Tracy Morgan calls ‘SNL’ “the whitest show in America”, says he felt “culturally isolated” for first three years

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Saturday Night Live, calling it “the whitest show in America”.Speaking on documentary series SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, Morgan said: “I wanted to show them my world, how funny it was.

But the first three years, I felt like I was being culturally isolated sometimes”. He would later admit: “I’m coming from a world of Blacks.

I’m an inner-city kid. To be on the whitest show in America, I felt by myself. I felt like they weren’t getting it”.A resolution was found when he discussed the problem with SNL creator Lorne Michaels.

He recalled: “Lorne Michaels had that talk with me. He said, ‘Tracy, I hired you because you’re funny, not because you’re Black.