Tracy Morgan Returns to Saturday Night Live in October

Post author By Ezra Grant
Post date August 17, 2015
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FILE - In this April 9, 2014 file photo, actor Tracy Morgan attends the FX Networks Upfront premiere screening of "Fargo" at the SVA Theater in New York. On Saturday June 7, 2014, a Wal-Mart tractor-trailer driving north on the New Jersey Turnpike slammed into the back of a limousine van carrying actor-comedian Morgan and several others on the way back from a Performance in Delaware. James McNair, a fellow comedian and mentor of Morgan’s was killed, and Morgan and two other companions suffered serious injuries. The accident shone a spotlight on the issue of driver fatigue after a criminal complaint alleged Wal-Mart driver Kevin Roper hadn’t slept in more than 24 hours before the crash. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)

After experiencing a near death accident in which one of his friends was killed, Tracy Morgan is continuing the road back with an appearance on Saturday Night Live on October 17th.

Morgan’s limo was struck by a Walmart truck on the New Jersey Turnpike on June 7, 2014, killing comedian James McNair and critically injuring Morgan and three others. In early June, Morgan appeared on TV for the first time since the accident, telling the Today Show that he doesn’t remember the actual crash.

“When I got home, it really hit me,” he said. “Every day I would just watch the accident on YouTube. One day I saw [McNair’s] funeral on YouTube, and I lost it for about a week.”

Morgan, who suffered extensive physical and neurological injuries from the crash, sued Walmart and received an undisclosed settlement in May. The truck’s driver—who hadn’t slept in 28 hours at the time of the accident—faces charges of death by auto.

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