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Watch out, "Saturday Night Live" cast members: Tracy Morgan has a new tell-all, and he's not afraid to use it.
In "I Am the New Black" - out from Random House next Tuesday - the funnyguy slams some of his former "SNL" co-stars, writing of his 10-year stint on the show: "I had my finger on the pulse of urban comedy, but when I brought my act to 'SNL,' those mother--------- just felt bad for me. None of the cast I came up with saw this future for me. No, sir. All I have to say about that is, where's Chris Kattan now? Where's Cheri Oteri now? That b---- can't even get arrested."
But Morgan does have some love for a few of his past "SNL" cohorts, including his current "30 Rock" boss, Tina Fey. "Tina wasn't scared to come into my world and find the funny up in there. She's that kind of cool," he writes.
Tina Fey
The two get along so well, in fact, that Fey even used one of her more bizarre nights during her 'SNL" stint with Morgan as the inspiration for a famous "30 Rock" episode in which she accompanies Tracy to an "after-after-after-after party."
"I wasn't really friends with many of my castmates at 'SNL,' but that doesn't mean I didn't roll up into 'SNL' and all those after parties with my own friends," the comedian explains. "Friends of mine were running an illegal strip club they called the Loft. It was in an office space they'd rented and converted into an after-the-after-party spot. They put a stage in it, they put a few futons all around, and they'd get strippers and girls to come and do shows."
(And a few, er, other things, which Morgan details in the tome - but it's a tad too racy to detail here.)
"I invited everyone to go down there one week. And Tina Fey, Rachel Dratch and a few others came along. I didn't tell any of them what they were in for, so it was all cool when we got there. At first ... they thought it was just a private party. Then these two girls came out onstage and started [engaging in sex acts], and that just shut it down. All the grips and crew guys from 'SNL' were standing around and loving it, but my castmates took one look at that, turned right around and rushed out of there."
But even Tracy knows that if he's anything, he's memorable. "They might have left," he says, "but it was all that anybody talked about around the show for the next week."
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