Tracy Morgan: Comparisons To 30 Rock Character Are ‘Insulting’

If you happen to bump into comic Tracy Morgan while he's out here for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, don't call him by his 30 Rock alias 'Tracy Jordan'.

The funnyman actor recently opened up about how “insulted” he gets when fan can't differentiate between himself and his world-famous character.

“Those are the people who are idiots,” he spits.

“The ones that can't separate fantasy from reality, fact from fiction. Tracy Morgan and Tracy Jordan – the only thing they have in common is the name 'Tracy'. I'm nothing like that character on TV. That character is a figment of someone else's imagination. That is not who I am. I am who I am. I'm not trying to be Tracy Jordan. I know how to come out of character. I'm a grown man. I don't run around talking nonsense every day. I don't get around in my tighty whiteys with a light sabre. Do people really think I'd do that? I don't do that. I'm somebody's father, I'm somebody's husband. Come on, man. I'm a grown-ass man!”

The comedian doesn't think his co-stars Alec Baldwin or Tina Fey get the same treatment either.

“I don't even see how people can ask me that question. Like they don't know the difference between what's TV and what's real. Or, what's worse, they do, but they think I don't, y'know? I mean, do people ask Alec Baldwin that? Do they ask Tina Fey that? It's a booby-trap question, and it's insulting. I get asked that question, and most of the time it shocks me. Do people really not know the difference between Tracy Morgan and Tracy Jordan? You don't have to think outside the box to know that one of them is me; the other is a character on TV. People don't ask Brad Pitt what's the difference between him and Benjamin Button. I ain't mad about it, but, c'mon, people. You really think I go around my house acting like Tracy Jordan? You'd go to jail if you went around acting like Tracy Jordan!”

Read the full interview.