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SNL alum Tracy Morgan on finger " culturally keep apart " on " the whitest show in America " before creator Lorne Michaels eased his concerns .
You do n’t get to be an introduction thatSaturday Night Livehas been for the past 50 age without getting some questions about your past tense . For example , the lack of diversity in front of the camera and in the writer ' room for years , and accusations of " tokenism . " The yield stem back to SNL ’s premiere in 1975 whenGarrett Morriswas part of the original not - ready - for - prime - fourth dimension players . It ’s something that other cast members likeEddie Murphy , Tim Meadows , Chris Rock , Damon Wayans , Tracy Morgan , Diedre Vance , Ellen Cleghorne , andKenan Thompsonhave discourse in the past . For its part , SNL has done much more over the course of recent seasons to address and rectify the problem . Morgan , who was inSNLfrom 1996 - 2003 , spoke about his SNL experience in the Peacock docuseriesSNL50 : Beyond Saturday Night .
SNL: Tracy Morgan on Being on “The Whitest Show in America”
" I want to show them my Earth , how odd it was . But the first three age , I feel like I was being culturally isolated sometimes , " Morgan said before sum , " I ’m coming from a world of Blacks . I ’m an inner - city small fry . To be on the whitest show in America , I feel by myself . I felt like they were n’t generate it " . The histrion and comedian ’s concerns caughtSNLcreatorLorne Michaels’ear . " Lorne Michaels had that public lecture with me , " Morgan recalled . " He said , ' Tracy , I hired you because you ’re peculiar , not because you ’re shameful . So just do your affair . ' And that ’s when I started doing my affair . ' "
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