As an Eddie Murphy fan, I took his talent for granted and his influence on black culture... Chris Rock, Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Key and Peele, and more people that I can't think of now. I took Eddie's talent for granted. I don't anymore.
Since Eddie is into doing sequels, one sequel he really should do before he officially retires is NUTTY PROFESSOR 3. Why? Because Arsenio Hall said it best that,, NOBODY IS BETTER THAN EDDIE MURPHY AT PLAYING MULTIPLE CHARACTERS IN MOVIES. Plus, I don't think we've seen the best of everything Eddie Murphy is capable of in movies where he gets to show a broad range of his talents.
Eddie is awesome. Huge fan and have been since I was a kid. Grew up loving his talents. I saw Trading Places when I was 10 years old summer 1984. First movie of his I saw in theaters was Beverly Hills Cop and I was a couple months from turning 11 years old. It changed my life and I have been a fan ever since. He’s the G.O.A.T
Eddie is bad to the bone baby!👋 No one is going to fill his shoes !EVER! Love me some Eddie Murphy! I literally can't get enough of Eddie Murphy performance with God father of soul James Brown & SNL is over the top when Eddie performs.. Thank you my bro! 🍷🌹💝
The voice of The NY Times podcaster sounds exactly how I’d imagine a NY times podcaster to sound like: very nasally, pronouncing every vowel with seriousness and a hint of arrogance 😂
I definitely agree with Eddie when he says there’s no such thing as a flop. Because every single movie or anything he’s ever done or been apart of, someone out there enjoys it for whatever reason. Regardless of how popular a thing is, anything that he’s done in his career resonates with people. Like for me, even tho Beverly Hills Cop 3 is not the most loved out of the 3, I really love that movie. BHC3 was the first movie I’ve seen out of the 3. I definitely think 1 and 2 are better but 3 holds a special place in my heart because I grew up watching that movie. I wasn’t alive when 1 and 2 came out but I was a kid in the 90’s and BHC3 came out in 94.
To be fair though, if he didn't let his ego get in the way (which is earned), he would have made way more solid films. Aside from My Name is Dolemite (which is still just good, not great), he hasn't done anything worthwhile in about 17 years.
@@jamk2668Well, that’s one way of looking at it if you’re not that big of an Eddie Murphy fan. He can wait 30 years to make a great movie, he’s still the greates entertainer of all time. I have my opinions about some of the stuff that’s my least favorite but I still enjoy almost every movie he’s been apart.
1) If you're not a pre-1980 baby, you'll never understand the REAL TIME experience of 2 Black American males (Michael Jackson and Eddie Murphy)...dominating pop culture. ESPECIALLY 1984--1988. My Mom pulled my brothers and I from school (in East Harlem/Spanish Harlem)....to see Beverly Hills Cop on a Friday afternoon. It was a nice, balmy day...in Spring. 1984. We saw it in the 86th Street theater and it was packed. We were all laughing our azzes off !! Eddie was right. He wasn't a side character. He wasn't just comic relief. We was an action star and proud (sometimes arrogant), Black male. He opened many doors and opportunities, for the Black male actors who followed him. The audience was ethnically-mixed. Michael Jackson and Eddie Murphy. 1984--1988. You had to be there. 2) MUST these Euro-American reporters constantly inject their political biases; to provoke Black Americans!!? Y'all constantly try to manipulate our emotions (after you take a break from fetishizing us)....and it's ANNOYING to experience....or, hear. Trump? Come on🙄
@@zakiasimpson8928 Michael was already a behemoth, and starting the “Victory Tour”, when Purple Rain took over. We were arguing in the playground: “Michael, or Prince!?? MICHAEL, OR PRINCE!!?” 😡😡🎤🎤 [and dare you to give the wrong answer]🤣🤣
@@domarq yep Michael and Prince held down the 80s. Even Eddie Murphy was the Purple Rain premiere being interviewed about how much he was a fan of Prince.
@@zakiasimpson8928 I attended his 1997 Emancipation concert, in Baltimore (July, 1997) before his hips were really, really damaged (by 2000). Chii’le….he gave us a SHOW-show!! And I swear he’s only 5 feet tall. That took me out 😄🤣
@@domarq have you seen his 2009’Montreux shows, half time performance and guitar solo for hall of fame, 2009 Jay Leno show? Coachella performance around 2008? His performance ability continued to be great. One of few performers that continued to be great
Such a great interview! I won't forget how magical it was what Eddie did in Nutty Professor. I just couldn't believe that one person could play all those roles as a kid.
