The genius of Eddie Murphy

I love Eddie and I miss him being in (adult) movies. I also wasn't surprised by the tranny scandal because if you paid attention to his work, he was obsessed with butt play - the Honeymooner's bit in Delerious and also, he had a whole song on his first record about putting things up your butt; he even says, I shit you not, "put me in your butt".

Fuck that asshole. And I don't mean it in the good way.

From the comments section:

“Without gay jokes comedy just isn't the same anymore”

No love for Eddie here? C’mon!

In Raw, Eddie lampooned every race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. and even himself. Take a chill pill and enjoy comedy before political correctness killed it.

I loved Eddie back in the day! Movies, tv, comedy, he was the best. I had his comedy albums.

he was funnier before he had kids, then his choices were too lightweight for me. Chris Rock sort of took up his mantle.

Bowfinger was quite funny, and Christine Baranski is her usual impeccable self in it.

Did gay rights ruin comedy?

R8 we went from Eddie Murphy doing the Mr. T bit, to Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison. Anti-gay straight comedians ruined comedy.

Hey OP how about this fun routine ? Like that too ?

Eddie did some awful jokes on Delirious about gays spreading AIDS. I don't know if he ever apologized. And of course he used the f-word everywhere in his early days. But he did have a comedy album before that, circa 1982 (I don't think a video of it was ever released) where he did a really funny gay joke. After saying he'd sometimes pick on gays when he was with his friends, he then riffed that it was really a bad idea because gays spend a lot of time at the gym and just might beat the shit out of you. "That's some embarrassing shit to get beat up by a f-."

What’s the difference between Murphy and Eminem? Why the love for Eminem from gays?

After 15 Years, Actor Apologizes For Gay Slurs

That’s cool R13. That was a very nice apology. His fan base didn’t appreciate it but I do. Eminem have anything like that?

I never heard about that R13, I'm glad to read it. Thanks.

Sam Kinison on gays.

He's a fucking asshole. I should know. I was one of the trannies (I just dressed for the fuck of it) who he picked up for sex. He killed my friend who was talking to the press about it. She's the one who "fell out of a window". He's a murderer. He hired his henchmen to kill her. Fuck him.

I'm a gay man and I'm a big fan of Eddie Murphy. I enjoy watching his interviews on YouTube.

I don't know anything about his interactions with members of the trans community.

Do you like Sam Kinison R18? Just curious. I mean, same humor.

Not really.

Sam Kinison was the original deplorable.

How do you differentiate between the two R20. I’ve always heard them listed together as favorites of people, Kinison, Murphy, Dice even...

If r17 is on the level, wow

Kinison and Dice did not have Murphy's storytelling skills, timing or impressions. The only thing they had in common was the over the top cursing/slurs.

1:45 on always kills me. "Wanna lick? Psych!"

I wish I could get into homophobic comedians and rappers as a gay man. I’m in the minority that I don’t.

I thought Murphy was gay?

R27 He is

r28 Yeah, I always thought his homophobic routines were a way for him to act gay and basically be himself in front of an audience of black people. He doesn't owe us an apology, bitch needs to apologize to himself.

He's a major creep and yes the accident/death of that tranny hooker was very suspicious.

I always wondered about him and Arsenio. They were just too good at drag. "I wanna tear you apart."

I bet that's not the first time Arsenio did a spit take lol.

Anti-gay humor is all about intent. Colbert: ok. Murphy: not ok. Kinison: worst person alive.

I still can't get over the fact that he has TEN children.

TEN...?!?!?

Which celebrity would defend Eddie Murphy’s homophobia today?

Howard Stern.

Black twitter.

DL Hughley

Jerry Seinfeld

Kevin Hart.... duh

Didn't it come out in his divorce that he basically lived with another man in a second home somewhere, while his wife raised his kids?

She was called Shalimar.

From reddit..

[quote]Shalimar Seiuli was an American-Samoan transgender dancer and public figure who gained infamy when she was seen getting into the SUV of the actor Eddie Murphy.She cause quite a scandal on 1997 and release a book about how eddie murphy hooked up with transgender , A year later Seiuli's dead body was found by a neighbor in their Los Angeles apartment building, on the sidewalk, outside of the apartment. Clad only in lingerie, Shalimar was believed to have been locked out of her apartment building and tried to use her robe as a rope to swing from the roof to an open window; however, she fell five floors and suffered severe head trauma and other fractures, which resulted in her death.