Outside of SNL, the comedian is also known for his specials Delirious (1983) and Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987) and movies such as Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, Dr. Dolittle, and Dreamgirls ...

and Trading Places, had rebuilt Saturday Night Live in his own sensational image, and had released Eddie Murphy: Delirious, still to date one of the most watched and significant stand-up comedy ...

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1983 – HBO airs Murphy’s concert special, “Eddie Murphy – Delirious.” June 8, 1983 – “Trading Places,” a comedy starring Murphy, Dan Aykroyd and Jamie Lee Curtis, debuts in theaters.

Eddie Murphy is a living legend ... Mastering his stand-up skills in Delirious, Murphy delivers a high-energy routine that ...

You can watch the stand-up joke in full below: Not only did audiences in 1983 get a kick out of Eddie Murphy’s Delirious stand-up routine, but so did Jordan Peele. While promoting his horror ...

Yes, Eddie Murphy’s a massive star ... pregnancy was “completely planned” and that at the time she and the “Delirious” comic were planning to get married. This was not only denied ...

In fact, several years after headlining his iconic Delirious special, the A-lister took his act to the big screen via Eddie ...

Eddie Murphy delivers material (and a fashion sense) that few have been able to pull off in standup. Honestly, spend a night and binge these two movies together.

Murphy’s childhood heroes include Richard Pryor, Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis. When Murphy was three years old, his parents split up. His father was murdered by a girlfriend five years later. Murphy ...