Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    I Am The New Black
    Unavailable
    I Am The New Black
    Unavailable
    I Am The New Black
    Audiobook (abridged)4 hours

    I Am The New Black

    Written by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza

    Narrated by Tracy Morgan

    3/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.

    Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose turbulent personal life often mirrors that of his fictional alter ego? Is he Chico Divine, the life of the party-any party, anytime, anywhere-getting ladies pregnant everywhere he goes? Or is he a soulful, tender family man who emerged from a hardscrabble ghetto upbringing and, against all odds, achieved superstardom, raised a solid family, prevailed over a collection of lethal bad habits, and is still ascending new heights and coming into his own? The answer is: Tracy Morgan is all that. And a bag of potato chips with a 50¢ soda.

    When he was just a boy living in the Tompkins Projects in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, being funny was about survival. With the right snap, Tracy could shut down the playground bullies who picked on him and his physically disabled older brother. And with a wild enough prank, he could exact revenge on whoever stole his Pumas at the community pool. Later, being funny was about escape-from the untouchable sadness of his father's death, from the desperation of the drug dealer's trade, from the life-and-death battles waged on the streets of the South Bronx in the age of crack. But these days being funny is about living his dream-a dream born in the comedy clubs of Harlem and realized on shows like Martin and Saturday Night Live, where he was a cast member for seven years, and in movies like The Longest Yard and Half-Baked.

    With brutal honesty and his trademark take-no-prisoners humor, Tracy tells the story of his rise to fame, with all its highs and its many lows-from the very public battles with alcohol and diabetes that threatened both his career and his life to the private and poignant end of his twenty-year marriage. In his singularly warped and brilliant way he muses on family, love, sex, race, politics, ambition, and what it takes to bring the funny.

    Hilarious, inspiring, searing, and touching, I Am the New Black is a fascinating peek inside the minds of one of the most compelling and defining comedians of our time.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateOct 20, 2009
    ISBN9781415966617
    Unavailable
    I Am The New Black

    Related to I Am The New Black

    Related audiobooks

    Personal Memoirs For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Rick Kogan: Catching Up With The Life And Times (and COVID Battle) Of Comic Tom Dreesen, Who Has Written A Memoir 'Still Standing'

      Nov 18, 2020

      CHICAGO — Of the comic Tom Dreesen, David Letterman once told me, "I cannot say enough good things about the guy and his comedy. He is one of my oldest friends and a born storyteller. And he's got such a good heart." Those stories and that good heart

      4 min read

    • Article

      Kim Kardashian For President! How My Obsession With Reality TV Got Out Of Control

      May 13, 2022

      My mum is watching TV in the kitchen, my dad is at work. The house is quiet. I assess: the TV is booming from the kitchen. My mum will be in there for a while. I switch channels. There is a naked woman on screen, covered in clay, pressing herself aga

      6 min read

    • Article

      Fart For Art’s Sake

      Nov 25, 2021

      Fart For Art’s Sake
      5 min read

    • Article

      Chill Out

      Dec 2, 2022

      GQIMM SHELELE: THE ROBERT MARAWA STORY Iconic sports anchor and media personality, Robert Marawa, has launched his eagerly awaited memoir, Gqimm Shelele: The Robert Marawa Story. Titled after his famous sign-off phrase and written by journalist, Ma

      2 min read

    • Article

      TV & REVIEWS

      Nov 29, 2022

      TV & REVIEWS
      3 min read

    • Article

      Top-Shelf Tv

      Oct 9, 2023

      Top-Shelf Tv
      2 min read

    • Article

      Binge Streamer

      May 12, 2021

      Binge Streamer
      3 min read

    • Article

      Crack

      Dec 22, 2021

      Crack
      6 min read

    • Article

      9 Favorite New Podcasts Of 2017 (That Aren't 'S-Town')

      Dec 21, 2017

      Big Listen host Lauren Ober recommends a drama set in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, an entire show about self-help books and a musical based on the 36 questions that allegedly lead to love.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Binge Streamer

      May 12, 2021

      Binge Streamer
      3 min read

    • Article

      TV & REVIEWS

      Mar 14, 2023

      TV & REVIEWS
      4 min read

    • Article

      Binge Streamer

      May 12, 2021

      Binge Streamer
      3 min read

    • Article

      Ray & Liz

      Mar 21, 2019

      Ray & Liz
      2 min read

    • Article

      Fit For The Birds, And People Too

      May 22, 2020

      Fit For The Birds, And People Too
      4 min read

    • Article

      Screen Dreams

      Feb 17, 2022

      Screen Dreams
      3 min read

    • Article

      On the Come Up

      May 9, 2023

      On the Come Up
      2 min read

    • Article

      DYING FOR Fame and Fortune

      Mar 4, 2020

      WHETHER it’s an X-rated threesome, a violent fight, a racist-fuelled meltdown or even faking the death of a loved one to get ahead in the show, humiliation and conflict is what gives reality shows their teeth. After all, ratings skyrocket when lives

      7 min read

    • Article

      This week’s TV

      Sep 22, 2022

      This week’s TV
      2 min read

    • Article

      Nobody’s Punchline

      Jan 8, 2019

      Nobody’s Punchline
      4 min read

    • Article

      Is Comedy Broken? A Lesbian Comic Helps Pick Up The Pieces

      Aug 1, 2017

      This has been a summer of discontent in stand-up comedy circles, despite the abundance of laughable material that President Donald Trump's White House continues to provide. You could hear that discontent in June in Jon Stewart's onstage interview at

      3 min read

    Reviews for I Am The New Black

    3/5

    21 ratings2 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 2/5
      I was totally blindsided by Tracy Morgan's I Am the New Black. I took a look at his goofy face and exposed belly on the cover, dressed in an expensive suit jacket and tie with bunny ears, with the ridiculous title and the name written enormous in golden lights above, and thought: This is going to be hilarious. Maybe he'd even write it in character as Tracy Jordan from 30 Rock!I feel bad for saying that I was disappointed to see that this was not the case. Why not have a serious autobiography of a funny man? I'm sure there are plenty of folks that would want to read about the trials and tribulations of a young kid growing up in Brooklyn and what shaped his life into what we see on television today. Unfortunately for me, this is not what I thought I was signing up for when I downloaded the audiobook.Tracy Morgan's life has been tragic, in a way that many lives are under the white supremacist capitalist patriarchal state. His father died of AIDS from a heroin addiction picked up in Vietnam. His mother gave him away to his grandmother, who also died when he was young. He experienced early childhood sexual abuse from a babysitter. He sold crack, but since his heart wasn't really in it, he turned to comedy. With some help from some very understanding women in his life, he has succeeded greatly in this venture.This book is for you if you are sincerely interested in Tracy Morgan's life, not if you enjoy his comedy.
    • 3/5
      This book was fairly informative about the entertainment and black comedy industries although I felt like a lot of information was missing about Tracy Morgan's personal experiences. A lot of these experiences seemed to be loaded with filler words and redundant details just to take up space in his memoir. Overall, it was entertaining and, as expected, really funny.

      1 person found this helpful