Earlier this week it was Britney Spears running off concert goers over lip-syncing. Now Tracey Morgan of NBC's 30 Rock has offended comedy concert goers at New York's Comedy Fest at Carnegie Hall with his offensive language and culturally questionable jokes.
This week New Yorkers at his Carnegie Hall performance literally walked out of his performance. Over the course of his routine, more followed. Why? It appears most expected him to remain closer to his on-screen personality of Tracey Jordan from 30 Rock instead of his more hard hitting and vulgar uncensored performance style. From topics like drugs and pornography to mimicking sex acts, the category of offended concert goers was mostly middle aged women according to reports.
There were many surprised faces and little laughter at jokes such as, “Obama is really changing the White House, because he and Michelle will have the first presidential sex tape out.”
It appears many New Yorkers have forgotten that the last bastion of political incorrectness is stand up comedy and even the late George Carlin told far more off color jokes at Carnegie Hall in his many performances. Morgan reminded the crowd of this when he announced, “You want the clean Tracy? Turn on the TV.”