Eddie Murphyis calling out a fellow “Saturday Evening Dwell”… reflecting on how offended David Páthe joke about his profession did so – and, saying he thinks there was racist intent.
The comedy legend sat down for a wide-ranging interview with the New York instancespublished on Saturday, and he talked about a joke Spade made on the December 1995 “Weekend Update” stage.
If you haven’t seen the clip… an image of Murphy appears on the screen and Spade jokes that he is seen as a “shooting star” — this was months after Eddie’s film “Vampire in Brooklyn” bombed at the box office.
EM told the NYT that the attack hit him really hard because he was one of the biggest stars in the show’s history… and that he wouldn’t have survived without it.
Plus, Eddie says he knows Spade wasn’t the only person who heard the joke… ‘it makes the producers go over everything before it airs – so he felt like the whole institution was coming after him.
In the end, Murphy explains that he felt the joke was private, saying, “I assumed it was a cheap shot. And it was kind of, I assumed – I thought it was racist.”
He doesn’t really explain his reasoning here… but he admits that the joke kept him away from ‘SNL’ for decades, until he appeared on the show’s 40th anniversary in 2015.
FWIW…Eddie says he’s fine with Lorne Michaels and Spade now — and he even hosted ‘SNL’ once again in 2019 to rave reviews.
We reached out to David Spade’s group about Eddie calling the joke racist… at this point, no sentence again.
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