'SNL' VET IN DWI BUST HERENot - so - funnyman Tracy Morgan was caught stinking drunk behind the wheel in upper Manhattan yesterday - earning his second misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated charge in 11 months, cops said.
The comedian, who got more snores than laughs on "Saturday Night Live" and currently plays a drunk, washed-up comic on "30 Rock," was arrested at 4:30 a.m. when cops allegedly spotted his Cadillac Escalade weaving in and out of lanes on the Henry Hudson Parkway near 158th Street.
He was a few minutes from his apartment in Spuyten Duyvil in The Bronx.
Morgan, 38, is still on probation after a Hollywood bust for impaired driving last December, when cops stopped him for speeding. He pleaded no contest in February to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving and had to attend an alcohol-education program.
"I am coming from a club," cops said the boozy-breathed, watery-eyed Morgan told them during his pre-dawn arrest yesterday. "Yes, I had some beer."
Once taken to the 28th Precinct, the stand-up comic was falling-down drunk, Manhattan prosecutors charge. He gave an allegedly stumbling, unsteady performance during his coordination test - which he failed.
He also blew a .126 on his breath test, indicating his blood-alcohol content was well above the .08 limit, cops said.
Morgan's blood-alcohol level had been .13 after his Hollywood arrest.
Morgan was brought before a Manhattan Criminal Court judge by 2:30 p.m. and charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, and the violation of operating a motor vehicle while impaired.
He refused - at least for now - a plea deal in which he would avoid jail by paying a $1,000 fine, serving five days community service.
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