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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Tracy Morgan

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

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4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Tracy Morgan rose to the heights of comedy from the depths of poverty, growing up between Brooklyn and the Bronx. But five years ago, he nearly died in a horrific accident when the van he was riding in was crushed by a speeding tractor trailer. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist talks to the former Saturday Night Live star about that accident and how it changed him, his return to comedy, and the newest season of his hit show “The Last O.G."

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sitdown Podcast.

0:04.8

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

0:07.6

My guest this week, Tracy Morgan, where do I begin in setting the table for this interview

0:13.8

for you?

0:14.8

Well, I'll start with the fact that he invited us to his home, his palatial home in New Jersey.

0:20.3

He said, come shoot the interview here so we did.

0:22.9

As we set up the interview, he gave us a tour of the house, which includes basketball

0:29.4

court in the basement with a Nick's mural with all his favorite Nick's painted on the side

0:34.2

from Willis Reed to Clyde Frasier to John Stark's Bernard King Patrick Ewing.

0:38.9

I think Alan Houston was on there as well.

0:41.8

He's got a movie theater.

0:43.3

He's got a bowling alley.

0:44.7

He's got a full arcade like the one you played in growing up.

0:48.0

He's got like a little bar and restaurant down in the basement.

0:51.8

And a big theme around that house is the fish and the sharks.

0:56.5

And he's got tanks everywhere you look, including one.

0:58.9

And I'd never seen this before in his pool table in the basement.

1:02.4

The bottom of the pool table is a little tank with the sharks in it.

1:05.5

I think black tip sharks.

1:07.1

He's just a lot going on when you step into Tracy's world.

1:11.3

He was a great host.

1:12.3

We had a good time talking about the second season of his TBS show, The Last OG and the experiences

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