Her voice is pretty annoying, but the joke is now confusing and weird. And who else naturally talks like that? The only other person who sounds like that is Frances McDormand in Fargo, and that was an acting role.
Technically true in that most people see her on the news, but she’s not a lifestyle. Makes no sense. So no, I’m not seeing people cheering this stuff.
My impression of Morgan from interviews is that he’s pretty crazy (and not funny). So while I’m not going to sit down and watch the HBO special, I’m skeptical he was playing a character.
Or maybe Morgan’s audience just didn’t care. Richards was making an anti-black rant to a black audience (or at least the black members of the audience). Morgan was making an anti-gay rant to an audience that was presumably mostly straight.
So if a man being gay makes him “not a man”, does a woman being gay make her a man?
Because I think my girlfriend will be very disappointed if she finds out I’m man. And hey, if I’m dating a woman who’s gay and therefore a man, I must be straight, except that I’m also a man, so it loops around and I’m gay again…
That’s how these things work, right?
Joking aside, I think this was somewhere on the offensive scale. Maybe not “throw him in jail for hate speech” level of offensive, but only slightly below “decent human beings will henceforth boycott Tracy Morgan” offensive.
No, because Morgan reportedly said that there is not even any such thing as a gay woman. There are only straight women who hate men. “There is no way a woman could love and have sexual desire for another woman, that’s just a woman pretending because she hates a fucking man.”
It’s really difficult for me to work up a good sense of righteous outrage over Tracy Morgan, because he’s so obviously cuckoo, in the the clinical sense. I don’t know what’s wrong with him but I think narcissistic asshole disorder is a good working diagnosis.
I found Tracy Morgan rather annoying on SNL and the first few episodes of 30 Rock, but his character on that show has grown on me over the years and I now find him to be one of the funniest characters on the show. I don’t know enough about Morgan personally to decide how much of what he says on stage reflects his own character, but the segments of the act I’ve read don’t even have the saving grace of being very funny.
I just finished Tina Fey’s book and she spends much of it talking about what she learned about homophobia in high school (most of her close friends were gay). I wonder what her take on this is.
She wasn’t happy.
[QUOTE=Tina Fey]
I’m glad to hear that Tracy apologized for his comments. Stand-up comics may have the right to “work out” their material in its ugliest and rawest form in front of an audience, but the violent imagery of Tracy’s rant was disturbing to me at a time when homophobic hate crimes continue to be a life-threatening issue for the GLBT Community.
It also doesn’t line up with the Tracy Morgan I know, who is not a hateful man and is generally much too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person.
I hope for his sake that Tracy’s apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at “30 Rock,” without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket.
The other producers and I pride ourselves on 30 Rock being a diverse, safe, and fair workplace.
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Love that little dig about the paycheck.
I never liked him. He’s comedy is usally the racist I’m LOUD AND BLACK laugh at me kind. Which I find highly annoying. He’s very hard on the eyes.
The ironic thing to me is he used to dress like a woman on SNL. That’s not gay? I would think someone who’s dressed up like another gender would be more open minded.
TLDR verison: Don’t like his comments, but never liked him anyway.
Look at the *philtrum *on that fucker! Jesus! Isn’t a philtrum that wide and flat considered a symptom of fetal alcohal symdrome? Maybe that’s what’s wrong with the man. Somebody put a mustache on him, for god’s sake, the man is in show biz!
I saw him live once. I wanted to see Aires Spears live (not really, but we needed something to do that night and he was in town and I figured his impressions would be good for a laugh) and it turned out that Aires was just the opening for Tracy.
I thought Tracy wasn’t funny a bit, but he had the crowd in stitches. Aires was funnier than I had expected.
I have no idea who this guy is, but isn’t he a comedian doing a comic routine? Are we to understand that those are actually his own, personal views? It’s not like he said this while being interviewed by Barbara Walters, right?
Yeah, I didn’t click the link in the OP, but I gather this was done at a comedy show, not “in real life” or an interview or anything.
I always think the idea of people white knighting gays or blacks or disabled people or whatever group is kind of patronizing.
There used to be a lady who uses a wheel chair at my job. Now, at my job we all crack jokes about everything, and nothing is taboo. Thank god I can take a joke, because there were countless at my expense. I would never have the gumption to joke about half the things my co-workers joked about, but I loved to laugh at everything, nevertheless.
When it came to Jane (let’s call the lady with the wheel chair ‘Jane’) no one joked very much. They didn’t rib her or poke fun at her. And I don’t mean just avoiding her disability, I mean, they never ribbed her about anything.
I used to drill her lil ass though! Me and her would joke all the time. I would order chinese food for her every day, and she had a specific ass annoying order, and I used to give her hell about it. I actually had a co-worker try to ‘stick up’ for her to me, like “Not cool, Nzinga, giving Jane a hard time.” I was like, shut the fuck up, you don’t know shit.
Comedians get laughs about everybody. I mean, everybody. Racial humor is huge. And sexist comedy is just par for the course. Everyone gets lampooned. Gays can get it, too. No reason to leave them out. And if they get some especially harsh jabs once in a while, it may not be appropriate, but it shouldn’t be this big of a deal.
I feel like I laugh at all my own sacred cows enough that I don’t want to hear any shit about laughing at everyone else’s.
The (gay) audience member who tweeted about it and got it widely known said on an interview that what made it sting was the fact it’s in Nashville, the same city where the legislature just passed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill about schools. I can understand why it’s a sore point there.
