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The Missing Tracy Morgan Story
At 14:51 · chapter starts 12:20
After the ShipStation ad, Bert Kreischer finally gets to tell the full story of the Tracy Morgan near-collaboration. Ari reveals he made multiple trips to New York to make it happen, and that the failed inclusion of Bert, Carlos Mencia's stand-in character Diaz, and Sean Patton were the three biggest regrets of the show's production. The centerpiece is the Chrysler Building meeting: Ari reached out through mutual connection Frosty, Tracy FaceTimed Bert out of nowhere demanding to hear the story, and an in-person meeting was arranged at CAA. Tracy arrived convinced he was there to make a movie, demolished multiple Chick-fil-A breakfast sandwiches, and proceeded to corroborate every detail of Bert's story from the blunt (he called it a blunt, not a joint) to the champagne toast at the bar. Ari, sitting silently, was repeatedly mistaken for Bert's Jewish lawyer. The whole room was magic — but Tracy's team called shortly after to say he was too busy, and Bert was left with only verbal permission to tell the story that people still don't believe. [1] — Bert Kreischer "Bert Kreischer has told a Tracy Morgan story for years that people assumed he fabricated. Ari arranged a meeting at the Chrysler Building w…" 09:30
Tracy Morgan told Bert and Ari that in 1999, when the blunt/bar story took place, he had just gotten on Saturday Night Live and 'wasn't even famous yet, but I could get in trouble.'
Tracy Morgan agreed to a general meeting with ICM talent agents at a Dave Buster's but used it to throw his kid's birthday party, making the agents pay for it.
Tracy Morgan's unhinged Chicago morning show appearance — taking his shirt off, laying on the desk, hollering at Oprah — wasn't a gag. It was pure instinct, and it paved the road that Sam Morril, Bert, and every comic who 'fucks off' on morning TV has walked ever since. Tracy genuinely did not care, and that's exactly why it worked.
