Tracy Morgan wants to get his sharks and moray eel tested for coronavirus

During a wide-ranging and utterly bizarre interview on the Today show Tuesday, actor Tracy Morgan fretted about the health of his exotic animals after reading that a tiger at the Bronx zoo tested positive for COVID-19 over the weekend.

"I'm getting my sharks tested, I'm getting my moray eel tested, I just bought a 600-pound silverback gorilla and I'm going to take him down to NewYork-Presbyterian and get him tested," Morgan, who owns a 20,000-gallon fish tank, told a disbelieving Hoda Kotb.

"Are you for real or are you just pretending?" Kotb pushed, attempting to get the interview back on track. But Morgan claimed, "No, I'm for real man, this is real stuff!"

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Watch the interview — which begins with some awkward TMI — below. Jeva Lange