Eddie Murphy looks back on 50 years as King of Comedy in new documentary
Comedy legend Eddie Murphy was on the red carpet on Wednesday for the premier of a new documentary “Being Eddie Murphy.”
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00:00Comedy legend Eddie Murphy was on the red carpet on Wednesday for the premiere of a new documentary, Being Eddie.
00:07He started his career as a teenager, skipping school to perform stand-up before finding fame.
00:14He isn't sure that that could happen now.
00:16The business has changed so much. When I got started, I was 19 when I blew up.
00:23Yeah, I'm 64 now. I can't imagine it happening the same way it happened.
00:30I'm sure there'll be other people that'll come along and it'll be amazing, but I can't see it happening the same way.
00:37It's just a whole different business now. It's just a whole, just really different.
00:43I've done so many different types of things.
00:48Good morning, my neighbor!
00:50Eddie Murphy!
00:52He had that appointment with Destiny.
00:56I don't know how they would do it now, because I don't have any of this stuff.
00:59I don't have a... I'm not on social media.
01:02I don't own a... I don't have a computer and no one is following me.
01:07I don't have any of that stuff.
01:10God damn, this your place?
01:12I started so young.
01:13Eddie was right out of high school.
01:14And for many comics working today, Murphy is still the blueprint.
01:20His whole career, every comic you see out here is patterning a career after him, wanting to do it, wanting to be at that level, that height, reach those ceilings.
01:32And no one has, you know, man.
01:35And we're all still chasing that, and it's still a dream that we all have, you know, but his whole being, everything is what we chase and strive to have.
01:46But it was more of the love, like, that was really cool, just to see him and just to say, hey, what's up?
01:52You know what I mean?
01:53Even his brother, rest in peace, to meet him too, as well.
01:56That was just amazing for me.
01:57You know, I mean, when you talk about Keenan and I, when we were coming up, to meet all these amazing comedians, and that was just embracing us as young brothers in the business doing it, that was just great.
02:06Being Eddie is now available for streaming on Netflix.
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