I remember when I was a kid and first getting into Eddie Murphy's stand up comedy. There seemed like so much stuff I had yet to discover. It started with the comedian CD. From there, I went and found all his stuff. I watched it all time and time again.

Tonight, I was watching Raw on DVD with a friend of mine and I realized how much I wish Eddie Murphy would do more stand up. It really sank in tonight, that while his classic stand up is still funny, there won't be anything NEW from him in the stand up comedy world to discover now.

Now don't get me wrong, I mean Shrek is great and everything, but seriously, Eddie should do one more stand up special.

Who agrees?

I don't think he could recapture the same kind of energy he had then. The climate was just right for his stuff. Alot of that stuff woulf fall to the PC police too.

It would be interesting to see him try though.

If he did one I'd look forward to it but there'd be so much pressure to kill it, he doesn't seem to have the guts for that anymore. He chooses things that are totally safe for many years now. It's like he's in a permanent state of embarrassment since the tranny thing. But I'd love to see him try, he's still funny in interviews

Yes Eddie Murphy was a bad boy in the 80's.
He and the Black Pack owned the mid-to late 80's and early 1990's.

He's gone soft...just like so many others have as they get older.

Perhaps Jamie Foxx still has it. Who knows, really.....

Eddie also realized how much $$$ he could make by doing family fare. Ice Cube seems to have jumped on this bandwagon, too.

ThreadBare said:

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we will never get the last four great decades prior to the second millinium back!

Maybe he can come back and do a routine about how he wants nothing to do with his child

Janfriend said:

heybaby said:

Seriously, I used to like Eddie a lot, but that fiasco over his 9th child was and still is totally ridiculous. Melanie must have really pissed him off, which really has nothing to do with the child

Janfriend said:

i agree. and really needs to get off whatever ego trip he's got going on. He's not even worthy of his own arrogance. I really don't see what she did except i guess be a inconvenience between him and that tracy edmonds chick.

heybaby said:

The only thing I could possibly imagine is he thought, for some odd reason, she wouldn't get pregnant. You know, maybe she said she was on the pill or using another type of contraceptive... or he told her to abort and she wouldn't, but that doesn't make sense because she said she didn't even know they broke up until she read it or he wouldn't return her calls or some fucked up shit like that. She thought he was happy about the child. Maybe he did meet Tracey and decided he was done with Melanie, but what does that have to do with him being a father? What kind of a woman is Tracey to be with a man like that???

OMG that's so ironic, we were just talking about this in chat a couple of days ago and quoting lines from Raw and Delerious...I know both shows practically word for word

I miss it too!

I like his "talking car from the 'hood bit":

"Yo man! Someone done stole yo battry! I say we go get the motherfucker!"

HALF Ediiiiieeeee!!!!

DanceWme said:

What have you done for me lately Ediiiiieee?????

Goonie Goo Goo! What the fuck does that mean, Gus?

I used to want to do eddie when I was in high school.

horatio said:

What are you? A faggot?

Hey, that's Eddies's joke from his first album, not mine.

dannyd5050 said:

yeah, well he was the one fucking transvestite hookers


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I heard him say that he is thinking about doing another one.

Rinluv said:

A stand up comedy or transvestite hooker?

dannyd5050 said:

A stand up comedy movie. Like he did with "RAW".

Rinluv said:

That's cool. I would like to see that as well. As long as he can still be funny.

DanceWme said:

Ediiiieeeee, why do you treat me like animaaaalllll!!!!

Since I wasn't alive to miss it, I'll just say that I wish he would do stand up again, based on what is on Youtube

The only standup I've ever seen him do is Delirious and Raw (which were both good). Is there anything else out there?

i just watched 'raw' 2 nights ago on bravo... all the bad language was bleeped, so my son watched it with me - i havent laughed so hard in a long time