Last O.G. Tracy Morgan pitches his own black superhero movie to old pal Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show
On The Tonight Show ostensibly to promote his new comedy series The Last O.G. (premiering on TBS on Tuesday at 10:30 Eastern), star Tracy Morgan, instead, spent much of his time complaining to host and former Saturday Night Live co-star Jimmy Fallon that he got to that whole “black superhero” thing long before Black Panther. Morgan—after doing a pre-interview sketch heckling Fallon’s character Peter crooning a sincerely felt version of Billy Joel’s ode to night-rambling, “The River Of Dreams”—even brought out proof in the form of a cardboard standee of Morgan suited up as his chosen superhero, The Black Bobcat. And even though it looked like an old Batman cutout with Tracy’s head pasted on it sporting a drawn-on domino mask, Marvel had better watch its collective, spandex-clad ass. Riffing in signature Tracy Morgan style, the comic spun a Tracy Jordan-worthy origin story for his abortied cinematic alter ego, noting that The Black Bobcat, logically, has a really good sense of smell, loves to pounce, and sleeps 20 hours a day. He does, however, only fight crime in the suburbs. “What do you want him to do,” he demanded, “Fight crime? Get hurt?”