HOLMES: Trending today, Tracy Morgan stirring up some controversy in this country because apparently his stand-up has been perceived as an anti-gay rant rather than a comedic performance. During a recent appearance, people claimed Morgan said, he would, quote, "pull out a knife and stab his own son if he found out the boy was gay." Today, Morgan issued a statement, an apology. He said, I want to apologize to my fans and gay and lesbian community for my choice of words in my recent stand-up act in Nashville. I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others. I'm an equal opportunity jokester and my friends know what is in my heart even in a comedy club, it's clearly went too far and was funny in any context. Today, our Randi Kaye interviewed Kevin Rogers who attended Morgan's performance. Listen.</s>KEVIN ROGERS, ATTENDED TRACY MORGAN'S SHOW: I greatly appreciate his apology. I only hope that it actually is genuine and that's how he feels. And if that is the case, he shows my community and his fans that he is truly sorry for those remarks and takes content like that from his show. I greatly accept his apology.</s>HOLMES: Mr. Rogers, you saw there he actually had to call and tell his parents that he was gay. He had to reveal that to them before they did any interviews on television today. Meanwhile, the human rights campaign, the largest lesbian-gay bisexual and transgender of Civil Rights organization also put out a statement saying that Tracy Morgan exercises extremely poor judgment and he did the right thing by apologizing, but that's just not enough. He's a role model and Morgan now has a responsibility to make amends for his horribly hurtful and dangerous comedy routine. We have not heard the last of that. We do appreciate you spending some time with us here at the CNN NEWSROOM. Thank you for allowing me to be here. Brooke Baldwin, I think she's back next week. Hope she's having a good weekend. Right now, let me hand it over to Wolf Blitzer.
Morgan Apologizes for Gay Jokes