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Hey, you know what's a trip?
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They have so much stuff on TV...
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It's like, how could there be all
of this stuff and not one thing to watch?
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You be flipping,
just flipping and flipping and flip...
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I be like, "It's not shit to wa--"
And it be five of my movies on.
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I be like, "There ain't shit to watch!
I don't want to see none of this shit."
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Hai!
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I've done all kinds of stuff.
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I can't think of another actor,
a dramatic actor,
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Black, white... that's done
so many different types of things.
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Otay!
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Hey!
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From just me on the stage
with a microphone...
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I have some ice cream
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...to where I'm everybody in the scene.
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This so fabulous. Nothing like getting
together with family, having a good meal.
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And everything in between.
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Motherfucker, you can't have my cornbread.
That's for damn sure.
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I've been cops.
I've been a professor. I've been a doctor...
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Bad guy.
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I've been an old Jewish guy...
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He beat Joe Louis's ass.
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...I've been an old lady.
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Whoo! Might make your head blow off.
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I danced in the clouds
with Michael Jackson.
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I've been a donkey.
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I'm a donkey on the edge!
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I was even a rocket ship.
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And to all the young actors,
I like to tell all of them,
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don't ever play a rocket ship.
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What am I setting out to do?
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Ultimately... is to make people laugh.
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I remember once,
on one of those talk shows...
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...they had the Klan on the show.
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And the Klan was like,
"I can't stand niggers! Oh..."
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And he says, "Are you telling me that
you don't like any Black people at all?"
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And the Klansman was like,
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"I'll... I'll tell you,
I like that Eddie Murphy. He's funny."
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I was like, "What the fuck?"
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"So you hate all Black people?"
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"Yeah, everybody except that one nigger,
Eddie Murphy. Boy, he tickles me."
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There's something
about him that's in the past before him.
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{\an8}There's something about him
that informs the future beyond him.
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He has great seats to life. He gets...
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And it's uncomfortable
having seats that good.
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You see the good up close.
You see the bad up close.
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You see the ugly up close.
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But something about him seems...
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Like, the core of him
seems unscathed by it,
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even though I'm sure he's got scars.
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Whatever he was protecting...
everyone has something they protect,
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his is probably well-preserved.
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I started so young.
Now, it's kind of like, "Wow."
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I realize how young I was
'cause I've been around for, you know,
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{\an8}over 40 years.
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{\an8}That's a trip.
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I come on SNL in the 1980-81 season.
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They was auditioning
all the comics at the club.
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They was putting them up
for the SNL people.
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And they specifically wanted a Black guy.
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And my first reaction was like,
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"Saturday Night Live?"
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I never thought about
something like Saturday Night Live.
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I was like, "I thought
I was gonna be Richard Pryor."
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{\an8}Police got a chokehold
they use out here, though, man.
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{\an8}They choke niggas to death.
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Yeah. Two grab your legs,
one grab your head, it'll snap.
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"Oh shit. He broke."
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First time I heard Richard Pryor,
I must have been about 13.
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That put me on the road to myself,
when I started hearing him.
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I was like, "That's who I am."
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I wanted to be Richard so bad,
I used to go out on stage when I was 15
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and talk and act and walk,
and do everything like Richard Pryor.
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{\an8}My whole act back then
was about taking a shit
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{\an8}'cause that's all I had done at 15.
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That was my life experience,
but it sounded like Richard Pryor jokes.
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I'd be going, "You ever, like,
sometimes, right, you get on that toilet,
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and when you shit,
that water splash up on your ass?"
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I wanted to be funny as Richard.
And I wanted to be cool like Elvis.
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And I wanted to be as big as the Beatles.
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{\an8}It's all magic people.
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{\an8}He likes the magic people,
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who are kind of
pretty much totally out of control.
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And it still is magic.
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But then there's always
this giant ball of fire at the end.
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But not Eddie.
The rules are just different for him.
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The very first
show business thing I asked for was,
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as a kid, I asked for
a ventriloquist dummy.
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And my mother,
she got me this dummy called Willie Talk.
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Willie Talk's eyes didn't move.
His mouth just moved.
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From the very beginning,
it was a multiple-character thing.
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What were you like
when you were nine? Did you know?
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Had the notion crystallized
in your head at nine...
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I did a lot of voices, but I didn't know
I wanted to one day go into show business.
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I was just, you know, a strange child.
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My mother used to say, "Who's Eddie?
What voice is Eddie's voice?"
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When my brothers did
something wrong, they couldn't go outside.
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When I did something wrong,
I couldn't watch TV.
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As a kid, I'd get a blanket,
go throw it over the dining room table
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so it was hanging down like a tent,
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put the TV under there,
and I'd watch all day long.
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What do you say to your mother
when she brings you Jell-O?
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{\an8}When we was growing up,
they ain't have all these channels on TV.
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{\an8}You only had a couple of channels,
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{\an8}and my brother pointed at the television
and said, "I'm gonna be on that one day."
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And when he pointed at it, I think
there was probably one Black person on it.
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It was Julia, so I'm like...
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So it was unfathomable
that he would even become a star.
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I'm the older brother.
So, when we was kids, right,
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I found out that I could
whip a lot of motherfuckers' ass,
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that I didn't think I could whip,
because they stepped to him.
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So I was like, you know...
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I don't care if you all big butchy,
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I got to do you, because you...
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If I go home,
and my little brother's messed up,
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and my mother says,
"Well, what did you do?"
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I better be messed up worse than him.
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That's me and Charlie.
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That's the picture that... that ended
my mother and father's marriage.
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Because my mother had spent some money.
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Actually, I'm three years old
in this picture.
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And I'm laughing because
the photographer took the picture,
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and the flash was a delay--
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It didn't flash
as soon as he hit the button.
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And I thought that his camera didn't work.
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And I busted out laughing.
I literally remember this moment.
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But my father came home
and found out that my mother had
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spent some money on some pictures.
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"You spent our money
on some goddamn pictures?"
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You know? And that was...
I mean, I'm sure they were having issues.
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But that was... This was the straw
that broke the camel's back.
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This was the last straw.
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"You buy some goddamn picture?"
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My mom is so pretty.
They're only 18 years old here.
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Babies, little babies, 18.
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This is the year before I was born.
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My dad was a character. Supposedly,
my dad was the life of the party.
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Party started when my dad came.
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He was loud and funny, you know, and...
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I'm... And I am not the life of the party.
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Ever.
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I have a handful of memories.
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But my very first memory of all is
of my mother and father fighting.
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That's my very first memory.
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And... I remember my mother threw--
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She had, like,
a porcelain Virgin Mary on the desk.
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She threw the Virgin Mary at him.
And I remember seeing that broken.
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And then I remember seeing my mother
on the floor in the hallway crying.
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Then my dad came, and he picked
me and Charlie up and put us on his lap.
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And he said... And my pajamas was crooked.
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I remember it was pulled
all the way backwards. We were crying.
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He said, "You can go with me,
or you can go with your mother."
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And I said, "I want my mommy."
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My dad died when I was seven
or eight years old.
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I know stuff, but I don't know everything.
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I know that he was killed.
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{\an8}The woman that killed my father...
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{\an8}- Oh, it was a woman?
- Yeah.
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{\an8}Wow.
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{\an8}- Why did a woman kill your father?
- Lovers' quarrel.
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{\an8}- Your parents weren't together?
- No, they weren't together.
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{\an8}It's one of the oldest stories
in the books, you know.
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{\an8}I tell my kids, man,
"Hey, man... if the girl is mad,
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{\an8}don't close your eyes."
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Then my mother met my stepdad.
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And he was, you know, the solid father
figure in my life for the rest of my life.
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Vernon Lynch, that's who raised me.
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That's a sweet blessing, to have
a man like that come into your life
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and be the type of man that he was.
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The example that he set,
and I saw what he did, you know,
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and I feel like I'm the man that I am
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because of him.
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When you have three young men
growing up together in one household,
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my dad didn't raise no punks.
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{\an8}Punishment was a whoopin'.
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You know?
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Punishment was... was a... was a whoopin'.
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- I used to change his diapers.
- Yeah, he did.
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- I never changed his diapers.
- Yeah, you did.
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I never changed his diapers once.
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My dad just instilled in us,
you have to be able to protect yourself.
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And this is how you do it.
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{\an8}Eddie's stepdad, Mr. Lynch, was a boxer.
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You know how legendary
the discipline of boxers can be.
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{\an8}He's from that kind of household.
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To become a boxer, you have to be
a different breed of human being.
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Here's a picture of me
punching Ali in the face.
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See this?
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Ali is my hero.
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But I did punch him in the face one night.
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You know, Ali could talk some shit.
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Every now and then,
Ali be talking too much shit.
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And you know, I punched him in his face.
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Nobody like Muhammad Ali
in American history.
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He looked like he's plugged into the wall.
He had this light.
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He just stood up to the government,
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stood up for what he felt was right.
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And he was kicking ass,
and he was making a sacrifice.
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You know, "Fuck it.
If I can't have it this way, then I..."
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"You can take... you can strip me
of my title, all my money."
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You won't even stand up for me
in America for my religious beliefs,
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and you want me to go and fight,
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but you won't stand up
for me here at home.
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We're little kids watching it.
I'm a little kid watching it.
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Barack Obama's watching it.
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Oprah Winfrey's watching it.
Michael Jordan is watching it.
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We're the first generation
of Black overachievers.
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Like, we're the first fearless ones.
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And I think that
that's what we got from Ali.
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I am the greatest.
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{\an8}Around 12 or 13,
I started saying I was gonna be famous.
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And then I started saying,
"When I'm 18, I'm gonna be famous."
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That was my mantra.
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And I really, really, really,
really believed it with every fiber.
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It was like, the ide--
"What if you don't get famous?" was like...
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"What the fuck are you talking about?
I am getting... I'm going to be famous."
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{\an8}I didn't encourage him.
If anything, I discouraged him.
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{\an8}I said, "Gee whiz,
this is what he really wants to do?"
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"And what if he doesn't make it?
What, will I have a bum here?"
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You know, I really worried 'cause
he wasn't interested in anything else.
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{\an8}Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Eddie Murphy.
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I can remember when my brother
would go and he'd do a high school,
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or he would go do Hofstra University...
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Now it's a bit ironic that
I'm on television because I hate TV.
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I don't watch anything
because TV has gotten disgusting.
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You ever watch the commercials
and stuff on TV?
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It makes me sick to my stomach to see...
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You know, little sets
he was doing around the area,
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and the ability to go in front
of an audience and express yourself
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and make them laugh,
you know what I'm saying?
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That was, like, really amazing to me,
that he had that... that power.
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Cosby'll come out, and he's really nice,
he's really cool, he'll say,
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"What do you say to your mother when
she brings you a bowl of Jell-O pudding?"
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When I first started, I didn't do anything
that had anything to do with me for real.
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I was 90% impressions.
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Thank you. You've been beautiful.
Good night.
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That's the easiest way in.
You don't have to have an act.
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All you have to do is sound like somebody.
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After a year or two of being up there
and doing impressions,
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you start to get your own stuff
and settle into who you are.
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And by the time I'm... 17,
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I have a... you know, I have an act,
and I'm, you know, a comic.
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{\an8}I am from Roosevelt, Long Island.
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{\an8}I grew up in an all-Black neighborhood.
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I did. Did you grow up
in an all-Black neighborhood?
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Grew up in a predominantly
white neighborhood?
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See, 'cause, like, we've pretty
much taken over New York, the Blacks.
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Think about it.
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The whites are going,
"Hey, that's not funny."
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When you ran into Eddie
in the clubs in the '70s,
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he had this great face
and this fantastic smile.
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And then all this other stuff,
it was like a miracle.
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Just when you thought it was safe
to move back into Queens...
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And to me, that he's
from Long Island, was so perfect.
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Long Island is just schleppier, you know?
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It's kind of an advantage when you get
into the upper realms of the industry.
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Hang on to your schleppiness, you know?
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Then when I turned 18,
the comics that were around were like,
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"Thought you were gonna be famous
when you were 18."
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I had, like, a year of that.
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Then the next year,
I got Saturday Night Live.
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{\an8}'Cause if God would've wanted
whites to be equal to Blacks,
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everybody'd have one of these.
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Eddie's been in my life since 1980,
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{\an8}when I first saw his face
on Saturday Night Live.
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It was the season
after the original cast had left
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and Lorne Michaels left.
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And they got all new people in.
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It was not well received, because the show
was, like, really, really popular.
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The audience was like, "You know what?
I want the old people. And fuck you."
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Be walking down the street,
people like, "Fuck you!"
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Just screaming, "Fuck you" to you.
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{\an8}Eddie was right out of high school.
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{\an8}And he was very shy.
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{\an8}And he was very... kept to himself.
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But he was just fearless.
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I'm Ronald Reagan's illegitimate son.
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Can you use this word in a sentence?
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"Mister Robinson's Neighborhood"
and "Gumby."
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I loved Gumby. That's a real Long Island...
283
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I had a Gumby bit, actually, also.
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I'm Gumby, dammit.
You don't talk to me that way!
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I used to love Velvet Jones.
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I want to be a ho.
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Every impression, Ali...
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I'm the greatest fighter of all time.
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...Cosby...
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That's why I got light beer.
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{\an8}James Brown, "Celebrity Hot Tub."
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Hey! Too hot in the hot tub
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Burn myself
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He would get into character,
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like Dana Carvey or Mike Myers,
on that level, right?
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Oh boy! Ooh! Aah!
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Ugh!
298
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And at the same time,
he can be himself, like Bill Murray.
299
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In 1981, a good education
is just about as important
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as a warm bucket of hamster vomit.
301
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Very few people have both moves.
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When I was eight... I was up late one night,
and I remember watching.
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I can't remember what episode it was,
I just remember, like, it was over.
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I was dying laughing.
This guy was so funny.
305
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And it became a thing for me
and my mother,
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where she would wake me up late
on Saturday night,
307
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and be like, "That guy you like is on."
308
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And that was our first,
like, bonding thing.
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{\an8}I remember the thing
that really struck me is
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{\an8}he almost had to say nothing.
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And it was funny.
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When he gets dressed up
in the white makeup,
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{\an8}and he goes out into the street,
314
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{\an8}and he commentates on what it's like
being a white man in the world...
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I was just like, "Oh... incredible."
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I was 19 years old.
317
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So that was my college years, I'm...
318
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Saturday Night Live
is like Harvard for comic actors.
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You are truly a wonder.
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Thanks a lot, Frank.
321
00:16:49,341 --> 00:16:52,760
And when I first did Stevie Wonder,
they was like...
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"Oh, that's mean. How can he do that?"
323
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"It was funny, but it was very mean."
324
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And they stopped saying that
when Stevie came on Saturday Night Live.
325
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That's a very rare SNL,
when Stevie comes on SNL.
326
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It's very funny.
327
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That's the worst
Stevie Wonder impression I ever seen...
328
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What's the matter with it?
329
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Maybe the first six months,
330
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I was still in my room
at my mother's house.
331
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I used to wear my makeup
home from the show
332
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'cause I would think people would see me
on the train and know I was on TV.
333
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They don't know you're on TV.
334
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You just look like this kid
with makeup on, on the train.
335
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Seeing Eddie on SNL, skinny...
336
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That's when comics are their most lethal,
when we're skinny.
337
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When we ain't had no food.
He ain't even ate yet.
338
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He's just skinny and funny as fuck.
339
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Our first real meeting was
at a steakhouse near Saturday Night Live.
340
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I was going to talk to him
about a movie career.
341
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"This is great.
What you're doing is amazing."
342
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{\an8}"There's a whole other
opportunity for you."
343
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{\an8}"Not instead of, but in addition to.
That's the beauty of it."
344
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Jeff Katzenberg was the president
of production at Paramount.
345
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He was, like, the young guy.
346
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The first two weeks of 48 Hrs.,
they wanted to fire me
347
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'cause they were like,
"This isn't working."
348
00:18:16,053 --> 00:18:20,306
And Katzenberg came to them like, "No.
Don't fire him. There's something there."
349
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And they didn't fire me.
350
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We've just been cool since.
351
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{\an8}When 48 Hrs. came out,
I thought it was a oner.
352
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I wasn't thinking, you know,
I'm going to be in the movies.
353
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Roxanne
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{\an8}In that first scene,
it's a Black man singing "Roxanne"
355
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{\an8}as if he were a member of the Supremes.
356
00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:41,953
- Rox-- Put on the red light
- Hammond.
357
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He's wailing it
as if he's auditioning for American Idol.
358
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It's also this moment of planting a flag
in a culture and saying...
359
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Hammond!
360
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..."I'm all these things.
I'm the next generation."
361
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My stomach is starting to growl.
362
00:18:53,048 --> 00:18:55,049
- We better go get--
- We eat when I say we eat.
363
00:18:55,050 --> 00:18:56,342
Hey, now that's bullshit.
364
00:18:56,343 --> 00:18:58,845
That's the last straw, all right?
I want some food now.
365
00:18:58,846 --> 00:19:00,972
If you don't like it,
take me back to the penitentiary
366
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and kiss my hungry, Black ass goodbye.
367
00:19:02,850 --> 00:19:06,227
When 48 Hrs. came out,
it was this new thing.
368
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The Black actor in movies
was the sidekick.
369
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But when you start watching the movie,
370
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it's like he can't do anything
without this guy.
371
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,029
"What's our next move, convict?"
372
00:19:17,030 --> 00:19:18,615
"Now what do we do, convict?"
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I can see this is going to be
a long fucking night, convict.
374
00:19:22,578 --> 00:19:27,583
Transcendental Eddie Murphy moment
is the bar scene in 48 Hrs.
375
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What the hell kind of cop are you?
376
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You know what I am?
I'm your worst fucking nightmare, man.
377
00:19:33,839 --> 00:19:35,089
I'm a nigga with a badge.
378
00:19:35,090 --> 00:19:38,551
That mean I got permission to kick
your fucking ass whenever I feel like it.
379
00:19:38,552 --> 00:19:43,347
Contextually, seeing a young Black guy
say that, it's like a hit record.
380
00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:45,058
Just that... just that scene.
381
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The reason why my stuff
took off the way it took off...
382
00:19:48,854 --> 00:19:51,314
And I want the rest of you cowboys
to know something.
383
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There's a new sheriff in town.
384
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...is because they'd never seen
a young Black person
385
00:19:56,361 --> 00:19:58,821
go take charge in the white world.
386
00:19:58,822 --> 00:20:00,741
And his name is Reggie Hammond.
387
00:20:01,283 --> 00:20:02,409
Y'all be cool.
388
00:20:05,537 --> 00:20:10,374
I got in this business when the still old
Hollywood legends were still around,
389
00:20:10,375 --> 00:20:13,419
and I got to meet a bunch
of those people, the real ones,
390
00:20:13,420 --> 00:20:18,382
the super talented Hollywood person
that had, like, some long 50-year career,
391
00:20:18,383 --> 00:20:20,343
because they were curious about me.
392
00:20:20,344 --> 00:20:23,263
They'd say, "Hey, I want to have lunch
with that nigger."
393
00:20:25,057 --> 00:20:29,770
I met Brando and Charlton Heston,
Sinatra. I met all those guys.
394
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Through them calling my agent.
395
00:20:32,731 --> 00:20:37,485
That'd be like if me right now...
if some 22-year-old actor did some movie,
396
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and I was like, "Hey, I wanna have lunch...
I want to have lunch with them."
397
00:20:41,990 --> 00:20:43,533
That would never happen.
