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"FacebookPinterest\n\nTracy Morgan: Nudity enthusiast. Diabetic. Published author. Yes, you read that right. The revelations in the 30 Rock star\u2019s new book, I Am the New Black, range from the tragic (his father died of AIDS, he\u2019s been estranged from his mother for years) to the ridiculous (\u201Cout-of-control Tracy\u201D is nicknamed Chico Divine) to the downright predictable (\u201CEverywhere I go there are no shortage of women I\u2019d like to get pregnant\u201D). Intrigued, GQ scaled Mount Crazy to worship at the feet of the most anarchic voice on television\u2014and to learn how his comedy is like a turkey, what Lorne Michaels has in common with Mike Tyson\u2019s trainer, and the virtues of audiences at Benihana.\n\nOne can definitely see the roots of your comedy in your dad. In the book, you describe him pointing to the bleachers at your high school and telling you not just that you were conceived under the bleachers but that it was doggy style and he \u201Cgave it to her good.\u201D That\u2019s just nuts.\n\n Yeah, man, that was my dad. Man, he was honest. He reminds me a lot of Richard Pryor. He never lied to me about sex. But I was a kid, you know\u2014I was 12 years old! I was like, What are you telling me this for?\n\nCan we talk about Lorne Michaels for a second? In the book, you write, \u201CEvery Jewish man has to love one\u2026\u201D\n\n \u201C\u2026nigger in their life.\u201D Yeah. Lorne is my Cus D\u2019Amato. Lorne helped build my con?dence up, being in front of an all-white audience and all that. And he told me when he hired me for Saturday Night Live: You\u2019re not here because you\u2019re black; you\u2019re here because you\u2019re funny!\n\nThat\u2019s also where you met Tina Fey. \n\n She wasn\u2019t on SNL when I first got there, but we clicked right away. She\u2019s a very dear friend of mine. [pause] I mean, don\u2019t get it wrong. She\u2019s a married woman! I\u2019m a 40-year-old black man!\n\nThere\u2019s a lot of overlap between you and your 30 Rock character, Tracy Jordan. How much of your life do you mine for the show?\n\n Tracy Jordan is a part of Tracy Morgan; Tracy Morgan is not a part of Tracy Jordan. Again: Tracy Jordan is a part of Tracy Morgan; Tracy Morgan is not a part of Tracy Jordan. I\u2019m not running around on the street in my underwear with a light saber.\n\nSure. But lines like \u201CDiabetes is a white myth\u2014like Larry Bird, or Colorado!\u201D That sounds like\u2026you. \n\n My stand-up is nothing like the TV show. My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.\n\nWe hear you may be doing a stand-up concert film with Spike Lee. What can we expect?\n\n Well, you know, I talk a lot about sex, because I\u2019m good at it!\n\nYou are a man who loves the ladies. Where do you try out new material?\n\n Benihana\u2019s. At the gas station. I do comedy for real people. This ain\u2019t something you can just click on and click o\u2260. I don\u2019t need no stool and mike stand. I don\u2019t need all of that to be funny. I\u2019ve been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me. I spread love wherever I\u2019m at. I\u2019m like Marvin Gaye.\n\nYou still work the clubs, though.\n\n Yeah. For money.\n\nEver have a bad night? Get heckled?\n\n You gotta be a real fucking moron to come to a comedy show with a bad attitude. \u2019Cause that\u2019s sacred ground. That Michael Richards\u2014that was his name, right?\u2014if nobody in there with a camera phone, it probably just woulda been a bad set. But somebody sitting there with a camera phone and put the shit out there? That\u2019s bullshit.\n\nYou\u2019re not drinking much anymore, I hear. How do you spend your nights?\n\n I\u2019m a big, big movie fan. I watch The Ten Commandments and the original Planet of the Apes every night.\n\nEvery night?\n\n Every. Single. Night. Chuckie Hess? He the man.\n\ndan fierman is a gq senior editor.\n\nExcerpt courtesy of Random House and www.audible.com."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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