Posts Tagged ‘Tracy Morgan’

Tracy Jordan Accosts John Hancock on 30 Rock

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Last week’s episode of 30 Rock boasted this interaction between Tracy Jordan and a John Hancock reenactor interpreter guy:

We get a lot of this at the Wren’s Nest, especially on the phone — criticism of Joel Chandler Harris that’s (usually) more of an indictment of 19th Century culture. Sometimes, if we’re lucky, there’s a little bit of crazy sprinkled in for good measure.

Or, if we’re super-lucky, it’s all crazy all the time.

Tracy Morgan on Saturday Night Live: Uncle Jemima’s Mash Liquor

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Back before Tracy Morgan hit the big time on 30 Rock, he was consistently bizarre and hilarious on Saturday Night Live.

Here he is in a sendup of Aunt Jemima and Song of the South:

I can’t believe it’s taken me until today to post this clip.

You might think I’d have something to say here about dialect, stereotypes, or the conflation of Uncle Remus and Aunt Jemima.  Normally, you’d be right, but it’s Friday so I’ll leave that part up to esteemed journalist Reese Cleghorn:

“[Joel Chandler] Harris did not like the confusion between his authentic use of dialect and the minstrel-variety use of it, which usually simply amounted to the telling of racist jokes. He said he once intended “to apologize for the plantation dialect,” but then he realized that some of the greatest of English literature–in Chaucer, for example–is in the form of authentic dialect.”

That said, I think Tracy Jordan is so, so funny.  You might not.  If that’s the case, consider us broken up.  Seriously, did you not hear this nugget from last week’s episode of 30 Rock?