What About Tracy Morgan's Sexist Rant, Witness Asks

By Marc Schneider Posted Jun 10th 2011 11:25PM

EXCLUSIVE: For all the negative press and condemnation Tracy Morgan's anti-gay rant during a Nashville stand-up concert has received, little to nothing has been said about the '30 Rock' star's also-vicious assault on women and their place in society during the same infamous performance. An audience member at Ryman Auditorium on June 3 tells PopEater that Morgan had the audience in stitches until, out of nowhere, "the evening went from jokes to a homophobic and women-bashing rant," adding that the "turn was abrupt and insanely odd."

Morgan apologized Friday after the media picked up on one concertgoers' account on Facebook, but while his reprehensible words on gay people are what coaxed an apology from him, our eyewitness says her account would read differently.

"I would have said that he made some pretty awful homophobic comments and then OMGHEHATESWOMEN!," our source said in an e-mail exchange. "What was weird about the homophobic rant is that he tied it up at the end with a joke. I don't feel like he did that with his bit on women. It was just an overall strange few minutes. He was ranting for sure."

Morgan allegedly ranted that successful women are the downfall of society and attempted to shift blame to women for many of the problems plaguing the youth.

"He said all of this weird sh*t about how if women stayed at home, kids wouldn't be doing the sh*t they do today," our source said. "It was some of the most sexist sh*t I've heard outside of an episode of 'Mad Men.' I get that the homophobic rant is sexier to the media, but his remarks against women were really, really offensive."

Morgan copped to the controversial comments and issued an apology, but only to the gay and lesbian community, on Friday within hours of the story picking up steam.

"I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville," Morgan said. "I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others. While I am an equal opportunity jokester, and my friends know what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was not funny in any context."

The eyewitness feels that as horrible as Tracy's detour to homophobia-ville was, it actually fit appropriately with the show as a whole. "He spent all this time talking about how beautiful women are sexually. To me his gay rant was just playing off of that. Yes, he said amazingly stupid stuff, but at the end of the rant, he said, and I quote, 'If you can take a dick, you can take a joke.'"

That last line varies slightly than the account given by Facebook user Kevin Rogers, who pegged it as "If they can take a f**king dick up their ass ... they can take a f**king joke."

Our source confirms that there was a palpable feeling of unease in the air during the minutes-long rant session, but that the audience never booed and that only a few people walked out. "It was more like a sense of uneasy, disbelief maybe."

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Sunday 12 June

By Yar

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Everything offense he said is what's being targeted. Not just one thing, but that one thing, "i'll kill my son, if he's gay." is the most offensive therefore, it's going to be looked and brought up the most. Use your noggin honey

Friday 10 June

By Bueno

Gays are here to stay, whether you like it or not. Gays exist either by choice or by birth. Whatever is the reason for their existence is none of our business as long as they don't infringe on our rights. In other words, I maintain that straights and gays can and must coexist peacefully.

Saturday 11 June

By usthatswho1

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@rothamere,

I agree wholeheartedly!

By lita

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rothaymere, congratulations on your ability to stop the behavior. Obviously, you were just "playing at it" for what ever reason--sexual thrill, perhaps. But stop the virulence. And do you still have to wear Depends?

By Collean

The only thing wrong with our world is child and animal abuse.

What two consenting adults do...... should only concern you when you are one of the consenting adults.

Grow up homophobes! Just because your mommy spanked you about touching your friends when you were a kid, doesn't mean you get to object to what adults do.

Take that stick out of your : ) and relax. Life can be so much fun if you just relax.

By lolz

Lol, nobody's going to care because nobody cares about women.

By Charles

Tracy shouldn't be allowed to get away with his crap with just an apology after the fact. The stars of 30 Rock should be speaking out against him as well as the producers of that show.

By New York

Never could stomach him & I never will. Pure trash.

By joan

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Agreed. Tracy Morgan is the reason I do not watch 30 Rock. He is a racist of the worst kind and is not funny at all.

By JakeH

The homophobic rant was basically mosaginistic at heart too, that he would murder his male child if he 'lowered' himself to female tendencies. At least he didn't express a desire to stab women I suppose ...

By the_fool

He is just not funny and doesn't have anything good to say.

By shirleyA

I've never liked this guy, he always get a slap on
the wrist and keeps going. He is one that will use
the race card.

By gandlcarr

BIG FREAKING DEAL!!!!!!!!!!, getting so no one can say a word about any race,sex, or any freaking thing with out some one getting Pissed, Grow up America and get a freaking enima!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By Dmoongo

Better yet, get an education. Then you can correctly spell "without", "someone" and "enema".

By diane

actually gandicarr, it's "someone" "without" and "enema"

Tuesday 21 June

By Dart

Yeah, I agree! Grow up America! Because everyone knows that insulting people and being blatantly ignorant and hateful is the grownup thing to do!

Dmoongo better yet, get a life of your own.!!!!!!

By Jim

Tracy Morgan is a DOUCHE BAG!!!!!

Monday 13 June

By SydneyHav