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Eddie murphy delirious album6/30/2023 Murphy was a more versatile and successful actor that Pryor, but I think he was a worse comedian. The many imitations of children are very sharp, which perhaps is no surprise considering how recently the imitator had been one. His stepfather, Vernon, in particular, can't have been grateful to see his drunken antics etched into posterity. Like Pryor – or, for that matter, Bill Cosby – Murphy manages to use his sheer performing talent to make extended tales about his family into something that thousands of people pay to watch. (Indeed in his next standup film, Raw, Murphy imagines a vendetta developing.) Still more remarkable – indeed astonishing – is the impression of Michael Jackson singing. It's a bet I feel safe in making, because I don't think Mr T is likely to cooperate by reciting Murphy's gay fantasy about him. And what's special, apart from his electric attitude, is just how very, very good they are.įunny, how? Ask Mr T to record the lines that Murphy delivers in his voice, play each version one after the other, and I bet my fee for this article that you can't choose the real one consistently. What he is above all, and has always been, is a virtuoso of the voice. Unlike Pryor, Murphy was never much of a social commentator. I don't mean anything by it."įor what it's worth, I believe him. There's also a fairly old-fashioned attitude to women, and a delight in himself that maybe, under the circumstances, is easier to indulge. There's homophobic material in here, which he has since apologised about. You do have to make a few decisions about watching Murphy's standup now, though. No one since with a moustache has been so cool. It remains arguably the most famous standup comedy performance of all time. Fearless, good-looking, a gifted mimic, leather-clad and toweringly self-confident, propelled by TV success on Saturday Night Live to Hollywood success in 48 Hours, he made this concert film in 1983 just after his hero, Richard Pryor, had proved that this was something comedians could do now. The set-up: Eddie Murphy was standup comedy's first true megastar.
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