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Morgan’s Super airline stand-up

Tracy Morgan had football fans rolling in the aisles as he cracked jokes on the flight back to New York from the Super Bowl. The “30 Rock” star and die-hard Giants fan did an impromptu stand-up routine at Indianapolis Airport after the Giants victory — and he even managed to cheer up some Patriots fans. Spies said Morgan continued his jokes on the 1:15 a.m. Monday Delta flight before an audience that included Sen. Chuck Schumer and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. Sliwa told us, “I was waiting for the flight with a crowd of Giant celebrants and Patriots fans looking like the Grim Reaper was about to get them. Tracy, in an all-blue outfit that had the Yankees moniker on it, plus a Yankees hat, ran up and embraced me. We started talking about The Bronx in the late 1970s . . . and how bad the Giants were back then, but the team still had die-hard fans. Then Tracy started doing stand-up for everyone in the terminal, and even the Patriots fans perked up. He was taking pictures with them, shaking hands, and saying, ‘Great game. You should be proud.’ Tracy was like a king in his court — he had everyone’s attention.” Sliwa said that later, on the flight to LaGuardia, passengers were treated to more stand-up. He related, “I was sitting in steerage, Tracy was in first-class with Schumer and you could hear him telling jokes . . . He was talking about the Giants and New York life. Everybody had a good belly laugh. It was the best comedy show I have seen for two reasons: I laughed hard, and I didn’t have to pay for it.” Morgan told us last night, “It all started at the food court. We were feeling so good. There was an amazing electricity. I was with my comrades and my Giants fans and my family. It was a star-studded flight.” Despite recent drama on an American Airlines flight involving Morgan’s “30 Rock” co-star Alec
Baldwin, which prompted flight attendants to ask that the show no longer be screened in-flight, Sliwa said two AA workers in the terminal “didn’t recognize Tracy and said, ‘Boy, that guy is really funny. He should become a comedian.’ ”