Send For The Sandman! 9 Celebs Who Got Rejected Or Booed Off The Apollo Stage Before Making It Big

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Tracy Morgan

Morgan, like Chappelle, was another comedian just trying to get his start out in these streets, only to be met with enough boos to get him kicked off the stage. Luckily for the funny man, who is finishing up his final season on the show “30 Rock,” and even returned to the Apollo stage for his stand up show, Black and Blue, according to Locate TV, he says it made him ballsy:

That’s what gave me my balls,” he said during an early August session with TV critics at the networks’ annual summer “press tour.” “If you can survive getting booed at the Apollo, then everything else is a cinch. That’s the attitude I had when I went  to Saturday Night Live (from 1996 to 2003). I’m tough. I got booed at the Apollo.

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