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The earlier linked Spin interview with Spike Lee is a must-read. Even so, especially in Delirious , Murphy is wholly magnetic. Already a subscriber? Log in or link your magazine subscription. Account Profile. Sign Out. Photo: HBO. Tags: nostalgia fact-check movies eddie murphy. Most Viewed Stories. Robert Townsend. Eddie Murphy stand-up material opening sketch Keenen Ivory Wayans opening sketch. More like this.

Watch options. Storyline Edit. He mainly focuses on the topics of divorce and relations between the sexes, but also goes into some of the problems he's encountered because of fame, including offended listeners and fans who continually greet him with his unprintable catch phrases. You may be offended if you're black, white, male, female, rich or poor, Bill Cosby, Mr. T or Richard Pryor. Did you know Edit. Goofs When Murphy does his bit about Johnny Carson's divorce settlement with third wife Joanna Holland, he states that they were married for ten years.

It was actually thirteen. All cuts were waived in when the film was granted a '18' certificate for home video. Connections Edited into Comic Relief Zero User reviews 61 Review. Top review. If you have a heart condition, watching this may kill you. I'm not kidding, my stomach is sore from all the laughing. After a brief sketch that serves as a lead-in and to some extent, a setup, this is 77 minutes of pure and gradually increasing hilarity and there is actually insight to a ton of what he says.

This and Hot Fuzz which had the greater effect on me, but you really can't compare these are the only two things where I've ever felt like I might croak, that my year old and trim as of writing this, mind you body might be overwhelmed from my enjoying the crap out of what I was seeing and hearing. I love Murphy when he is allowed to do what he does best, and not asked to do it in an irritating manner.

The man has a machine-gun for a mouth in the sense that it can fire off absolutely lethal verbal projectiles at such a speed that counting them soon becomes an exercise in pointless behaviour and he can behave arrogantly as well as self-deprecating if the scales aren't necessarily equal.

This is a performance by Eddie, and like other stand-uppers, he ties it together and repeats certain punchlines. The whole thing keeps to an astounding pace with very few exceptions , and flies by. Looking for more? Sign up for our daily Hollywood newsletter and never miss a story. By Richard Lawson. By Yohana Desta.

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