398
00:20:45,202 --> 00:20:48,037
I imagine for these old movie stars,
399
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he was the symbol
of the changing of the guard.
400
00:20:51,083 --> 00:20:53,585
Show business was
about to become something else.
401
00:20:54,336 --> 00:20:56,128
He was at the forefront of it.
402
00:20:56,129 --> 00:20:59,674
If you're an old movie star,
you'll see people come and go.
403
00:20:59,675 --> 00:21:02,218
"This one's famous for a minute,
cold for a minute."
404
00:21:02,219 --> 00:21:05,137
But man, he looked like
he was exactly where he...
405
00:21:05,138 --> 00:21:08,724
He looked like he had
that appointment with destiny.
406
00:21:08,725 --> 00:21:12,728
And everyone who ever rode that train
knew exactly what they were looking at.
407
00:21:12,729 --> 00:21:15,691
Of course you would want
to meet somebody like that.
408
00:21:16,275 --> 00:21:19,568
Being the star
that he was at 19 years old,
409
00:21:19,569 --> 00:21:24,323
before 48 Hrs. came out, we made
a multiple-picture deal with Eddie.
410
00:21:24,324 --> 00:21:27,326
And, you know,
at the time, was unprecedented.
411
00:21:27,327 --> 00:21:28,828
You're making a ton of money.
412
00:21:28,829 --> 00:21:32,498
He did an interview with Johnny Carson.
Johnny goes, "So, Eddie, tell me,
413
00:21:32,499 --> 00:21:34,208
what'd you buy with your money?"
414
00:21:34,209 --> 00:21:37,211
Now, you go out and really...
go nuts with it,
415
00:21:37,212 --> 00:21:38,879
or do you put it away, or...
416
00:21:38,880 --> 00:21:41,300
How do you handle the whole thing?
417
00:21:43,093 --> 00:21:45,137
"Hey, Amos. Get a load of that coat!"
418
00:21:46,972 --> 00:21:48,765
No, I wasn't saying...
419
00:21:49,391 --> 00:21:55,062
{\an8}Jeffrey Katzenberg sends me a script,
and I read, essentially, Trading Places.
420
00:21:55,063 --> 00:21:56,773
I didn't learn...
421
00:21:59,067 --> 00:22:02,028
until... like, two weeks before shooting,
422
00:22:02,029 --> 00:22:05,072
that in fact,
the script had been developed
423
00:22:05,073 --> 00:22:08,367
for Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder,
424
00:22:08,368 --> 00:22:11,537
who had made a couple
of buddy movies that were big hits.
425
00:22:11,538 --> 00:22:13,206
And Richard...
426
00:22:15,459 --> 00:22:16,792
set himself on fire.
427
00:22:16,793 --> 00:22:21,213
Richard Pryor, the comedian and writer,
was badly burned in an accident
428
00:22:21,214 --> 00:22:23,549
at his home in California last night.
429
00:22:23,550 --> 00:22:26,635
Pryor has told his doctors
that he was using ether
430
00:22:26,636 --> 00:22:30,473
to purify a batch of cocaine
when the mixture exploded in his face.
431
00:22:30,474 --> 00:22:34,770
And Jeff said, "I'd like you
to consider Eddie Murphy."
432
00:22:35,270 --> 00:22:38,315
And I, of course, went, "Who?"
433
00:22:41,985 --> 00:22:43,362
{\an8}Is there a problem, officers?
434
00:22:44,446 --> 00:22:48,617
From the first moments
of Eddie coming down the street
435
00:22:49,618 --> 00:22:52,036
on his blind man routine...
436
00:22:52,037 --> 00:22:53,205
{\an8}I can see!
437
00:22:53,914 --> 00:22:54,830
I can see!
438
00:22:54,831 --> 00:22:56,665
I have l-- I can-- I have legs!
439
00:22:56,666 --> 00:23:01,212
It's as close to a perfect movie
as you can have, in my opinion.
440
00:23:01,213 --> 00:23:04,007
And I think we all felt it and saw it.
441
00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:10,638
{\an8}I went to a movie the other night
with my friends, Trading Places.
442
00:23:10,639 --> 00:23:14,767
{\an8}- I hear it's very good.
- With Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.
443
00:23:14,768 --> 00:23:17,019
And you go in the movies
and start laughing,
444
00:23:17,020 --> 00:23:19,897
and then they be funnier
than you want them to be.
445
00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:22,651
Right? I mean, it's funnier
than you want, and you be...
446
00:23:23,276 --> 00:23:25,486
You saw that.
447
00:23:25,487 --> 00:23:27,572
- They're really funny.
- Yeah. Hey.
448
00:23:29,866 --> 00:23:31,200
But it's hysterical, man.
449
00:23:31,201 --> 00:23:33,744
- That's what I hear.
- Yeah. I'm going to kill him.
450
00:23:33,745 --> 00:23:35,329
We're going to take a break.
451
00:23:35,330 --> 00:23:41,919
Richard Pryor is the funniest stand-up
comedian in the history of the art form.
452
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,296
{\an8}How many people ever heard of freebasing?
453
00:23:44,297 --> 00:23:47,134
{\an8}Have you ever heard of anybody blowing up?
454
00:23:48,635 --> 00:23:49,678
Why me?
455
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:54,433
Ten million motherfuckers freebase.
I got to blow up.
456
00:23:55,642 --> 00:23:56,643
Recently,
457
00:23:58,019 --> 00:24:00,229
Chappelle is in that world where, like,
458
00:24:00,230 --> 00:24:05,151
he's got his finger on it a certain way
and an understanding of the audience.
459
00:24:05,152 --> 00:24:06,528
And he's so smart.
460
00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:09,405
And he really... he raised the...
461
00:24:09,406 --> 00:24:10,865
he raised the roof.
462
00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:12,617
Comedy is an art form.
463
00:24:13,118 --> 00:24:17,288
Not in everybody's hands, but,
man, the ones who treat it that way,
464
00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:19,749
they literally vibrate on, I would say...
465
00:24:20,542 --> 00:24:24,253
I can make an argument,
one of the highest artistic frequencies.
466
00:24:24,254 --> 00:24:29,676
And Eddie, any skill set you can think
that a comedian needs, he has abundantly.
467
00:24:30,385 --> 00:24:33,762
You know, I kept doing stand-up,
even though I was making movies and stuff.
468
00:24:33,763 --> 00:24:36,682
{\an8}Fights where nobody's home
with plenty of brothers and sisters,
469
00:24:36,683 --> 00:24:37,934
{\an8}and you try to kill them.
470
00:24:38,435 --> 00:24:41,687
{\an8}You'd be running around the house
with a knife, going...
471
00:24:41,688 --> 00:24:44,690
If I'm shooting in Philadelphia,
when we're doing Trading Places,
472
00:24:44,691 --> 00:24:46,734
I can go to the Comedy Works and work out.
473
00:24:46,735 --> 00:24:52,199
And Delirious is mostly stuff
that I had built up over the years.
474
00:24:54,326 --> 00:24:57,912
{\an8}Delirious had this energy,
this manic energy around it.
475
00:24:57,913 --> 00:25:00,582
And it really had a rock show quality.
476
00:25:01,249 --> 00:25:03,501
That's why I had
leather suits and shit on,
477
00:25:03,502 --> 00:25:05,337
trying to roll around like Elvis.
478
00:25:05,921 --> 00:25:07,214
Eddie Murphy!
479
00:25:11,676 --> 00:25:15,471
He changed the way we view comedy.
480
00:25:15,472 --> 00:25:18,015
Comedians aren't generally attractive.
481
00:25:18,016 --> 00:25:21,644
Especially, traditionally speaking,
up to that point.
482
00:25:21,645 --> 00:25:25,357
They're very misfitty.
They're very kind of beastly sometimes.
483
00:25:25,941 --> 00:25:27,942
The ladies love him.
484
00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:30,653
And, you know,
I feel like I had a crush on him
485
00:25:30,654 --> 00:25:32,988
{\an8}all the way through,
you know, this whole time.
486
00:25:32,989 --> 00:25:36,158
And maybe it started there,
with that red leather suit.
487
00:25:36,159 --> 00:25:38,078
It was amazing.
488
00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:42,164
Obviously, he was, like, the sexiest thing
in the world in that red leather.
489
00:25:42,165 --> 00:25:43,291
But like, why?
490
00:25:43,875 --> 00:25:45,584
That red leather was awful.
491
00:25:45,585 --> 00:25:47,254
But that's what made it so great.
492
00:25:48,004 --> 00:25:50,714
And no matter what was going on,
the ice cream man came, it stopped.
493
00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:53,260
You'd be hitting some marbles
and shit, and you'd hear...
494
00:25:56,471 --> 00:26:02,518
Ice cream! The ice-cream man is coming!
495
00:26:02,519 --> 00:26:06,772
My dad worked at Breyers Ice Cream
my whole time growing up, we had a...
496
00:26:06,773 --> 00:26:09,858
We had so much ice cream,
we would not even eat the shit.
497
00:26:09,859 --> 00:26:12,862
Like, you had to throw ice cream out,
it'd get freezer burn.
498
00:26:14,072 --> 00:26:17,408
But the beginning... I didn't start
thinking about show business
499
00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:19,618
or being a comedian till I was like 13.
500
00:26:19,619 --> 00:26:24,456
Up until then, I was... I wanted to own
a Mister Softee's ice cream truck.
501
00:26:24,457 --> 00:26:26,375
Want a lick? Psych.
502
00:26:26,376 --> 00:26:28,877
You want some ice cream
You want some ice cream
503
00:26:28,878 --> 00:26:33,507
He took the idea of character
performance on stage to ultimate levels.
504
00:26:33,508 --> 00:26:34,593
You can't--
505
00:26:38,597 --> 00:26:43,225
{\an8}Eddie Murphy telling a story
made you feel like you were there.
506
00:26:43,226 --> 00:26:45,937
My mother was
like Clint Eastwood with a shoe.
507
00:26:47,063 --> 00:26:49,733
If you fuck up, my mother
walk in the room and was like...
508
00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:58,866
By the time you see me in Delirious,
talking about my family and stuff,
509
00:26:58,867 --> 00:27:01,243
that's after years and years of doing it.
510
00:27:01,244 --> 00:27:03,788
Why'd you eat the ice cream off the floor?
511
00:27:04,539 --> 00:27:05,915
I didn't eat no ice cream...
512
00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:10,085
Stand-up, as you know, is... it's intimate.
513
00:27:10,086 --> 00:27:13,840
My father would stand up in the middle
of the cookout and say, "It's my house."
514
00:27:15,425 --> 00:27:16,550
"You know what it is."
515
00:27:16,551 --> 00:27:19,428
"And if you don't like it,
you get the fuck out."
516
00:27:19,429 --> 00:27:21,680
I could be at Madison Square Garden,
517
00:27:21,681 --> 00:27:23,683
but when I started doing my dad drunk,
518
00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:28,020
you could hear my mother laughing
in fr... 20,000 people.
519
00:27:28,021 --> 00:27:29,813
"And, hey..."
520
00:27:29,814 --> 00:27:31,691
"Kiss my ass if you don't like it."
521
00:27:33,109 --> 00:27:36,820
And the stuff I would do about my dad
made my dad stop drinking.
522
00:27:36,821 --> 00:27:40,324
He was like, "That's how I look?"
I was like, "Yeah, that's how you look."
523
00:27:40,325 --> 00:27:42,242
He stop-- He stopped drinking.
524
00:27:42,243 --> 00:27:45,954
{\an8}I was a huge Eddie Murphy fan... 'cause of,
525
00:27:45,955 --> 00:27:50,125
you know, Shrek, Dolittle,
and all this stuff when I was like 8.
526
00:27:50,126 --> 00:27:53,420
And my dad died on 9/11.
527
00:27:53,421 --> 00:27:58,759
My mom took me to this store in the mall
that had DVDs and CDs,
528
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:01,303
and Eddie Murphy, Delirious, was there.
529
00:28:01,304 --> 00:28:04,556
I was like, "What's this?
He looks cool, and this could be fun."
530
00:28:04,557 --> 00:28:06,475
We had, like, those...
531
00:28:06,476 --> 00:28:11,730
it was like an old Suburban
that had those flip-down DVD players.
532
00:28:11,731 --> 00:28:14,316
And, uh, immediately, you know,
533
00:28:14,317 --> 00:28:17,820
"Fuck this, suck this..."
you know, "Fuck you."
534
00:28:17,821 --> 00:28:20,573
And my Mom's like, "Whoa, what'd you get?"
535
00:28:21,074 --> 00:28:23,409
And I was dying laughing.
536
00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:26,829
And she was like,
"You can't watch this or any of that."
537
00:28:26,830 --> 00:28:32,376
And I was like, "Please." I'm laughing.
And I think she saw I was enjoying myself.
538
00:28:32,377 --> 00:28:35,213
And... at a time where I really wasn't.
539
00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:38,799
And she was like,
"You can watch this stuff
540
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,262
as long as you don't repeat it
or tell anybody."
541
00:28:42,762 --> 00:28:46,891
And it was kind of a little pact we made.
And that opened me to everything.
542
00:28:47,475 --> 00:28:51,520
If I'm LeBron James, he was
the Michael Jordan poster on my wall.
543
00:28:51,521 --> 00:28:54,148
You know, what Richard Pryor
would have been for him...
544
00:28:54,149 --> 00:28:56,692
and I knew Richard Pryor's work,
but Richard...
545
00:28:56,693 --> 00:28:59,361
I didn't appreciate his work
till I was older.
546
00:28:59,362 --> 00:29:03,157
Eddie was plug and play for me.
The spirit of the way he performed,
547
00:29:03,158 --> 00:29:05,117
the impressions, the silliness of it.
548
00:29:05,118 --> 00:29:07,703
How old's the other dude right there?
549
00:29:07,704 --> 00:29:09,330
Oh, y'all fucked up now.
550
00:29:10,290 --> 00:29:13,751
Y'all thought I would be going like this,
"Otay," and all that shit, right?
551
00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:16,546
You didn't know I'd be saying,
"Our dicks is this big!"
552
00:29:19,215 --> 00:29:21,049
That kid's gonna be waking up like this,
553
00:29:21,050 --> 00:29:23,428
"The negroes' dicks
are coming to get me, Mom!"
554
00:29:24,179 --> 00:29:25,971
Richard, how do you feel when you read,
555
00:29:25,972 --> 00:29:28,932
"Eddie Murphy's going
to be another Richard Pryor"?
556
00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:31,560
Or, "Watch out, Richard Pryor,
here comes Eddie Murphy"?
557
00:29:31,561 --> 00:29:32,561
Pissed off.
558
00:29:32,562 --> 00:29:33,979
Yeah.
559
00:29:33,980 --> 00:29:37,441
You know, no, I don't like it.
I don't like it at all.
560
00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:40,360
"People are saying
he's the new Richard Pryor."
561
00:29:40,361 --> 00:29:42,112
The fuck are you talking about?
562
00:29:42,113 --> 00:29:45,449
Richard's here, and there will never be
a new Richard Pryor.
563
00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:47,367
There will be another man.
564
00:29:47,368 --> 00:29:48,745
That syndrome,
565
00:29:49,496 --> 00:29:51,289
that desire to pit
566
00:29:52,791 --> 00:29:54,625
Black people against each other
567
00:29:54,626 --> 00:29:57,420
and make it seem
like there's one opportunity...
568
00:29:59,088 --> 00:30:00,923
and if one of you want it,
569
00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:04,510
you have to go into the Colosseum
and destroy the other. You know?
570
00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:07,430
No two white comics, I mean...
571
00:30:08,139 --> 00:30:09,348
Let me put it like this.
572
00:30:09,349 --> 00:30:15,354
Jeff Ross and Howie Mandel
have never thought about
573
00:30:15,355 --> 00:30:17,398
if it's either me or him.
574
00:30:18,149 --> 00:30:22,402
Where you get that from? "It's everywhere.
It's either me or him. I know it."
575
00:30:22,403 --> 00:30:25,781
And that's just how it was.
For years, it was, you know...
576
00:30:25,782 --> 00:30:29,744
...one at a time that would get, you know,
577
00:30:30,453 --> 00:30:32,830
mass appeal and be in big movies.
578
00:30:32,831 --> 00:30:35,624
In the '60s, it was Sidney Poitier.
579
00:30:35,625 --> 00:30:39,586
Then Richard was the one person
that became the man.
580
00:30:39,587 --> 00:30:44,258
And he was the one Black guy
in most of the movies for a minute.
581
00:30:44,259 --> 00:30:47,804
Then after me, the floodgates opened.
582
00:30:49,973 --> 00:30:53,141
{\an8}Eddie Murphy
was considered a star on the rise.
583
00:30:53,142 --> 00:30:57,062
{\an8}But in those days,
an African American actor
584
00:30:57,063 --> 00:31:01,483
{\an8}had never grossed
more than $20 million or $25 million.
585
00:31:01,484 --> 00:31:03,903
{\an8}And that was Richard Pryor, by himself.
586
00:31:04,904 --> 00:31:08,407
So this was a big risk to put
Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop.
587
00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:11,326
{\an8}We're not gonna fall
for a banana in the tailpipe.
588
00:31:11,327 --> 00:31:14,580
You're not gonna fall
for the banana in the tailpipe?
589
00:31:14,581 --> 00:31:17,082
The conventional wisdom is,
it wasn't gonna work...
590
00:31:17,083 --> 00:31:19,335
- Get the fuck out of here.
- No, I cannot.
591
00:31:20,003 --> 00:31:22,337
...and then look what happened to the movie.
592
00:31:22,338 --> 00:31:24,840
It was number one for 14 weeks,
593
00:31:24,841 --> 00:31:26,259
which is unheard of.
594
00:31:27,135 --> 00:31:29,553
I saw Beverly Hills Cop
595
00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:33,600
three times on the day it came out.
596
00:31:34,726 --> 00:31:38,395
Like, we wouldn't leave the theater.
"Hey, let's see it again."
597
00:31:38,396 --> 00:31:41,900
"No, let's see it again."
I saw it three times in one day.
598
00:31:43,568 --> 00:31:47,697
Eddie Murphy in that movie was smarter
than everybody. He was Detroit slick...
599
00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:52,576
And he literally ran laps
around those guys,
600
00:31:52,577 --> 00:31:54,495
not just in the funny moments,
601
00:31:55,079 --> 00:31:59,250
but in the moment when he's...
in the strip club with the guys, right?
602
00:32:03,504 --> 00:32:05,006
And he's like, "Yeah."
603
00:32:05,757 --> 00:32:07,884
"See the guy over there with the jacket?"
604
00:32:08,551 --> 00:32:10,595
"Kind of hot to be wearing that, right?"
605
00:32:11,137 --> 00:32:12,304
"Watch my six."
606
00:32:12,305 --> 00:32:14,598
- You changed, man.
- I'm telling you to get back.
607
00:32:14,599 --> 00:32:17,477
If you don't get back,
I'm gonna blow your fucking brains out.
608
00:32:19,854 --> 00:32:21,272
Police. Move and I'll kill you.
609
00:32:22,315 --> 00:32:26,152
If you watch that scene, that's better
than any action star you've ever seen.
610
00:32:26,694 --> 00:32:30,280
And the way he handles it... and just
before that, he had you cracking up.
611
00:32:30,281 --> 00:32:31,950
Everything's under control.
612
00:32:35,036 --> 00:32:38,122
Here's Eddie Murphy,
sort of in a heartbeat.
