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The casting of the first seasons ofSaturday Night Live Was packed with future comedy legends that become superstars, but as many careers never reached the same heights after leaving the show.Garrett Morris,SNLThe first member of the black distribution, falls somewhere between these two groups. Although he has never become a head of mind likeBill Murray,Steve Martin, or later,Eddie Murphy, Its stealine from 1975 to 1980 on the series of popular varieties launched a career that suffered this day. Continue reading to find out what happened to Morris after leavingSNLAnd what held it now.

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After being goneSaturday Night Live In 1980, after 5 years at the show, Morris worked constantly in the films and on television - and no job turned out too small and no too nerdy film. He took all the title role in the black comedyThe census a small role in theRichard Pryor comedyA critical state.

He ré from his desire to do any project, including movies B,Talking at CBS News In 2014. "One of my horror films was a thing calledThe thing", Reminded Morris. It's [now] a worship favorite. And at the end, my head is knocked out!"

On television, it appeared in a series of conventional series '80 and 90s, includingShots,Jeffersons,The murder she wrote,Hill Street Blues,The love boat, andMarried to childrenand played an intelligent street informant in 28 episodes of the drama of the crimeHunter.

He spent the rest of the 90s doing long terns on two popular sitcoms. It appeared in more than 50 episodes ofMartin between 1992 and 1995 and played at Uncle Junior King onJamie Foxx from 1996 to 2001. Between between, he appeared on the big screen of theSNL spinoff movieConneheads, the comedy of superheroes at low budgetBlack scorpionand the independent hitTwin Falls, Idaho.

Since 2000, it has appeared in small roles in 16 films, including Hit Marvel 2015The ant Man-A nod to her playing the hero inA sketch SNL decade earlier. He also landed a leading role in the SITCOM of the CBSTwo mowed girls Play Earl Washington, an ex-jazz musician turned the dinner cashier, playing the character of all the fifty show.

Despite regular landing jobs, Morris has treated difficult times. Even if his star climbed as a member of the distribution onSNLHe used drugs frequently, which made him difficult for him to connect to his castmates.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"I was very introverted," he told CBS News in 2014. "And I had a cocaine problem too, which added. So, a lot of what I did was counterproductive For myself with respect to group it. "

He struggled with an addiction for 30 years before becoming sober in 2005,he saidHollywood journalist EN 2021.

Morris's time on the showMartin Has been cut at the tragedy after being shot during a flight attempt in 1994 and required the use of a wheelchair for several years after. While he was in the hospital, he learned that his character had been cut off from the series, Morris revealed in an interview with the American television archives (Per Comedy Hype)

Whenever he does not act, Morris delivers his two great loves: comedy and jazz. In 2005, he opened his own place of Los Angeles, theGarrett Morris' Downtown Blues & Comedy ClubWhere the weekend, he played mastery of ceremonies with a range of comic coming bands. After closing the club in 2016, he moved his show at the Catalina Jazz Club of L.A ..

A lifelong musician who studied classical music at Dering University of New Orleans and played with Singers Harry Berafonte in the 1950s, Morris also recorded two blues albums: 2014Chronicles Black Creoles and 2018Legacy.

In 2007,Antonio Villaraigosa, then the mayor of Los Angeles, named the city center of Blues and Comedy Club the official club of L.A. and proclaimed February 9, 2007 like Garrett Morris Day,According to Fox News.

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Morris was 80 years old when2 broke girls Finished, but he did not have the opportunity to slow down after that. He recently appeared in episodes ofMacgyver,It's us,Scandal,A black lady sketch showAnd the Netflix seriesFamily meeting andSelf made.

When CBS News asked if he intended to retire, Morris answered with a resounding.

"It keeps me, you know?" he said. "If you think what you need to do the next day, your body will say," Let me be here to do that, "Is it not? So I want my body to continue to say," I must be here To do that, "up to 98 or 99, it says," Ok, I'm not going to do that, okay? "

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