While Tina Fey’s selfish fetus is currently keeping 30 Rock off the air until January, the forced hiatus could end up benefiting the show in another way—namely, allowing enough time to pass for everyone to forget all about Tracy Morgan’s recent stand-up routine about stabbing his hypothetical gay son. In an interview with Deadline, Fey said, “I’m hoping that Tracy will have, and the world will have, forgotten about that by then,” also pointing out that Morgan has, from the moment the controversy broke in June, “gone around very sincerely and done his best to try to make up for the foolishness.” Indeed, most people have likely forgotten about it already, thanks to Morgan’s very public penitence and, you know, hurricanes and Libya and stuff. So the question now becomes whether 30 Rock—which often loves to mine real-life events for its storylines—will incorporate it into the show, to which Fey sounds open, at least for the purposes of this interview. “It’s the kind of story that even if it happened to someone else, we would probably turn it into a Tracy story,” Fey said. “So we may use it.” Which sounds like a good way to make the whole thing an issue again, so probably don’t count on it.
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