Tag: Eddie Murphy
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Mr Robinson’s Neighborhood
When Eddie Murphy returned to guest host Saturday Night Live in 2019, he revisited some of his old characters. Eddie Murphy is the subject of the latest episode of Comedy Is …
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Best Defense
If you’ve listened to the latest episode of Comedy Is …, or if you know such things, you’ll be aware that the movie Best Defense is not considered by Eddie Murphy to be his finest hour. The film was shot with Dudley Moore, and when it tested poorly with preview audiences, Jeffrey Katzenberg took a…
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The PJs
Because there are choices based on time constraints, I can’t always get to things on Comedy Is … that I might otherwise like to. One such thing for the recent episode about Coming To America, was Eddie Murphy’s stop motion animated sitcom The PJs. He co-created it with Steve Tompkins and Larry Wilmore, and it…
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Comedy Is … Most Amusing, Sir
During the heyday of those VHS rental years, where we would save our pocket money, then rush to the rental shop and spend hours trying to pick movies, I remember almost every tape we rented having a trailer for another brilliant looking Eddie Murphy movie. I must have been 11 or 12 when I first…
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Eddie’s Toyota Celica
Eddie Murphy rarely does commercials, except for this run in the 1990s for the new Toyota Celica. And it’s not said the way we think.