613
00:32:39,916 --> 00:32:44,003
There's a scene in Beverly Hills Cop
where he's walking down Rodeo.
614
00:32:44,587 --> 00:32:46,797
He walks past the guys
in the leather outfits.
615
00:32:46,798 --> 00:32:48,298
He starts laughing at them.
616
00:32:48,299 --> 00:32:52,220
You're thinking, "You're laughing
at guys wearing leather outfits?"
617
00:32:52,929 --> 00:32:55,973
And it didn't seem hypocritical,
because he's in that moment.
618
00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:58,934
It's a real performance
in terms of who that character is.
619
00:32:58,935 --> 00:33:02,646
But it's also basically Eddie Murphy
kind of making fun of himself.
620
00:33:02,647 --> 00:33:05,107
I mean, there's so much going on
in that moment.
621
00:33:05,108 --> 00:33:07,318
It's such a complex beat in pop culture.
622
00:33:08,486 --> 00:33:10,238
What a life I've had.
623
00:33:13,449 --> 00:33:15,033
Oh, man.
624
00:33:15,034 --> 00:33:17,327
Derrick Lawrence. That's the dude that...
625
00:33:17,328 --> 00:33:21,540
In Beverly Hills Cop, there's a scene
where I'm walking down the street...
626
00:33:21,541 --> 00:33:24,376
And I've heard reporters
and other people talk...
627
00:33:24,377 --> 00:33:26,795
"Oh, yeah, that's an interesting moment
628
00:33:26,796 --> 00:33:30,132
because Eddie Murphy
is laughing at Eddie Murphy."
629
00:33:30,133 --> 00:33:33,135
That's not what's happening at all.
I'm not laughing at me.
630
00:33:33,136 --> 00:33:36,513
Derrick was one of those guys,
and he walked past.
631
00:33:36,514 --> 00:33:39,599
And as he walked past,
he made, like, a weird face.
632
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:41,476
And I was laughing at the face he made.
633
00:33:41,477 --> 00:33:43,895
I wasn't laughing at me.
I was laughing at Derrick.
634
00:33:43,896 --> 00:33:45,231
And there he is.
635
00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:50,652
What I wound up doing
changed the perception of Black actors.
636
00:33:50,653 --> 00:33:55,032
They saw me,
and they saw the worldwide success.
637
00:33:55,033 --> 00:33:59,202
And they was like,
"Hey... so, Black can be worldwide?"
638
00:33:59,203 --> 00:34:01,538
Like, "Yeah."
639
00:34:01,539 --> 00:34:05,876
And that's where you get
Morgan and Denzel and all those people.
640
00:34:05,877 --> 00:34:08,462
They come after my stuff.
641
00:34:08,463 --> 00:34:10,590
Sam, Spike Lee, all of that.
642
00:34:12,133 --> 00:34:14,468
I was the psychological soil
643
00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:18,890
that was... that was required
for everything that happened after me.
644
00:34:21,476 --> 00:34:24,519
I think Eddie is part of this wave of...
645
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:28,231
a hunger in the culture
for a kind of Black experience
646
00:34:28,232 --> 00:34:31,318
that related to a group of young people
that wasn't being espoused yet.
647
00:34:31,319 --> 00:34:33,987
With the exception of Michael Jackson,
648
00:34:33,988 --> 00:34:38,617
Prince, Whitney Houston, and Eddie all
kind of popped onto the scene like that.
649
00:34:38,618 --> 00:34:42,037
And these four young Black people
changed the world.
650
00:34:42,038 --> 00:34:44,664
Not just American culture,
they changed the world.
651
00:34:44,665 --> 00:34:48,210
Currently starring in a film called
Beverly Hills Cop, please welcome...
652
00:34:48,211 --> 00:34:50,003
...Eddie Murphy.
653
00:34:50,004 --> 00:34:53,215
Eddie, the kind of success you've had
in a very short period of time
654
00:34:53,216 --> 00:34:55,342
is the kind of thing that I don't--
655
00:34:55,343 --> 00:34:57,970
I never remember this happening
to anybody before.
656
00:34:58,554 --> 00:35:01,432
He dominated, and we all wanted that.
657
00:35:02,391 --> 00:35:07,396
We all wanted the big, funny movie,
and we all wanted the lifestyle.
658
00:35:08,106 --> 00:35:10,233
Hip-hop was not even a thing yet.
659
00:35:10,733 --> 00:35:13,527
{\an8}Athletes weren't making the money
that they make now.
660
00:35:13,528 --> 00:35:16,905
Eddie, at that time,
was breathing very rare air.
661
00:35:16,906 --> 00:35:19,699
{\an8}Eddie Murphy has been
in Buffalo for almost a week.
662
00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:23,370
{\an8}Most of that time has been spent
inside Rick James's recording studio.
663
00:35:23,371 --> 00:35:26,915
I was supposed to go
just for the weekend to do the song.
664
00:35:26,916 --> 00:35:31,545
Got snowed in at Rick's house
and stayed for like two weeks.
665
00:35:31,546 --> 00:35:34,798
{\an8}My girl wants to party all the time
666
00:35:34,799 --> 00:35:37,884
{\an8}Party all the time, party all the time
667
00:35:37,885 --> 00:35:39,636
Tell me about your music career.
668
00:35:39,637 --> 00:35:42,764
What happens is, after a while, you start...
669
00:35:42,765 --> 00:35:46,894
I guess your ego goes nuts,
and you say, like, "I can do anything."
670
00:35:49,689 --> 00:35:51,940
And you have people that work for you,
671
00:35:51,941 --> 00:35:55,736
and they're on the payroll, so they
start to say, "You can do anything."
672
00:35:58,072 --> 00:36:00,783
Nobody had as much fun
as we had in the '80s.
673
00:36:01,576 --> 00:36:02,577
Nobody.
674
00:36:04,745 --> 00:36:08,249
My 21st birthday party,
I had at Studio 54.
675
00:36:09,417 --> 00:36:13,044
Yul Brynner from The Ten Commandments,
he was with his wife, and he was like,
676
00:36:13,045 --> 00:36:15,338
"How would you like
to go back to my apartment
677
00:36:15,339 --> 00:36:17,215
with my wife and I and party?"
678
00:36:17,216 --> 00:36:19,384
And I was like, "Nah, I'm cool. I'm..."
679
00:36:19,385 --> 00:36:22,804
And I realized when I got older,
I was like, "Party? He wanted to..."
680
00:36:22,805 --> 00:36:26,726
His wife was smiling. I was like,
"Did he want me to go fuck his wife?"
681
00:36:27,810 --> 00:36:29,436
I was like, "What the...?"
682
00:36:29,437 --> 00:36:32,356
When I got older,
I thought back on it and was like...
683
00:36:32,940 --> 00:36:36,401
And now I wish I would've went.
The story would end better if, you know,
684
00:36:36,402 --> 00:36:39,279
"Yeah, I went back to Yul Brynner's spot
and fucked his wife."
685
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,616
"He was watching me fucking...
He was going, 'Et cetera, et cetera...'"
686
00:36:42,617 --> 00:36:45,244
Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
687
00:36:47,121 --> 00:36:50,499
Man, that shit is extreme.
Being Eddie Murphy in the '80s.
688
00:36:52,126 --> 00:36:55,629
That's extreme.
Wearing a red leather suit, like, before--
689
00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:58,007
That's some extreme shit.
690
00:37:00,009 --> 00:37:02,928
The pages are all brown.
It's like, "How old are you?"
691
00:37:02,929 --> 00:37:05,890
It's like... oh my God, look at those teeth.
692
00:37:07,475 --> 00:37:11,729
"From stand-up comic
to big-screen sex symbol."
693
00:37:12,521 --> 00:37:15,315
That's what they said.
I didn't say it. That's what they said.
694
00:37:15,316 --> 00:37:17,944
See right there, "Big-screen sex symbol."
695
00:37:18,486 --> 00:37:22,239
When Eddie made it,
everybody's life, it changed.
696
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,533
Charlie was in the service.
697
00:37:25,409 --> 00:37:28,286
{\an8}He came home,
started working security for Eddie.
698
00:37:28,287 --> 00:37:31,206
{\an8}I started working,
you know, with my brother.
699
00:37:31,207 --> 00:37:33,625
{\an8}- You were security?
- I was head of security.
700
00:37:33,626 --> 00:37:35,418
Did you know anything about security?
701
00:37:35,419 --> 00:37:38,880
No, I knew you better not fuck
with my brother, that's all I knew.
702
00:37:38,881 --> 00:37:40,466
That's all... that's all I knew.
703
00:37:41,384 --> 00:37:45,137
When we did this sketch
on Chappelle's Show...
704
00:37:47,056 --> 00:37:49,641
"Charlie Murphy, True Hollywood Stories,"
705
00:37:49,642 --> 00:37:53,311
the genesis of it was Charlie
just telling crazy stories at lunch.
706
00:37:53,312 --> 00:37:56,357
{\an8}We're walking up
into the VIP section, you know.
707
00:37:56,899 --> 00:38:00,652
{\an8}I'm looking around and see who's there,
and looking at the girls and everything,
708
00:38:00,653 --> 00:38:03,322
and all of a sudden,
I heard someone go, "Charlie Murphy!"
709
00:38:05,449 --> 00:38:07,784
{\an8}Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
710
00:38:07,785 --> 00:38:10,495
{\an8}That Rick James sketch
on the Chappelle Show,
711
00:38:10,496 --> 00:38:13,248
had a surreal thing for me
when I had watched them
712
00:38:13,249 --> 00:38:15,375
'cause I thought they were super funny.
713
00:38:15,376 --> 00:38:16,793
But then I was like...
714
00:38:16,794 --> 00:38:19,921
But this is, like,
just some night in my life.
715
00:38:19,922 --> 00:38:23,301
You know, this...
And every night was like that.
716
00:38:25,636 --> 00:38:29,681
It's funny, when I hung out with,
like, Rick James and them in the '80s,
717
00:38:29,682 --> 00:38:32,767
when I would start seeing
certain people come in the room,
718
00:38:32,768 --> 00:38:34,936
and you know what's
getting ready to go down,
719
00:38:34,937 --> 00:38:37,772
they get ready to be in the other room...
I just bounced.
720
00:38:37,773 --> 00:38:39,190
I was never curious about it.
721
00:38:39,191 --> 00:38:41,776
I never wanted to go in there,
check it out or nothing.
722
00:38:41,777 --> 00:38:43,236
I just wasn't with it.
723
00:38:43,237 --> 00:38:46,990
If you ever see Eddie out,
he's not the guy dominating the room.
724
00:38:46,991 --> 00:38:50,745
He's very introverted. He'll sit
in the back of the room with a Coca-Cola.
725
00:38:52,413 --> 00:38:55,248
When I was 19,
it's my first year of Saturday Night Live,
726
00:38:55,249 --> 00:38:59,962
I went to a blues bar
with John Belushi and Robin Williams.
727
00:39:00,463 --> 00:39:02,965
They put some blow on a table,
728
00:39:03,674 --> 00:39:06,802
and I'm standing there with,
you know, two heroes.
729
00:39:08,763 --> 00:39:11,473
I wasn't even curious.
I was just not with it.
730
00:39:11,474 --> 00:39:16,979
I've never even tried cocaine
or touched cocaine or some shit like that.
731
00:39:18,272 --> 00:39:20,899
I don't drink. I don't smoke cigarettes.
732
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:26,405
I never smoked a joint till I was...
30 years old when I first smoked a joint.
733
00:39:28,074 --> 00:39:32,161
First time I met Eddie Murphy
was at The Comic Strip.
734
00:39:33,204 --> 00:39:36,039
Think he had, like, a leather suit on,
735
00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:38,333
had the whole entourage.
736
00:39:38,334 --> 00:39:42,670
They used to let me get on stage if I'd
stack chairs when the show was over.
737
00:39:42,671 --> 00:39:46,966
The owner of the club
introduces me to Eddie,
738
00:39:46,967 --> 00:39:50,513
and Eddie says, "When are you going on?"
739
00:39:51,222 --> 00:39:52,972
And I go, "I'm not on tonight."
740
00:39:52,973 --> 00:39:55,851
And then Eddie says,
"Well, you're going up next."
741
00:39:56,352 --> 00:39:59,355
And I had a really good set,
and he laughed really loud...
742
00:40:01,107 --> 00:40:04,192
{\an8}The fact that Rock could talk to Eddie,
we would just be like,
743
00:40:04,193 --> 00:40:05,652
{\an8}"And then what did he say?"
744
00:40:05,653 --> 00:40:07,654
"And then what did you say? And then..."
745
00:40:07,655 --> 00:40:10,532
You know, just... Just too exciting...
Too exciting to be--
746
00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:13,369
Yeah, he was... definitely Elvis to us.
747
00:40:15,704 --> 00:40:18,082
{\an8}I was literally with him...
748
00:40:18,707 --> 00:40:21,001
going from theater to theater,
749
00:40:21,627 --> 00:40:23,920
watching the audience laugh at Raw.
750
00:40:23,921 --> 00:40:26,882
I mean, Raw was a... fuckin'...
751
00:40:27,383 --> 00:40:29,969
Was a... I mean, Raw... Whew!
752
00:40:31,595 --> 00:40:34,806
I got a lot of people from other countries
that see my films and come over
753
00:40:34,807 --> 00:40:37,308
to the United States
'cause New York is like a tourist place.
754
00:40:37,309 --> 00:40:40,437
And they get HBO, they catch Delirious,
and they can't speak English,
755
00:40:40,438 --> 00:40:42,814
and try to do my act,
and all they got is the curses.
756
00:40:42,815 --> 00:40:46,443
I got foreigners from all over the world
walking up and going, "Eddie Murphy!"
757
00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:47,486
"Fuck you!"
758
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,366
First time I heard him
was in my living room.
759
00:40:53,409 --> 00:40:55,161
"Fuck you, Eddie!"
760
00:40:56,245 --> 00:41:00,582
And my dad was watching Raw on VHS tape.
761
00:41:00,583 --> 00:41:03,460
And don't touch his tape.
"Don't nobody touch my tape."
762
00:41:03,461 --> 00:41:05,879
And then it was about me
sneaking and watching it.
763
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:09,340
I mean, fucking and making love,
let's be real, I mean, the physical act,
764
00:41:09,341 --> 00:41:11,843
I like to fuck somebody I'm in love with,
765
00:41:11,844 --> 00:41:14,930
but I ain't making love to nobody.
I get in the bed...
766
00:41:15,514 --> 00:41:16,765
I get in the bed...
767
00:41:18,100 --> 00:41:20,602
I get in the bed... Well, think about it.
768
00:41:20,603 --> 00:41:23,855
You get in bed, would you rather have
somebody say, "Make love to me"?
769
00:41:23,856 --> 00:41:26,942
Or grab the back of your head and say,
"Fuck the shit out of me"?
770
00:41:29,111 --> 00:41:32,405
In a weird way, he kind of
served the same function
771
00:41:32,406 --> 00:41:35,200
in a young kid's mind that
hip-hop did, in the sense that,
772
00:41:35,201 --> 00:41:38,369
that shit you listen to in the car
before you walk into that meeting,
773
00:41:38,370 --> 00:41:40,747
that gives you that edge
or that confidence.
774
00:41:40,748 --> 00:41:42,081
Eddie's like that.
775
00:41:42,082 --> 00:41:45,543
He made me feel cool or want to be cool.
776
00:41:45,544 --> 00:41:48,379
Or nothing ever hurts the comedic hero.
777
00:41:48,380 --> 00:41:49,464
He was that.
778
00:41:49,465 --> 00:41:51,549
I ran in the house
all excited to talk to Bill,
779
00:41:51,550 --> 00:41:54,010
and picked up the telephone,
and Bill got raw on me.
780
00:41:54,011 --> 00:41:56,012
I was like, "Hello, Mr. Cosby?"
And you hear,
781
00:41:56,013 --> 00:41:58,724
"I would like
to talk to you..."
782
00:42:02,061 --> 00:42:05,898
"...about some of the things
783
00:42:06,565 --> 00:42:09,527
that you do in your show."
784
00:42:10,528 --> 00:42:13,404
I remember I went
to a movie theater with my brother
785
00:42:13,405 --> 00:42:15,907
every day after school and watched Raw.
786
00:42:15,908 --> 00:42:19,869
It was ironic, 'cause that was the year,
ultimately, that I started doing stand-up,
787
00:42:19,870 --> 00:42:21,705
and that's when he stopped.
788
00:42:22,498 --> 00:42:25,792
{\an8}I never had a moment where I said,
"I'm not gonna do stand-up right now."
789
00:42:25,793 --> 00:42:28,254
{\an8}It just kind of gradually stopped.
790
00:42:29,171 --> 00:42:31,798
I do know that it stopped
being as much fun,
791
00:42:31,799 --> 00:42:35,678
and that's why I stopped going
to the clubs like I used to, and...
792
00:42:36,637 --> 00:42:41,266
Yeah, I remember it had gotten to a point
to where, like, you couldn't write stuff.
793
00:42:41,267 --> 00:42:44,602
Like, if you would...
if I would go up at a club,
794
00:42:44,603 --> 00:42:47,981
the next day it'd be, like,
in the paper that I was at a club
795
00:42:47,982 --> 00:42:51,651
and what I was talking about,
and they'd be critiquing it already,
796
00:42:51,652 --> 00:42:55,154
and it'd be, like, something you just...
a little piece of an idea.
797
00:42:55,155 --> 00:42:59,826
And I remember I didn't like that feeling,
so I stopped working out as much.
798
00:42:59,827 --> 00:43:02,537
And then it just got bigger and bigger...
799
00:43:02,538 --> 00:43:06,249
And before we knew it,
you know, decades had gone by.
800
00:43:06,250 --> 00:43:09,669
They got dudes at doctors' offices
with symptoms like, "Excuse me, Doc,
801
00:43:09,670 --> 00:43:12,590
what does it mean when
you go to the bathroom and, um...
802
00:43:13,090 --> 00:43:14,633
fire shoot out your dick?"
803
00:43:15,134 --> 00:43:19,012
Every now and then, I'm flipping through
channels, and I'll see something of mine.
804
00:43:19,013 --> 00:43:22,390
It's like it's not me
when I look at Raw or Delirious.
805
00:43:22,391 --> 00:43:25,018
It's like... well, I know that's me
'cause I'm looking at it.
806
00:43:25,019 --> 00:43:27,646
But it feels like a different person.
807
00:43:28,147 --> 00:43:31,275
Everybody's, you know, constantly...
808
00:43:33,444 --> 00:43:37,864
I heard somebody describe it
like a... like a flame on a candle.
809
00:43:37,865 --> 00:43:39,950
It's constantly changing.
810
00:43:41,327 --> 00:43:42,536
And so are we.
811
00:43:43,537 --> 00:43:47,624
I said if I ever did stand-up again,
I was gonna get a Bill Cosby puppet
812
00:43:47,625 --> 00:43:51,502
and a Richard Pryor puppet,
and sit, and have them on the side,
813
00:43:51,503 --> 00:43:55,132
and have, like, a conversation
between the two, and be in the middle.
814
00:43:57,718 --> 00:44:00,721
I'd get at least ten good minutes
of jokes out of it.
815
00:44:03,307 --> 00:44:05,100
Eddie never stops creating.
816
00:44:05,601 --> 00:44:09,145
I walk through his house,
and I see stuff written on pads.
