# SNL's Tracy Morgan: could you suck some more? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 7, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321 "2002-04-07T15:43:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/21 "2002-04-08T01:08:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarlGrenze \* > \*\*They tell me Steven Segal was a bad host…I want to know the horrifying details, please. \*\* He was as good a host as he was an actor. 'nuff said. 😃 It had it’s moments, though. Personally, I enjoyed it when he beat the crap out of Rob Schneider’s “Randy! The Randster! The Randmeister!” character. ---
**Author:** ![Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8baadc/32.png) [@Kang\_and\_Kodos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kang_and_Kodos)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/22 "2002-04-08T10:31:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarlGrenze \* > \*\*They tell me Steven Segal was a bad host…I want to know the horrifying details, please. \*\* He was the most blatant cuecard reader I’ve ever seen. And for an SNL host, that’s saying something. ---
**Author:** ![deball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@deball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deball)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/23 "2002-04-08T11:50:59Z")
The show was so-so, I only watch SNL once in a while and rarely get to see a good one. I like Tracy Morgan, the Astronaut Jones sketches, with the Sammy Davis Junior overtones and the catchy theme song are great. Plus, the high school dropout who hears voices and likes animals, i.e. Brian Fellows, is funny as hell. At least they didn’t have one of those lame-ass TV funhouse cartoons last night. My dog could make a better, funnier cartoon. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/13edae/32.png) [@Dewey\_Cheatem\_Undhow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Cheatem_Undhow)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/24 "2002-04-08T16:10:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deball \* > \*\*The show was so-so, I only watch SNL once in a while and rarely get to see a good one. I like Tracy Morgan, the Astronaut Jones sketches, with the Sammy Davis Junior overtones and the catchy theme song are great. Plus, the high school dropout who hears voices and likes animals, i.e. Brian Fellows, is funny as hell. At least they didn’t have one of those lame-ass TV funhouse cartoons last night. My dog could make a better, funnier cartoon. \*\* Are you watching some kind of bizarro-world SNL where Tracy Morgan is funny and the Ambiguously Gay Duo is not? ---
**Author:** ![Macro\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Macro\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macro_Man)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/25 "2002-04-08T16:11:54Z")
SNL’s \<\<\\>\>\>\>: could you suck some more? ---
**Author:** ![deball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@deball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deball)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/26 "2002-04-08T16:28:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dewey Cheatem Undhow \* > \*\*Are you watching some kind of bizarro-world SNL where Tracy Morgan is funny and the Ambiguously Gay Duo is not? \*\* I haven’t seen AGD, but I’m assuming it’s (maybe?) one of those cartoons. I rarely catch the show. The cartoons I’ve seen have been the (I think…) one with Gen. Powell talking to the kids, and the (again, I’m racking here) Academy Awards one. They were about as funny as the original Simpsons on the Tracy Ulman Show. As for Tracy Morgan, hey, I think his stuff is funny, not all of it, but some. The bizzaro world to me is the freaky one where people think Martin Lawrence is funny. ---
**Author:** ![zev\_steinhardt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/97f17d/32.png) [@zev\_steinhardt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zev_steinhardt)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/27 "2002-04-08T16:36:41Z")
So, how long before the “Astronaut Jones” movie comes out? Zev Steinhardt ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/28 "2002-04-08T17:12:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > \*\*I missed last night’s episode; did he happen to do Safari Planet, THE DUMBEST RECURRING SKETCH IN THE WORLD? \*\* I only saw it once, but I thought it was the funniest damn thing in the whole wide world. “I’m Brian Fellowes!” ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/29 "2002-04-08T17:25:25Z")
By comparison, The Rock was positively Gielgud-esque. (Actually, Rock was pretty good. Made Mr. Peepers amusing. 😃 ) Esprix ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/30 "2002-04-08T17:25:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caricci \* > \*\* > > I only saw it once, but I thought it was the funniest damn thing in the whole wide world. “I’m Brian Fellowes!” \*\* Hehehe. I admit to loathing Tracey Morgan, but I always chuckle when he says “I’m Brian Fellowes!” Everything else about that skit sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Zappo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b3f665/32.png) [@Zappo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zappo)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/31 "2002-04-08T20:01:54Z")
Well, I like the “Astronaut Jones” idea. The intro and theme song are pretty good but the sketches could use some meat on their bones. Overall, though, the show has fallen quite a bit since their second set of salad days during the Hartman/Lovitz/Carvey era. Zap! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/32 "2002-04-08T20:36:44Z")
Worst host EVER? What about Milton Berle, whose episode Lorne Michaels has sworn to never release to syndication? Desi Arnaz? Louise Lasser, far too high to stand, much less be funny (another Never to be Seen Again episode)? You people haven’t SEEN bad hosts! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/33 "2002-04-08T20:56:04Z")
This reminds me of a skit from Conan O’Brien a day or two before he hosted **SNL**. On **Late Night** his bit was that the regular SNL cast was on vacation so he was going to work with the secondary cast. And so he showed a modified opening credits of SNL (obviously I don’t remember all the names): “with Joe Blow, John Doe, Kim Whatever, Tracy Morgan…” Oh God I was rolling on the floor… what made it so much better is that I had just finished telling my friends how much I hated Tracy Morgan when this came on. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/34 "2002-04-08T21:23:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by dropzone \* > \*\*Worst host EVER? What about Milton Berle, whose episode Lorne Michaels has sworn to never release to syndication? Desi Arnaz? Louise Lasser, far too high to stand, much less be funny (another Never to be Seen Again episode)? > > You people haven’t SEEN bad hosts! \*\* Just because, as you say, they are never shown on syndication…unless the E! channel decides to air them…is that possible? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2002, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/35 "2002-04-08T21:55:36Z")
Have they? I don’t have cable and all I know is that Michaels swore they’d never be released and I last heard him say that about ten years ago. They were so god-awful live and in context I can’t imagine watching them again 25 years later. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/36 "2002-04-09T01:59:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caricci \* > \*\* > > I only saw it once, but I thought it was the funniest damn thing in the whole wide world. “I’m Brian Fellowes!” \*\* Maybe I wouldn’t feel so strongly if it weren’t a recurring sketch. One time only, I could’ve lived with. But this one-note sketch living on and on and on … it boggles the mind. ---
**Author:** ![Joesus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a5b964/32.png) [@Joesus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joesus)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/37 "2002-04-09T05:20:38Z")
haven’t watched snl in a long time, so i’m not too familiar with his stuff there, but i kind of chuckled at his small part in _Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back_ ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321/38 "2002-04-09T05:39:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Caricci \* > \*\* > > I only saw it once, but I thought it was the funniest damn thing in the whole wide world. “I’m Brian Fellowes!” \*\* “That goat is weird! He’s got devil eyes!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/snls-tracy-morgan-could-you-suck-some-more/102321.md?page=1)