Name: Eddie Murphy Collection on Letterman, 1984-2011
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Eddie Murphy Collection on Letterman, 1984-2011' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Eddie Murphy Collection on Letterman, 1984-2011' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2019-08-29. Transcript available.

Eddie Murphy Collection on Letterman, 1984-2011

Very nice. Very funny.
Let's get on with it, shall we?
Yeah.
That's just a rumor, you understand.
Yeah. You look good. That's a nice sweater.
Thank you very much. May Company, $39.
Oh, good.
Now, did you really... You were talking about selling things door-to-door.
Did you ever do that?
One time I sold encyclopedias door-to-door.
And the first day on the job, like the third house I knock on,
I find out later this is like the goofy woman of the neighborhood, right?
And I don't know this.
And she opens the door. I don't get to say a word of my pitch.
She just starts yelling,
Get the hell out of here! Get away from here or I'll kill you!
Get away from my door or I'll kill you!
I don't know what I'm going to do with my life!
So I said, well, maybe you could become a receptionist.
Well, it's that time of year.
Are you getting close to making some New Year's resolutions?
Yeah, I've resolved just to buy brand names.
Oh, that's good.
Andy, nice to see you. How are you, sir? Thanks for being here.
Andy, nice to see you. How are you, sir? Thanks for being here.
You're like my HBO special, man?
Is it?
Does this mean I'll have less time?
No, I just run out to, because I heard you do the joke.
I want to mess your mind up.
Goodbye.
Dave, nice to see you.
Thanks to see you.
Take care, Andy.
A lot of money.
I know.
A lot of money.
We'll do a commercial, and then we'll be right back.
Well, that was nice.
Wasn't that nice?
Thank you, Paul.
Thank you very much, folks, and welcome back to our show.
It's a pleasure to welcome my first guest to this program.
Actually, my second guest to this program.
The man with the toys was number one.
This will be number two.
He is currently starring in a film called Beverly Hills Cop.
Please welcome Eddie Murphy.
Eddie, Eddie, Eddie.
Nice to see you, sir.
Thanks for being here.
Thanks for being here.
The folks are very excited about you.
Why?
Well, they heard you were going to be here, and they know you, and they love
you, and they
thought it'd be here.
You came in town to do Saturday Night Live over the weekend?
I live right in New Jersey, sir.
Now, have you lived there all your life?
No, I grew up in Roosevelt, Long Island.
Yeah?
We all didn't grow up in no Roosevelt, Long Island.
And why did you select New Jersey?
Because I wanted to be close to my mother, but I wanted to be far from
Roosevelt.
I got kind of like, it's like, it's not too far away and not too close.
It's perfect.
Now, at some point when you started out doing comedy, your mom was probably
thinking, well,
I, you know, I guess it's better than him being in trouble with the law.
She still says that.
The stuff that I do is controversial, so.
But what does she think of this unbelievable success?
She's happy for me.
Most parents are happy for their children when they're successful.
It's not like, shame on my boy.
He's making, he made something of himself, and I can't live with that.
She's happy for me.
Because I was real bad in school, so if things didn't work out here, I...
How were you bad?
Explain that.
I just didn't go to class, so I used to.
So it would be like, can you pull the car up so we can get all the soap on it?
If I didn't...
You want the hot wax, that kind of thing?
I was real bad in school.
But, you know, Eddie, the kind of success that you've had in a very short
period of time
is the kind of thing that I don't...
I never remember this happening to anybody before.
So I'm just thinking that your mom, I mean, doesn't she have to walk around and
sit down
every few minutes and think, oh, my God, this is just unbelievable?
I guess she does.
Let's get mom out here.
Is mom here?
No, she's home.
And she's up in my house in New Jersey.
You just can't shake, mom.
I left Rosenberg.
No, I asked her to come up to the house and spend some time with me.
She's up at the house in Jersey.
Now that you're going to move to Hollywood and leave mom behind?
No.
My mother's moving to Jersey.
Mm-hmm.
So she can be close to me.
She's moving out to New Jersey, and I'm staying...
We're going to be Jersey people now.
So you...
How was it Saturday night, being back there?
It was scary, because I hadn't done it in so long, and I was a little nervous.
But the show came out okay.
It wasn't...
I mean, you watch the show, and sometimes it's okay.
And last Saturday was okay.
It didn't suck like it does sometimes.
No, because sometimes...
Can you say suck?
Yeah, no, you can say anything you want.
You can say anything you want.
It just cut...
It didn't...
That's what's going to come up.
It was okay.
But now, why were you nervous?
What was the...
Because I hadn't done it in so long, and...
You mean you haven't done working on live TV before in a while?