817
00:44:09,146 --> 00:44:12,106
So I'm like, he's thinking about it.
818
00:44:12,107 --> 00:44:16,194
Whenever I got an idea, I would take
the phone and go, "Oh, yeah... rah, rah..."
819
00:44:16,195 --> 00:44:21,574
And over the years I got, you know,
so much stuff, so many things, it's like,
820
00:44:21,575 --> 00:44:25,704
all I have to do is go through my phone
and go, "Yeah, that would be a good bit."
821
00:44:27,206 --> 00:44:28,916
So it wouldn't be hard to do.
822
00:44:29,708 --> 00:44:31,417
You're a comedian. You're not normal.
823
00:44:31,418 --> 00:44:34,338
You're not seeing the world
at all in the same way.
824
00:44:34,922 --> 00:44:38,717
You're here, but you're either
looking through things
825
00:44:39,426 --> 00:44:42,553
or your perspective is
above the terrestrial world,
826
00:44:42,554 --> 00:44:45,014
and you're looking down at it.
827
00:44:45,015 --> 00:44:50,270
Sense of humor is ultimately
just an acute sense of proportion.
828
00:44:50,813 --> 00:44:54,649
Uh, the... the funny person
notices stuff first.
829
00:44:54,650 --> 00:44:56,943
You walk in a room,
the funny person will know,
830
00:44:56,944 --> 00:44:59,237
"Hey, it's cold in here."
Or "What's that smell?"
831
00:44:59,238 --> 00:45:03,533
You pull a car in front of me,
a brand-new car from the showroom,
832
00:45:03,534 --> 00:45:06,536
and if it has a little scratch on it,
you pull it in front of me,
833
00:45:06,537 --> 00:45:10,207
my eye will go right to the scratch,
"Hey, you got a little scratch here."
834
00:45:12,459 --> 00:45:16,630
I used to have that OCD when I was a kid.
I didn't know what it was.
835
00:45:17,673 --> 00:45:20,383
I would go and check the stove
in the kitchen
836
00:45:20,384 --> 00:45:23,594
and make sure all the gas was off
in the kitchen. Right?
837
00:45:23,595 --> 00:45:27,473
And I'd lay down for about, you know,
five minutes and I would get back up
838
00:45:27,474 --> 00:45:31,644
and go back in the kitchen and look
at the stove again and check all the gas.
839
00:45:31,645 --> 00:45:34,897
Then I'd go back into bed
and lay there for about five, ten,
840
00:45:34,898 --> 00:45:37,775
and then get back up and go look at it
and look at the stove
841
00:45:37,776 --> 00:45:39,778
and make sure all the gas was off.
842
00:45:40,404 --> 00:45:43,781
Then I'd go back to bed,
lay for another ten minutes and get back...
843
00:45:43,782 --> 00:45:45,867
And this went on for maybe, like, an hour.
844
00:45:45,868 --> 00:45:48,328
And I did that every night.
845
00:45:49,538 --> 00:45:53,207
Every night. And I'd just say,
"That's just some weird shit that I do."
846
00:45:53,208 --> 00:45:55,626
My mother, nobody knew this was going on.
847
00:45:55,627 --> 00:45:58,171
And I used to make a goofy sound.
848
00:45:58,172 --> 00:46:00,924
I used to go... uh-mm-mm,
and do that all the time.
849
00:46:01,467 --> 00:46:03,342
That's stupid.
850
00:46:03,343 --> 00:46:05,219
Uh-mm, uh-mm.
851
00:46:05,220 --> 00:46:08,265
You're sitting there watching TV,
going... uh-mm, uh-mm.
852
00:46:09,641 --> 00:46:14,270
Then one day I was watching the news,
and they did something on OCD,
853
00:46:14,271 --> 00:46:18,566
and it was like, "Oh, that's what I--
I be doing shit like that."
854
00:46:18,567 --> 00:46:22,278
I said, "Oh."
I was like, "Oh, mental illness?"
855
00:46:22,279 --> 00:46:23,738
It was like, "What? I..."
856
00:46:23,739 --> 00:46:26,699
And when I saw that it was,
like, some mental illness shit,
857
00:46:26,700 --> 00:46:28,493
I made myself stop doing it.
858
00:46:28,494 --> 00:46:31,537
It was like, "I'm not--
I'm not doing it no more."
859
00:46:31,538 --> 00:46:35,374
"I thought I was weird. I ain't know
I had some mental illness. Fuck that."
860
00:46:35,375 --> 00:46:39,003
"I ain't have no mental illness.
Mental illness, my ass."
861
00:46:39,004 --> 00:46:41,631
And I forced myself to stop doing it.
862
00:46:41,632 --> 00:46:43,674
I check the gas every night still.
863
00:46:43,675 --> 00:46:46,220
But every now and then,
I'll check it twice,
864
00:46:46,845 --> 00:46:49,931
and say, "No, motherfucker,
you ain't starting that shit again."
865
00:46:49,932 --> 00:46:51,517
"Take your ass to bed."
866
00:46:53,268 --> 00:46:57,897
{\an8}I guess I'm, uh...
a little more paranoid than I used to be.
867
00:46:57,898 --> 00:47:00,483
On every, I'm-- social,
I'm a little more paranoid,
868
00:47:00,484 --> 00:47:03,695
emotionally, I'm a little
more paranoid and, uh...
869
00:47:04,196 --> 00:47:05,613
Those things, you have a lot.
870
00:47:05,614 --> 00:47:08,157
But success and power
kind of, like, isolates you,
871
00:47:08,158 --> 00:47:10,910
and you get confused
'cause you start thinking, you know,
872
00:47:10,911 --> 00:47:13,204
"If I have this and that,
and I can do this and that,
873
00:47:13,205 --> 00:47:14,997
how come I'm not happy all the time?"
874
00:47:14,998 --> 00:47:17,208
Then you realize
nobody's happy all the time.
875
00:47:17,209 --> 00:47:18,710
What are you missing?
876
00:47:19,336 --> 00:47:21,838
I don't know. I'd like to have a family.
I'd like to be married.
877
00:47:21,839 --> 00:47:26,552
And I'd like to have some stability
in my life emotionally.
878
00:47:28,554 --> 00:47:32,098
I'm on the tour bus,
and I just broke up with this chick,
879
00:47:32,099 --> 00:47:35,768
and the conversation
on the bus was, you know,
880
00:47:35,769 --> 00:47:40,106
"It would be nice to meet a girl that
didn't know I was one of the faces."
881
00:47:40,107 --> 00:47:41,482
And yah, yah, yah.
882
00:47:41,483 --> 00:47:44,861
And that's how that, uh,
Coming to America idea started.
883
00:47:44,862 --> 00:47:48,322
{\an8}I want a woman that's going to arouse
my intellect as well as my loins.
884
00:47:48,323 --> 00:47:50,158
Where will you find such a woman?
885
00:47:51,243 --> 00:47:52,535
In America.
886
00:47:52,536 --> 00:47:54,704
Good morning, my neighbors!
887
00:47:54,705 --> 00:47:56,038
Hey, fuck you!
888
00:47:56,039 --> 00:47:57,875
Yes! Yes!
889
00:47:58,709 --> 00:48:00,334
Fuck you too!
890
00:48:00,335 --> 00:48:02,211
The idea was his life,
891
00:48:02,212 --> 00:48:06,632
and the complications
of finding true love on an honest plane.
892
00:48:06,633 --> 00:48:08,593
Hey, boy. Why you so worried
about how you look anyway?
893
00:48:08,594 --> 00:48:11,679
Well, I'm trying to gain the interest
of a certain young lady.
894
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:12,973
Ah...
895
00:48:13,724 --> 00:48:16,851
I worked with Rick Baker for many years.
896
00:48:16,852 --> 00:48:19,980
{\an8}So when I wanted Eddie to play an old Jew,
897
00:48:20,856 --> 00:48:22,773
I knew Rick could do it.
898
00:48:22,774 --> 00:48:24,526
{\an8}Who's the star of that picture?
899
00:48:25,110 --> 00:48:27,820
It's this young guy named Eddie Murphy,
I think it is.
900
00:48:27,821 --> 00:48:29,655
Oh, Christ. I hate him.
901
00:48:29,656 --> 00:48:32,158
The kid with the filthy mouth?
902
00:48:32,159 --> 00:48:34,493
- Yeah, he's the one.
- Oh, he's the worst.
903
00:48:34,494 --> 00:48:36,371
He's the worst.
904
00:48:36,872 --> 00:48:38,081
He can't act.
905
00:48:38,832 --> 00:48:40,208
He has a filthy mouth.
906
00:48:41,126 --> 00:48:42,251
And he's ugly.
907
00:48:42,252 --> 00:48:44,003
When I get a voice or a character,
908
00:48:44,004 --> 00:48:46,255
the way my voice sounds,
I can lose it completely.
909
00:48:46,256 --> 00:48:47,965
There's no sign of my voice.
910
00:48:47,966 --> 00:48:49,091
You damn right!
911
00:48:49,092 --> 00:48:50,593
Characters are like real people.
912
00:48:50,594 --> 00:48:52,595
It feels so lovely to be here tonight.
What a beautiful...
913
00:48:52,596 --> 00:48:54,764
Give yourselves a round of applause.
You're so lovely.
914
00:48:54,765 --> 00:48:57,975
I've always been a fan of makeup movies.
915
00:48:57,976 --> 00:49:00,603
There's some makeup,
they turn into another person.
916
00:49:00,604 --> 00:49:02,897
I always gravitated to stuff like that.
917
00:49:02,898 --> 00:49:05,984
And I watched that stuff
over and over and over and over again.
918
00:49:06,693 --> 00:49:10,821
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a movie
I watched all the time as a kid.
919
00:49:10,822 --> 00:49:12,616
"I'm not a man."
920
00:49:13,200 --> 00:49:14,618
"I'm not a beast."
921
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,831
"I'm about as shapeless
as the man in the moon."
922
00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:27,838
This is beautiful. What is that, velvet?
923
00:49:27,839 --> 00:49:30,050
When we did
the original Coming to America,
924
00:49:31,259 --> 00:49:34,136
at the after-party,
Jesse Jackson came up to me,
925
00:49:34,137 --> 00:49:37,014
and he was like,
"Hey, I want to say thank you
926
00:49:37,015 --> 00:49:40,142
for putting... looking out for
some of the older Black actors,
927
00:49:40,143 --> 00:49:42,395
putting them in the film
and giving them a shot
928
00:49:42,396 --> 00:49:44,188
because those guys
are gonna become stars."
929
00:49:44,189 --> 00:49:47,024
I was like, "What you talking about?"
He said, "Those guys in the barbershop,
930
00:49:47,025 --> 00:49:49,944
they're funny, and those guys
are gonna get famous because of this."
931
00:49:49,945 --> 00:49:53,114
I was like, "Motherfucker, that was me."
He was like, "What, that was you?"
932
00:49:53,115 --> 00:49:54,782
"Now I got to go see the movie again."
933
00:49:54,783 --> 00:49:57,994
If a man wants to be called Muhammad Ali,
934
00:49:57,995 --> 00:50:00,121
God damn it, this is a free country,
935
00:50:00,122 --> 00:50:03,916
you should respect his wishes,
and call the man Muhammad Ali.
936
00:50:03,917 --> 00:50:07,044
I remember him
walking around the Paramount lot,
937
00:50:07,045 --> 00:50:09,046
and him as the old man,
938
00:50:09,047 --> 00:50:12,008
{\an8}and no one was bothering him
or coming up to him,
939
00:50:12,009 --> 00:50:14,094
{\an8}and he could be free.
940
00:50:14,803 --> 00:50:19,974
It's very difficult
to survive the kind of fame
941
00:50:19,975 --> 00:50:23,185
that Eddie had and has.
942
00:50:23,186 --> 00:50:27,606
I've experienced it now
three or four times with people,
943
00:50:27,607 --> 00:50:30,902
um... where they're guys,
944
00:50:31,778 --> 00:50:34,572
and then boom, they're superstars.
945
00:50:34,573 --> 00:50:38,159
That superstardom,
you're just worth so much money,
946
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:41,037
and people are coming at you
from so many directions.
947
00:50:41,038 --> 00:50:42,748
Who do you trust, you know?
948
00:50:43,665 --> 00:50:46,042
"Murphy has solid middle-class values,
949
00:50:46,043 --> 00:50:50,588
but in another way, he's too vain
to destroy himself." John Landis.
950
00:50:50,589 --> 00:50:52,006
That's true.
951
00:50:52,007 --> 00:50:57,596
That's a lot to... no way I could just...
have a hand in my destruction.
952
00:51:05,812 --> 00:51:07,689
I think the celebrity...
953
00:51:09,232 --> 00:51:12,152
he had a love-hate relationship with it.
954
00:51:14,571 --> 00:51:17,282
He loved the energy of fans,
955
00:51:17,908 --> 00:51:20,202
but you also become vulnerable.
956
00:51:26,625 --> 00:51:30,045
Fame is bigger than any drug.
957
00:51:31,088 --> 00:51:34,757
Hearing nothing but how much you love me
958
00:51:34,758 --> 00:51:36,093
and how great I am,
959
00:51:36,968 --> 00:51:40,222
that can rock most, and it has.
960
00:51:41,056 --> 00:51:43,849
Michael and Prince and Whitney,
961
00:51:43,850 --> 00:51:46,603
there was... have a self-destructive nature.
962
00:51:47,270 --> 00:51:48,729
My biggest blessing...
963
00:51:48,730 --> 00:51:52,650
My biggest blessing
is not my comedic talent.
964
00:51:52,651 --> 00:51:55,529
My biggest blessing is, uh...
965
00:51:56,029 --> 00:51:59,324
that I... love myself,
966
00:51:59,908 --> 00:52:03,453
and I knew what I wanted to do
really, really early.
967
00:52:04,412 --> 00:52:08,415
And that's why I didn't fall
into any traps or anything
968
00:52:08,416 --> 00:52:10,084
'cause at the... at the root...
969
00:52:10,085 --> 00:52:12,628
at the root of it all, I love myself.
970
00:52:12,629 --> 00:52:17,425
You know, the best rappers like Biggie,
Tupac, those guys died in their twenties.
971
00:52:18,385 --> 00:52:21,595
No telling what they could have been.
You know, the...
972
00:52:21,596 --> 00:52:26,308
The biggest success in show business,
first and foremost, is surviving the shit.
973
00:52:26,309 --> 00:52:29,311
No matter what,
you got to... you got to survive it.
974
00:52:29,312 --> 00:52:32,273
You can't kill yourself,
you can't let nobody kill you.
975
00:52:32,274 --> 00:52:34,108
- How you doing?
- Good. How are you?
976
00:52:34,109 --> 00:52:38,237
Being able to navigate
this minefield that you have to navigate,
977
00:52:38,238 --> 00:52:41,907
just being on the physical plane,
you know, and then you add to it,
978
00:52:41,908 --> 00:52:46,162
you're one of the faces,
there's a higher power that's at hand.
979
00:52:46,163 --> 00:52:48,206
There's some other shit going on.
980
00:52:49,666 --> 00:52:53,587
And when shit is all fucked up,
well, you get centered, pray.
981
00:52:55,547 --> 00:52:57,298
It's like a tuning fork.
982
00:52:57,299 --> 00:53:00,593
You hit it and it's vibrating,
and you can take it
983
00:53:00,594 --> 00:53:04,138
and run your fingers down
and make it, you know, stop vibrating.
984
00:53:04,139 --> 00:53:06,099
That's what, like, prayer is like.
985
00:53:07,017 --> 00:53:10,896
Hey, man. I don't want to sound,
you know, all guru-ish and shit.
986
00:53:12,355 --> 00:53:15,066
People sitting out there going,
"This motherfucker is a guru."
987
00:53:16,109 --> 00:53:20,988
There are many times when I've
been around Eddie in a work situation,
988
00:53:20,989 --> 00:53:24,158
and it's like he's stepped out of his body
into the white light,
989
00:53:24,159 --> 00:53:27,579
and he's looking back at us humans
and helping us understand.
990
00:53:28,163 --> 00:53:32,208
I've done a movie, Harlem Nights,
where he directed, where you realize,
991
00:53:32,209 --> 00:53:34,418
he knows what works and doesn't work.
992
00:53:34,419 --> 00:53:38,006
{\an8}Only way you going home
is shot, motherfucker!
993
00:53:38,590 --> 00:53:40,050
I was doing a scene
994
00:53:41,718 --> 00:53:43,428
where I have to die.
995
00:53:44,304 --> 00:53:46,723
And he said, "I want you to die."
996
00:53:48,099 --> 00:53:51,602
"And then, I want you to just come
back to life for one second and say..."
997
00:53:51,603 --> 00:53:52,686
Asshole.
998
00:53:52,687 --> 00:53:53,772
"...and then die."
999
00:53:55,273 --> 00:53:57,859
I did it, and it's still funny.
1000
00:53:58,693 --> 00:54:02,321
There were days when I wasn't working,
and I would just go over and hang
1001
00:54:02,322 --> 00:54:06,617
and watch him direct Redd Foxx
and fucking Della Reese, man.
1002
00:54:06,618 --> 00:54:09,578
I'd tell you to kiss my ass too,
but you probably can't find it,
1003
00:54:09,579 --> 00:54:10,788
you blind motherfucker.
1004
00:54:10,789 --> 00:54:12,456
Fuck you, bitch.
1005
00:54:12,457 --> 00:54:15,584
But directing Richard,
easily a dream come true,
1006
00:54:15,585 --> 00:54:19,798
because you know how much
he respects and loves Richard Pryor.
1007
00:54:20,382 --> 00:54:22,883
- Who is that?
- That's the cop I was telling you about.
1008
00:54:22,884 --> 00:54:27,096
To work with somebody you idolize...
on the outside, I'm unflappable.
1009
00:54:27,097 --> 00:54:28,722
On the inside, I was like... Ahh!
1010
00:54:28,723 --> 00:54:31,308
Now, when we were doing Harlem Nights,
1011
00:54:31,309 --> 00:54:34,561
I wanted to do a movie
with some of my old heroes.
1012
00:54:34,562 --> 00:54:37,523
You put your head back and go,
"I don't feel no different."
1013
00:54:37,524 --> 00:54:39,900
Redd was just funny effortlessly.
1014
00:54:39,901 --> 00:54:41,068
You look good.
1015
00:54:41,069 --> 00:54:42,528
I don't feel no different.
1016
00:54:42,529 --> 00:54:44,113
I love Redd.
1017
00:54:44,114 --> 00:54:47,491
Then he was a cautionary tale, too,
because we've got drugs,
1018
00:54:47,492 --> 00:54:50,327
that shit going on,
sniffing blow and all that.
1019
00:54:50,328 --> 00:54:52,037
Then his paper was all fucked up,
1020
00:54:52,038 --> 00:54:54,541
'cause when Redd kicked out,
I had to bury Redd.
1021
00:54:55,083 --> 00:54:57,752
I had to bury Redd. I had to bury Rick.
1022
00:54:58,503 --> 00:55:00,379
I brought Buckwheat a tombstone.
1023
00:55:00,380 --> 00:55:02,465
Buckwheat didn't have no tombstone.
1024
00:55:02,966 --> 00:55:05,634
I'm always burying... burying these people.
1025
00:55:05,635 --> 00:55:08,137
I mean, it tripped me out,
these people you...
1026
00:55:08,138 --> 00:55:11,098
Show business and all that,
then when they pass away,
1027
00:55:11,099 --> 00:55:14,351
there's not even the money
to bury these people?
