You’re playing a character named “Busta Nut” in Deep in the Valley next year. How would you feel if that nickname stuck?
Tracy Morgan: I don’t want anything to stick on me. A character’s a character for that moment. You didn’t call Richard Pryor “Mudbone.” You called him Richard Pryor. That’s respect. You’re not going to put “Busta Nut” on my star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood. You’re going to put “Tracy Morgan” on. That’s what my mother and father named me. When I’m in the street and people go, “Yo!” or “Hey!” I don’t respond to that. If you know me you’re going to say, “Yo Tray! Tracy Morgan! Tray Bag!” That’s when I respond. “Tray Morg!” That’s how my peoples call me. “Caligula!” “Big-Dick Tracy!”
Caligula?
Tracy Morgan: He was Caesar of Rome. Stuck a fucking ring in somebody’s ass! He would have orgies all day. Caligula!
