Steve Bloom CelebStoner.com "Garrett Morris: The Unpublished Interview"

Very cool, my blog and the person that made the video interview of Garrett Morris on marijuana, brought this previously unpublished piece from Steve Bloom.

It's an honor to get a link from Steve and CelebStoner.com.
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This interview was originally for Rolling Stone but never published until now.

Link to CelebStoner.com "Garrett Morris: The Unpublished Interview"

Excerpt:

This week's video posting of original Saturday Night Live cast member Garrett Morris talking about marijuana on a pro-weed blog brought back memories. In 1978, I interviewed Morris for Rolling Stone. An ambitious young journalistic, I pitched the mag on Morris, who was the least known member of SNL's Not Ready for Prime Time Players. They gave me the assignment, but never ran the piece.

Garrett Morris now 72, Morris runs the Downtown Comedy Club in Los Angeles, where the above interview took place. Asked about pot, he says: "It's absolutely the right thing to have marijuana legalized. I don't understand why it was ever made illegal... Nobody's ever died from smoking a joint. If it doesn't kill anyone, why is it illegal?"

From 1975 to 1980, Morris was part of TV's funniest comedy troupe. He was SNL's first black cast member, joining John Belushi, Dan Akyroyd, Gilda Radner, Chevy Chase, Lorraine Newman and Jane Curtin in the show's lineup. Morris' most famous character was Latino baseball player Chico Escuela who best line was, "Baseball been berry, berry good to me."

Original SNL cast by 1978, when I interviewed Morris, Belushi (Animal House) and Chase (Foul Play) had become big stars and the show was starting to going through its first major cast transitions.

I visited Morris backstage at NBC Studios in 30 Rockefeller Plaza on Nov. 18. 1978. In the interview transcript, my first question is, "Can you give me a little background about yourself?"

"No, no, no, no, no," Morris replied. "You have to ask questions now. The background, you can just get that from NBC."

Good point. It was a lame question.

"Do you smoke cigarettes?" he asked.

I said no.

"Do you sniff coke?"

I said yes.

"Got any with you?"

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