This is the new promo for Tracy Morgan’s HBO special “Black and Blue,” which premieres November 13th at 10 p.m. There’s not really much to add — I mean, it’s Tracy Morgan. He’s just standing in front of a crowd yelling mundane sentences, but it’s funny anyway because he’s Tracy Morgan.

In a related story, I just realized how badly I want Tracy Morgan to host “Saturday Night Live” IMMEDIATELY so he can play Rent Is Too Damn High Party candidate Jimmy McMillan. Just imagine Morgan dressed as Colonel Sanders saying, “As a karate expert…” It’s the role he was born to play.

Birthday Cat is a notoriously tough crowd.

So apparently GQ’s latest issue is the comedy issue, and they assembled Tracy Morgan, Zach Galifianakis, and Paul Rudd to talk about what they find humorous. And while I like the entire article because it’s a bunch of funny dudes making jokes, I thought I’d share this exchange about which TV shows they think are funny:

GQ: What TV show do you think is funny?
TRACY: Brandy & Ray J.
PAUL: Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, that’s really funny. [especially when Rudd's on it -Ed.]
ZACH: I think if they put a laugh track on Intervention, it would be funny.
PAUL: Have you seen Hoarders?
TRACY: Hoarders is serious stuff, man.
GQ: There’s enough there, enough hoarders in the world, for there to be a whole season on TV about it?
PAUL: You have no idea how many hoarders there are. You could throw a stick and hit a hoarder anywhere.
TRACY: You gotta look at Lockup.
GQ: What’s Lockup?
TRACY: Oh man, this is subculture. Interesting. Guys washing their T-shirts out in toilet bowls.
ZACH: I don’t know if this is being racist or something, but there’re never any Asians on that show.
TRACY: Never! They don’t go to jail.
ZACH: Why? Why?
PAUL: They’re all too busy hoarding.

Oh man, “Intervention” with a laugh track. Internet: make it so.

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While “30 Rock” is well-written and has an excellent cast, what really separates it from other comedies is Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan, and his ability to deliver some of the most insane lines on television — often in the form of non sequitur similes. Aaron over at Unlikely Words has compiled a complete list of every Tracy Jordan line from this past season of “30 Rock,” and it is tremendous — better, perhaps, than last year’s list. Here are some of my favorites:

-Are you a pre-op transcentaur?
-I will eat a bowl of cherries and some ghost meat in his honor.
-You look regular, could I get your name? Is it Pedro? Is it Creckford? Is it Swimming?
-Liz Lemon, you are blowing up like a balloon with a grenade in it.
-Hey, baby. You new here? [...] Uh huh. And before you worked here, where you an ass scientist? Because your ass blah, blah, blah, you get the point. So what’s your name?
-OK, I don’t mean to be the black guy at the movies, but, “You better move, girl!”
-Can’t do it, Lee Lem. On Valentine’s Day, Angie and I rent a room with a heart shaped hot tub and cook chili in it. Then we take it to soup kitchen and that’s when it starts to get sexy!
-But it’s like a black Barbie Doll in Arizona, nobody’s buying it.
-Lemoroni, something horrible happened to me last night. I had a dream that Kenneth and I got intimate in a portable Jacuzzi. It was crazy, glistening black and white skin. It looked like a close up of a killer whale being born.
-This is bad because I can’t change. I’m like a chameleon, always a lizard.
-Don’t throw a party for vengeance. It will turn on you. Like your wife, after your kid has fallen into a quarry.

And finally, the 21st episode of the season featured his best lines of the season, when he remembers repressed childhood memories:

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Tracy Morgan is such a darling of the humor media circuit that you may have grown tired of him. I haven’t, because there isn’t anyone else like him, and I value the unique for better or worse.

Morgan was on The Daily Show last night. Some moments dragged; Morgan made jokes about the Tea Party and Tiger Woods — two things about which there are no more original or funny things left to say. There were some highlights, though. Jon Stewart cruelly turned Morgan’s fear of wizards against him. Morgan introduced me to the phrase, “do something strange for a little bit of change.” Morgan elaborated on his refusal to watch Spider-Man. Stewart was christened with the nickname “Stew Beef.”

It isn’t quite the Tracy Morgan interview with Terry Gross, but it’s fun nonetheless. Video is after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Tina Fey was on Letterman last night (or maybe the night before — what am I, TV Guide?), where she told amusing anecdotes about “30 Rock” co-worker Tracy Morgan, specifically his interest in movie star “Jack Human” and his technique for approaching statuesque blondes (see video below). It’s excellent; Fey pretending to be Tracy Morgan acting crazy is almost as funny as Tracy Morgan acting crazy in person.

Side note: When I first started writing up this video, I wrote the headline as TINA FEY DOES TRACY MORGAN, and then I got a little ill when I interpreted it the wrong way in my head. Don’t get me wrong, Tina Fey isn’t unattractive, and I have nothing against interracial action, but… that’s just not the image I wanted in my head. And now I’ve shared it with you. Enjoy your lunch!

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