00:00Eddie Murphy shades Saturday Night Live in new Netflix documentary as he reveals why he boycotted the show for years, Dirty Mother.
00:10Eddie Murphy is opening up about his long-standing beef with Saturday Night Live, the show that made him a star in his new Netflix documentary, Being Eddie.
00:19In The Doc, which premiered on the streamer on Wednesday, November 12th,
00:23the comedian details his ire when David Spade made a joke at his expense during a 1995 episode of the show.
00:30The joke suggested that Murphy's movie career was floundering as his film Vampire in Brooklyn had bombed at the box office.
00:38I just had Vampire in Brooklyn come out, Murphy explains in The Doc, before pointing out that the audience booed in response to Spade's joke.
00:46I was like, hurt. My feelings was hurt, he says.
00:49It was like, yo, I'm from the same, it's like your alma mater taking a shot at you, at my career, he says, adding, not how funny I was, calling me a falling star.
01:00If there was a joke like that right now, and it was about some other SNL cast member, and it was about how F up their career was, it would get shot down.
01:09Speaking on the New York Times' podcast last year, he shared that the cheap shot felt racist.
01:14Murphy clarifies in The Doc that he wasn't angry at Spade, exactly, but that the joke had to be approved by so many people before airing.
01:22The joke had went through all of those channels that the joke has to go through, and then he was on the air saying, catch a falling star.
01:28So I wasn't like, pfft, David Spade.
01:31I was like, oh, F-SNL, F-y'all.
01:35How y'all gonna do this S?
01:36That's what y'all think of me?
01:38Oh, you dirty mother F.
01:39I was like that, and that's why I didn't go back for years.
01:42The Beverly Hills Cop star goes on to say he's moved past his grudge, as The Doc highlights his return to the iconic sketch comedy series to host its 2019 Christmas episode.
01:54I was like, you know what?
01:56F this.
01:57SNL is part of my history.
01:59He says, I need to reconnect with that show because that's where I come from.
02:03That little friction that I had with SNL was 35 years ago.
02:06He says, I don't have no smoke with no David Spade.
02:09I don't have any heat or none of that with nobody.
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