Tina Fey On Conan: Star's Daughter A Tracy Jordan Inspiration

Tracy Morgan's "30 Rock" character, conveniently named Tracy Jordan, is often thought of as entirely autobiographical. However, as it turns out, there's also a dash of someone else in there, too.

Tina Fey guested on "Conan" Tuesday night, talking about her new memoir "Bossypants" and the final few season five episodes of "30 Rock." When the talk turned to her pregnancy, and then to her five year old daughter, Alice, Fey spoke about the passage in her book that revealed that her young child was the source of some of Tracy Jordan's most famous quotes.

"It fits perfectly. And I've said some of her things, too. She's said, 'I want to go to there,' and we used that for Liz Lemon one time. With Tracy we had her say, 'Touch my knees-butt,' which is some weird thing she used to say," Fey recalled. "And I'm hoping that even though she's getting bigger we'll have some more. There's some more that I'm want to use, for example, she still thinks the plural of ghost is ghostesses, and I mean, perfect..."

In the show, Jordan has a strange sense of romance and sexual perversion (okay, in real life he does, too), but what makes it even odder is that some of it comes from little Alice.

"She had one recently, she was playing Barbies," Fey laughed. "There was a prince doll, and the Barbie. And the Barbie had removed her pants, and she was angling toward the prince, and the dolls were saying to each other, 'You know the most romantic part of the human body is the butt.' And instead of being concerned that that was what she was saying, I was immediately like, 'That's for Tracy.'"

Fey also spoke about her time on "Saturday Night Live," telling a story about Sylvester Stallone and drawing Conan, another former "SNL" writer, into the action.

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Comments

[brobike42]

10:36 AM on 04/24/2011

Tina Fey's daughters' name is "Alice" Alice Fey? Cute.

[Tolms]

02:54 PM on 04/21/2011

Classic. I love the Tracey Jordan character.

[Elbrando]

11:10 AM on 04/21/2011

Tina Fey is brilliant.

[Savage Saint Roger]

07:55 AM on 04/21/2011

Tina Fey is complete genius! The world is wobbling better with her in it!

[lolayne313]

07:47 AM on 04/21/2011

I used to like Tracy, but not when he started doing this high pitched mentally- delayed act. I don't care for that. Just be funny. I think he sold out or maybe he just can't act. : (

[Luke McIntosh]

05:05 AM on 04/21/2011

I

[PrimoPablo]

04:55 AM on 04/21/2011

I thought the big reveal would be that Tracy Jordan is not at all funny.

[TommyMcCarthy]

05:40 AM on 04/21/2011

"Reveal"....would usually refer to exposing something something little known..or even secret

Heh
TM

[diogeneslives]

05:46 AM on 04/21/2011

Agreed. Not funny at all. Basically incoherent. Not surprizing his lines were originally spoken by a toddler.

[Joseph Scott]

08:07 PM on 04/21/2011

You wrote: "Heh TM"
?
?
?
Are you greeting yourself, saying hi to yourself, and if not, who are you?

Sock alert!

Are you gretting

[WelcomeGet]

03:31 AM on 04/21/2011

Tina Fey plays the role exceptionally. i think. She's perfect. Guys who back her also back WelcomeGet. i can prove that.

[Miguel T]

03:19 AM on 04/21/2011

TRACY MORGAN not JORDAN. This isn't the first time HuffPo puts JORDAN instead of MORGAN.

[blue utah]

07:15 AM on 04/21/2011

Relax Miguel. His name is Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock, they explained that in the article.

[ManiKhawaja]

08:51 AM on 04/21/2011

i think you should familiarize yourself with his work. 30 Rock. Tracy Jordan.

[funkdragon23]

02:26 AM on 04/21/2011

Tina Fey is a goddess from tip to toe. Smart, funny, chill, and beautiful. She is perfect. Thanks for ruining all other women for me, Tina!

[brux]

12:10 AM on 04/21/2011

God I hate that Tracy Jordan, I have to change the channel or station the minute I see the guys face or hear his irritating voice.

[noway lv]

02:47 AM on 04/21/2011

Me too . . . his character totally kills "30 Rock" for me.

[diogeneslives]

05:48 AM on 04/21/2011

Many of these comments are reaffirming. Never understood why people thought this guy was funny. I thought he was learning impaired.

[Elrancho2]

06:50 AM on 04/21/2011

I think he's sweet, lovely, maddening but wonderful. We're all different aren't we.

[BlueOnBlue]

08:42 AM on 04/21/2011

Yes, but some of us are different in a bad way. He's different in a bad way.

[audiodramatist]

11:56 PM on 04/20/2011

So does this mean her daughter is paying her own way through College with the residuals from her girly chatter?

[inkhosi]

11:32 PM on 04/20/2011

Ah...Tina Fey...my dreeeeeam woman.

[turboturd]

11:29 PM on 04/20/2011

He has no p eni s.

[turboturd]

11:30 PM on 04/20/2011

kudos to huff post supporting free speech.....

[Guytar]

10:42 PM on 04/20/2011

Tina Fey is a great writer, and 30 Rock is almost as good as M*A*S*H

But she peaked with the Sarah Palin impersonation during the last presidential campaign.

[inkhosi]

11:36 PM on 04/20/2011

In terms of mainstream recognition, yes.

[born 2b different]

09:06 AM on 04/21/2011

Are you saying she jumped the shark?