Eddie Murphy Still Shocked By David Spade's 'Saturday Night Live' Joke

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Eddie Murphy He thinks about some of the “cheap shots” he feels he's taken over the years.

Oscar-nominated actor and comedian – his new film “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel FThe new TV series will premiere on Netflix next week, and he was asked in an interview with The New York Times whether he felt he had been treated unfairly by the press and his colleagues over the years.

“In the old days, they were relentless with me, and a lot of things were racist,” Murphy said.

After mentioning how “it was a whole different world” when he was coming up in the '80s, Murphy cited the example of “when David Spade said this about my career on SNL.”

the The relevant partIn a December 1995 episode, Spade reviewed an entire year during “Hollywood Minute,” including a photo of Murphy in which Spade captioned, “Look kids, he's a falling star. Make a wish.” Murphy told the Times that the joke came about after his film, “Vampire in Brooklyn,” failed at the box office.

“It was like, ‘Oh my God, this is inside me! I’m a family member, and you’re messing with me like this?’ It hurt my feelings,” Murphy said.

He rose to stardom on “SNL” as part of the original cast between 1980 and 1984, and is often cited as the reason At some point, the show was saved from going off the air.

“The producers thought it was OK to say that. All the people who've been on that show, you've never heard anyone not joke about anyone's career. Most people who come out of that show, they don't go on to have these great careers. It was personal, Murphy later added. “It was like, 'Man, how could you do that? My career? Really? A joke about my career? So I thought that was a cheap shot. And it was kind of, I thought – I felt like it was racist.'

Spade later wrote about receiving a phone call from an upset Murphy after the joke and feeling bad about his “stupid joke.”

“I came to see Eddie's point of view on this,” Speed ​​books“Everyone in the art world wants people to like them. That’s how you get fans. But when you’re criticized in a drawing or online or in any other way, it’s bad. It can add up quickly.”

Murphy has mostly stepped away from the long-running NBC comedy show over the years, though he made a brief appearance on the “SNL” 40th anniversary special in 2015 and returned as host To a lot of fuss In 2019.

“In the long run, it’s all good, it’s worked out great. I’m great with David Spade, I’m great with Lorne Michaels. I’m back on SNL,” Murphy said this week. “It’s all love… but I had a few cheap shots!”