Posted on 12/31/2019 9:01:01 AM PST by DoodleBob
After almost 40 years in the spotlight, Eddie Murphy has seen how the times have changed in terms of lines comedians are willing to cross with their material.
But despite knowing how much of what he used to cover in how own stand-up routines 30-plus years ago wouldn’t fly today, he does admit there’s “some of” his material he’d still laugh at now — while other jokes are “cringey.”
“Some of it, I cringe when I watch it,” he said during an interview with Tracy Smith for CBS Sunday Morning this week, adding with a laugh, “Like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I said that.’ ”
“In the moment, you kinda was like, ‘It is what it is,’ ” continued Murphy, 58, when Smith asked if people “picketing” his old material ever eats at him. “I’ve seen [old] stuff [recently] that I go like, ‘Oh, that’s … ooh.’ Yeah, you get a joke every now and then that’s cringey.”
“But that’s not to say I don’t appreciate it — I still appreciate it. And I’m looking at it within the context of the time, you know? I’m going, ‘Okay, I’m a kid saying that,’ ” said the actor and comedian, noting that he has no regrets “whatsoever” about his body of work.
Some of Murphy’s more controversial material is evident in his 1983 stand-up special Eddie Murphy: Delirious, where he joked about being “afraid of gay people” and about the AIDS epidemic.
Today, the star’s recent comeback (after starring over the years in films like Shrek and The Nutty Professor) has included a new Netflix biographical comedy, Dolemite Is My Name, and triumphant return to the Saturday Night Live stage, where he brought back several iconic characters from his initial run on the show in the 1980s.
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Yep..there are a lot of them. Probably why i turned off my tv about 20 years ago.
Wanna lick? SIKE!!!!!!
Never.
Buckwheat flashing the white power sign!!
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Watched the SNL episode with Eddie Murphy. He didn’t do ANY politics and made every sketch he was in...funny! A true legend who made the other cast members look like complete amateurs. Please watch these two bits:
North Pole: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBqvPvMfr0E
Christmas Dinner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVXYp2KIeE
RAW. the best
Everybody told me, you’d better not go to Texas, they’ll f you up!
I went to Texas, just looking for racism....
I got off the plane, walked up, got up, walked up, my bag. All my black s... on, black leather, big ass medallion and s... on like this.
Little white dude walk up and say:
“This your bag?”
I said: “Yes, it my f...kin’ bag! Why, m...........r? A black man can’t have a suitcase?”
And the dude was like:
“What the f....’s wrong with this guy?”
It wasn’t that bad at all.
Love it. Remember when Buckwheat was killed?
Brought to you by Mutual Life. Because you could die tomorrow
And Texxon is there!
The North Pole skit is priceless...his character had two explicit jokes that played on racial and sexist stereotypes and the jokes were very funny. Somehow, I suspect the current woke cast didn’t like the humor but Eddie made it work and then some.
Why should he regret them? Instead he (and all of us) should be sad that people today are such wussies.
I know it is fashionable to say "you couldn't do that today," but..well...
...you probably couldn't do it, and that is a sad testimony on the state of America.
Hopefully, Eddie Murphy (whose politics I don't know) can help usher in an era where we can laugh without being treated like a war criminal.
“Alriiight, Rock-O!!!! Alriight, Sly!! Hey, Paisan, you see the new Rocky movie.....It’s a great fockin movie! I don’t want to spoil the plot for you, but, Rocky wins this one again!”
Jamie Lee Curtis was so Hawt....
Yup. The News Update punks looked very nervous when he was doing the Gumby bit. They just saw how humour is done and seemed to be scared by it.
I loved it.
We used to go downtown beating up f@ggots. We’d yell out “Hey, f@ggot!” People forget, f@ggots are dudes, man. They’ll beat your @$$. You know how embarrassing it is to get your @$$ beat by a f@ggot?
He just portrayed Rudy Ray Moore in a movie that is getting critical nominations.
Rudy died about a decade ago but he wouldn’t have apologized in the cancel culture.
It's a great movie.
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