Eddie Murphy Bio on netflix

[Anonymous]

Among all the SNL cast members, Eddie Murphy stands at the pinnacle. That man can turn it on and inhabit characters like no one can. The way he just turned into Tracy Morgan in the 50th anniversary of SNL was brilliant. He still has that gift.

And he had a very nice run from Raw to Beverly Hills Cop. He made his gazillions and I suspect he's checked out and living his life.

[Anonymous]

Yes he was a good mimic. But that's probably all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Okay, let’s not turn this into a thread about Denzel.

My point was that Eddie blew it because he’s a jerk. An arrogant jerk.

Eddie’s star was rising. He was opening films that made big profits. He could have transitioned that into a more mainstream movie career rather easily. The offers would have been there.

But he quickly developed a reputation for being a bad guy. He burned bridges and was assumed to be a liability, and that limited future options.

He is known to be very thin-skinned and a diva. Just ask David Spade (or any comics, really).

Anyway, Eddie isn’t a hero. He got very lucky with his SNL break (another young black comic essentially had the role but then lost it when SNL learned he couldn’t read). He was smart to leave SNL so quickly because he really wasn’t as talented as people thought; watch his SNL skits and you’ll see he was a one trick pony who capitalized on his 15 minutes of fame to build a certain kind of acting career. But he blew it. He could have transitioned into more substantial roles, but he got greedy and his personal life became too public and off putting to Hollywood and the general audience.

PS - his old standup really wasn’t that good either. He isn’t the great comic some say he was. The fact that he stopped doing stand up comedy so early on speaks volumes.

Every comic I’ve heard interviewed looked up to Eddie and recalls his specials as being genius level. If you look up his movie career, he had monster box office hits so you couldn’t be more off in your analysis.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you guy kidding? Raw and delirious are considered top 10 stand up specials of all time and he didn’t have the type of movies Denzel did but he was very successful in his movie career and had lots of hits

She is judging his comedy by today's Puritanical standards where nothing is funny and everything is offensive.

Wrong.

I’m in my 50s and watched his original stand-up when it came out. I thought it was funny…but I was young.

Have you rewatched it recently? It’s not that funny. A lot if it was boring. Silly.

And I’m not judging it by puritanical standards or today’s values. I love comedy and my taste skews off color/offensive/pushing limits.

Like some others deemed legendary/icons/GOATS by prior generations, subsequent talents have dramatically eclipsed him—illustrating that he was a bit overrated.

ICYMI: his stand-up career was very short-lived. He had a limited amount of material and at some point realized he needed to hang up the microphone lest he tarnish his reputation. That’s okay, but it underscores how he really wasn’t the stand-up genius some people thought. Yes, his silly movie career (a la Sandler) was quite lucrative. So much so that he could have transitioned to a more serious/quasi-serious film career (a la Sandler), but he didn’t…because his pompous and difficult reputation preceded him (along with baby mama drama and drug issues).

He hung up the microphone because he couldn’t possibly top those specials. He definitely didn’t need the money because of all his hits in the box office

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Okay, let’s not turn this into a thread about Denzel.

My point was that Eddie blew it because he’s a jerk. An arrogant jerk.

Eddie’s star was rising. He was opening films that made big profits. He could have transitioned that into a more mainstream movie career rather easily. The offers would have been there.

But he quickly developed a reputation for being a bad guy. He burned bridges and was assumed to be a liability, and that limited future options.

He is known to be very thin-skinned and a diva. Just ask David Spade (or any comics, really).

Anyway, Eddie isn’t a hero. He got very lucky with his SNL break (another young black comic essentially had the role but then lost it when SNL learned he couldn’t read). He was smart to leave SNL so quickly because he really wasn’t as talented as people thought; watch his SNL skits and you’ll see he was a one trick pony who capitalized on his 15 minutes of fame to build a certain kind of acting career. But he blew it. He could have transitioned into more substantial roles, but he got greedy and his personal life became too public and off putting to Hollywood and the general audience.