1028
00:55:14,352 --> 00:55:17,396
Where are their families?
Where are these people?
1029
00:55:17,397 --> 00:55:19,316
It's a lot of people like that.
1030
00:55:19,858 --> 00:55:22,443
{\an8}One of the quiet agendas that Eddie has
1031
00:55:22,444 --> 00:55:27,073
is... "Hey, Black people
haven't had a movie like that."
1032
00:55:27,866 --> 00:55:30,868
{\an8}There hadn't been
a Black romantic comedy before.
1033
00:55:30,869 --> 00:55:33,997
Love should've brought your ass
home last night.
1034
00:55:34,664 --> 00:55:38,292
"We need to do that
so other people can do that."
1035
00:55:38,293 --> 00:55:42,671
"And if I can use my clout
to open that door, that's a good thing."
1036
00:55:42,672 --> 00:55:44,799
Don't you think it's about time
we talked promotion?
1037
00:55:46,092 --> 00:55:52,014
Because we showed Black life in a way
that had never been put on screen before,
1038
00:55:52,015 --> 00:55:54,641
there were these really extreme reactions.
1039
00:55:54,642 --> 00:55:57,478
This is from the LA Times.
This review, it says...
1040
00:55:57,479 --> 00:56:00,439
It says, "The most intriguing aspect
of Boomerang, turns out,
1041
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:02,649
not its story but its racial composition."
1042
00:56:02,650 --> 00:56:05,486
It says, "This takes pains
to create a reverse world
1043
00:56:05,487 --> 00:56:07,654
from which white people are invisible."
1044
00:56:07,655 --> 00:56:10,824
Oh, yeah, this cat
and the LA Times was tripping
1045
00:56:10,825 --> 00:56:14,828
because there was... there were no...
well, there are white people in the movie,
1046
00:56:14,829 --> 00:56:17,915
but there were no, like,
you know, like, white leads in it.
1047
00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:20,000
And you take a picture
like Boyz n the Hood,
1048
00:56:20,001 --> 00:56:22,294
no one tripped about that
because it was a movie
1049
00:56:22,295 --> 00:56:24,213
that dealt with, like, a violent thing.
1050
00:56:24,214 --> 00:56:27,424
But regular thing, and it was business,
"Where are the white people?"
1051
00:56:27,425 --> 00:56:30,177
"Who's running that office?"
You know, that kind of thing.
1052
00:56:30,178 --> 00:56:34,431
It's the type of thing where people say
they're not used to seeing Black artists
1053
00:56:34,432 --> 00:56:37,643
in these roles, so... it seems odd to them.
But I was seeing--
1054
00:56:37,644 --> 00:56:40,521
Well, you better get used to it
'cause I ain't going no place.
1055
00:56:40,522 --> 00:56:41,939
Yeah.
1056
00:56:41,940 --> 00:56:44,109
I ain't going no place.
1057
00:56:44,859 --> 00:56:48,153
Hollywood back then, and to this day,
1058
00:56:48,154 --> 00:56:51,490
there's a lot of negative forces.
1059
00:56:51,491 --> 00:56:55,285
Black movie stars always had to break
through all these obstacles,
1060
00:56:55,286 --> 00:56:57,414
but those obstacles were the default.
1061
00:56:58,498 --> 00:56:59,706
{\an8}Hi, I'm Eddie Murphy.
1062
00:56:59,707 --> 00:57:02,960
{\an8}Every now and then,
somebody will see it and be like, "Wow."
1063
00:57:02,961 --> 00:57:05,921
"Eddie was talking shit
at the Oscars way back then?"
1064
00:57:05,922 --> 00:57:07,840
I even said right before, I said,
1065
00:57:07,841 --> 00:57:10,676
"I'll probably never get an Oscar
for saying this."
1066
00:57:10,677 --> 00:57:13,345
And I'll probably never win an Oscar
for saying this,
1067
00:57:13,346 --> 00:57:15,305
but, hey, what the hey, I got to say it.
1068
00:57:15,306 --> 00:57:17,141
And I went... I went and did it.
1069
00:57:17,142 --> 00:57:19,059
I just want you to know,
I'mma give this award,
1070
00:57:19,060 --> 00:57:21,937
but Black people will not ride
the caboose of society,
1071
00:57:21,938 --> 00:57:24,940
and we will not bring up the rear anymore,
and I want you to recognize us.
1072
00:57:24,941 --> 00:57:27,609
He said, "Fine, it's done."
I said, "When do I have to be there?"
1073
00:57:27,610 --> 00:57:29,820
He said, "You don't have to
get there till about 9 or 10
1074
00:57:29,821 --> 00:57:31,865
'cause it's the last award
of the evening, so..."
1075
00:57:32,949 --> 00:57:35,617
The next day,
it was like I didn't say anything.
1076
00:57:35,618 --> 00:57:38,162
There were no pictures of me
at the Oscars.
1077
00:57:38,163 --> 00:57:41,373
There was no coverage of me.
There was no mention that I said that.
1078
00:57:41,374 --> 00:57:43,418
It was like I wasn't at the Oscars.
1079
00:57:44,335 --> 00:57:45,837
And I haven't gotten an Oscar.
1080
00:57:48,047 --> 00:57:50,549
I haven't got an Oscar,
and I've done everything.
1081
00:57:50,550 --> 00:57:52,801
I've played everything
and done everything.
1082
00:57:52,802 --> 00:57:54,512
And I haven't got an Oscar.
1083
00:57:55,513 --> 00:57:57,474
But I don't think it's because of that.
1084
00:57:59,517 --> 00:58:03,479
{\an8}I think I'm in a transitional period
as a comedian.
1085
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:06,231
{\an8}I feel like there are
other things that I want to do,
1086
00:58:06,232 --> 00:58:08,692
and I don't want to do things
that I've done before,
1087
00:58:08,693 --> 00:58:10,944
and I want to do
different types of movies,
1088
00:58:10,945 --> 00:58:14,072
and exploring where I am
at this part of my life
1089
00:58:14,073 --> 00:58:16,992
because so much has happened to me
in the last couple of years,
1090
00:58:16,993 --> 00:58:19,621
between marriage and kids
and personal life.
1091
00:58:23,166 --> 00:58:24,167
Yeah.
1092
00:58:25,460 --> 00:58:26,460
Again.
1093
00:58:26,461 --> 00:58:30,173
I need my baby
I need my baby...
1094
00:58:30,757 --> 00:58:33,468
My kids are the center of everything.
1095
00:58:35,887 --> 00:58:37,972
Before kids, it's just about you.
1096
00:58:39,891 --> 00:58:43,603
Then once you have kids,
it's all about them.
1097
00:58:45,813 --> 00:58:49,901
I used to stay up maybe two days sometime
before I would go to bed.
1098
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:55,156
When I met Paige,
I got more on her schedule.
1099
00:58:55,657 --> 00:58:59,661
Now, we watch two episodes of Seinfeld,
and then right after that, go to bed.
1100
00:59:00,662 --> 00:59:03,121
Paige and I have been together 14 years.
1101
00:59:03,122 --> 00:59:04,331
No dogs?
1102
00:59:04,332 --> 00:59:05,707
We had dogs.
1103
00:59:05,708 --> 00:59:07,626
- And now we have cats.
- Now we have cats.
1104
00:59:07,627 --> 00:59:09,545
We'd never have thought
we'd have had cats.
1105
00:59:09,546 --> 00:59:12,465
Never, ever, ever thought
in a million years.
1106
00:59:13,258 --> 00:59:15,884
The cat don't give a fuck.
He'll just be sitting there.
1107
00:59:15,885 --> 00:59:19,138
I have... I have more in common
with the cat than the dog.
1108
00:59:19,931 --> 00:59:23,810
Sometimes you walk in a room, the cat
just be sitting there looking at the wall.
1109
00:59:24,519 --> 00:59:26,436
I'm like, "I do shit like that."
1110
00:59:26,437 --> 00:59:29,232
Hey, that's... that's what I do.
1111
00:59:30,233 --> 00:59:31,150
Wow.
1112
00:59:31,734 --> 00:59:33,151
'80s trunks.
1113
00:59:33,152 --> 00:59:34,362
'80s everything.
1114
00:59:36,781 --> 00:59:39,783
Somebody asked me once,
you know, about movies.
1115
00:59:39,784 --> 00:59:41,368
You know, about my legacy.
1116
00:59:41,369 --> 00:59:42,494
Real food.
1117
00:59:42,495 --> 00:59:44,371
- Good. How are you?
- Good, Dad.
1118
00:59:44,372 --> 00:59:47,249
I said, "My legacy?
My legacy is my children."
1119
00:59:47,250 --> 00:59:49,294
"It's not what I did at work."
1120
00:59:50,169 --> 00:59:51,671
I really feel like that.
1121
00:59:52,171 --> 00:59:56,216
"If you could feel
all the flavor of love in each morsel."
1122
00:59:56,217 --> 00:59:58,802
- You can taste the love.
- You can taste the love.
1123
00:59:58,803 --> 01:00:01,723
- See what you...
- I bet nobody gets sick tonight.
1124
01:00:02,974 --> 01:00:04,933
Nobody ever gets sick.
1125
01:00:04,934 --> 01:00:06,310
This... This time.
1126
01:00:06,311 --> 01:00:08,938
I bet you nobody gets sick this time.
1127
01:00:13,443 --> 01:00:15,193
I heard somebody say it in a song...
1128
01:00:15,194 --> 01:00:18,780
- I think I've heard--
- ...and it was, like, a fashionable dude.
1129
01:00:18,781 --> 01:00:21,366
I'm saying, I heard it on their Instagram.
1130
01:00:21,367 --> 01:00:23,620
If you put your kids first...
1131
01:00:26,247 --> 01:00:28,415
you'll never ever make a bad decision.
1132
01:00:28,416 --> 01:00:30,876
...played it with his teeth
while it was on fire.
1133
01:00:30,877 --> 01:00:32,753
Flaming guitar on his face.
1134
01:00:32,754 --> 01:00:34,464
Hey, Joe
1135
01:00:38,635 --> 01:00:39,719
Twenty-seven.
1136
01:00:40,511 --> 01:00:41,971
Gone at 27.
1137
01:00:43,056 --> 01:00:44,724
And the world's still buzzing.
1138
01:00:45,475 --> 01:00:48,895
Watch this, how he does this.
It makes it feedback. Listen.
1139
01:00:53,983 --> 01:00:55,735
That. Crazy.
1140
01:00:59,030 --> 01:01:02,115
That's feedback. He used the feedback
like a note on the guitar.
1141
01:01:02,116 --> 01:01:03,201
Yeah, that's crazy.
1142
01:01:05,912 --> 01:01:06,954
Come on, man.
1143
01:01:09,707 --> 01:01:12,668
I was real proud of
what my brother had accomplished.
1144
01:01:12,669 --> 01:01:15,629
I remember the old days
before any of this happened.
1145
01:01:15,630 --> 01:01:20,051
To go from the apartment
to the house in Long Island
1146
01:01:20,760 --> 01:01:24,263
to, you know, having this brother
that became a star.
1147
01:01:24,847 --> 01:01:28,892
But because he was so good at it,
and I was so proud of him, I was, like--
1148
01:01:28,893 --> 01:01:31,269
If you didn't laugh, I was real emotional.
1149
01:01:31,270 --> 01:01:33,522
I probably would fuck you up
for not laughing.
1150
01:01:33,523 --> 01:01:35,066
That's how... That's how I felt.
1151
01:01:36,359 --> 01:01:38,194
There's nobody like Charlie.
1152
01:01:39,654 --> 01:01:41,239
Nobody was funnier there.
1153
01:01:42,532 --> 01:01:46,119
And some of my biggest laughs
in my life are Charlie.
1154
01:01:48,371 --> 01:01:49,580
Yeah.
1155
01:01:51,624 --> 01:01:52,959
I miss my brother.
1156
01:01:57,755 --> 01:02:01,925
I have this thing with death,
and when people would pass away.
1157
01:02:01,926 --> 01:02:06,681
Like, I'll just touch it for a sec--
Every now and then, a memory will pop up.
1158
01:02:07,390 --> 01:02:08,890
And I touch it.
1159
01:02:08,891 --> 01:02:12,561
And then I'll feel it...
this stuff bubbling up.
1160
01:02:12,562 --> 01:02:15,063
And then I'll go, "Oh, okay."
So it's a lot of--
1161
01:02:15,064 --> 01:02:19,360
I just touch little memories.
I don't be going and... and wallowing in it.
1162
01:02:37,962 --> 01:02:40,088
I don't believe that it ever stops.
1163
01:02:40,089 --> 01:02:43,550
I don't believe, like, that,
like... like, death is like this...
1164
01:02:43,551 --> 01:02:46,803
like, you die and then
you come back from the dead.
1165
01:02:46,804 --> 01:02:50,682
I don't think you ever die.
I think, you know, it just keeps going.
1166
01:02:50,683 --> 01:02:52,809
And everybody is it.
1167
01:02:52,810 --> 01:02:57,647
Whatever the... the force is that's,
you know, at the center of everything,
1168
01:02:57,648 --> 01:02:59,483
everybody's that, you know.
1169
01:02:59,484 --> 01:03:02,652
So this physical body will die,
1170
01:03:02,653 --> 01:03:05,238
but at the center of it, you know,
1171
01:03:05,239 --> 01:03:10,035
that... whatever's at the center of you
and him and her and everybody,
1172
01:03:10,036 --> 01:03:13,372
that goes on and on,
that just keeps going and going.
1173
01:03:16,209 --> 01:03:19,628
You know, most people think of the world
as being out here,
1174
01:03:19,629 --> 01:03:22,131
and it's really happening on the inside.
1175
01:03:33,518 --> 01:03:35,519
Did you tell them
you're running for mayor?
1176
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:38,272
{\an8}The first thing I would change
if I was mayor,
1177
01:03:38,856 --> 01:03:41,400
{\an8}certain people would be in certain places.
1178
01:03:42,401 --> 01:03:44,152
That'd be your first law?
1179
01:03:44,153 --> 01:03:47,281
"And now certain people
would be in certain places."
1180
01:03:48,199 --> 01:03:51,409
I met Val when we got
snowed in at Rick's house.
1181
01:03:51,410 --> 01:03:54,454
Rick had a bunch of artists
that he was developing,
1182
01:03:54,455 --> 01:03:56,998
and Val was one of the backup singers.
1183
01:03:56,999 --> 01:03:59,709
And then she just
became part of the circle.
1184
01:03:59,710 --> 01:04:04,464
Most of the people that became part of
the circle over the years are characters,
1185
01:04:04,465 --> 01:04:06,008
and Val is a character.
1186
01:04:06,592 --> 01:04:08,970
I'm drawn to people that are characters.
1187
01:04:09,762 --> 01:04:12,430
But Val is kind of
the last of the characters.
1188
01:04:12,431 --> 01:04:17,812
Over the years, the characters have
either passed away or been banished.
1189
01:04:19,105 --> 01:04:20,648
Banished from the circle.
1190
01:04:21,440 --> 01:04:24,192
Hey, look at "Party all the Time."
It's up to 123.
1191
01:04:24,193 --> 01:04:25,111
What?
1192
01:04:26,571 --> 01:04:29,198
- 123 million?
- That's crazy.
1193
01:04:29,782 --> 01:04:32,826
"Red Light."
It's gonna be 80 million next month.
1194
01:04:32,827 --> 01:04:34,828
{\an8}Now here your karma come
1195
01:04:34,829 --> 01:04:37,831
{\an8}With a knock, knock, knock
On your door, oh
1196
01:04:37,832 --> 01:04:40,292
Red light, stop right...
1197
01:04:40,293 --> 01:04:42,669
On set, he'd be like, "You have YouTube?"
1198
01:04:42,670 --> 01:04:45,964
I'm like, "Yeah, I have YouTube."
He's like, "I love YouTube."
1199
01:04:45,965 --> 01:04:48,300
He goes, "I've seen
all the videos on YouTube."
1200
01:04:48,301 --> 01:04:52,762
Anytime I would come to set,
he's just blasting music
1201
01:04:52,763 --> 01:04:56,558
and vibing, and everyone gets
really, really excited.
1202
01:04:56,559 --> 01:04:58,894
{\an8}Welcome back to Ridiculousness.
1203
01:04:58,895 --> 01:04:59,895
Three, two, one!
1204
01:04:59,896 --> 01:05:03,899
Ridiculousness, guilty pleasure
show I watch all the time.
1205
01:05:03,900 --> 01:05:06,985
I think it's actually
the best show on television.
1206
01:05:06,986 --> 01:05:09,029
You know what that show reminds me of?
1207
01:05:09,030 --> 01:05:12,240
It's like... you know
the director, Jodorowsky?
1208
01:05:12,241 --> 01:05:15,493
His movies are, like, shocking images,
like, back-to-back-to-back.
1209
01:05:15,494 --> 01:05:16,995
It be like, "What the fuck?"
1210
01:05:16,996 --> 01:05:19,874
You don't even get a chance to go...
He's on to the next thing.
1211
01:05:20,875 --> 01:05:24,837
Ridiculousness is like a kid TV version
of a Jodorowsky movie.
1212
01:05:25,504 --> 01:05:28,715
I love it. I love that he's sitting
around watching Ridiculousness.
1213
01:05:28,716 --> 01:05:30,508
That's fucking hilarious.
1214
01:05:30,509 --> 01:05:32,845
That's so funny.
1215
01:05:33,471 --> 01:05:37,557
He just has a sieve of a brain.
Like, is that the right word? Sieve?
1216
01:05:37,558 --> 01:05:40,310
- Like, it just takes everything in?
- Yeah, sponge.
1217
01:05:40,311 --> 01:05:42,062
Sponge. He's like a sponge brain.
1218
01:05:42,063 --> 01:05:45,441
That's the way I would describe Eddie.
He's a sponge brain.
1219
01:05:50,571 --> 01:05:53,032
I'm not a stand-up comedian.
1220
01:05:55,159 --> 01:05:56,159
Like, I'm...
1221
01:05:56,160 --> 01:05:58,787
You know, I'm funny, and I can do that.
1222
01:05:58,788 --> 01:06:01,581
But I don't see--
I don't go, "I'm a comedian."
1223
01:06:01,582 --> 01:06:05,211
Like, I don't go,
"I'm an actor," or "I'm a musician."
1224
01:06:05,962 --> 01:06:10,341
I'm an artist that can express hisself
a bunch of different ways.
1225
01:06:11,258 --> 01:06:15,595
Sensitivity is the gauge,
not how much talent you have.
1226
01:06:15,596 --> 01:06:21,394
The most sensitive one
will be the artist that's most in tune.
1227
01:06:25,314 --> 01:06:27,149
I don't want to get too artsy.
1228
01:06:32,488 --> 01:06:34,573
I could get really artsy if you let me.
1229
01:06:35,700 --> 01:06:38,035
I don't force anything.
1230
01:06:38,619 --> 01:06:39,953
I'm not rowing a boat.
1231
01:06:39,954 --> 01:06:42,456
It's not a rowboat. It's a sailboat.
1232
01:06:43,040 --> 01:06:45,417
I'm not... "I got to go over there."
1233
01:06:45,418 --> 01:06:47,085
I'm like...
1234
01:06:47,086 --> 01:06:49,295
I'm on a sailboat, and this--
1235
01:06:49,296 --> 01:06:51,841
Let me catch this breeze and go this way.
