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Yeah. TRACY: I got to -- it's really literally like starting over. When I went back to
Saturday Night Live, I was there for seven years. So it was like the first day I was so
nervous, I was so crazy, and it's like two shows. You do the dress show. You do the air
show. And in between -- but the dress show I got in my own head. I wasn't fully
recovered. I got in my own head. There's this wardrobe person named Donna. She
has to grab me from set to set because you've got commercials because it's live TV.
And I started to think the audience is looking at me and they're pitying me and they
feel sorry for me and they think I'm an invalid. There's something wrong with me. So
in between dress and air, I went to Lorne Michaels. I said Lorne, man, I don't
know. OPRAH: In between commercial breaks? TRACY: No. OPRAH: In between
the dress and the real one, yeah. TRACY: I said, I don't know, man. It's like I think
they feel sorry for me. And Lorne Michaels said, Tracy, they don't care about the
funny. They're just happy you're here. OPRAH: Yeah. TRACY: And at that moment,
I let go. And I let God. And I gave 'em everything. I'm leaving everything out
there. OPRAH: Yeah. TRACY: They're giving me -- and when I came out to do that
monologue, I seen the people were (inaudible.) They were just happy. And I was so
happy.