07.23.09 TRACY MORGAN TALKING NEVER GETS OLD

Here’s Tracy Morgan on Letterman last night, talking about the possibility of winning an Emmy and not wanting to end up like Whitney Houston.  As you might imagine, it’s funnier the way he says it.

Also, USA Today did a profile on Morgan, and while much of it is how professional and down-to-earth he is, there are still slices of what we’ve come to expect from him.  Some excerpts:

Morgan lives in a spacious loft surrounded by his companions. By the front door is a tank housing a tarantula and a scorpion. Near the far wall, a shark and eel swim in their cozy home. A boa and a python reside on the upper level of the apartment.[...]

Everything you see, he says, is the “result of my hard work and my best thinking. My life? I’m just following through. I was already selected to win. I have a Plan A and a Plan B. You know what my Plan B is? There is no Plan B.” [...]

[On quitting drinking] “She told me to fly right,” Morgan says. “Tina Fey is down like four flat tires. I love her. That’s my girl, Tina Fey-Fey. She’s the coolest. That’s my sister from another mother with a different color.”

I have a Plan A and a Plan B, as well.  Plan A is continue to be a functioning alcoholic.  Plan B is drinking myself to death.  I admit, Plan B isn’t great, but at least I have one.  In your face, Trace.