Eddie Murphy Wassili Young when he became auspicious. He compared his success as to walking through a mine field. I never heard him talk about the reality of the Blackman in the industry. He is actually cunning enough to make choices for his life.I would say he was raised well.
Great content. Eddie murphy is a deep thinker. I don't like ceremonies awards when people pretend they don't know who you're. Deep. I was like a puppy dog when I saw Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby. So much depth in this video. Honestly.
This is one of the GREATEST INTERVIEWS I have ever encountered. The questions were PHENOMENAL. And Eddie's answers... EDDIE MURPHY I "NEVER" saw as "GENIOUS." Until now, Eddie Murphy is a fu**** GENIOUS. Its probably why the movie LIFE is the GREATEST movie I have ever seen
I lived on the same street and saw our half of the STREET BLOCKED OFF ON SEWARD AND SECOND IN DETROIT WHEN THEY FILMED THE BEGINING OF BEVERLY HILLS COP 1.MY MOMS BEST FRIEND LIVED IN THE SAME BUILDING where eddies friend was killed. The production assistants lied to us about the title of the movie...until i found out later.
Good interview. Eddie is usually good value in interviews; so many awesome stories. This one was much more introspective and philosophical so nice work from everyone involved. I got all of Eddies huge hits pretty much back to back once I was 13 or so in the late 80s, so I was there for how huge he was, but it was just like this lightning burst of greatest hits one after the other. It must have been surreal at the time over a period of 12 or so years where everything he touched seemed to turn to gold. Maybe Will Smith's early career might be a good parallel. Personally I'd like to see Eddie doing some more dramatic acting, I thought he was excellent in the movie "Mr Church"
Ive watched Spade deliver that joke and no matter how many times I cannot for the life of me see, feel or hear any racism in it. Im really disappointed that Eddie is that much of a diva.
I believe the 2 greatest comedians of all time, are Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy, but in learning about both men and their life stories, they couldn’t be more different in personality and mentality. Pryor was flawed and relatable. Murphy was a comedic prodigy, supremely confident in his ability and who he was. He didn’t make the same life altering mistakes that Pryor made. But then again, he didn’t experience some of the horrible things that Pryor experienced. Both reached the top of their field, taking completely different journeys to get there.
I liked way back when Eddie Murphy played Mr.Robison and he goes this is how you answer the door in my neighborhood WHO IS IT???) LOL I liked Eddie Murphy ever since thank you very much Mr.Murphy.😊
He's one of the few who wasn't res prospectively #metoo-ed. Glad he is still around. He's from way back when stand ups could offend anyone equally and everyone knew it was jokes and comedy, no one made a social case against them.
David Spade was WRONG! The three words Eddie Murphy needs to repeat can be found on the mouth of the great Kit Ramsey. I still believe Murphy was robbed of an Oscar (or at least a nomination), but it is now obvious that he was reaching deep down into an autobiographical well to inform the excellent performances in the classic, “Bowfinger”. You listenin’ Eddie? Remember: “Keep it together, keep it together…”
If they would have made a joke about how bad or corny the movie or performance was, it would have been different. They chose to attack his career and talent. They tried to run with a joke that could ruin his reputation and accomplishments. Eddie Murphy’s career put a lot of money in people’s pockets. He made vehicles that brought work to black talent and legends. Boomerang, Coming To America, Harlem Nights. Think of all the careers sustained and launched on Eddie’s box office status.
Name one white cast member who was ever treated like this? At the time the joke was made there had only been a few Black cast members. Why only single out the Black star? The guy who saved your show and was the biggest star you produced is a “falling star?” Seems racist to me.
@@Ernest20904 Why does it have to be racism? Why not jealousy, envy or maybe he just rubbed whoever the writer was the wrong way. I just laughed about someone picking up a table. I joked that they should make sure it's not a table for little people. I had a great laugh. They were offended by a harmless joke. Took real personally. Some people are too in their feelings. The joke wasn't even hitting like that. Clearly Murphy had insecurities and the joke hit a nerve that perhaps he himself felt was true. Maybe the joke shouldn't have been approved, but racist?!
