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The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Spiegel & Grau
October 2009
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Featuring: Tracy Morgan
224 pages
ISBN: 0385527772
EAN: 9780385527774
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who
rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The
Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character
Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock,
whose turbulent personal life often mirrors that of his
fictional alter ego? Is he Chico Divine, the life of the
party–any party, anytime, anywhere–getting ladies pregnant
everywhere he goes? Or is he a soulful, tender family man
who emerged from a hardscrabble ghetto upbringing and,
against all odds, achieved superstardom, raised a solid
family, prevailed over a collection of lethal bad habits,
and is still ascending new heights and coming into his own?
The answer is: Tracy Morgan is all that. And a bag of potato
chips with a 50¢ soda.
When he was just a boy living
in the Tompkins Projects in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, being funny
was about survival. With the right snap, Tracy could shut
down the playground bullies who picked on him and his
physically disabled older brother. And with a wild enough
prank, he could exact revenge on whoever stole his Pumas at
the community pool. Later, being funny was about escape–from
the untouchable sadness of his father's death, from the
desperation of the drug dealer's trade, from the
life-and-death battles waged on the streets of the South
Bronx in the age of crack. But these days being funny is
about living his dream–a dream born in the comedy clubs of
Harlem and realized on shows like Martin and
Saturday Night Live, where he was a castmember for
seven years, and in movies like The Longest Yard and
Half-Baked.
With brutal honesty and his
trademark take-no-prisoners humor, Tracy tells the story of
his rise to fame, with all its highs and its many lows–from
the very public battles with alcohol and diabetes that
threatened both his career and his life to the private and
poignant end of his twenty-year marriage. In his singularly
warped and brilliant way he muses on family, love, sex,
race, politics, ambition, and what it takes to bring the
funny.
Hilarious, inspiring, searing, and touching,
I Am the New Black is a fascinating peek inside the
minds of one of the most compelling and defining comedians
of our time. Co-written by
Anthony Bozza
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