Comedian Tracy Morgan sat down with Jimmy Fallon at The Tonight Show where he talked at length about the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax.
It all started when Morgan made a joke about being offered a role on Empire.
“They gave me millions of dollars,” he said. “Contractually, all I gotta do is not fake a hate crime.”
When asked by Fallon whether he believed Smollett’s story, Morgan didn’t hold back.
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“Racists don’t be watching Empire, man!” he said.
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“Come on! First of all, racist people don’t be jumping nobody in the polar vortex. It’s too cold. They say, ‘We’ll be racist in the spring!’”
He then also made hay of the fact that Smollett’s alleged attack happened at 2 AM outside a Subway restaurant and that the 36-year-old actor never dropped his sandwich.
“It was, like, 10 seconds of footage, and then he disappears for like two seconds, then he reappears with the noose on his neck still holding the Subway sandwich!” Morgan said.
“He ain’t let that Subway sandwich go. I think it was pepperoni and cheese. I don’t know.”
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Brian
If only someone at Queerty had the same logical skills as Tracy, they could have saved themselves the embarrassment of the numerous attempted lynching and racist conservatives don’t believe him, that they ran when this all started. Much of what Tracy said was obvious from the moment the story broke.
Ronbo
We are still waiting for your promised apology if Smollett was not convicted.
/crickets/
Crystix
Hindsight is 20/20. Yeah, we should have known. We should have put the pieces together quicker. But this is bullshit “He had the charges dropped” not because he was innocent, but because he’s an “upstanding member of the community who forfeited his bond money” (read, he paid us a lot o money and otherwise would have sued us, costing us millions regardless of outcome).
Brian
You really think the charges were dropped because the city was afraid of being sued? Now that is funny.
Wicked Dickie
Chicago has paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in wrongful police misconduct charges since 2004.
Blackceo
I guess Queerty doesn’t have the time to post a positive story of Lori Lightfoot who will because the first Black woman and first openly gay person to be the mayor of Chicago; the 3rd largest city in the country. No….that would be a positive story and we know Queerty only likes to prop up certain type of folks with such quickness, while taking their sweet time to get to others.
Wicked Dickie
Queerty only highlight black gays in negative light. Certainly the site is being ran by someone who used to work at Breitbart.
Observant
Thank you.
Kangol
Any article about Jussie Smollett is going to get more clicks than one about Chicago’s first Black out gay woman mayor. You know this. It’s a positive story, so they’re going to ignore it. BTW, some in Chicago’s Black and Brown communities are not especially happy about Lightfoot because of her history of defending awful corporate clients, but whatever one may feel about the specifics of her past and her politics, she has certainly made history with her victory.
PleiadianStarLord1001
Wow, well don’t you come off sounding all hateful and racist? Jussie is a idiot who faked a hate crime, anyone who is an educated human can see that.
Lori Lightfoot is the 1st Black Openly Lesbian Mayor of Chicago. That IS amazing news, but her past politics and shady deals kind of leave the lower class citizens and minorities in Chicago feeling that its more of the exact same, just different person.
She is more on the cops side than she is on the citizens, so don’t get it twisted
jjose712
I can’t stand him but that was funny
draven
Tracy Morgan and jimmy Fallon and that Kevin Hart all seem homophobic and only like gay ppl if we endorse them. I wish rock Hudson was alive he ruled Hollywood
draven
People who talk about Jussie Smollett are pretty much boring and just want to keep that boring topic going. Duh.