As much as I love Eddie, him taking credit as "the first" black international star and the first main attraction in comedy is a bit of a stretch. Within a certain context, yes, but it's being said in a way that's too broad for people who don't know history. There are far too many other groundbreaking artists who laid the foundation for him. People who made him possible. Granted, he definitely raised the bar, but the "first" this and that is too extreme to be valid. Nonetheless, what a talent and legend!
eddie should have been able to take a joke about his terrible movie. calling it a racist joke? pathetic. get over it/ if the movie hadn't been mentioned on snl no one would know it existed// edit: folks feel free to continue conversing about whatever here but we're 20+ comments deep/ the relevant stuff has been said, i'm not paying attention anymore.
Agreed. The whole show is based upon jokes on others expense. The idea that SNL would have ceased to exist had he not come on the show. The ego on this guy
As a dude 10 years younger than the God Eddie Murphy, less than 20 miles from where I'm from in NY. Watching his rise was one of my greatest memories on this planet. He broke through barriers that had never been broken. The funniest SNL skit is where he dressed up as a whiteboy in Manhattan and got loans for free and exposed how white people really acted when Blacks weren't around. It was liberating to watch such feats. The amount of discouragement that a young Black child has to face being born on this planet, and you start noticing how unfair the world is around 4 years old, and to have someone like Mr. Murphy just bust through the Hollywood walls with charisma and an unadulterated lack of fear like a native New Yorker will always sit with me in a different type of way. He never sold out no matter what, but he did take some bruises in his career, but he never let that stop him. Salute to you family and all your endeavors. I feel sorry for these newer generations to not have been able to witness what this man accomplished in real time for it was like watching a meteor hit the Earth surface. Celebrity isn't celebrity no more, especially in this reality star era, but Eddie is the epitome of what a celebrity is, and to listen to this interview and hear his honesty and vulnerability on this level is truly a blessing considering this type of an in depth interview didn't exist back when. Peace 🙌🏾
Ironic to complain about racism while complaining that Ebony attacked him, because they're "his people".At the same he complains about White people essentially doing the same thing.
Not gonna lie, just lost a little respect for a childhood hero. Calling that joke racist is just nuts and the rest of the comment showed how full of him self he is.
He’s one of only a few Blacks who had been on the show at that time, and he was the biggest star who came from that show. No other cast member had their career made fun of. None of the white ones who did bad movies. As a man of his age from that era, he can see how he’s being singled out. You also don’t know what else he experienced on the show either that led him to that conclusion. The joke doesn’t have to be racist but the fact that he was singled out for that treatment is what he saw as racist.
@Ernest20904 I have a very hard time believing that no other cast member ever, not even once, had to take a joke about their career. I do not see this as racism. Just a black man with such thin skin it might as well be transparent.
Im not saying Brando wasn't a good actor. He was. BUT THE GREATEST ACTOR OF ALL TIME????? Stop it Eddie!!!! You guys can't trick me! Even in Apocalypse Now Martin Sheen was better. Maybe early early Brando black and white was ahead of his time. Al Pacino, Robert Deniro, Leo DiCappy, Will Smith, Jhonny Depp, Shia Lebouffy, and my personal GOAT Denzel Washington all are better actors than Brando! DANG I HAVE TO BE THE PORTUGA HATER TO SPEAK TRUTHA HUH 🤷♂️ Edit: Thomas Cruise somewhere punching the air... TU TA SEXY TOO TOM 😘
YOU navigated to an interview of EDDIE MURPHY. Your aforementioned description is 40 YEARS of Eddie. The interviewer also gave a disclaimer, before the start of the podcast. So, either you're "SLOW"....purposely envious...born after 1990....or you lived in a culturally-segregated town on Mars; for 40 years. 🤨😐😑
@@domarq I'm as curious about Murphy as anyone else so gave him my attention. He's grown up, a bit, but his debut record was not great. That's, like, my opinion, man.
@@rainmanjr2007 If you want “curious”, there are other activities to indulge your curiosity. You’re trying to soften your initial statement, when it’s clear you sought this clip with a personal bias.
