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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lot of eddie’s jokes were stolen from another black guy from Harlem. The guy from Harlem was a street comedian who unfortunately had drug problems. Snl originally wanted him not Eddie but he had trouble reading the lines and had a drug issue. Eddie was booked and used all of that comedians jokes (most of them)[/quote]
There’s actually no evidence of that story at all. No records of a Harlem street comedian being passed over for SNL, no proof Eddie used someone else’s jokes, nothing.

Eddie has always been open about being influenced by Richard Pryor and Red Foxx, but influence isn’t stealing, and if he’d lifted most of someone’s material, it would’ve been exposed decades ago. Comedy doesn’t keep secrets like that.[/quote]

Sometimes things happen and there's no evidence though. What evidence could there possibly be, from that era? Maybe the original comic's joke book, written long before EM did his stand up? There's nothing else.

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That era is actually very well-documented; SNL books, cast interviews, stand-up recordings, and club lineups. This story shows up in none of them.[/quote]

But the guy never made it onto SNL? So why would anything related to SNL show evidence of his existence and comedy writing? I think  you're really reaching here.[/quote] If someone’s material was good enough for Eddie Murphy to allegedly use “most of it,” there would be some trace of that person in the comedy world. There isn’t.[/quote]

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