1236
01:06:52,466 --> 01:06:56,512
I'm not trying to be or trying to get to.
1237
01:06:57,722 --> 01:06:59,348
I just am.
1238
01:07:04,020 --> 01:07:05,187
{\an8}Interesting.
1239
01:07:06,230 --> 01:07:09,357
If you could be
in this business for 40 years,
1240
01:07:09,358 --> 01:07:13,028
you're gonna make something
that's not gonna work.
1241
01:07:13,029 --> 01:07:16,322
That's when you know you've gone
really far away from stand-up.
1242
01:07:16,323 --> 01:07:18,742
You got fangs,
and you biting Angela Bassett.
1243
01:07:18,743 --> 01:07:22,370
I'm like, "Okay now,
I think we got a little off-track here."
1244
01:07:22,371 --> 01:07:23,330
Because the...
1245
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,669
{\an8}Spade in America with David Spade.
1246
01:07:30,212 --> 01:07:34,674
David Spade did a sketch on
Saturday Night Live at the News Desk.
1247
01:07:34,675 --> 01:07:38,595
I had just had, uh...
Vampire in Brooklyn had come out.
1248
01:07:38,596 --> 01:07:41,891
Look, children.
It's a falling star. Make a wish.
1249
01:07:43,517 --> 01:07:45,728
Yeah. Yes. That's right.
1250
01:07:46,228 --> 01:07:49,314
The audience there said "woo"
and hissed him for saying it, right?
1251
01:07:49,315 --> 01:07:52,108
So I was, like, hurt,
my feelings was hurt.
1252
01:07:52,109 --> 01:07:54,444
It was like, "Yo, I'm from the same--"
1253
01:07:54,445 --> 01:07:57,447
It was like your alma mater
taking a shot at you.
1254
01:07:57,448 --> 01:08:00,533
At my career, not how funny I was...
1255
01:08:00,534 --> 01:08:02,160
Called me a falling star.
1256
01:08:02,161 --> 01:08:04,788
Like, if there was
a joke like that right now,
1257
01:08:04,789 --> 01:08:07,499
and it was about some
other SNL cast member,
1258
01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:11,377
and it was about how fucked up
their career was, it would get shot down.
1259
01:08:11,378 --> 01:08:14,547
The producers would look at it,
"You're not saying that joke."
1260
01:08:14,548 --> 01:08:19,260
So it... the joke had went through all of
those channels a joke has to go through,
1261
01:08:19,261 --> 01:08:22,555
and then he was on the air saying,
you know, "Catch a falling star."
1262
01:08:22,556 --> 01:08:24,766
So I wasn't like, "Fuck David Spade."
1263
01:08:24,767 --> 01:08:29,145
I was like, "Oh, fuck SNL, fuck y'all.
How y'all gonna do this shit?"
1264
01:08:29,146 --> 01:08:34,025
"Y'all-- That's what y'all think of me?
Oh, you dirty motherf..." I was like that.
1265
01:08:34,026 --> 01:08:36,528
And that's why I didn't go back for years.
1266
01:08:36,529 --> 01:08:40,615
With show business,
you receive the greatest flattery
1267
01:08:40,616 --> 01:08:43,828
and the greatest venom,
and they're both lies.
1268
01:08:44,662 --> 01:08:46,122
They're both lies.
1269
01:08:48,874 --> 01:08:51,960
And so you're left
kind of with nothing, you know.
1270
01:08:51,961 --> 01:08:55,506
You're left with,
"Well, I think I gave that my best."
1271
01:08:56,590 --> 01:08:58,259
And that should be it.
1272
01:08:59,009 --> 01:09:01,052
Right? What--? That should be it.
1273
01:09:01,053 --> 01:09:06,183
Consciously, I'm going, I want to do
something where I show them that...
1274
01:09:07,810 --> 01:09:10,228
that I'm not like anybody in this town,
1275
01:09:10,229 --> 01:09:14,608
and I want to do something nobody else...
that only I will be able to do it.
1276
01:09:17,486 --> 01:09:21,406
{\an8}Nutty Professor shows
pretty much everything.
1277
01:09:21,407 --> 01:09:24,576
{\an8}It's up there,
all those different characters, and...
1278
01:09:24,577 --> 01:09:28,747
The movie is funny,
but it has this sweet thing in it.
1279
01:09:29,874 --> 01:09:31,332
All the elements are there.
1280
01:09:31,333 --> 01:09:34,419
I would like to volunteer
to take this old bird out of her misery.
1281
01:09:34,420 --> 01:09:37,172
Cletus! Don't you dare say
something like that about Mama.
1282
01:09:37,173 --> 01:09:39,841
No, hold on.
You ain't got to protect me from Cletus.
1283
01:09:39,842 --> 01:09:41,885
Come on, Cletus. Come on.
1284
01:09:41,886 --> 01:09:44,596
What Eddie's doing,
all those other characters,
1285
01:09:44,597 --> 01:09:46,431
he's hearing them in his head.
1286
01:09:46,432 --> 01:09:48,641
He's also getting their timing right.
1287
01:09:48,642 --> 01:09:53,021
I mean, 'cause they all have different
vocal rhythms and different volume.
1288
01:09:53,022 --> 01:09:55,523
He's a little Hercules.
Show me your muscles again.
1289
01:09:55,524 --> 01:09:57,775
Oh, Hercules! Hercules!
1290
01:09:57,776 --> 01:09:59,528
We ain't passing out Oscars.
1291
01:10:00,529 --> 01:10:03,740
We not-- Hold on, goddammit.
We not passing out Oscars.
1292
01:10:03,741 --> 01:10:06,285
He-- Every character
should have got nominated.
1293
01:10:07,161 --> 01:10:09,871
Those characters
start out in the makeup chair.
1294
01:10:09,872 --> 01:10:11,247
There was no prep.
1295
01:10:11,248 --> 01:10:14,000
When Rick had the makeup,
like, halfway through,
1296
01:10:14,001 --> 01:10:16,211
he would just start asking me questions.
1297
01:10:16,212 --> 01:10:18,338
He'd just start
a conversation with me, asking,
1298
01:10:18,339 --> 01:10:20,465
"How many kids you have?
Where'd you grow up?"
1299
01:10:20,466 --> 01:10:23,509
And I'm trying different voices
to see what voices come out of it.
1300
01:10:23,510 --> 01:10:26,679
Like, while he's doing it,
you start figuring out
1301
01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:29,307
what looks best coming out of that makeup.
1302
01:10:29,308 --> 01:10:33,103
And by the end, you'll have, like,
the right voice and the right everything.
1303
01:10:35,064 --> 01:10:39,567
{\an8}There was a lot of hoops to jump through.
The studio said, "Look, we love Eddie."
1304
01:10:39,568 --> 01:10:41,277
{\an8}"We think he's really talented,
1305
01:10:41,278 --> 01:10:43,864
{\an8}but I don't know if he could
play all those characters."
1306
01:10:44,823 --> 01:10:48,701
"How would he define these characters
so they're different from one another?"
1307
01:10:48,702 --> 01:10:51,038
He had to work to get the role.
1308
01:10:51,538 --> 01:10:53,082
Well, he had to audition.
1309
01:10:53,874 --> 01:10:56,918
Then I was thrilled.
He just said, "Yeah, I'll do it."
1310
01:10:56,919 --> 01:11:00,213
It is at least four hours plus in makeup
1311
01:11:00,214 --> 01:11:02,967
each time you gotta put that character on.
1312
01:11:06,804 --> 01:11:08,973
There's a reason why
no one else does them.
1313
01:11:10,182 --> 01:11:13,102
Like, no comic wants to do that shit.
1314
01:11:13,727 --> 01:11:15,270
He wants to do that shit.
1315
01:11:15,271 --> 01:11:17,272
Excuse me, I'm going to use the restroom.
1316
01:11:17,273 --> 01:11:18,606
I'm hot tonight!
1317
01:11:18,607 --> 01:11:20,817
Sorry about that, ma'am.
Let me pick that up for you.
1318
01:11:20,818 --> 01:11:22,026
Whoo-ooh!
1319
01:11:22,027 --> 01:11:24,529
That was the first time I ever met him.
1320
01:11:24,530 --> 01:11:28,533
On the set of Nutty Professor.
In fact, he walked by me,
1321
01:11:28,534 --> 01:11:32,245
and I didn't recognize him
because he was dressed as Sherman Klump.
1322
01:11:32,246 --> 01:11:35,331
He walked, then he stopped and goes,
"Hey, man, you're real funny."
1323
01:11:35,332 --> 01:11:39,252
And I heard his voice-- "Oh!" And then I...
"Oh my God, it's Eddie Murphy."
1324
01:11:39,253 --> 01:11:42,715
Boy so fat, every time he turn around,
it's his birthday!
1325
01:11:44,049 --> 01:11:47,970
Then we go through take after take.
The first takes were him as Sherman.
1326
01:11:48,929 --> 01:11:53,309
By the next few days, by the time
we were doing the Buddy Love scenes...
1327
01:11:55,352 --> 01:11:58,438
Man, like, literally the crowd was...
you could feel it in the room.
1328
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,440
You mind waiting
for the punchline first, brother?
1329
01:12:00,441 --> 01:12:02,775
I'm sorry, man.
It's just that you so funny!
1330
01:12:02,776 --> 01:12:04,569
They would erupt in applause.
1331
01:12:04,570 --> 01:12:06,904
When they said, "Cut,"
they'd erupt into applause.
1332
01:12:06,905 --> 01:12:09,157
Like, everyone knew,
like, man, this is special.
1333
01:12:09,158 --> 01:12:10,783
Look at Reggie's gums and teeth.
1334
01:12:10,784 --> 01:12:13,078
Look like his mother
had an affair with Mr. Ed.
1335
01:12:13,704 --> 01:12:15,621
Nobody knew I was
gonna be a comedy legend.
1336
01:12:15,622 --> 01:12:17,790
Everybody knew he was a comedy legend.
1337
01:12:17,791 --> 01:12:20,461
But that shit was really special.
1338
01:12:21,045 --> 01:12:23,296
He is very easy to work with...
1339
01:12:23,297 --> 01:12:25,006
Oh damn!
1340
01:12:25,007 --> 01:12:27,634
...if you're sharp and prepared.
1341
01:12:28,218 --> 01:12:30,470
If you come on there,
and you're bobbling around,
1342
01:12:30,471 --> 01:12:32,722
that's when he goes to the trailer.
1343
01:12:32,723 --> 01:12:35,558
Go to the office and make some calls.
Go call Arnold and Sly,
1344
01:12:35,559 --> 01:12:37,101
{\an8}and Van Damme, and Jackie Chan,
1345
01:12:37,102 --> 01:12:39,104
{\an8}and tell them the spearchucker said hello.
1346
01:12:40,606 --> 01:12:43,316
Bowfinger, he plays a couple people,
1347
01:12:43,317 --> 01:12:45,777
and there's no latex on his face.
1348
01:12:45,778 --> 01:12:48,280
There's no costume to hide behind.
1349
01:12:48,781 --> 01:12:51,324
He finds the essence
of the other character,
1350
01:12:51,325 --> 01:12:52,617
and he plays it.
1351
01:12:52,618 --> 01:12:56,330
Would you be willing to show
your naked rear end in a movie?
1352
01:13:05,672 --> 01:13:07,424
Yeah, I guess so. Yeah.
1353
01:13:09,885 --> 01:13:13,846
Steve Martin, when he came
to talk to me about Bowfinger,
1354
01:13:13,847 --> 01:13:17,642
we were in San Francisco.
He was like, "Let's go get some lunch."
1355
01:13:17,643 --> 01:13:19,811
And I was like, "Oh..."
1356
01:13:19,812 --> 01:13:23,147
I almost said,
"I don't have any security here. Well, I..."
1357
01:13:23,148 --> 01:13:25,900
I almost said that.
And I didn't say anything.
1358
01:13:25,901 --> 01:13:27,151
I was like, "Oh, okay."
1359
01:13:27,152 --> 01:13:30,571
And then we walked to some restaurant,
1360
01:13:30,572 --> 01:13:33,409
like, you know, ten blocks from the hotel.
1361
01:13:34,118 --> 01:13:36,160
You know, and people was like, "Hey."
1362
01:13:36,161 --> 01:13:39,914
You know, every now and then say,
"Hey Eddie, hey Steve." And that was it.
1363
01:13:39,915 --> 01:13:43,960
It was like,
"Hey, you don't need bodyguards."
1364
01:13:43,961 --> 01:13:47,922
You could just walk, and,
you know, no one's gonna chase you
1365
01:13:47,923 --> 01:13:50,550
and tear you apart or none of that shit.
1366
01:13:50,551 --> 01:13:53,678
Anytime you see somebody
getting chased down the street
1367
01:13:53,679 --> 01:13:57,348
and the screaming and all that,
it's just almost, almost always
1368
01:13:57,349 --> 01:14:01,936
some young person in their twenties,
and a teenybopper or a kid is screaming.
1369
01:14:01,937 --> 01:14:05,481
When you get--
Very rarely do the 30-year-old fans
1370
01:14:05,482 --> 01:14:09,402
chase anyone down the street
and scream and do all of that shit.
1371
01:14:09,403 --> 01:14:12,655
But you be in your 30s thinking,
"They're gonna still come chase me."
1372
01:14:12,656 --> 01:14:14,240
No, they're not chasing you now.
1373
01:14:14,241 --> 01:14:16,994
Now they're moms,
and they're not chasing you at all.
1374
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:19,246
When he came back
1375
01:14:19,830 --> 01:14:22,707
and was doing, like,
family-friendly movies,
1376
01:14:22,708 --> 01:14:25,377
it also was a cue that we can grow up.
1377
01:14:31,216 --> 01:14:35,261
{\an8}He's really, really, really, really smart
about knowing how to connect
1378
01:14:35,262 --> 01:14:37,806
{\an8}to a whole brand-new audience
every ten years.
1379
01:14:38,432 --> 01:14:42,769
{\an8}Him being a father
is part of what shifted his...
1380
01:14:43,812 --> 01:14:44,980
choice of material.
1381
01:14:45,522 --> 01:14:48,149
He went from being the Raw guy
1382
01:14:48,150 --> 01:14:52,069
to the family guy,
but this... the magic remains.
1383
01:14:52,070 --> 01:14:54,030
{\an8}You know what else
everybody like? Parfait.
1384
01:14:54,031 --> 01:14:56,616
{\an8}Have you ever met a person,
you say, "Hey, let's get parfait,"
1385
01:14:56,617 --> 01:14:59,494
they say, "Hell, no, I don't like
no parfait"? Parfaits are delicious.
1386
01:14:59,495 --> 01:15:00,453
No!
1387
01:15:00,454 --> 01:15:01,954
Eddie Murphy, Donkey...
1388
01:15:01,955 --> 01:15:04,290
It's one of the greatest
performances of all time.
1389
01:15:04,291 --> 01:15:08,044
Like him going, "I'm making waffles."
Like, all that shit is hilarious.
1390
01:15:08,045 --> 01:15:11,464
{\an8}Sorry, the position of annoying,
talking animal has already been taken!
1391
01:15:11,465 --> 01:15:12,591
{\an8}Let's go, Shrek!
1392
01:15:13,258 --> 01:15:14,175
{\an8}Shrek?
1393
01:15:14,176 --> 01:15:16,177
It's fun being in a good movie
1394
01:15:16,178 --> 01:15:19,597
'cause nobody ever set off
to do a bad movie.
1395
01:15:19,598 --> 01:15:22,808
So when you do one,
and it works and it's good,
1396
01:15:22,809 --> 01:15:24,394
nothing's more rewarding.
1397
01:15:34,321 --> 01:15:37,074
Okay, you don't have to worry
about anything.
1398
01:15:37,616 --> 01:15:42,079
Your identity is completely concealed.
Just want to ask you one question.
1399
01:15:42,663 --> 01:15:44,539
Who gave you the cocaine?
1400
01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:45,666
Shrek.
1401
01:15:46,250 --> 01:15:47,417
Shrek!
1402
01:15:50,295 --> 01:15:54,298
I would have a massive headache
after all those Shrek sessions.
1403
01:15:54,299 --> 01:15:57,553
Doing all that screaming and being at 100.
1404
01:15:59,596 --> 01:16:02,224
All that shit, doing that was exhausting.
1405
01:16:02,975 --> 01:16:05,851
Yeah, I never look forward to working
'cause I'd rather not...
1406
01:16:05,852 --> 01:16:08,313
I'd rather just be home doing nothing.
1407
01:16:10,983 --> 01:16:13,652
Hey, it's getting cold in here.
I'm closing this roof.
1408
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:19,073
When I built this house,
I was tired of renting houses.
1409
01:16:19,074 --> 01:16:22,326
I would come out and make movies
and you'd have to rent a house.
1410
01:16:22,327 --> 01:16:25,997
I started needing bigger places,
and the rent was crazy in these houses.
1411
01:16:25,998 --> 01:16:28,917
So I was like, I should
just build a house out there.
1412
01:16:30,377 --> 01:16:32,086
This is a great house to haunt.
1413
01:16:32,087 --> 01:16:36,007
Like, 100 years from now,
people be like, "I heard him in here."
1414
01:16:36,008 --> 01:16:38,594
I'm gonna be around
this motherfucker like...
1415
01:16:40,637 --> 01:16:43,849
"I heard him. I heard him
doing that laugh upstairs."
1416
01:16:44,433 --> 01:16:48,227
When I first got divorced,
and I'd be in here by myself,
1417
01:16:48,228 --> 01:16:52,773
and it was like, you know,
these big ceilings, and I was all sad,
1418
01:16:52,774 --> 01:16:55,860
and I was like,
"This is like Dracula's house."
1419
01:16:55,861 --> 01:16:58,196
I was like, "I-- I am... I am Dracula."
1420
01:17:01,241 --> 01:17:03,409
That was a funny, little three-year period
1421
01:17:03,410 --> 01:17:06,203
after I got divorced,
and you don't know what to do.
1422
01:17:06,204 --> 01:17:09,248
I was probably, like, 45... Forty--
1423
01:17:09,249 --> 01:17:13,961
And you be like, "Okay," and you'd say,
"I'm gonna go back out to the clubs."
1424
01:17:13,962 --> 01:17:17,590
And you call all the old crew,
the old guys together.
1425
01:17:17,591 --> 01:17:19,550
And we all were all middle-aged
1426
01:17:19,551 --> 01:17:22,512
and tried to go out to the clubs
like we used to.
1427
01:17:23,972 --> 01:17:25,848
I was at a club in Vegas.
1428
01:17:25,849 --> 01:17:29,602
I walked through the crowd,
and some girl felt my ass.
1429
01:17:29,603 --> 01:17:31,103
So I turned around,
1430
01:17:31,104 --> 01:17:35,025
and it was, like,
this young... girl, like 21, 22.
1431
01:17:36,068 --> 01:17:37,693
And I was like, "Hey."
1432
01:17:37,694 --> 01:17:40,738
"Hey, young lady... Watch... Hey, young lady."
1433
01:17:40,739 --> 01:17:41,989
I went there.
1434
01:17:41,990 --> 01:17:46,869
She was, like, younger than my daughters.
It was like, "Hey, don't be fresh now."
1435
01:17:46,870 --> 01:17:50,666
I said, "Okay, maybe it's time
to not go to the clubs anymore."
1436
01:17:54,753 --> 01:17:58,173
"Hey, there'll be none of that.
Which one of you did that?"