Eddie got stuck in comedy land where typecast roles painted them into a corner, and to be honest, he wasn't that good at comedy. Making faces is not comedy, and try and play off any of his stuff with a straight face. See if it's funny. Try and make Eddie look funny if he is not laughing out loud at his own jokes. It doesn't work, because it never really worked, but here it is! A comedy star, because the overall presentation is still somewhat original. That's before Chris Tucker doing a squeaker version of the same thing. He also stayed in his dug out niche. Do that thing once, and you'll be playing the same character the rest of your life. I wonder if they swapped them in the 5th Element. Would it have worked with Eddie? With AI, soon, you'll probably be able to ask for any actor to be rendered into any movie and it'll get produced right there on the fly. There are some of Eddie's films I haven't watched, and despite bein somewhat critical of him, I'll still watch all of his stuff, because it's nostalgia now. It's history. All of that past grows more distant, and I think it's better with Eddie Murphy, than without. He gave it his best, and kept his goddamn reputation clean. Look at how many actors and former idols completely ruin themselves. Look at what Will Smith has done to a lifetime of success. Flushed it down the toilet in one instance after being quite awesome in the 1st Suicide Squad. He's still rich though. Nothing's happening to his millions. Eddie is more humble, and to me that makes him a better man. Still an actor. A person who reads things off a piece of paper. Not a surgeon or an engineer, but who cares. He made lots of people laugh. Nobody's mad at Eddie. How can anyone be! He made it through life, and congrats to him for doing that, without stepping on other people's toes.
I’m a big Eddie Murphy fan. I agree with his Spade take except the “racist” piece. Dislike how the term “racist” is used too loosely these days. Maybe he was just jealous of you.
As an Eddie Murphy fan, I took his talent for granted and his influence on black culture... Chris Rock, Chappelle, Kevin Hart, Key and Peele, and more people that I can't think of now. I took Eddie's talent for granted. I don't anymore.
Real world buddy try living in it
Since Eddie is into doing sequels, one sequel he really should do before he officially retires is NUTTY PROFESSOR 3. Why? Because Arsenio Hall said it best that,, NOBODY IS BETTER THAN EDDIE MURPHY AT PLAYING MULTIPLE CHARACTERS IN MOVIES. Plus, I don't think we've seen the best of everything Eddie Murphy is capable of in movies where he gets to show a broad range of his talents.
Why is it harder for Eddie to make SOUL SOUL SOUL, but was much easier for a younger Eddie Murphy to make HARLEM NIGHTS back in 1989?
Eddie is awesome. Huge fan and have been since I was a kid. Grew up loving his talents. I saw Trading Places when I was 10 years old summer 1984. First movie of his I saw in theaters was Beverly Hills Cop and I was a couple months from turning 11 years old. It changed my life and I have been a fan ever since. He’s the G.O.A.T
Eddie Murphy is a National Treasure. One of my favorite Americans ever! I wish him great health and more success.
Eddie is bad to the bone baby!👋 No one is going to fill his shoes !EVER! Love me some Eddie Murphy! I literally can't get enough of Eddie Murphy performance with God father of soul James Brown & SNL is over the top when Eddie performs.. Thank you my bro! 🍷🌹💝
As an asian american dude i appreciate mr murphy's appreciation for bruce lee.
Enjoyed this interview. I absolutely adore Eddie Murphy .
The voice of The NY Times podcaster sounds exactly how I’d imagine a NY times podcaster to sound like: very nasally, pronouncing every vowel with seriousness and a hint of arrogance 😂
I mean, that's probably essential in order to interview Eddie, given his hubris at times. Don't get me wrong. It's earned for the most part.
Eddie probably could do this voice better than the interviewer himself...
And white 😊
'I was funny from the start' and that bus story are brilliant.
I definitely agree with Eddie when he says there’s no such thing as a flop. Because every single movie or anything he’s ever done or been apart of, someone out there enjoys it for whatever reason. Regardless of how popular a thing is, anything that he’s done in his career resonates with people. Like for me, even tho Beverly Hills Cop 3 is not the most loved out of the 3, I really love that movie. BHC3 was the first movie I’ve seen out of the 3. I definitely think 1 and 2 are better but 3 holds a special place in my heart because I grew up watching that movie. I wasn’t alive when 1 and 2 came out but I was a kid in the 90’s and BHC3 came out in 94.
To be fair though, if he didn't let his ego get in the way (which is earned), he would have made way more solid films. Aside from My Name is Dolemite (which is still just good, not great), he hasn't done anything worthwhile in about 17 years.
