Tracy Morgan, ‘30 Rock’ Pals on Teaming for ‘Reggie Dinkins’
Toward the end of filming The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, the cast and crew decided to surprise Tracy Morgan for his 57th birthday. As No. 1 on the call sheet, Morgan had been particularly generous to his co-stars, and his co-stars wanted to return the favor. So, they treated Morgan to a live mariachi band playing his favorite song. “You haven’t lived until you’ve heard a mariachi band from New York play ‘Super Freak’ on a studio floor,” says his co-star Erika Alexander. The NBC mockumentary is the brainchild of 30 Rock creator Robert Carlock, his longtime collaborator Sam Means and executive producer Tina Fey, but Dinkins has been Morgan’s show from the beginning. In 2024, the Saturday Night Live alum was in the middle of his Neighborhood spinoff Crutch, but the looming acquisition of CBS by Larry Ellison’s Skydance Media had the comedian and his team looking elsewhere for projects. He put in a call to his old 30 Rock team and let them know he was going to have time in …
