Tracy Morgan attends the 2025 Love Rocks NYC Benefit for God's Love We Deliver at Beacon Theatre on March 06, 2025 in New York City.
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Tracy Morgan to Star in NBC Comedy Pilot Led by Tina Fey
Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan starred together in the hit sitcom 30 Rock.
Tracy Morgan will star in an NBC comedy pilot that Tina Fey will be leading.
According to Variety, Morgan will portray “a disgraced former football player on a mission to rehabilitate his image.”
Alongside Fey, the series will be led by Robert Carlock and writer Sam Means (both of whom Fey worked with on 30 Rock, which Morgan also starred in), as well as producers Eric Gurian and David Miner.No other casting has been announced,Variety reported, with the outlet noting, “The show would air on NBC should it get picked up to series.”
Previously, Morgan and Fey starred together in 30 Rock, the TV satirical TV series that began in 2006 and ended in 2013. He portrayed movie star Tracy Jordan, a character inspired by Morgan’s own life.
In 2018, Morgan shared how the show had a positive impact on his life in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“Being on that show kept me busy. I was sober then. I was able to do Tracy Jordan without having to have a drink,” he said. “Tina Fey saw me partying at the after-parties of Saturday Night Live, so she [drew from] that. I didn’t have to be in the picture — I could paint the picture. I got crazy without actually having to drink. And that saved me.”
He has also talked about his friendship with Fey before, saying in a 2010 appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Showvia Vulture: “She’s my friend. I love her. She understood that I knew who I was.”
“Where everybody else [said]: ‘Oh, he don’t know. His whole career is chance.’ And she understood that I was making choices,” he added. “I was making choices on TV. And she not only would write things, she would just encourage me.”
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