PS - his old standup really wasn’t that good either. He isn’t the great comic some say he was. The fact that he stopped doing stand up comedy so early on speaks volumes.

Every comic I’ve heard interviewed looked up to Eddie and recalls his specials as being genius level. If you look up his movie career, he had monster box office hits so you couldn’t be more off in your analysis.

I know he had monster box office hits and a few big comedy specials.

That’s why everyone should wonder what happened to his career. It dried up and he disappeared for decades.

^^^
That’s the point of the comment: he blew it. Hollywood shunned him because of his behavior/personality. He could have continued to work and transition to more substantial roles had he not burned bridges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you guy kidding? Raw and delirious are considered top 10 stand up specials of all time and he didn’t have the type of movies Denzel did but he was very successful in his movie career and had lots of hits

She is judging his comedy by today's Puritanical standards where nothing is funny and everything is offensive.

Wrong.

I’m in my 50s and watched his original stand-up when it came out. I thought it was funny…but I was young.

Have you rewatched it recently? It’s not that funny. A lot if it was boring. Silly.

And I’m not judging it by puritanical standards or today’s values. I love comedy and my taste skews off color/offensive/pushing limits.

Like some others deemed legendary/icons/GOATS by prior generations, subsequent talents have dramatically eclipsed him—illustrating that he was a bit overrated.

ICYMI: his stand-up career was very short-lived. He had a limited amount of material and at some point realized he needed to hang up the microphone lest he tarnish his reputation. That’s okay, but it underscores how he really wasn’t the stand-up genius some people thought. Yes, his silly movie career (a la Sandler) was quite lucrative. So much so that he could have transitioned to a more serious/quasi-serious film career (a la Sandler), but he didn’t…because his pompous and difficult reputation preceded him (along with baby mama drama and drug issues).

He hung up the microphone because he couldn’t possibly top those specials. He definitely didn’t need the money because of all his hits in the box office

I didn’t realize celebs reach a point where they no longer need the money, fame, etc.

Sigh.

He stopped the stand up because he couldn’t do it anymore. He realized he didn’t have it in him.

But he shrewdly focused on movies and excelled…and then disappeared…precisely as his personal issues became public and Hollywood soured on him. People seem to have forgotten that history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you guy kidding? Raw and delirious are considered top 10 stand up specials of all time and he didn’t have the type of movies Denzel did but he was very successful in his movie career and had lots of hits

She is judging his comedy by today's Puritanical standards where nothing is funny and everything is offensive.

Wrong.

I’m in my 50s and watched his original stand-up when it came out. I thought it was funny…but I was young.

Have you rewatched it recently? It’s not that funny. A lot if it was boring. Silly.

And I’m not judging it by puritanical standards or today’s values. I love comedy and my taste skews off color/offensive/pushing limits.

Like some others deemed legendary/icons/GOATS by prior generations, subsequent talents have dramatically eclipsed him—illustrating that he was a bit overrated.

ICYMI: his stand-up career was very short-lived. He had a limited amount of material and at some point realized he needed to hang up the microphone lest he tarnish his reputation. That’s okay, but it underscores how he really wasn’t the stand-up genius some people thought. Yes, his silly movie career (a la Sandler) was quite lucrative. So much so that he could have transitioned to a more serious/quasi-serious film career (a la Sandler), but he didn’t…because his pompous and difficult reputation preceded him (along with baby mama drama and drug issues).

He hung up the microphone because he couldn’t possibly top those specials. He definitely didn’t need the money because of all his hits in the box office

I didn’t realize celebs reach a point where they no longer need the money, fame, etc.

Sigh.

He stopped the stand up because he couldn’t do it anymore. He realized he didn’t have it in him.

But he shrewdly focused on movies and excelled…and then disappeared…precisely as his personal issues became public and Hollywood soured on him. People seem to have forgotten that history.