1437
01:18:01,426 --> 01:18:04,970
I never would have thought,
ever, that I would live in California
1438
01:18:04,971 --> 01:18:09,142
because I was... I'm just such
an East Coast guy. I was so East Coast.
1439
01:18:09,685 --> 01:18:10,852
But I love it here.
1440
01:18:12,145 --> 01:18:14,689
Maybe I seem like a California person.
1441
01:18:14,690 --> 01:18:17,858
You know, all the talks
about the spiritual plane.
1442
01:18:17,859 --> 01:18:20,027
"The spiritual plane is internal."
1443
01:18:20,028 --> 01:18:23,365
I said, "You can't talk shit like that
on the New York streets."
1444
01:18:25,701 --> 01:18:27,702
"They say the spiritual plane is intern--"
1445
01:18:27,703 --> 01:18:30,330
"You better get the fuck out my face
with that shit."
1446
01:18:32,916 --> 01:18:36,210
He had that piped-in scent
that they have at the Bellagio.
1447
01:18:36,211 --> 01:18:37,671
I said, "This is too nice."
1448
01:18:38,672 --> 01:18:41,716
Comedians work from
when things aren't perfect.
1449
01:18:41,717 --> 01:18:45,553
At my house, I call it Black Mansion
because shit is just... terrible.
1450
01:18:45,554 --> 01:18:48,013
Like, I got a faucet in the bathroom.
I just let it--
1451
01:18:48,014 --> 01:18:50,057
It sprays out. I just leave it that way.
1452
01:18:50,058 --> 01:18:52,893
'Cause it keeps me funny. I see
people come out the bathroom,
1453
01:18:52,894 --> 01:18:54,145
"What the fuck is Foxx--"
1454
01:18:54,146 --> 01:18:56,355
And the game room--
His game room was fucked up.
1455
01:18:56,356 --> 01:18:59,984
I know he don't know what I'm talking
about either, because all the games work.
1456
01:18:59,985 --> 01:19:02,069
All your games can't work
in your game room.
1457
01:19:02,070 --> 01:19:06,074
Ms. Pac-Man gotta have a knob knocked off
or something in order for you to be funny.
1458
01:19:07,576 --> 01:19:09,952
{\an8}When we did Dreamgirls,
I would come in hot.
1459
01:19:09,953 --> 01:19:12,079
{\an8}I think sometimes I'd be too excited.
1460
01:19:12,080 --> 01:19:13,497
Hey, man. Who is this guy?
1461
01:19:13,498 --> 01:19:15,208
I just wanted that knowledge.
1462
01:19:15,792 --> 01:19:18,586
And when you watch Dreamgirls,
it was a flawless performance.
1463
01:19:18,587 --> 01:19:20,464
And you could see some of the...
1464
01:19:22,215 --> 01:19:25,552
pain, you know...
wherever he was getting it from.
1465
01:19:26,678 --> 01:19:29,555
I was doing the movie
right after I got divorced.
1466
01:19:29,556 --> 01:19:32,225
So I was going through
this emotional shit.
1467
01:19:33,560 --> 01:19:36,729
On the screen,
I think a lot of stuff was real,
1468
01:19:36,730 --> 01:19:38,939
and it was... it was, like, right there.
1469
01:19:38,940 --> 01:19:42,401
So I was...
I really experienced some real pain.
1470
01:19:42,402 --> 01:19:44,821
So some of that comes off in the movie.
1471
01:19:45,447 --> 01:19:48,365
Eddie Murphy walks away
with his first Golden Globe,
1472
01:19:48,366 --> 01:19:51,912
for Best Supporting Actor,
after four previous nominations.
1473
01:19:58,543 --> 01:20:01,170
I mean, I thought that there
we saw the real Eddie Murphy.
1474
01:20:01,171 --> 01:20:03,339
- The real me?
- Yeah, you can act, you can sing.
1475
01:20:03,340 --> 01:20:04,965
You're getting it done, my friend.
1476
01:20:04,966 --> 01:20:07,718
That was a fun movie.
I got to do a lot of different stuff.
1477
01:20:07,719 --> 01:20:08,761
But that wasn't me.
1478
01:20:08,762 --> 01:20:10,805
- That's not the real me.
- Not the real you?
1479
01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:12,848
I've never been the real me
ever on screen.
1480
01:20:12,849 --> 01:20:14,934
Well, what is the real you,
for God's sakes?
1481
01:20:14,935 --> 01:20:16,811
Uh...
1482
01:20:16,812 --> 01:20:19,313
{\an8}He came to me, and he said...
1483
01:20:19,314 --> 01:20:22,274
{\an8}"Um, I wrote this crazy script."
1484
01:20:22,275 --> 01:20:24,485
"It's called Norbit."
1485
01:20:24,486 --> 01:20:26,654
And he was gonna play multiple characters.
1486
01:20:26,655 --> 01:20:28,864
He was the male lead.
He was the female lead.
1487
01:20:28,865 --> 01:20:30,783
{\an8}Dammit, Norbit!
How many times I gotta tell you,
1488
01:20:30,784 --> 01:20:32,618
{\an8}when you drive my car,
don't adjust my seat!
1489
01:20:32,619 --> 01:20:33,828
{\an8}I haven't touched your seat.
1490
01:20:33,829 --> 01:20:37,832
Because it's comedy and makeup,
people don't look at the technical side
1491
01:20:37,833 --> 01:20:40,376
of how much work really goes into it.
1492
01:20:40,377 --> 01:20:43,087
But they laugh, and that's what
we're trying to get them to do.
1493
01:20:43,088 --> 01:20:47,759
It came out right at the time when
you would be campaigning for your Oscar.
1494
01:20:49,845 --> 01:20:53,098
It just, you know, shittied up the water.
1495
01:20:54,099 --> 01:20:56,268
And the Oscar goes to...
1496
01:21:00,063 --> 01:21:04,441
Not winning the Oscar or not winning
anything is not the mindfuck for me.
1497
01:21:04,442 --> 01:21:08,445
The mindfuck for me is that
I get dressed and come to the thing
1498
01:21:08,446 --> 01:21:11,824
'cause I would usually
not go to award shows.
1499
01:21:11,825 --> 01:21:13,784
That's... Whenever I lose, I'm like,
1500
01:21:13,785 --> 01:21:16,245
"These motherfuckers
made me come all the way down."
1501
01:21:16,246 --> 01:21:19,957
"I could have fucking lost at home.
I'm all in the fucking tuxedo."
1502
01:21:19,958 --> 01:21:23,752
"What a... a waste of time."
I'm never like, "Oh, I didn't win."
1503
01:21:23,753 --> 01:21:27,716
I'm like, "Hey... make me
come down here for nothing."
1504
01:21:28,466 --> 01:21:31,051
It's always wonderful to win stuff.
1505
01:21:31,052 --> 01:21:33,304
But if I don't win, I don't give a fuck.
1506
01:21:33,305 --> 01:21:37,225
I still come home and it's--
I'm still Eddie in the morning.
1507
01:21:40,729 --> 01:21:43,272
I had stopped making movies in 2011.
1508
01:21:43,273 --> 01:21:45,399
{\an8}I was like, "Let me
take a break from movies."
1509
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:47,277
{\an8}I was making these shitty movies.
1510
01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:49,362
I want my goo-gaa!
1511
01:21:50,030 --> 01:21:51,947
I mean, it was like, this shit ain't fun.
1512
01:21:51,948 --> 01:21:53,616
They giving me Razzies.
1513
01:21:53,617 --> 01:21:57,661
I think the motherfuckers gave me
a Worst Actor Ever Razzie or some shit.
1514
01:21:57,662 --> 01:22:00,916
I was like, "Hey, maybe it's time--
Maybe it's time to take a break."
1515
01:22:02,459 --> 01:22:04,877
I realized it was like, "Hey..."
1516
01:22:04,878 --> 01:22:08,506
"People don't realize
that I've taken a break."
1517
01:22:09,633 --> 01:22:13,719
So I was like, "Let me get off this couch
to remind them that I'm funny
1518
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:15,679
and that I have not fallen off."
1519
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:17,682
I'm on the couch by choice.
1520
01:22:19,517 --> 01:22:24,189
And then I was like, "Hey, you know what?
Fuck this. SNL is part of my history."
1521
01:22:25,023 --> 01:22:29,110
"I need to reconnect with that show
'cause that's where I come from."
1522
01:22:35,700 --> 01:22:40,205
That little friction that I had with SNL
was 35 years ago.
1523
01:22:41,373 --> 01:22:44,709
I don't have no smoke with no David Spade.
1524
01:22:45,835 --> 01:22:49,089
I don't have any heat
or any of that with nobody.
1525
01:22:49,798 --> 01:22:53,593
And it was like, "Hey, let me go to SNL
and smooth that all out."
1526
01:22:54,260 --> 01:22:55,261
And I did.
1527
01:22:55,971 --> 01:22:57,055
This is Eddie Murphy.
1528
01:23:07,607 --> 01:23:08,608
Back at you.
1529
01:23:10,235 --> 01:23:13,404
It was surreal 'cause I had been
at that meeting so many times.
1530
01:23:13,405 --> 01:23:15,781
I'm in that meeting.
I was meeting everybody.
1531
01:23:15,782 --> 01:23:17,700
I was thinking, you know,
1532
01:23:17,701 --> 01:23:19,868
"Wow, this office feels smaller."
1533
01:23:19,869 --> 01:23:24,790
He knew when he was coming back to SNL
what that meant to the world.
1534
01:23:24,791 --> 01:23:27,460
He just knows what he means to all of us.
1535
01:23:29,754 --> 01:23:31,964
We were talking about monologue at first.
1536
01:23:31,965 --> 01:23:36,301
And I think Lorne wanted him to do
something that was a bit more personal,
1537
01:23:36,302 --> 01:23:38,471
{\an8}because people just wanted
to hear him talk.
1538
01:23:43,435 --> 01:23:48,732
I think he was a little, not worried,
but cautious of doing a monologue.
1539
01:23:49,232 --> 01:23:52,526
Incidentally, I just had a baby.
I just have a new son.
1540
01:23:52,527 --> 01:23:54,070
I have ten kids now.
1541
01:23:56,990 --> 01:23:58,949
I don't want to say that...
1542
01:23:58,950 --> 01:24:01,244
Eleven, if you count Kevin Hart.
What the fuck?
1543
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:06,624
I'm teasing. I love Kev.
1544
01:24:07,375 --> 01:24:09,501
I love Kev. I do love Kev.
1545
01:24:09,502 --> 01:24:11,795
I love it. It was comedy. It's great.
1546
01:24:11,796 --> 01:24:14,173
It's a... it's a great bit. Great joke.
1547
01:24:14,174 --> 01:24:17,552
I remember Lorne calling me, "Come down."
1548
01:24:18,386 --> 01:24:21,221
I thought he was
about to tell me Eddie had--
1549
01:24:21,222 --> 01:24:24,100
Eddie had canceled,
and they wanted me to host.
1550
01:24:24,768 --> 01:24:27,686
- Hey, man.
- It's Chris Rock, ladies and gentlemen.
1551
01:24:27,687 --> 01:24:30,315
- Hey, come on.
- What are you doing here?
1552
01:24:31,524 --> 01:24:33,777
You thought I was gonna miss this show?
1553
01:24:34,277 --> 01:24:36,321
Come on, man. My daughters love Lizzo.
1554
01:24:38,615 --> 01:24:40,824
It's even written by hand.
How about that, Alice?
1555
01:24:40,825 --> 01:24:42,910
I didn't know you knew anyone
who could write.
1556
01:24:42,911 --> 01:24:44,078
See, a white woman?
1557
01:24:44,079 --> 01:24:48,415
He was doing Jackie Gleason, man.
He was doing Archie Bunker or something.
1558
01:24:48,416 --> 01:24:51,169
And believe me, that's plenty,
you big baboon.
1559
01:24:53,213 --> 01:24:54,421
Did you hear that, Alice?
1560
01:24:54,422 --> 01:24:56,925
Remember when "baboon" was a punchline?
1561
01:24:59,010 --> 01:25:02,638
Rich Little's gonna come in,
and he's gonna go... do something,
1562
01:25:02,639 --> 01:25:05,057
and says, "You're a baboon, aren't you?"
1563
01:25:05,058 --> 01:25:06,643
He's gonna call him a baboon.
1564
01:25:10,897 --> 01:25:12,773
What's up? How you doing?
1565
01:25:12,774 --> 01:25:17,402
I had a huge burst of nostalgia.
That "good old days" feeling.
1566
01:25:17,403 --> 01:25:20,405
Every now and then, you sit around
with your friends or relatives,
1567
01:25:20,406 --> 01:25:22,825
be reminiscing about something
and you'd be talking,
1568
01:25:22,826 --> 01:25:26,161
and then you'd get that little feeling,
that, oh... that good, that...
1569
01:25:26,162 --> 01:25:30,040
"those were the good old days,"
kind of burst-of-nostalgia feeling.
1570
01:25:30,041 --> 01:25:31,876
I had that for a solid week.
1571
01:25:39,008 --> 01:25:42,678
Because the show is done
the exact same way it's always been done.
1572
01:25:42,679 --> 01:25:44,680
I hadn't been back there in 36 years.
1573
01:25:44,681 --> 01:25:46,849
So it was literally, like, you know,
1574
01:25:46,850 --> 01:25:50,310
somebody saying, "Okay,
you're gonna go back to 12th grade,
1575
01:25:50,311 --> 01:25:52,437
and here's your schedule for that day."
1576
01:25:52,438 --> 01:25:54,398
"You're... you have gym at eight."
1577
01:25:54,399 --> 01:25:55,482
"Here's your old locker."
1578
01:25:55,483 --> 01:25:58,318
"That's my old locker.
The combination is still the same."
1579
01:25:58,319 --> 01:26:01,655
15, 26, 34.
1580
01:26:01,656 --> 01:26:04,284
That was my locker in high school.
1581
01:26:05,451 --> 01:26:07,745
Eddie doesn't seem to age at all.
1582
01:26:08,288 --> 01:26:11,290
It seemed like maybe
he left the show five years ago,
1583
01:26:11,291 --> 01:26:13,083
or ten years ago or something.
1584
01:26:13,084 --> 01:26:14,918
{\an8}It didn't seem like a long departure,
1585
01:26:14,919 --> 01:26:17,504
{\an8}just because he jumped
right back in with both feet.
1586
01:26:17,505 --> 01:26:21,550
And he just took his shoes off
and respected the house, if you will,
1587
01:26:21,551 --> 01:26:23,343
kind of thing, and just jumped in.
1588
01:26:23,344 --> 01:26:26,054
"Y'all think I stole it 'cause I'm Black"
is opened up too?
1589
01:26:26,055 --> 01:26:28,223
- Slightly.
- I don't even mind. Look at camera--
1590
01:26:28,224 --> 01:26:30,225
"Y'all think I stole it 'cause I'm Black?"
1591
01:26:30,226 --> 01:26:32,686
- Then straight to camera again. Exactly.
- Yeah.
1592
01:26:32,687 --> 01:26:33,896
One, two, three, four.
1593
01:26:33,897 --> 01:26:34,855
Oh, ting a lady
1594
01:26:34,856 --> 01:26:38,233
Oh, ting a lady
Oh, ting a lady, oh, ting a lady
1595
01:26:38,234 --> 01:26:40,444
Whoa-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
1596
01:26:40,445 --> 01:26:41,820
Oh-oh-oh, oh...
1597
01:26:41,821 --> 01:26:42,906
Otay!
1598
01:26:45,533 --> 01:26:47,326
And he did promos. Like...
1599
01:26:47,327 --> 01:26:51,038
Eddie Murphy did the promos on Tuesday.
1600
01:26:51,039 --> 01:26:53,582
He's going through it like it's nothing.
1601
01:26:53,583 --> 01:26:54,666
Hi, I'm Eddie Murphy.
1602
01:26:54,667 --> 01:26:58,546
And I'm hosting Saturday Night Live
with musical guest Lizzo tonight.
1603
01:27:00,215 --> 01:27:02,842
- Strong.
- Can I do one that is not as crazy?
1604
01:27:05,136 --> 01:27:06,679
- Tonight!
- Tonight.
1605
01:27:07,722 --> 01:27:11,391
And Lizzo was making him laugh.
And then I heard him do his new laugh.
1606
01:27:11,392 --> 01:27:13,769
And it was, like, a real hard laugh.
1607
01:27:13,770 --> 01:27:16,314
He must be relaxed enough
to be enjoying himself.
1608
01:27:17,357 --> 01:27:18,274
Hercules.
1609
01:27:20,610 --> 01:27:23,528
But I did notice at that moment,
I was like, "Oh wow."
1610
01:27:23,529 --> 01:27:26,698
Like, he put that laugh away
and has a new one.
1611
01:27:26,699 --> 01:27:29,869
He was like, "Yeah, my laugh
was becoming a gimmick."
1612
01:27:30,495 --> 01:27:33,247
"And I didn't want people
to put me in a box."
1613
01:27:33,248 --> 01:27:36,124
He's a very, you know,
leveled kind of a person.
1614
01:27:36,125 --> 01:27:40,003
So whenever something
is overshadowing that,
1615
01:27:40,004 --> 01:27:41,713
he'll pivot, it seems like.
1616
01:27:41,714 --> 01:27:43,174
This book is called,
1617
01:27:44,425 --> 01:27:45,802
Ass for Cash.
1618
01:27:47,428 --> 01:27:49,429
They all wanna know. Who are you?
1619
01:27:49,430 --> 01:27:51,974
Take it off! Take it off!
1620
01:27:51,975 --> 01:27:53,141
Take it off!
1621
01:27:53,142 --> 01:27:55,687
Hi, I'm Buckwheat. Uhmember me?
1622
01:28:01,526 --> 01:28:04,653
Seeing Eddie Murphy in Studio 8H,
1623
01:28:04,654 --> 01:28:06,405
it's like, I can't explain.
1624
01:28:06,406 --> 01:28:10,117
It's like being on safari
and seeing a lion in the wild.
1625
01:28:10,118 --> 01:28:11,827
Thank you very much.
1626
01:28:11,828 --> 01:28:15,706
Wow, it is so great to be back here
hosting Saturday Night Live for Christmas.
1627
01:28:15,707 --> 01:28:17,207
Yo, Ed Murph.
1628
01:28:17,208 --> 01:28:18,710
Oh, Tracy Morgan.
1629
01:28:19,377 --> 01:28:22,796
- Welcome home, brother.
- Yeah, man. Yeah. What's up, man?
1630
01:28:22,797 --> 01:28:27,385
Lorne actually had the idea
to bring in Chappelle and Chris and...
1631
01:28:28,428 --> 01:28:30,555
Tracy, and have that sort of moment.
1632
01:28:31,097 --> 01:28:33,057
And I thought it was really cool.
1633
01:28:34,559 --> 01:28:37,894
When we start to rehearse the monologue,
when I look down the line,
1634
01:28:37,895 --> 01:28:41,356
I see Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy,
1635
01:28:41,357 --> 01:28:43,693
Chris Rock, and then Kenan.
1636
01:28:44,610 --> 01:28:47,070
All four of them, the four horsemen,
1637
01:28:47,071 --> 01:28:51,074
kind of up there together,
it was just an iconic thing to witness.
1638
01:28:51,075 --> 01:28:54,036
Even being in the sketch,
it was just like,
1639
01:28:54,037 --> 01:28:56,456
"I can't believe..."
