A night of standup routines turned gravely serious when a luxury van carrying comic Tracy Morgan and his pals overturned in a multivehicle crash early Saturday, killing one and leaving the “30 Rock” actor critically injured. One of Morgan’s writers and closest confidants, James (Uncle Jimmy Mack) McNair, 63, of upstate Peekskill, was pronounced dead at the scene on the New Jersey Turnpike, police said. Morgan, 45, and his assistant, Jeff Millea, 36, were airlifted to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where both remained in critical condition Saturday evening. “His family is now with him and he is receiving excellent care,” Morgan’s publicist, Lewis Kay, said in a statement. “We don’t anticipate much of a change in his condition today.” A source told the Daily News that the famed funnyman was “in very bad shape.” Two other comedians traveling in the bus, Harris Stanton and Ardie Fuqua, were also injured. Morgan — who first gained fame as a cast member on “Saturday Night Live” — was traveling in the vehicle with six people when it was struck by a Wal-Mart truck about 1 a.m. on the highway in Cranbury, said New Jersey State Police spokesman Sgt. Gregory… Read full this story
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