Same here, i remember renting it on ppv lol
@@jamk2668Well, that’s one way of looking at it if you’re not that big of an Eddie Murphy fan. He can wait 30 years to make a great movie, he’s still the greates entertainer of all time. I have my opinions about some of the stuff that’s my least favorite but I still enjoy almost every movie he’s been apart.
I'm still doing Bruce Lee..Eddie is a genius.
Thank you, Eddie Murphy for everything that you 've done. Keep up the good spirit. We love you. Greetings from Hamburg, Germany.
Man PLEASE do Murray Murray!!
It's a tragedy that Eddie was never a guest on his buddy Gilbert Gottfried's podcast!
This is as SUCH A GOOD Interview!!
1) If you're not a pre-1980 baby, you'll never understand the REAL TIME experience of 2 Black American males (Michael Jackson and Eddie Murphy)...dominating pop culture. ESPECIALLY 1984--1988.
My Mom pulled my brothers and I from school (in East Harlem/Spanish Harlem)....to see Beverly Hills Cop on a Friday afternoon. It was a nice, balmy day...in Spring. 1984. We saw it in the 86th Street theater and it was packed. We were all laughing our azzes off !! Eddie was right. He wasn't a side character. He wasn't just comic relief. We was an action star and proud (sometimes arrogant), Black male. He opened many doors and opportunities, for the Black male actors who followed him. The audience was ethnically-mixed.
Michael Jackson and Eddie Murphy. 1984--1988. You had to be there.
2) MUST these Euro-American reporters constantly inject their political biases; to provoke Black Americans!!? Y'all constantly try to manipulate our emotions (after you take a break from fetishizing us)....and it's ANNOYING to experience....or, hear. Trump? Come on🙄
And Prince
@@zakiasimpson8928 Michael was already a behemoth, and starting the “Victory Tour”, when Purple Rain took over. We were arguing in the playground: “Michael, or Prince!?? MICHAEL, OR PRINCE!!?” 😡😡🎤🎤 [and dare you to give the wrong answer]🤣🤣
@@domarq yep Michael and Prince held down the 80s. Even Eddie Murphy was the Purple Rain premiere being interviewed about how much he was a fan of Prince.
@@zakiasimpson8928 I attended his 1997 Emancipation concert, in Baltimore (July, 1997) before his hips were really, really damaged (by 2000). Chii’le….he gave us a SHOW-show!! And I swear he’s only 5 feet tall. That took me out 😄🤣
@@domarq have you seen his 2009’Montreux shows, half time performance and guitar solo for hall of fame, 2009 Jay Leno show? Coachella performance around 2008? His performance ability continued to be great. One of few performers that continued to be great
Such a great interview! I won't forget how magical it was what Eddie did in Nutty Professor. I just couldn't believe that one person could play all those roles as a kid.
Soul Soul Soul the Murray Murray Story. I'm in!
I’ve seen the Soul, Soul, Soul video. It is HILARIOUS!
This was totally awesome!
How tf does this only have 1k views? Fire whoever is managing this channel lol
4k now. Relax. It just went up. Lol
People care more about the article or the podcast.
Somebody make Soul Soul Soul!!!
Awesome Interview!
Great talk but did David Marchese do like, NO research for this?
RIP, Elvis, Michael and Prince.🙏
Eddie Murphy Wassili Young when he became auspicious. He compared his success as to walking through a mine field. I never heard him talk about the reality of the Blackman in the industry. He is actually cunning enough to make choices for his life.I would say he was raised well.
I want to see that movie trailer.
Great content. Eddie murphy is a deep thinker. I don't like ceremonies awards when people pretend they don't know who you're. Deep. I was like a puppy dog when I saw Richard Pryor and Bill Cosby. So much depth in this video. Honestly.
This does not redeem NYT, but wow, very interesting, honest and revealing.,
The interviewer didn't know much about Eddie Murphy career or what he said previously. The interviewer didn't match Eddie's light energy.
Eddie be lightin up 😂. The GOAT
Wow New York times actually giving someone their flowers 👏👏👏
This is one of the GREATEST INTERVIEWS I have ever encountered. The questions were PHENOMENAL. And Eddie's answers... EDDIE MURPHY I "NEVER" saw as "GENIOUS." Until now, Eddie Murphy is a fu**** GENIOUS. Its probably why the movie LIFE is the GREATEST movie I have ever seen
Wow!!! I love is perspective
Good to hear him speak ❤🎉❤ 35:44
Vampire In Brooklyn, is one of my favorite movies. Internet watch it, very funny..
