Tracy Morgan is absolutely brilliant on 30 Rock – for being Tracy. And in Cop Out he was unforgivably Tracy too. Which was fine.
But we are about to hit the Tracy tidal wave as this small screen star is leaping from his SNL roots, to a show that is essentially about SNL, to the big screen.
ID Theft will feature Morgan as a dad struggling with financial troubles. When a suburban father’s credit card winds up in his hands, he decides to use it as an easy way out. The script comes from SNL writers Colin Jost and Rob Klein.
Warner Bros. isn’t the only studio investing in Morgan. As reported by Deadline Hollywood, Paramount has him in their own comedy called Freshman Roommates, in which he’ll star alongside TJ Miller.
I would guess that Freshman Roomates is going to be about two adults who go back to college for one reason or another and hillarity ensues.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Tracy Morgan. I didnt care for him at all on SNL but he works in spades on 30 Rock, but I can tell his unique stylings are going to wear thin on me like Jack Black and Will Ferrell have. I still like the stuff they were in before, but when I see a new comedy of them acting the same way, I just don’t care anymore.
Tracy isn’t that guy for me yet, but maybe with two more movies that close together with him being Tracy – I might.
