A30 RockReunion! Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan Set to Team Up for New Comedy Series on NBC

Mar. 15, 2025

Tina Fey and Tracy Morgan on ‘30 Rock’.Photo:Ali Goldstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

Ali Goldstein/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

A dynamic comedy duo is back!

30 RockalumsTina FeyandTracy Morganare reportedly working on a new comedy series for NBC, according toa press release from the network.

Per the release, a pilot has been ordered for the single-camera comedy, which will star Morgan, 56, as a “disgraced former football player” who is “on a mission to rehabilitate his image.”

Tracy Morgan and Tina Fey in ‘30 Rock’.Eric Liebowitz/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

Eric Liebowitz/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty

Carlock previously worked with Fey as a showrunner and EP of30 Rock. The frequent collaborators also co-createdUnbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and co-producedGreat News,Mr. MayorandGirls5eva. Means has also been involved in several of those works, having written for30 Rock,Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,Great News,Girls5evaandMr. Mayor– the latter of which he also executive co-produced. The writer also penned episode of the hit showParks and Recreation.

Fey and Morgan, however, first worked together onSaturday Night Live, where Fey was a writer and cast member from 1997 to 2006 and Morgan was a cast member from 1996 to 2003. They went on to co-star in30 Rock, which ran on NBC for seven seasons from 2006 to 2013.

Tina Fey on the ‘SNL50’ red carpet on Feb. 16, 2025.NBC/Jamie McCarthy/NBC via Getty

NBC/Jamie McCarthy/NBC via Getty

The two both recently opened up about their time onSNLahead of the show’s 50th anniversary. While appearing onThe Tonight Show with Jimmy Kimmelalongside former co-starAmy Poehler, Fey looked back onthe late nights on set.

She said the writing team would “come in to work at like 5 o’clock, and you would just know that at 9 p.m. you were gonna eat, like, pasta from Carmine’s, and then around 3 a.m., you were gonna walk back through that room, and take that same pasta from Carmine’s.”

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She added that she recently watched an episode of Peacock’sSNL50: Beyond Saturday Nightdocumentary that focused on the writers of the show and it “made me feel really sick.”

Tracy Morgan on the ‘SNL50’ red carpet on Feb. 16, 2025.NBC/Jamie McCarthy/NBC via Getty

Morgan, on the other hand, told actor and comedianMatt Rogersduring theSNL50: The Red Carpetspecial, that he was grateful tohave made it to the show’s 50th anniversary celebrationafter having gotten into a car accident in June 2014.

“This is incredible,” the actor said. “Just thank the Lord that I’m a part of this, that I survived the accident and I’m alive to be here for this.”

source: people.com