‘SNL’ Alum Tracy Morgan Thanks ‘Fist Fight’ Cast And Crew For Making His Big Screen Return Easier

“SNL” alum Tracy Morgan is grateful for the cast and crew of the upcoming comedy film “Fist Fight” for making his big screen comeback easier than he thought.

“Thank God I had a lot of loving [cast and] crew that gave me a lot of love and support,” Morgan told Entertainment Tonight when asked how he found his comedy stride again in his new movie after his near fatal accident in 2014. “They believed in me and they allowed me and gave the space to be creative on set, so with that comfortability ... I just started being funny again.”

Morgan plays Freddie Coward in the Richie Keen-directed flick, which centers on an after-school fight between two teachers, Andy Campbell (Charlie Day) and Ron Strickland (Ice Cube), that comes about after the latter accidentally gets the former fired.

“The transition [back to the big screen] was smooth. Thanks to the people I was working with, thanks to the director that I had,” Morgan said in a separate interview with Yahoo Movies. “It was excellent for me. I sit back and I think about it and I go, ‘Wow. Maybe if I had a different project with different people, it might not have been that good.’”

Meanwhile, Day and Ice Cube are both thrilled to have Morgan in the film. “I was so happy that he was healthy and able to work and was able to come and be in this movie,” Day said. “I was so happy that the studio (Warner Bros. Pictures) was not nervous to work with him and not nervous with how he would be. And boy, does he deliver in the movie. He’s as funny as he’s ever been.”

Ice Cube added, “Just to see him back and totally himself … totally Tracy — no remnants of any kind of trauma — it’s just cool man, to see him like I remembered. It was like nothing ever happened.”

In June 2014, Morgan’s limousine was struck by a Walmart tractor-trailer on the New Jersey Turnpike. The collision killed Morgan’s friend and fellow passenger, James McNair, and required the stand-up comedian to undergo extensive rehabilitation and physical therapy.

While he admitted to Yahoo Movies that he’ll never quite be 100 percent again after having lost McNair from the accident, he said that the show business community he belongs to has given him a “safe haven” in which he can feel comfortable and be his usual funny self.

“Fist Fight,” which also stars Jillian Bell, Christina Hendricks and Kumail Nanjiani, among many others, opens in theaters on Friday, Feb. 17.