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Controversy may help sell books, but publicly bashing your former coworkers doesn't exactly make for comfortable work environments. Which is why we're thinking Lorne Michaels may have had a word, at least if Tracy Morgan's suddenly toned-down comments are any indication.

"It's not that I don't have nice things to say," Morgan told Matt Lauer when pressed on his "f--- 'em" comments to Cheri Oteri and Chris Kattan last week. (He had us fooled.) "It just never was there."

"We never had a relationship, I don't have anything against anybody, but what happened happened…at any job there are differences. At any job, wherever you go, there are gonna be people who don't get along, who don't speak."

Morgan, who in a leaked clip from the audiobook of his new memoir, I Am the New Black, named names and apropos of, well, nothing really, slammed his former colleagues, pointing to their careers and claiming nowadays neither could so much as "get arrested."

Maybe that was Chico Divine talking?

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A loser theoretical physicist, a loser songwriter, a loser middle manager, even a loser TV exec. Seems like Emmy has taken a shine to the socially awkward this year, at least when it comes to funny fellas, so which loser will go home a winner on Sunday?

Lead Actor, Comedy

• Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory
• Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords
• Tony Shalhoub, Monk
• Steve Carell, The Office
• Alec Baldwin, 30 Rock
• Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men

Our own Hollywood Party Girl Cristina Gibson predicts:

"Jemaine Clement. Sure, all the guys nominated are obviously funny, but only one has a hot Kiwi accent and can write and sing ridiculously funny and clever songs."

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It's been a good-news, bad-news summer for Tracy Morgan. On the plus side: the 30 Rocker just scored his first Emmy nomination. On the minus side, there's that whole divorce thing.

After eight years in limbo, the former SNL funnyman has finally filed to dissolve his union with wife Sabrina seeking an end to 23 years of not-so wedded bliss.

Per the New York Daily News, the 40-year-old star filed a petition in Bronx Supreme Court stating his intention to make official what family and friends have pretty much known for years—that he and wife Sabina were done. No reason for the split was given.

The once-upon-a-time high school honeys tied the knot in 1985 and separated in 2001. Several attempts at reconciliation have fizzled out. They have three sons.

Maybe he finally figured it was time to break out the Funcooker.

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Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett have a hit show, a wedding, and now they're having a baby! They also were really cute babies. Check out our whole galleries of Kendra's Childhood Moments and Hank's Childhood Pics!

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The season finale of 30 Rock capped a great season with a star-studded "We Are the World" type sing-along featuring Mary J. Blige, Clay Aiken, Sheryl Crow, Adam Levine of Maroon 5, Norah Jones, Cyndi Lauper, two-thirds of the Beastie Boys and all of  Elvis Costello.

Check out Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin and this rousing organ-related tune, and you may find yourself moved to donate a kidney—or two—to the cause. (And if you are so moved, go here. Seriously.)