In 2006, Half-Baked co-writer and frequent Chappelle collaborator (as well as director of The Goods) Neal Brennan directed Tracy Morgan, Chris Kattan and others in Totally Awesome, a spoof of 80s teen comedies which played once on VH-1 before going direct to DVD.  I’ve never seen it and it probably sucks, but this collection of Tracy Morgan outtakes and ad libs made me laugh so hard I had a miscarriage.

“So watchoo think, there’s some kinda yellow brick road?  And I’m the wizard?  There’s requirements to bein’ black!  There’s requirements!  You ever throw a chihuahua off the roof in the projects?  You ever got a female pregnant when you was like… seven?  Have you ever fist fought your pediatrician? Do you got a family-sized portrait of Jim Kelly on the wall?  Do anybody in your house sleep in a medicated bed?”

And it just goes on like that for nine minutes.  I’m 80% sure Tracy Morgan is clinically insane, but his insanity is somehow perfectly comedic.  Around the corner near my old apartment near Harlem, there was a black barber shop with an old picture with all these different hairstyles on it, and I swear to God one of the hair models was Tracy Morgan.  When he posed for it, I guarantee he didn’t know how funny it’d be once he got famous.  He probably wasn’t even thinking about it, and yet now it’s hilarious.  He’s a savant like that.

Not Forgotten played at Slamdance and was picked up for distribution by Anchor Bay.  The rundown: Jack Bishop (Simon Baker) was a handsome family man with a clean suit, a cleft chin, and a wife with an ass made of rainbows and angel cum.  Then one day, his daughter was kidnapped by Satanists, as so often happens these days.  That’s when Bishop revealed the secret he’d been long trying to conceal: he has claws you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry he’s a pro wrestler he’s an ex Navy Seal he’s a vampire he used to be a hitman for the Mexican mafia.  Well that sucks.  Would’ve been better if we found out HE WAS ACTUALLY A TIGER ALL ALONG! 

But the important thing here is that the bodies do indeed hit the floor.
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