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  • 23
    Jan
    2012
    3:04am, EST

    '30 Rock' star Tracy Morgan hospitalized at Sundance festival

    By msnbc.com staff and NBC News

    Updated 10 a.m. PT Monday: Tracy Morgan took to Twitter on Monday to address his hospitalization. Check out the new tweets below for the latest from the actor:

    Original story: Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was hospitalized on Sunday night in Park City, Utah, where he was attending an awards ceremony as part of the Sundance Film Festival.

    The star of NBC's "30 Rock" was taken to the Park City Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Amy Roberts confirmed to NBC News.

    (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft Corp. and NBC Universal.)

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    Actor Tracy Morgan attends a gala awards dinner at the Sundance film festival Sunday.

    Morgan, 43, was being honored at the Creative Coalition Spotlight Awards. He reportedly fell unconscious after giving his acceptance speech and leaving the building.

    Entertainment news website TMZ quoted unidentified sources as saying the actor "appeared extremely intoxicated during his award acceptance speech".

    • '30 Rock' pokes fun at Morgan's anti-gay controversy

    However, TMZ later posted a statement from Morgan's publicist, Lewis Kay, which said: "Any reports of Tracy consuming alcohol are 100 percent false. From a combination of exhaustion and altitude, Tracy is seeking medical attention."

    Morgan was diagnosed with diabetes in 1996. In 2010, he had a kidney transplant.

    NBC News and msnbc.com staff contributed to this report.

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    Isn't he diabetic? I wonder if his sugar was too low. That can often look like intoxication.

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  • 8
    Dec
    2011
    7:46pm, EST

    Questlove: NBC now clearing all songs on Fallon

    By The Associated Press

    Jeff Fusco / Getty Images Contributor

    Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

    NBC is now checking the songs the Roots play on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" after the band performed an off-color song during Michele Bachmann's show appearance last month.

    Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson of The Roots says now he's "gotta clear a lot of the song choices" with the network.

    "It's still a comedy show, so they promise not to step on my toes or that type of thing, but they definitely want to know the title of the song, the subject matter of the song, can it be seen as an insult?" he said in an interview Thursday.

    When the Republican presidential candidate appeared on the Nov. 22 show, The Roots, the house band for Fallon's show, played a snippet of a 1985 Fishbone song called "Lyin' Ass B----." A day later the Minnesota congresswoman received a personal letter from NBC's vice president for late night programming, Doug Vaughan; Fallon also apologized. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture between NBC and Microsoft.)

    "It was kind of wrong for me to throw (NBC) under the bus without telling them what it was, so I understand from a business standpoint," Thompson said.

    The drummer and frontman of The Roots said after the incident, he heard from members of Fishbone. The veteran rock band is the subject of a recent documentary, "Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone," so for them, the controversy likely helped.

    "They have a movie out so I guess for them at least the stars were aligned," he said. "They're one of my favorite bands, like I tip my hat to those guys."

    Related content:

    • Fallon apologizes to Bachmann for song
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    © 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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