Why don't his movies go to theaters anymore??
His laugh is hilarious, dude😂
I was looking for this comment! Listen to 15:53 and 16:20 in the podcast if you haven't noticed!
It's changed over the years
I lived on the same street and saw our half of the STREET BLOCKED OFF ON SEWARD AND SECOND IN DETROIT WHEN THEY FILMED THE BEGINING OF BEVERLY HILLS COP 1.MY MOMS BEST FRIEND LIVED IN THE SAME BUILDING where eddies friend was killed. The production assistants lied to us about the title of the movie...until i found out later.
Good interview. Eddie is usually good value in interviews; so many awesome stories. This one was much more introspective and philosophical so nice work from everyone involved. I got all of Eddies huge hits pretty much back to back once I was 13 or so in the late 80s, so I was there for how huge he was, but it was just like this lightning burst of greatest hits one after the other. It must have been surreal at the time over a period of 12 or so years where everything he touched seemed to turn to gold. Maybe Will Smith's early career might be a good parallel. Personally I'd like to see Eddie doing some more dramatic acting, I thought he was excellent in the movie "Mr Church"
That was elite!
Eddie could've won an Oscar for Nutty Professor and Dream Girls in my opinion
21:30
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ive watched Spade deliver that joke and no matter how many times I cannot for the life of me see, feel or hear any racism in it. Im really disappointed that Eddie is that much of a diva.
I believe the 2 greatest comedians of all time, are Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy, but in learning about both men and their life stories, they couldn’t be more different in personality and mentality. Pryor was flawed and relatable. Murphy was a comedic prodigy, supremely confident in his ability and who he was. He didn’t make the same life altering mistakes that Pryor made. But then again, he didn’t experience some of the horrible things that Pryor experienced. Both reached the top of their field, taking completely different journeys to get there.
Thank You Eddie for this❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
Eddie is a genius comedian
The interviewer is horrible he’s a damn robot Eddie Murphy is a legend for the interview to say Pluto Nash a better performance than Nutty professor.
I liked way back when Eddie Murphy played Mr.Robison and he goes this is how you answer the door in my neighborhood WHO IS IT???) LOL I liked Eddie Murphy ever since thank you very much Mr.Murphy.😊
Those skits were F hilarious
I can watch that movie he wants to make.
Eddie had it going on SO MUCH....he didnt have no time to indulge in STUPID sh*t. Because he was and WILL BE FOREVER RELAVENT.
He's one of the few who wasn't res prospectively #metoo-ed.
Glad he is still around.
He's from way back when stand ups could offend anyone equally and everyone knew it was jokes and comedy, no one made a social case against them.
He need to make that movie
He’ll always be the GOAT to me ❤
The Question: "Why don't you lean towards the challenge?" PERFECTION! 👌🏾
Marlon Brando wanted you Eddie😂😂
How many people Googled PEG-LEG BATES?
Best acting performance is Bowfinger?!? What is this interviewer talking about 😂
“Eddie, you know Richard Pryor was sitting right where you are now” “he was?” “Before he blew me” hmmm i guess thats how hollywood works.
I didnt know that the jewish guy in coming to AMERICA WAS EDDIE.
53:00 if you ever wondered why Eddie has 10 kids, here's the answer 😂
Eddie seems to be a lover of GOD
Why even bring up Trump and he's right about it not effecting the election
Ask him about the mysterious death of the trans woman back in the 90'.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bowfinger?!
Musician and sings? 😂
David Spade was WRONG! The three words Eddie Murphy needs to repeat can be found on the mouth of the great Kit Ramsey. I still believe Murphy was robbed of an Oscar (or at least a nomination), but it is now obvious that he was reaching deep down into an autobiographical well to inform the excellent performances in the classic, “Bowfinger”. You listenin’ Eddie? Remember: “Keep it together, keep it together…”
Amen.
He should act more
Him getting his feelings hurt over a dumb joke is a bit juvenile. To call it racist is a stretch as well. 🥴
Not to mention hilariously hypocritical. As if he never, ever made fun of anyone when he was on SNL.
