With his open leather jackets, gold chains and entourage, and his sold out concerts in the largest venues around the country, he carried himself not as a mere comic but more a cross between a rock idol and the Heavyweight Champ of the world.
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Murphy not only became a hot TV star, he became a super star on the concert circuit.
I mean, if God would have wanted whites to be equal to blacks, everyone would have one of these!”Īnd with that, Eddie held up a giant radio. I don’t see no judge saying that every two bathroom attendants have to be white! All I’m saying is y’all stick to playing hockey and polo and we’ll stay in the courts. Now it’s 1980, we’re all on welfare, and by the end of next year y’all will be on welfare too. Then in the early 70’s we braided our hair…y’all braided your hair. I mean we ain’t got much, at least let us have basketball! Is nothing sacred? Any time we get something going good, y’all move in on it. Complaining about teams with “token whites” on them, he shouted, “This is the most disgusting thing y’all have pulled up to date. Raheem railed against the encroachment of whites-in basketball. The Murphy message was lighten up, or get down, depending on who was listening. Robinson’s Neighborhood” sketches and in his parodies of militant blacks like “Raheem Abdul Muhammad.” Eddie didn’t ignore racial problems, but he presented them with surprisingly good humor in the ironic “Mr. He fused Little Richard and Richard Simmons together for “Little Richard Simmons,” mimicked Stevie Wonder and Bill Cosby, and parodied Buckwheat of “Our Gang” and Gumby. Shortly after he was a regular on “Saturday Night Live” and soon the hit of the show. He rose quickly, performing at New York’s The Comic Strip for affluent East Siders who found his street jive an amusing novelty. And when the cycle for angry young men ebbed and audiences wanted a smiling new face, Murphy took over for Richard. Murphy talked about sex like Richard, cursed like Richard, made faces like Richard. On stage Murphy was Pryor without the hatred and bitterness. Admittedly growing up in an environment far removed from the racism and taunts that Richard Pryor knew as a child, Eddie’s idol was Elvis Presley whom he thought “had more presence and charisma than anybody who ever existed.” When he got into comedy, the young kid gravitated Richard Pryor albums loaded with all that cool cursing. Eddie went to Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, and performed at the Roosevelt Youth Center talent shows in 1976. His mother remarried when Eddie was nine, and the family settled in Roosevelt, Long Island. For a time after his father’s death he and his brother Charles were placed in foster care. Murphy, like a rookie “pheenom,” had seemingly come out of nowhere to conquer the comedy world while barely out of his teens.Įddie was born in Brooklyn. “Ol’ Cos,” like a veteran baseball pitcher, had spent decades achieving superstardom. He and Bill Cosby ended the 80’s earning more each year than almost any other entertainers. The magazine was counting up the take for a cool cat comedian-Eddie Murphy. Twenty million, thirty million-Forbes Magazine wasn’t counting the assets for some fat cat businessman.
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