Can you name a Taylor Swift song? No, I can’t. I’m sorry.
June 30, 2024 1:40 AM Subscribe
I took how fast everything was moving for granted. Like, I guess this happens for everybody; this is what happens when you get famous. So I took all of that for granted but I was never like, “I’m the [expletive].” There’s no higher blessing: You make people laugh, that’s more than anything. That’s more than making them dance, making them feel drama. To look around and see that all the good things that came in my life all came from making somebody laugh? That’s a beautiful feeling, man. from Eddie Murphy is Ready to Look Back [NYT; ungated]
I don't think I could either.
posted by The Manwich Horror at 3:52 AM on June 30 [3 favorites]
posted by The Manwich Horror at 3:52 AM on June 30 [3 favorites]
I guess Eddie has a movie to hype or something, huh?
posted by Thorzdad at 5:31 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
posted by Thorzdad at 5:31 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
"My Boyfriend was a dirty (hound)dog" - hidden track on 2nd album "Fearfluff"
posted by sammyo at 5:38 AM on June 30 [2 favorites]
posted by sammyo at 5:38 AM on June 30 [2 favorites]
He's a complex guy. He seems repelled by fame and driven by it. He says he's not a comedian, but he says he thinks only in terms of what is funny. He says he never thinks of the audience, he says he thinks solely of the audience.
This reporter got a lot of great lines out of him, but I don't think they really uncracked him. I don't think I know him better now than I did before I read this.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:49 AM on June 30 [3 favorites]
This reporter got a lot of great lines out of him, but I don't think they really uncracked him. I don't think I know him better now than I did before I read this.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:49 AM on June 30 [3 favorites]
Really, the takeaway I get is that he resists being put into a box and any take someone is too comfortable with hanging on him, he tries to shake it off, shake it off.
Wow, maybe he really should check out some Taylor Swift.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:56 AM on June 30 [6 favorites]
Wow, maybe he really should check out some Taylor Swift.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:56 AM on June 30 [6 favorites]
I don't think they really uncracked him.
Remember he wasn't just famous, he was 80's famous. I imagine he had to build up a very thick shell to survive it all.
posted by fairmettle at 6:45 AM on June 30 [2 favorites]
Remember he wasn't just famous, he was 80's famous. I imagine he had to build up a very thick shell to survive it all.
posted by fairmettle at 6:45 AM on June 30 [2 favorites]
a movie to hype or something, huh?
(somebody got) soul, soul, soul ~ Wild Magnolias [discogs; content note: black masking indians/new orleans tourism]
posted by HearHere at 7:04 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
(somebody got) soul, soul, soul ~ Wild Magnolias [discogs; content note: black masking indians/new orleans tourism]
posted by HearHere at 7:04 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, coming Wednesday to Netflix.
(And I know it's The Old Grey Lady's house style or whatever, but this interview loses a lot from having to use [expletive] all the [expletive] time.)
posted by box at 7:28 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
(And I know it's The Old Grey Lady's house style or whatever, but this interview loses a lot from having to use [expletive] all the [expletive] time.)
posted by box at 7:28 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
[expletive] seriously:
Oh, here’s a good one: There’s an interview that you did with Spike Lee in Spin magazine from the early ’90s. In there you say that you believe the government bugged your house. Why did you believe that? We found a little microphone in my house, in my bedroom. Did I say the government? Somebody put a microphone in there.
And why would they have done that? Who knows? In the ’80s, all they heard in my room was serious [expletive] going on. They would listen to the bug saying, “God damn, you be doing some serious [expletive].”
posted by HearHere at 7:32 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
Oh, here’s a good one: There’s an interview that you did with Spike Lee in Spin magazine from the early ’90s. In there you say that you believe the government bugged your house. Why did you believe that? We found a little microphone in my house, in my bedroom. Did I say the government? Somebody put a microphone in there.
And why would they have done that? Who knows? In the ’80s, all they heard in my room was serious [expletive] going on. They would listen to the bug saying, “God damn, you be doing some serious [expletive].”
posted by HearHere at 7:32 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
The article mentions that Murphy avoided SNL for a few decades, but doesn't mention the reason, which is that they aired a rather vicious skit (Eddie Murphy, Good Samaritan) about him when he was embroiled in scandal back in 1997. (CW: SNL in the 90s, transphobia)
posted by Umami Dearest at 7:47 AM on June 30 [2 favorites]
posted by Umami Dearest at 7:47 AM on June 30 [2 favorites]
Remember he wasn't just famous, he was 80's famous.
He was so famous that when he recorded a mediocre song in the 1990s called Yeah, he managed to get all of these names to participate (according to Wikipedia):
He was so famous that when he recorded a mediocre song in the 1990s called Yeah, he managed to get all of these names to participate (according to Wikipedia):
"Yeah" contains special guest vocals by Aaron Hall, Amy Grant, Babyface, Barry White, Bon Jovi, Elton John, Emmanuel Lewis, En Vogue, Garth Brooks, Heavy D, Howard Hewett, Janet Jackson, Johnny Gill, Julio Iglesias, Luther Vandross, MC Hammer, Michael Jackson, Patti LaBelle, Paul McCartney, Richie Sambora, Stevie Wonder and Teddy Pendergrass. It also contains bass performed by Stanley Clarke, harmonica performed by Stevie Wonder and piano performed by Herbie Hancock.posted by pracowity at 9:03 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
Wow, holy DX7 preset, Batman.
posted by credulous at 9:14 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
posted by credulous at 9:14 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]
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can you talk about being in a film with Beyoncé
posted by HearHere at 3:07 AM on June 30 [1 favorite]