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Tracy Morgan Says He Felt ‘Culturally Isolated’ His First 3 Years on SNL: ‘Whitest Show in America’

Tracy Morgan opens up about not feeling represented as a Black man during his early run on Saturday Night Live.

Tracy Morgan was excited to join the cast of Saturday Night Live back in 1996. Morgan is one of several cast members who watches back their audition tape during the Peacock docuseries; afterward, he says, “I don’t know what Lorne Michaels and them saw, but they saw something.” Morgan was the ninth Black cast member to be hired on Saturday Night Live.

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