If anyone can and should follow Jeremy Piven's remarkable performance fielding Time readers' softball questions, it would be Tracy Morgan. And just like that, while promoting his memoir I Am the New Black this week, Morgan faced 10 queries ranging from memories of SNL to the Emmys to diabetes ("[O]ne day I got really sick. The doctor was like, 'Hey, listen, we may have to take your foot.'"), but he saved perhaps his best insight for last as a reader sought Morgan's thoughts on Barack Obama's recent Nobel Peace Prize win.
His sensible reply:
I think he deserves it. I think he's really trying to stop nuclear war. I love Obama. You see how cool he is? You see the way he gets off of Air Force One? He kicks that leg just like Richard Roundtree. Ain't no other countries gonna mess with us. And as far as health care is concerned, tell them to put cocoa butter on it. Those old remedies still work!
First of all, let's take a minute to salute the reader for a question not nearly as challenging as his/her name: "Chukwunwikezarramu Okumephuna." Second, Morgan's blaxploitation link contradicts Black Dynamite's infallible theory that corruption goes all the way to the top. That said, there is an indisputable appeal to Mahmoud Ahmedinajad being brushed off as a "sucka pushing that nuke jive" in future Obama oratory, naturally followed by a sound kung-fu thrashing of Joe Wilson on the Senate floor. Rahm Emanuel's role in this schema is most definitely worth contemplating as well.
ยท 10 Questions with Tracy Morgan [Time]