want to waste his money tipping a waiter 20 percent because he didn’t think the restaurant business was going to pan out.” This, of course, is a shot at the producers’ cutting WGA members out of residuals for Internet viewings.

I doubt the film will do much to kick start negotiations between the two sides at this point. Especially since it refers to the fictional AMPiTePa as “arrogant,” and likens him to a bad tipper. And seriously—who decided Maggie Gyllenhaal was sexy?

Note by Celebitchy: Here’s the video. The drunken “interim agreement” starts at 3:09. I think Maggie Gyllenhaal is definitely hot. The other chicks in the video, not so much.

Header image is from 11/12/07 at the Chopard Boutique opening, thanks to PRPhotos.

Actress and writer/producer Tina Fey ripped on Paris Hilton in an interview with Howard Stern in November, 2006. She dished on how immature Paris was when she appeared on Saturday Night Live, annoying cast and crew and coming up with idiotic suggestions for skits. Here’s the relevant part of the interview in case you’d like a refresher. She called Paris a piece of shit and said she’s dumb and self important:

HS: What is Paris Hilton like?

TF: She’s a piece of sh-t. The people at SNL were like maybe she’ll be fun, maybe she won’t take herself so seriously. She takes herself so seriously! She’s unbelievably dumb and so proud of how dumb she is. She looks like a tranny up close.

HS: Was she bad on SNL, was she hard to deal with?

TF: She was awful. People never come in and say “I’m not doing that.” So, this guy Jim Downey wrote a really really funny sketch, it was supposed to be Lorne Michaels just finding out that she had a sex tape and telling her she couldn’t host the show because SNL has standards… So she was like “I’m not doing it!” and refused to come out of her dressing room. Also, you would walk down the hall and find what just looked like nasty wads of Barbie hair on the stairs… Her hair is like a Fraggle.

HS: Did she give you ideas for sketches?

TF: Yeah, she wanted to make fun of all the girls she hates. She was like “I want to play Jessica Simpson, I hate her.” She would come in the room and say “you should do a show about Jessica Simpson because she’s fat.”

HS: What was the bet you guys had going about her?

TF: The cast had a bet if she would ask anyone on the cast anything about themselves, you know like how are you? where are you from? anything. I think Seth Meyers won because at one point, she asked him if Maya Rudolf was Italian.

[From US Weekly]

Star Magazine has quotes from Tina Fey’s interview in Gotham Magazine’s yearbook issue, and the Golden Globe winner reveals that it was her gynecologist that made her have second thoughts about her public diss of the heirhead. Can you just picture her laying there in the stirrups with a contemplative look on her face? Anyone who criticized me at that point would get special consideration due to the circumstances:

When Tina went on Howard Stern and dissed Paris Hilton… she got flack from her gynecologist! “She was like… ‘That was very hostile. Are you alright?’ And I was like, ‘You know what? You’re right… What business is it of mine?”

[Excerpt from Gotham Magazine article found in Star Magazine, print edition, January 28, 2008.]

Tina also spoke out in her characteristically blunt way about the unreal standards for beauty in Hollywood. She said “I think TV has conditioned our brains to see fake teeth and fake tans and fake lips, so when you see a normal person, you’re like ‘Oh, that’s disappointing…’ I’m probably always disappointing, with my crooked teeth and thin lips.”

Tina looks hot to me and that’s great that she never fell prey to the plastic surgery obsession that plagues so many of her colleagues. She’s lovely and it would never occur to me that there’s anything wrong with her mouth, especially considering the awesome observations that come out of it. Anyone that says Paris Hilton has Fraggle hair deserves our utmost respect.

Ms. Fey is supporting her fellow writers in the WGA and has been seen picketing. There are new informal talks announced between the The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, and the hope is that they will become full negotiations and that the strike will be resolved soon. There is hope that the strike may end in time for the Oscars.

Tina Fey sis shown at the Emmys on 9/16/07, where she won for her show 30 Rock. Thanks to PRPhotos.

Tracy Morgan sure isn’t doing himself any favors lately. The “30 Rock” star has had two DUIs since 2005. His wife of 22 years recently filed for divorce, citing Tracy’s alcoholism. Despite several public claims that he’s completely stopped drinking, Morgan appeared on the “Late Show” on Thursday, and he seemed to have partaken of some substance or other. Letterman started off the interview by asking about Morgan’s recent DUI and how that all went. Tracy cracked a few jokes, and then told a story of having a sake bomb at Benihana’s recently. And just to clarify – though I probably don’t need to – a sake bomb consists of one shot sake rice wine and one glass of beer, which the drinker drinks as quickly as possible. After mentioning this, Dave asks Morgan, “So you’re abstaining, completely?” to which he replies “Huh?” Then there’s a pause and he goes on to talk about how he’s quit drinking completely, at the request of his eldest son.

Later in the interview, Dave asks Jordan how he’s been keeping himself busy during the Writer’s Guild strike. His response was golden.

“I’m just doin’ karate and getting females pregnant…at the same time.”

[From the Late Show]

Culture Bully gives a rundown of the interview’s other highlights.

In between DL asking Tracy about his ankle bracelet and his sobriety Tracy dropped comedy gold on the nation. It’s moments like these that make me wonder if I should start watching TV again.

“It’s in the Smithsonian next to Michael Jackson’s glove, and his nose.” [about his SCRAM bracelet]

“Now if I go near alcohol I turn into a Gremelin.”

“Tie Tony up the night before the game and make his legs like spaghetti.”

“I call him by his government, Phillip.”

“I found the edge a while ago and jumped off, I’m crazier than a box of rocks.”

[From Culture Bully]

Tracy Morgan strikes me as one of those people that should really be kept busy. Free time could be exceptionally dangerous for him. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers should seriously consider negotiating better with the Writers’ Guild to end the strike, if for no other reason than making sure Tracy Morgan goes back to work as soon as possible. Before he really does get females pregnant.

Picture note by Jaybird: Tracy Morgan leaving Letterman’s show. Images thanks to