*Eddie Murphy has been doin’ the damn thang (entertaining folks) for quite some time now and he’s finally about to get some overdue props: the Critics Choice Lifetime Achievement Award.
Murphy, who came to fame via “Saturday Night Live” and went on to humongous success in Hollywood, will receive the honor at the 25th Annual Critics Choice Awards on January 19.
Murphy also found fame with “Beverly Hills Cop,” “Daddy Day Care,” “The Nutty Professor,” “Harlem Nights,” and “Trading Places.”
He was also in “Coming to America,” “Bowfinger,” “48 Hours” and was the voice of Donkey in “Shrek.”
The funnyman’s most recent accomplishment is the lead role in Netflix’s “Dolemite is My Name” in which he portrays the late Rudy Ray Moore. His remake/follow up to “Coming to America” is due out in 2020 as well.
Oh yeah, he’s set to go on his first comedy tour in 30 years in 2020, too.
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Wait! There’s more Eddie Murphy news. Since we just mentioned the fact that he’s set to tour in 2020, you might be interested in knowing that he’s had an epiphany of sorts. He says after 40 years in the business, he has seen how the times have changed in terms of lines comedians are willing to cross with their material.
You see, despite knowing how much of what he used to cover in how his own stand-up routines 30-plus years ago wouldn’t fly today, he does admit there’s “some of” his material he’d still laugh at now — while other jokes are “cringey.”
“Some of it, I cringe when I watch it,” he said during an interview with Tracy Smith for CBS Sunday Morning, adding with a laugh, “Like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I said that.’ “
“In the moment, you kinda was like, ‘It is what it is,’ ” continued Murphy, when Smith asked if people “picketing” his old material ever eats at him. “I’ve seen [old] stuff [recently] that I go like, ‘Oh, that’s … ooh.’ Yeah, you get a joke every now and then that’s cringey.”
When he was on the “Today” show in October, Murphy told Al Roker that he plans to approach his return to stand-up a lot differently than in his heyday, working with different material now that he’s older and a father of 10.
“Last time I did stand-up I was 27 years old,” he said. “I look at some of my old stuff and cringe. Sometimes I’m like, ‘I can’t believe I said that!’ I’m 58 now so I don’t think I’m gonna approach it the same way.”
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