DP. I think this goes to why his Netflix doc is so bland and uninteresting. Because anyone that is familiar with him knows that his personal issues played into his cooling off period. He also didn’t talk about things that was interested in like are Charlie Murphy’s kids okay (their mom died a few years before Charlie), him calling Whitney and trying to get her not to marrying Bobby…why, hookergate, the divorce from Nicole, etc. everything he talked about was like reading a page from Wikipedia.

[Anonymous]

Also curious about his son marrying Martin Lawrence’s daughter. So random!

[Anonymous]

I love Eddie Murphy, he’s a comic genius, one of the greats. I’m 55 and I thought his stand up was funny as hell. I haven’t rewatched it recently but there’s very few stuff from childhood that is still funny the same way it was in its day.

That person who keeps commenting that his career fizzled, and comparing him to Denzel is weird. Hes been putting out movies since the 80s and he has talked about why he doesn't do stand up anymore.

I’m not saying he’s a saint or anything. Remember when he had a baby with scary spice and he denied the kid was his at first.

I still watch and enjoy his new movies with 2 exceptions; that candy lane Christmas movie and Coming To America 2. I loved the original so much so I already went into the 2nd one not expecting to like it. I hate when the first movie is amazing and they try to recreate it with a 2nd, but it ends up being trash.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also curious about his son marrying Martin Lawrence’s daughter. So random!

I know! If you look up his interview on the Jennifer Hudson show he talked about it there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you guy kidding? Raw and delirious are considered top 10 stand up specials of all time and he didn’t have the type of movies Denzel did but he was very successful in his movie career and had lots of hits

She is judging his comedy by today's Puritanical standards where nothing is funny and everything is offensive.

Wrong.

I’m in my 50s and watched his original stand-up when it came out. I thought it was funny…but I was young.

Have you rewatched it recently? It’s not that funny. A lot if it was boring. Silly.

And I’m not judging it by puritanical standards or today’s values. I love comedy and my taste skews off color/offensive/pushing limits.

Like some others deemed legendary/icons/GOATS by prior generations, subsequent talents have dramatically eclipsed him—illustrating that he was a bit overrated.

ICYMI: his stand-up career was very short-lived. He had a limited amount of material and at some point realized he needed to hang up the microphone lest he tarnish his reputation. That’s okay, but it underscores how he really wasn’t the stand-up genius some people thought. Yes, his silly movie career (a la Sandler) was quite lucrative. So much so that he could have transitioned to a more serious/quasi-serious film career (a la Sandler), but he didn’t…because his pompous and difficult reputation preceded him (along with baby mama drama and drug issues).

He hung up the microphone because he couldn’t possibly top those specials. He definitely didn’t need the money because of all his hits in the box office

I didn’t realize celebs reach a point where they no longer need the money, fame, etc.

Sigh.

He stopped the stand up because he couldn’t do it anymore. He realized he didn’t have it in him.

But he shrewdly focused on movies and excelled…and then disappeared…precisely as his personal issues became public and Hollywood soured on him. People seem to have forgotten that history.

Not everyone wants to keep making movies forever. Maybe, he was burnt out and wanted a more low key life. That’s ok, people

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you guy kidding? Raw and delirious are considered top 10 stand up specials of all time and he didn’t have the type of movies Denzel did but he was very successful in his movie career and had lots of hits

She is judging his comedy by today's Puritanical standards where nothing is funny and everything is offensive.

Wrong.

I’m in my 50s and watched his original stand-up when it came out. I thought it was funny…but I was young.

Have you rewatched it recently? It’s not that funny. A lot if it was boring. Silly.

And I’m not judging it by puritanical standards or today’s values. I love comedy and my taste skews off color/offensive/pushing limits.

Like some others deemed legendary/icons/GOATS by prior generations, subsequent talents have dramatically eclipsed him—illustrating that he was a bit overrated.