If they would have made a joke about how bad or corny the movie or performance was, it would have been different. They chose to attack his career and talent. They tried to run with a joke that could ruin his reputation and accomplishments. Eddie Murphy’s career put a lot of money in people’s pockets. He made vehicles that brought work to black talent and legends. Boomerang, Coming To America, Harlem Nights. Think of all the careers sustained and launched on Eddie’s box office status.
Name one white cast member who was ever treated like this? At the time the joke was made there had only been a few Black cast members. Why only single out the Black star? The guy who saved your show and was the biggest star you produced is a “falling star?” Seems racist to me.
@@shviewjames126 he saved SNL also
@@Ernest20904 Why does it have to be racism? Why not jealousy, envy or maybe he just rubbed whoever the writer was the wrong way. I just laughed about someone picking up a table. I joked that they should make sure it's not a table for little people. I had a great laugh. They were offended by a harmless joke. Took real personally. Some people are too in their feelings. The joke wasn't even hitting like that. Clearly Murphy had insecurities and the joke hit a nerve that perhaps he himself felt was true. Maybe the joke shouldn't have been approved, but racist?!
As much as I love Eddie, him taking credit as "the first" black international star and the first main attraction in comedy is a bit of a stretch. Within a certain context, yes, but it's being said in a way that's too broad for people who don't know history. There are far too many other groundbreaking artists who laid the foundation for him. People who made him possible. Granted, he definitely raised the bar, but the "first" this and that is too extreme to be valid. Nonetheless, what a talent and legend!
I’ve adored Eddie Murphy since I was about 9 years old. I loved hearing him speak about his experiences…I did not enjoy this interviewer.
eddie should have been able to take a joke about his terrible movie. calling it a racist joke? pathetic. get over it/ if the movie hadn't been mentioned on snl no one would know it existed// edit: folks feel free to continue conversing about whatever here but we're 20+ comments deep/ the relevant stuff has been said, i'm not paying attention anymore.
Agreed. The whole show is based upon jokes on others expense. The idea that SNL would have ceased to exist had he not come on the show. The ego on this guy
Yeah, race had nothing to do with it. I wouldn't have thought that Eddie subscribed to the whole black fragility concept in comedy.
It was racist.
@@rft2001No. It was racist.
@@bgab2211 The ratings were in the toilet before he got there. Stop being racist.
As a dude 10 years younger than the God Eddie Murphy, less than 20 miles from where I'm from in NY. Watching his rise was one of my greatest memories on this planet. He broke through barriers that had never been broken. The funniest SNL skit is where he dressed up as a whiteboy in Manhattan and got loans for free and exposed how white people really acted when Blacks weren't around. It was liberating to watch such feats. The amount of discouragement that a young Black child has to face being born on this planet, and you start noticing how unfair the world is around 4 years old, and to have someone like Mr. Murphy just bust through the Hollywood walls with charisma and an unadulterated lack of fear like a native New Yorker will always sit with me in a different type of way. He never sold out no matter what, but he did take some bruises in his career, but he never let that stop him. Salute to you family and all your endeavors. I feel sorry for these newer generations to not have been able to witness what this man accomplished in real time for it was like watching a meteor hit the Earth surface. Celebrity isn't celebrity no more, especially in this reality star era, but Eddie is the epitome of what a celebrity is, and to listen to this interview and hear his honesty and vulnerability on this level is truly a blessing considering this type of an in depth interview didn't exist back when. Peace 🙌🏾
He def needs to look back he can’t rlly do standup cuz he’d be forced to explore his past openly
Remember then the transfemme person died after Eddie was pulled over with them?
Your not miasing anything Eddie, Nothing is going on.
Don't forget to mention the transformer that was found in his car late at night and eventually was thrown to his death
Return
What a coup!! It will be difficult to surpass.
Ironic to complain about racism while complaining that Ebony attacked him, because they're "his people".At the same he complains about White people essentially doing the same thing.
Not gonna lie, just lost a little respect for a childhood hero. Calling that joke racist is just nuts and the rest of the comment showed how full of him self he is.
He’s one of only a few Blacks who had been on the show at that time, and he was the biggest star who came from that show. No other cast member had their career made fun of. None of the white ones who did bad movies. As a man of his age from that era, he can see how he’s being singled out. You also don’t know what else he experienced on the show either that led him to that conclusion. The joke doesn’t have to be racist but the fact that he was singled out for that treatment is what he saw as racist.
