Tracy Morgan's Anti-Gay Recovery Charted (GRAPH)

When an audience member at one of Tracy Morgan's recent stand-up shows took to Facebook to say he went on a terrible, homophobic rant, some people didn't believe it. The lovable "30 Rock" star has made his fair share of controversial remarks, sure, but did he really feel this much hatred toward homosexuals?

Soon Morgan made a statement both apologizing for and confirming the remarks, much to the chagrin of the comedy world. Soon after, he took it a step further by saying he'd love his sons if they were gay and that he supports gay marriage.

But he didn't stop there. Morgan is now in talks with GLAAD and planning to attend a press conference protesting the "Don't Say Gay" bill with them in Tennessee.

So what's next on Tracy Morgan's anti-gay recovery trajectory? We had some fun and charted it out for you. Looks like he's got a long way to go before he makes things right.

Graph by Chris Spurlock/Craig Malamut

Comments

[Steamboater]

02:30 PM on 06/16/2011

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[norby413]

09:40 PM on 06/15/2011

LOL!

[Esther Ochoa Bennalick]

08:46 PM on 06/15/2011

He can invite Larry Craig for dinner. They can sit next to each and they can play footsies all night.

[SuleaBogard]

10:29 PM on 06/15/2011

I don't think Larry Craig wold like that. It would be better if they were in bathroom stalls.

[Ed Baker]

05:01 PM on 06/16/2011

Larry Craig is hated in the gay community almost as much as Tracy Morgan.

[gregory57]

03:45 PM on 06/15/2011

The guy's (Morgan's) whole comedic persona revolves around saying inappropriate things. I understand the distaste, but he is a bad-taste comic, doing his thang.

Being upset with the man for saying what he did is the same as being upset with a soap character for what he or she said. Kind of immature. It's show business, get over it.

[AnotherTry]

09:18 AM on 06/16/2011

people react to hate, even in the guise of comedy. Get over it!

[Ed Baker]

05:04 PM on 06/16/2011

Yeah, stabbing kids to death for being gay - FUNNY. He knew what he was doing. He said he didn't care who it upset, so he knew people would be upset. Further, prior to this meltdown, he did a PSA about bullying - so he can't claim ignorance there. He also has worked and interacted with gay people for many years. The truth is he's a violent homophobe - of the worst kind. The kind that would murder a young man for being gay.

[CorpTreason]

02:43 PM on 06/15/2011

Thanks for the laugh. This was funnier than most of Morgan's jokes have ever been.

As for the comments below, wow, this country is completely devoid of the ability to laugh at itself. We are all fallible human beings, who sometimes get it wrong and sometimes get it right. If we can't see ourselves as redeemable, I guess we can't really extend that forgiveness to others either. I for one am glad to say that I can give a hit and miss comic a chance at redemption.... he'd just better be funny next time. They should make a chart of how good your material has to be based on how offensive it has the potential to be. There have been lots of comics who have said far worse over the years and made careers off offending people, including people in oppressed groups who were sometimes actually being killed as a result of their membership in those oppressed groups (blacks, jews, gays, etc.), but the redeeming quality they had was that they were actually FUNNY. If you don't make people laugh, they take you seriously, and if Morgan had been serious in saying these jokes he really would be quite a loathsome character. But he wasn't! He was just lame.

[thebigbike]

07:19 PM on 06/15/2011

hey nobody said he "couldn't say" it, but, ya know everybody has the same right to call him right back

you say lame, I say vicious

BUT maybe he can make it up as the chart above demonstrates. however, why inflict all that on a helpless baby with George Takei. Maybe he could be Michele Bachman's foster parent?

Of course if he said the same kind of thing about herman cain or donald wildmon or pat robertson, etc, I'd laugh my tuchus off,

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

01:28 PM on 06/15/2011

Things that I don't care about and don't ever want to see or hear again:
John Denver songs
Jim Croce songs
Muskrat Love
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Tracy Morgan

[Ira Meyers]

02:43 PM on 06/15/2011

I would add Barry Manilow, and Kenny G.

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

05:23 PM on 06/15/2011

DEFINITELY Kenny G and his musical chain saw. How could I forget him??

[MMMMarilyn]

12:40 PM on 06/15/2011

How about just going away?

[Hardyman1966]

12:39 PM on 06/15/2011

Whoever put this chart together is an A$$.  It's cute and all, but didn't George Takei MARRY his partner of 21 years in 2008?

BAD punchline and not helping.

[quixoto]

12:58 PM on 06/15/2011

Maybe the kid could use a third daddy.

Actually... Tracy would probably be more like a baby brother.

[keji96]

02:30 PM on 06/15/2011

LOL tracey would just stab the kid if he turned out to be Takei LOL. So I dont know if adoption is the best thing for them.

[fec]

11:51 AM on 06/15/2011

so, flatly stating that you will pull out a knife and stab your son to death is something to "have some fun over, is it? suggesting that if he spoke in anything but the deepest voice would also be the cause to pull out a knife and stab him to death, is something that "we"- and i assume this is the huffington post, is "something to have some fun over" is one of the most repugnant acts of media manipulation and absence of a moral or ethical copass than i've ever seen.

why don't we pull out a knife and stab women or jews or blacks or asians or anyone's children to death because we don't like some aspect of their personality/habitus, and then, well, wow, we could "have some fun" charting what we would have to do to "capitulate to the group who is the target of our death threats.

gee, what a fun little game this is. you people are homophobic and psychotic. i wish gays had the number and power to do to you what you so freely and brazenly do to us.

[ElBruce]

01:34 PM on 06/15/2011

AS AN ANONYMOUS INTERNET COMMENTER I ALSO RESERVE THE RIGHT TO UNCOMPROMISINGLY MORALLY JUDGE ALL CELEBRITIES. TRACY MORGAN MUST BE PUBLICLY EXECUTED FOR WAR CRIMES.

[keji96]

02:30 PM on 06/15/2011

yes yes it is. LOL