ICYMI: his stand-up career was very short-lived. He had a limited amount of material and at some point realized he needed to hang up the microphone lest he tarnish his reputation. That’s okay, but it underscores how he really wasn’t the stand-up genius some people thought. Yes, his silly movie career (a la Sandler) was quite lucrative. So much so that he could have transitioned to a more serious/quasi-serious film career (a la Sandler), but he didn’t…because his pompous and difficult reputation preceded him (along with baby mama drama and drug issues).

He hung up the microphone because he couldn’t possibly top those specials. He definitely didn’t need the money because of all his hits in the box office

I didn’t realize celebs reach a point where they no longer need the money, fame, etc.

Sigh.

He stopped the stand up because he couldn’t do it anymore. He realized he didn’t have it in him.

But he shrewdly focused on movies and excelled…and then disappeared…precisely as his personal issues became public and Hollywood soured on him. People seem to have forgotten that history.

DP. I think this goes to why his Netflix doc is so bland and uninteresting. Because anyone that is familiar with him knows that his personal issues played into his cooling off period. He also didn’t talk about things that was interested in like are Charlie Murphy’s kids okay (their mom died a few years before Charlie), him calling Whitney and trying to get her not to marrying Bobby…why, hookergate, the divorce from Nicole, etc. everything he talked about was like reading a page from Wikipedia.

Aaah, your perspective is wild to me. If he truly called Whitney and said not to marry Bobby, it makes me like him more. He was trying to protect her and good for him.

[Anonymous]

I liked some of his movies but I never found his stand up remotely funny.

[Anonymous]

Does the doc reference his 1997 scandal with a trans sex worker? That was the public incident that prompted him to retreat from the public for quite some time. And the sex worker died less than a year later…”falling” from a window (after selling their story to the media).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you guy kidding? Raw and delirious are considered top 10 stand up specials of all time and he didn’t have the type of movies Denzel did but he was very successful in his movie career and had lots of hits

She is judging his comedy by today's Puritanical standards where nothing is funny and everything is offensive.

Wrong.

I’m in my 50s and watched his original stand-up when it came out. I thought it was funny…but I was young.

Have you rewatched it recently? It’s not that funny. A lot if it was boring. Silly.

And I’m not judging it by puritanical standards or today’s values. I love comedy and my taste skews off color/offensive/pushing limits.

Like some others deemed legendary/icons/GOATS by prior generations, subsequent talents have dramatically eclipsed him—illustrating that he was a bit overrated.

ICYMI: his stand-up career was very short-lived. He had a limited amount of material and at some point realized he needed to hang up the microphone lest he tarnish his reputation. That’s okay, but it underscores how he really wasn’t the stand-up genius some people thought. Yes, his silly movie career (a la Sandler) was quite lucrative. So much so that he could have transitioned to a more serious/quasi-serious film career (a la Sandler), but he didn’t…because his pompous and difficult reputation preceded him (along with baby mama drama and drug issues).

He hung up the microphone because he couldn’t possibly top those specials. He definitely didn’t need the money because of all his hits in the box office

I didn’t realize celebs reach a point where they no longer need the money, fame, etc.

Sigh.

He stopped the stand up because he couldn’t do it anymore. He realized he didn’t have it in him.

But he shrewdly focused on movies and excelled…and then disappeared…precisely as his personal issues became public and Hollywood soured on him. People seem to have forgotten that history.

That's not true. If you're referring to the period between 2012 and 2019, he has discussed this. He was making some really crappy movies, and he stopped having fun. He was even nominated for several Razzie awards. He was going to take a year off, but it turned into 6 years.

And what controversies are you talking about? The transexual thing that happened in 1997? He was still active during those years. He was even still working when he was going through his divorce with Nicole. He was filming Dreamgirls at the time, and the cast talked about how he would be in character and was able to suddenly just turn it off after his segments. He said it was becuase he was in a very dark place personally and the divorce was taking a toll on him.