@Ernest20904 I have a very hard time believing that no other cast member ever, not even once, had to take a joke about their career. I do not see this as racism. Just a black man with such thin skin it might as well be transparent.
Im not saying Brando wasn't a good actor. He was.
BUT THE GREATEST ACTOR OF ALL TIME?????
Stop it Eddie!!!! You guys can't trick me! Even in Apocalypse Now Martin Sheen was better.
Maybe early early Brando black and white was ahead of his time.
Al Pacino, Robert Deniro, Leo DiCappy, Will Smith, Jhonny Depp, Shia Lebouffy, and my personal GOAT Denzel Washington all are better actors than Brando!
DANG I HAVE TO BE THE PORTUGA HATER TO SPEAK TRUTHA HUH 🤷♂️
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Thomas Cruise somewhere punching the air...
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Wife? He's not married. Lol. Eddie is The GOAT
Marchese is an awful interviewer. Murphy was funny, at times, but he was also crude, self indulgent, and derivative.
YOU navigated to an interview of EDDIE MURPHY. Your aforementioned description is 40 YEARS of Eddie. The interviewer also gave a disclaimer, before the start of the podcast. So, either you're "SLOW"....purposely envious...born after 1990....or you lived in a culturally-segregated town on Mars; for 40 years. 🤨😐😑
@@domarq I'm as curious about Murphy as anyone else so gave him my attention. He's grown up, a bit, but his debut record was not great. That's, like, my opinion, man.
@@rainmanjr2007 If you want “curious”, there are other activities to indulge your curiosity. You’re trying to soften your initial statement, when it’s clear you sought this clip with a personal bias.
@@domarq Whine. Please leave me alone.
I got relatives all over NY SEEK GOD
What does that have to do with Eddie Murphy?
Sorry but Eddie is way off he's got plenty of flops some good stuff as well.
A lot of fake laughter
There's no one a like
Interesting interview but why Throw Trump under the bus? Its like the NY Times can't print a blueberry muffin recipe without mentioning Trump 😅.
He said the David Spade joke was racist. Calling someone a falling star is now racist
Eddie got stuck in comedy land where typecast roles painted them into a corner, and to be honest, he wasn't that good at comedy. Making faces is not comedy, and try and play off any of his stuff with a straight face. See if it's funny. Try and make Eddie look funny if he is not laughing out loud at his own jokes. It doesn't work, because it never really worked, but here it is! A comedy star, because the overall presentation is still somewhat original. That's before Chris Tucker doing a squeaker version of the same thing. He also stayed in his dug out niche. Do that thing once, and you'll be playing the same character the rest of your life. I wonder if they swapped them in the 5th Element. Would it have worked with Eddie? With AI, soon, you'll probably be able to ask for any actor to be rendered into any movie and it'll get produced right there on the fly.
There are some of Eddie's films I haven't watched, and despite bein somewhat critical of him, I'll still watch all of his stuff, because it's nostalgia now. It's history. All of that past grows more distant, and I think it's better with Eddie Murphy, than without. He gave it his best, and kept his goddamn reputation clean. Look at how many actors and former idols completely ruin themselves. Look at what Will Smith has done to a lifetime of success. Flushed it down the toilet in one instance after being quite awesome in the 1st Suicide Squad. He's still rich though. Nothing's happening to his millions. Eddie is more humble, and to me that makes him a better man. Still an actor. A person who reads things off a piece of paper. Not a surgeon or an engineer, but who cares. He made lots of people laugh. Nobody's mad at Eddie. How can anyone be! He made it through life, and congrats to him for doing that, without stepping on other people's toes.
he used to be the funniest. now he’s super mediocre.
I’m a big Eddie Murphy fan. I agree with his Spade take except the “racist” piece. Dislike how the term “racist” is used too loosely these days. Maybe he was just jealous of you.
Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell hello!
Films he controlled were embarrassing. And he disgraced himself with that Spice Girl.
Hater
Boo hoo! We loved you! Still do, but you made fun of black people more than anyone! Falling star is racist?
Man 1 hour and thats all you could come up with? Bowfinger.....Do better interviewer, or get me 1 hour I will do it for you.