Tracy Morgan

CTL-E-6092 · Person · other · 1968–present

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Combined Graph record U-07313 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6092.

Tracy Morgan, born November 10, 1968, in New York City and raised in Brooklyn's Marlboro and Tompkins Houses in Bedford-Stuyvesant, is an American stand-up comedian and actor. After early work as Hustle Man on Martin and on Harlem's Uptown Comedy Club, he joined Saturday Night Live in 1996 and performed as a regular until 2003, creating characters including Brian Fellow and Astronaut Jones. From 2006 to 2013 he played Tracy Jordan, a caricature of himself, on NBC's 30 Rock, earning a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series in 2009. He published the autobiography I Am the New Black in 2009 and later starred as Tray Barker in The Last O.G. from 2018 to 2021. On June 7, 2014, he was critically injured on the New Jersey Turnpike when a Walmart tractor-trailer struck his limousine bus, suffering a traumatic brain injury, a broken femur, a broken nose, and broken ribs; his friend and collaborator James McNair was killed. Morgan settled his lawsuit against Walmart in 2015 and returned to host Saturday Night Live that October.

The record

• Also known as: Tracy Jamal Morgan

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Scan Tail Wave 4 — 747 Program, Wave 11; fourth Scan Tail packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Tracy Morgan entity in the live graph at 3,763 entities (exact / normalized / alias match + token containment; CLEAR). ID CTL-E-6092 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 4 — Scan Tail Wave 3 packet ordered reserve, position 7 of 35 (corpus-gap-candidates-2026-10-15.json ranked clean survivor #1501). The scan supplied the NAME STRING ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black America canon under PPL-001: a defining Black television comedian of the SNL and 30 Rock era. Vital status: Living and working: Wikipedia (accessed 2026-10-16) lists 2025-2026 credits including the Paramount+ sitcom Crutch (October 2025) and MTA public-service announcements recorded in 2026, with a photograph captioned 'Morgan in 2026.' STATISTICS — STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Born Nov. 10, 1968 (Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16); SNL regular for 7 seasons, 1996-2003 (Wikipedia); 30 Rock run 2006-2013 as Tracy Jordan, Emmy nomination in 2009 (Wikipedia); crash on June 7, 2014 — 1 collaborator, James McNair, killed, Morgan critically injured (Wikipedia); The Last O.G. ran 4 seasons to 2021 (Wikipedia). CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: birthplace is given as Brooklyn by the current Wikipedia entry (born in Brooklyn, raised in Marlboro and Tompkins Houses) while the Los Angeles Sentinel profile says born in Brooklyn in one line and raised in the Bronx, and other profiles in search results say born in the Bronx — the packet records New York City without choosing a borough for birth. CONFLICT SHOWN, NOT BLENDED: middle name appears as 'Jamal' in the current Wikipedia entry and as 'Jamel' in an older Wikipedia revision returned in search results. MEDIA: photo HELD (Tracy Morgan on stage during Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour in 2006, photograph captioned in his Wikipedia entry (accessed 2026-10-16); photographer and licence to be verified in a PHOTO-001 pass — no licence claimed here. — named candidate only; file-level rights verification per CTL-PHOTO-001 still required; no license claimed); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6092-tracy-morgan.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged); audio HELD (no rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged); map N/A (person record). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Persons carry no map in the packet standard.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short or verified-rights archival video staged.) | audio = HELD (No rights-cleared matching-entity audio staged.)

Sources

• Wikipedia, "Tracy Morgan" (accessed 2026-10-16) — born Nov. 10, 1968 in New York City, raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant housing, SNL cast 1996-2003, Tracy Jordan on 30 Rock 2006-2013 with 2009 Emmy nomination, The Last O.G. 2018-2021, I Am the New Black (2009), June 7, 2014 New Jersey Turnpike crash injuries and death of James McNair, Walmart settlement in 2015, SNL hosting return Oct. 17, 2015, and 2025-2026 work including Crutch — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracy_Morgan (build store)
• Los Angeles Sentinel, "Face-to-Face with the Face of Post-Racial America" (accessed 2026-10-16) — Morgan born Nov. 10, 1968, raised in the Bronx per this source, DeWitt Clinton High School, discovered at the Apollo, Martin role parlayed into SNL by 1996, seven-season SNL tenure and characters — https://lasentinel.net/face-to-face-with-the-face-of-post-racial-america.html (build store)
• Encyclopaedia Britannica, "Tracy Morgan" (accessed 2026-10-16) — Britannica discusses Morgan in its 30 Rock coverage as Tracy Jordan, the immature, erratic movie star hired to join the cast of TGS, confirming the signature role — https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tracy-Morgan (primary source · build store)

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