1640
01:28:57,373 --> 01:28:59,750
Like, "I can't believe this is happening."
1641
01:28:59,751 --> 01:29:03,087
If you're watching this right now,
you're looking at half of Netflix' budget.
1642
01:29:04,756 --> 01:29:05,965
Thanks, Netflix.
1643
01:29:06,591 --> 01:29:09,302
Not me. I made all
my millions on the road.
1644
01:29:10,053 --> 01:29:12,722
- You mean touring?
- No, I got hit by a truck.
1645
01:29:13,473 --> 01:29:15,974
There was a moment,
like, in the rehearsal,
1646
01:29:15,975 --> 01:29:19,144
my dressing room
had Chappelle and Chris Rock.
1647
01:29:19,145 --> 01:29:24,441
They were calling their moms to tell them
that they was doing the Eddie Murphy show.
1648
01:29:24,442 --> 01:29:27,319
Like, in my dressing room,
watching them kind of geek out.
1649
01:29:27,320 --> 01:29:30,280
See that? This is why I love
coming back to Saturday Night Live.
1650
01:29:30,281 --> 01:29:31,531
Having moments like this.
1651
01:29:31,532 --> 01:29:33,784
When was the last time
we were all together?
1652
01:29:33,785 --> 01:29:35,745
Last Thursday, at Sinbad's house.
1653
01:29:38,664 --> 01:29:42,293
Now, which is funnier,
Sinbad, Arsenio, or my house?
1654
01:29:44,212 --> 01:29:48,006
Your house seems like the most plausible
place for that to actually happen.
1655
01:29:48,007 --> 01:29:50,092
Your house is the most plausible place.
1656
01:29:50,093 --> 01:29:52,594
There's something funny
about the word "Sinbad."
1657
01:29:52,595 --> 01:29:55,389
Now, when's the last time
we were all together like this?
1658
01:29:55,390 --> 01:29:57,600
Last Thursday, at Arsenio's house.
1659
01:29:59,435 --> 01:30:01,895
Y'know, I've never been
to Arsenio's house to this day.
1660
01:30:01,896 --> 01:30:04,731
- What kind of friend are you?
- No, what kind of friend is he?
1661
01:30:04,732 --> 01:30:06,859
- What kind of friend is he?
- Oh, you...
1662
01:30:08,778 --> 01:30:10,153
Shut it down.
1663
01:30:10,154 --> 01:30:13,323
This is one of the most exciting things
I think I've ever done.
1664
01:30:13,324 --> 01:30:15,451
- Yeah. Yeah. I agree.
- Yeah, honestly.
1665
01:30:15,952 --> 01:30:16,911
I agree.
1666
01:30:17,495 --> 01:30:20,288
I told Obama, in order to stop crime,
1667
01:30:20,289 --> 01:30:23,375
we need to get that
government cheese program up and running.
1668
01:30:23,376 --> 01:30:26,878
Slow niggas down. I'm telling you,
I told him at the correspondents' dinner.
1669
01:30:26,879 --> 01:30:29,923
- I never had government cheese.
- Eddie, you had government cheese.
1670
01:30:29,924 --> 01:30:32,592
- You from Brooklyn.
- But we never had government cheese.
1671
01:30:32,593 --> 01:30:34,636
Yes, you did. I'm not gonna buy that.
1672
01:30:34,637 --> 01:30:35,887
I did take a picture.
1673
01:30:35,888 --> 01:30:38,598
You had Combos.
That's made of government cheese.
1674
01:30:38,599 --> 01:30:41,144
I remember as a child eating Swiss cheese.
1675
01:30:42,103 --> 01:30:43,770
I remember having a ham and Swiss--
1676
01:30:43,771 --> 01:30:46,940
I ain't discover Swiss cheese
until I was at least 20.
1677
01:30:46,941 --> 01:30:48,567
I had a ham and Swiss cheese...
1678
01:30:48,568 --> 01:30:50,861
You ever tell them the James Brown story?
1679
01:30:50,862 --> 01:30:53,823
- Which one?
- Where no one's got a million dollars?
1680
01:30:54,532 --> 01:30:56,701
Oh, and he told me to bury my money.
1681
01:30:58,744 --> 01:31:00,704
He told me, "Bury your money in the yard."
1682
01:31:00,705 --> 01:31:04,875
He said, "If you don't bury your money,
government gonna come take your money."
1683
01:31:04,876 --> 01:31:07,711
He said, "You think
you got a million dollars?"
1684
01:31:07,712 --> 01:31:10,046
I said, "Yeah." He said...
1685
01:31:10,047 --> 01:31:13,967
And his wife walked through. He said,
"Hey, he think he got a million dollars."
1686
01:31:13,968 --> 01:31:15,386
And she did like this.
1687
01:31:16,679 --> 01:31:19,306
He said, "Ain't no Black man
in America got a million dollars."
1688
01:31:19,307 --> 01:31:23,018
"Only person in show business got
a million dollars is Sylvester Stallone."
1689
01:31:23,019 --> 01:31:26,021
Then he said, "If you do have a million,
whatever money you got,
1690
01:31:26,022 --> 01:31:27,606
you need to go down to the bank."
1691
01:31:27,607 --> 01:31:32,445
"And you call the bank, you get that money
out the bank, and you bury it."
1692
01:31:33,404 --> 01:31:37,157
I said, "Why would I bury it?" He said,
"The government gonna take your money."
1693
01:31:37,158 --> 01:31:38,783
I said, "Where do I bury the money?"
1694
01:31:38,784 --> 01:31:42,037
He said, "Get you a good piece of land
and bury the money under there."
1695
01:31:42,038 --> 01:31:44,372
I said, "Can't the government
take your land?"
1696
01:31:44,373 --> 01:31:47,042
He said, "They won't know
about the money though."
1697
01:31:47,043 --> 01:31:49,127
"They won't know where the money's at."
1698
01:31:49,128 --> 01:31:53,049
Then years later, I realized he was on
angel dust when we had that conversation.
1699
01:31:56,511 --> 01:32:01,557
The Eddie Murphy show was the most tense
start to a show I've ever been a part of.
1700
01:32:04,477 --> 01:32:08,314
And it was like, scary almost,
like, this had to go well.
1701
01:32:08,898 --> 01:32:12,902
And we would be letting down
Eddie Murphy if it was bad.
1702
01:32:14,070 --> 01:32:15,571
It's 11:27 right now.
1703
01:32:41,931 --> 01:32:44,892
The best thing to pray for,
instead of money and everything...
1704
01:32:46,435 --> 01:32:47,979
pray for peace of mind.
1705
01:32:50,231 --> 01:32:51,398
Ten seconds...
1706
01:32:51,399 --> 01:32:55,152
Pursue peace of mind.
If you get that, then you got it all.
1707
01:32:57,905 --> 01:33:02,326
Ladies and gentlemen, Eddie Murphy!
1708
01:33:24,807 --> 01:33:28,184
It was one of the greatest SNLs ever.
1709
01:33:28,185 --> 01:33:32,148
{\an8}And I walked over to Lorne Michaels
when it was over,
1710
01:33:33,149 --> 01:33:36,694
and I said, "You should quit right now."
1711
01:33:38,112 --> 01:33:40,656
"It's not gonna get any better than this."
1712
01:33:43,909 --> 01:33:46,828
I said, "Eddie."
He looked at me and said, "What's up?"
1713
01:33:46,829 --> 01:33:48,997
I said, "Your life just came 360."
1714
01:33:48,998 --> 01:33:51,584
- Yeah, man. Killed that shit.
- Thanks, bro.
1715
01:33:52,084 --> 01:33:53,836
This is where it all started.
1716
01:33:56,797 --> 01:33:58,591
This is where it all started.
1717
01:34:03,179 --> 01:34:05,096
Going back to Saturday Night Live...
1718
01:34:05,097 --> 01:34:07,557
- That was awesome.
- Amazing.
1719
01:34:07,558 --> 01:34:10,311
...it was a great experience.
1720
01:34:11,145 --> 01:34:16,191
My creative energy,
everything had been turned back up to ten.
1721
01:34:16,192 --> 01:34:19,070
It was like, "Hey, I wanted to work."
1722
01:34:19,695 --> 01:34:25,200
I think a lot of times we expect comedians
to just walk around telling jokes,
1723
01:34:25,201 --> 01:34:27,327
being funny all the time.
1724
01:34:27,328 --> 01:34:30,914
And when they don't, you are, like,
1725
01:34:30,915 --> 01:34:35,252
reminded that this is their profession.
1726
01:34:36,545 --> 01:34:39,548
He's so quiet with his preparation.
1727
01:34:41,926 --> 01:34:43,885
Hatch, match, smatch and scratch.
1728
01:34:43,886 --> 01:34:45,888
Whack, jack, smack. Crack-- Hoo--
1729
01:34:47,390 --> 01:34:48,974
I'm sorry. Can we go again?
1730
01:34:49,517 --> 01:34:53,312
All of a sudden he just comes back,
and he just gears up and bang, bang, bang.
1731
01:34:54,814 --> 01:34:57,817
{\an8}I was really blown away
by the Dolemite movie.
1732
01:34:58,567 --> 01:35:02,278
It made me just so happy.
Like, that's right, dude.
1733
01:35:02,279 --> 01:35:04,198
You can do it anytime you want.
1734
01:35:04,949 --> 01:35:07,659
{\an8}He still looks like
this awesome leading man.
1735
01:35:07,660 --> 01:35:11,788
{\an8}But I also feel that he's going to have
a Sean Connery period,
1736
01:35:11,789 --> 01:35:14,290
{\an8}like late Sean Connery,
1737
01:35:14,291 --> 01:35:18,294
{\an8}where he's gonna do stuff
in his seventies and eighties
1738
01:35:18,295 --> 01:35:20,423
that's gonna be incredible.
1739
01:35:21,757 --> 01:35:23,925
I'm doing George Clinton next.
1740
01:35:23,926 --> 01:35:25,803
This is going to be a hard one.
1741
01:35:26,303 --> 01:35:28,888
{\an8}I'm Inspector Clouseau
in the next Pink Panther.
1742
01:35:28,889 --> 01:35:30,015
{\an8}Wait, what?
1743
01:35:31,517 --> 01:35:34,270
It's a lot of stuff,
and I got to get lost in it.
1744
01:35:35,521 --> 01:35:40,316
The question of the century is,
will Eddie ever touch the stage again?
1745
01:35:40,317 --> 01:35:42,445
Will he ever do stand-up again?
1746
01:35:42,987 --> 01:35:47,782
The level at which he did it,
when he did it, was branded onto people.
1747
01:35:47,783 --> 01:35:51,077
And the comedians that were young,
that were teenagers,
1748
01:35:51,078 --> 01:35:54,080
or maybe a little younger
when he was really hot...
1749
01:35:54,081 --> 01:35:56,291
um... he's it for them.
1750
01:35:56,292 --> 01:35:57,251
He is it.
1751
01:35:57,752 --> 01:36:00,379
If it struck me one day,
I would do it again.
1752
01:36:00,921 --> 01:36:04,215
I think the reason people be tripping
about it, 'cause it's kinda like,
1753
01:36:04,216 --> 01:36:07,594
you know, if you, like,
was a Jimi Hendrix fan,
1754
01:36:07,595 --> 01:36:09,429
you know, Jimi Hendrix didn't die,
1755
01:36:09,430 --> 01:36:12,682
but he just puts his guitar down
and stops playing one day.
1756
01:36:12,683 --> 01:36:15,852
And then he goes off, and he starts
making, you know, movies,
1757
01:36:15,853 --> 01:36:17,854
Dr. Dolittle and all of this shit.
1758
01:36:17,855 --> 01:36:21,149
And you'd be like, "Hey, Jimi,
you going to play your guitar again?"
1759
01:36:21,150 --> 01:36:24,944
He said, "Oh, yeah, eventually."
And then he just never picks it up.
1760
01:36:24,945 --> 01:36:26,738
It's like, so you know he can play.
1761
01:36:26,739 --> 01:36:29,158
"I know he can play. Why won't he play?"
1762
01:36:30,868 --> 01:36:34,496
Especially if you out there trying to play
all the time, going out there playing.
1763
01:36:34,497 --> 01:36:37,499
He be like, "Why don't you come play too?
Come jam with us."
1764
01:36:37,500 --> 01:36:40,377
It's like, "I'm good."
1765
01:36:41,587 --> 01:36:45,466
The guy's been famous for longer
than I've been alive, you know?
1766
01:36:46,050 --> 01:36:49,344
It'd be really interesting
to hear what he has to say.
1767
01:36:49,345 --> 01:36:51,388
What the world looks like to him.
1768
01:36:52,348 --> 01:36:54,809
What do we look like to him, you know?
1769
01:36:57,978 --> 01:37:01,273
Oh, I know what this is.
Those are ventriloquist dummies.
1770
01:37:01,982 --> 01:37:03,234
Wow!
1771
01:37:03,734 --> 01:37:07,737
There's a long history of comedians
that we thought were funny
1772
01:37:07,738 --> 01:37:09,113
when they were young.
1773
01:37:09,114 --> 01:37:13,369
And then we found out later
they're much funnier when they got older.
1774
01:37:14,119 --> 01:37:15,954
Did you put that pill in the chocolate?
1775
01:37:15,955 --> 01:37:20,041
Now, see, how you gonna ask me
did I put the pill in the chocolate,
1776
01:37:20,042 --> 01:37:22,920
when you know that
I put the pills in the chocolate?!
1777
01:37:25,631 --> 01:37:28,008
Hey, man, y'all went all out.
1778
01:37:28,717 --> 01:37:32,846
You know, it would be different for Eddie
than any other comedian in history.
1779
01:37:32,847 --> 01:37:34,765
He's one of, you know...
1780
01:37:35,891 --> 01:37:38,351
two, three guys... one guy,
1781
01:37:38,352 --> 01:37:42,064
that was given that big a bag of gold
to start out with, you know?
1782
01:37:42,982 --> 01:37:44,525
Goddamn, this your place?
1783
01:37:45,150 --> 01:37:46,360
Well, I'll be damned.
1784
01:37:47,236 --> 01:37:49,655
I put the pill in my motherfucking mouth.
1785
01:37:50,322 --> 01:37:51,949
Motherfuck the chocolate.
1786
01:37:52,575 --> 01:37:53,576
Yeah.
1787
01:37:56,245 --> 01:37:57,872
And it's Paul Mooney, homie.
1788
01:37:58,455 --> 01:38:01,542
We've got Paul Mooney,
Richard Pryor, and Bill Cosby.
1789
01:38:02,042 --> 01:38:04,210
"This nigga has lost his mind."
1790
01:38:04,211 --> 01:38:05,962
That's what Mooney would say.
1791
01:38:05,963 --> 01:38:08,923
"In the documentary, he broke out
three nigger puppets, homie."
1792
01:38:08,924 --> 01:38:12,052
"Nigger, I spun around
in my grave, homie."
1793
01:38:15,472 --> 01:38:17,099
I want to put them in here.
1794
01:38:17,641 --> 01:38:19,268
To have them all three together.
1795
01:38:20,728 --> 01:38:21,936
That's Richard eyes.
1796
01:38:21,937 --> 01:38:24,022
Yeah, he really made a good Richard.
1797
01:38:24,023 --> 01:38:26,816
- Look.
- You're upstairs in the drawer.
1798
01:38:26,817 --> 01:38:29,528
Now why am I in the drawer,
and they are out?
1799
01:38:30,988 --> 01:38:32,488
- Here I am.
- Here she is.
1800
01:38:32,489 --> 01:38:36,117
You got me in the drawer.
And look, ooh, who's that?
1801
01:38:36,118 --> 01:38:39,037
- Look at Val.
- Ooh, look at Val.
1802
01:38:39,038 --> 01:38:40,705
Ooh, what's this?
1803
01:38:40,706 --> 01:38:42,541
Who are these motherfuckers?
1804
01:38:43,334 --> 01:38:46,669
Ooh, y'all see Richard Pryor over here?
1805
01:38:46,670 --> 01:38:50,340
They don't even know who Richard Pryor
and Bill Cosby, Paul Mooney is.
1806
01:38:50,341 --> 01:38:51,841
Oh, they should.
1807
01:38:51,842 --> 01:38:53,927
From this angle, it looks like, uh...
1808
01:38:53,928 --> 01:38:55,094
Like what? Like who?
1809
01:38:55,095 --> 01:38:58,556
Like, Bill Cosby is... shooting game at you.
1810
01:38:58,557 --> 01:39:00,308
Like, trying to talk to me?
1811
01:39:00,309 --> 01:39:03,394
- Uh-huh.
- What are you saying, Bill?
1812
01:39:03,395 --> 01:39:05,689
"Don't go by what you've heard."
1813
01:39:07,858 --> 01:39:12,071
I'm capable of tenderness
and kindness to you...
1814
01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:18,118
I'm going to show you
my Jell-O pudding pop.
1815
01:39:20,913 --> 01:39:21,746
Look at him.
1816
01:39:21,747 --> 01:39:25,750
I'm going to show you
my Jell-O pudding pop.
1817
01:39:25,751 --> 01:39:29,796
I know a lot of people that survived
a lot of weird shit in their lives.
1818
01:39:29,797 --> 01:39:33,968
But surviving being Eddie Murphy
is a hell of an accomplishment.
1819
01:39:38,764 --> 01:39:40,682
What do you say to your mother
1820
01:39:40,683 --> 01:39:43,477
when she gives you
a bowl of Jell-O pudding?
1821
01:39:45,938 --> 01:39:47,356
I don't give a fuck.
1822
01:39:55,197 --> 01:39:59,450
No, because, you see, I didn't put a pill
in the people's chocolate.
1823
01:39:59,451 --> 01:40:02,913
Nigga, you know you put that pill
in the chocolate, nigga.
1824
01:40:19,221 --> 01:40:20,472
Lord, have mercy
1825
01:40:21,473 --> 01:40:22,891
Hear me, Lord
1826
01:40:23,851 --> 01:40:25,060
Hear me, Jesus
1827
01:40:26,228 --> 01:40:27,563
Hear me, Lord, well
1828
01:40:28,564 --> 01:40:29,815
Hear me, Jesus
1829
01:40:30,858 --> 01:40:32,151
Hear me, Lord
1830
01:40:33,193 --> 01:40:34,611
Hear me, Lord, well
1831
01:40:35,487 --> 01:40:36,864
Hear me, Lord, well
1832
01:40:37,865 --> 01:40:39,116
Lord, have mercy
1833
01:40:40,159 --> 01:40:41,410
Hear me, Lord
1834
01:40:42,453 --> 01:40:43,662
Lord, have mercy
1835
01:40:44,830 --> 01:40:45,914
Hear me, Lord
1836
01:40:47,124 --> 01:40:48,375
Hear me, Jesus
1837
01:40:49,460 --> 01:40:50,586
Hear me, Lord
1838
01:40:51,754 --> 01:40:53,130
Hear me, Lord, well
1839
01:40:54,715 --> 01:40:56,717
Yeah, that's all I got so far.
1840
01:40:57,259 --> 01:40:58,677
I'm gonna work on it.
1841
01:40:59,386 --> 01:41:01,180
Come up with a second verse.
1842
01:41:01,972 --> 01:41:04,725
And a... bridge.
1843
01:41:05,601 --> 01:41:08,854
And a... breakdown section.
1844
01:41:09,521 --> 01:41:11,815
For the kids to have
something to dance to.
1845
01:41:12,816 --> 01:41:14,068
What you think?