One of the greatest disappointments of Eddie Murphy's decline into slack family-movie purgatory—Dreamgirls excepted—is that he used to work so hard. Watching the 1983 HBO special Delirious now ...

Eddie Murphy had just turned 22 when he recorded his first HBO comedy special, Delirious, in 1983 (an audio version, retitled Eddie Murphy: Comedian, won the Grammy for Best Comedy Album in 1984).

Shirtless and dressed in red leather pants and matching jacket unzipped to his navel, Eddie Murphy sauntered onto the stage of Washington, D.C.’s, Constitution Hall one night in 1983 and changed ...

Shirtless and dressed in red leather pants and matching jacket unzipped to his navel, Eddie Murphy sauntered onto the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., one night in 1983 and changed ...

‘Eddie Murphy Delirious’ is on Netflix. A 16-year old Murphy started performing stand-up in 1976, touring comedy clubs all over the country.

But the year before he made the leap to a full-time movie career, Murphy released one of the most popular stand-up specials ever. Many bits from 1983’s Delirious remain some of the comedian’s ...

Shirtless and dressed in red leather pants and matching jacket unzipped to his navel, Eddie Murphy sauntered onto the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington one night in 1983 and changed the ...