Yeah, and plus, everybody expected the show to be fantastic when I...
Like, when I hosted, like, oh, we're going to see all those old characters.
And it was just okay.
I was nervous, but it was pretty...
It was a couple of funny things in the show.
Well, I think you're probably being hard on yourself.
I always am.
Yeah.
Are you really?
Yes.
Yeah.
Now, when you go see a film like Beverly Hills Cop, are there things that you
look at in there
that make you kind of...
Now, I don't.
Now, if I go see 48 Hours now, I'll sit there, and I'll go, ooh, how can I...
Because there you see growth now.
When I go see Beverly Hills Cop, it looks fine to me.
But three years from now, I'll probably go and see that and say, how can I do
it?
Yeah.
I'm nervous now.
You know what?
Two years ago, when this...
How long have you been on?
Three years?
Two, three years?
This is, like, to me, like the hippest show on television.
Right?
It is.
It is.
And the reason I never came on was because, you know those Hollywood rumors?
I had a rumor that they said, you know, David Letterman doesn't like you.
And I was crushed.
I was like, David Letterman?
That's why I never came on the show before, because I thought you didn't...
Do you like me?
Well, yeah.
Well, you know, the deal of it was you became such an unbelievable star in such
a short period
of time that there is a group of people that you would love to have on the show,
but
you know there's no way in hell to show up.
And you were in that group.
No, we just figured, yeah, well, save your time.
Don't waste a phone call.
We and David stroking each other.
Well, your show is so wonderful.
Anyway, we have a little gift for you.
We'd like you to take this blimp back to New Jersey.
What is this?
This is a remote-controlled blimp that the guy from Hemmacher Schlemmer won't
turn loose
of.
Here, you want to...
Why don't you send that out into the audience?
I'll untether it here.
Oh!
Now, this one, this is up and down.
There you go.
What's down?
What's down?
This is down.
You push it up and it comes down.
Whose is this?
The man from Hemmacher Schlemmer.
It's about $500.
Really?
Yeah.
Is this one for sale?
This one, I think, yeah, this probably is for sale.
I'm sure you get a sizable discount for this one.
Because, well, because it's you.
Yeah.
All right, you figure that out.
We'll do a commercial, and then we'll come back more with Eddie Murphy.
Eddie Murphy is here.
Eddie Murphy is here.
Tell me about your, we got the blimp stuck, by the way.
Yeah, I see.
Tell me about your music career.
You've done one album, right?
I did two albums, but they were comedy, and I'm working on a music album now.
You know, what happens is, after a while, you start, I guess your ego goes nuts,
and you
say, like, I can do anything, and you go, like, I'm in the studio now,
recording a music album,
and you have people that work for you, and they're on the payroll, so they
start saying,
you can do anything.
So, now, so I'm in the studio recording an album, and I don't even know how
great it
is, because, like, I'm in there saying, I'm like, ah, how it sounds.
Listen, who it sounds wonderful as?
You're a genius.
Is my check ready?
I don't know how the album sounds.
The way I figured is that if it doesn't sound good, the most I'll do is get
another five minutes
in my stand-up routine, because I can talk about the album next year.
Good experience.
Now, but is this the one that you worked on with Rick James, or is that a...
We just did one song with Rick called Party All the Time, and what happened was
I was just
going to do a 45, and Party All the Time came out real good.
That's because I was working with Rick, and it came out real nice, and I tinker
around.
I got a music room in my house with a little four-track recorder, and I made
little demos
and stuff, and it sounded okay, so we got this stuff together, and we decided
to just do
a whole album and just try it.
Yeah, give it a shot.
Well, I'm sure it's going to do very well.
Well, we hope so.
What kind of music is it?
It's R&B, a little pop, a little...
It's dance music and easy listening kind of stuff.
Y'all are going to freak when you're here, because it doesn't sound like me.
And I tell you, it'd either be very good, or because it'd be very funny.
So, and because I'm a comic, I don't mind it coming out funny.
I can't lose.
And are you working on another film now, or are you not filming for a while?
No, I was going to do, we were supposed to do a concert movie, and we don't
know what
we're going to do now.
We're just like up in the air, so...
How do you go about picking your films?
Because of the three that you've been one of the principals in, they've all
done unbelievably
well.
I mean, at least it looks like Beverly Hills Cop is doing record-breaking
business already.
It's only been out a week or so, right?
But how do you pick these out?
How do you know that this is going to be okay?
I trust my feelings.
The only movie I've had a bad feeling about when picking up the script was Best
Defense.
Before I even opened it up, it was like...
And I opened the script up and read it, and I felt bad, but...
They had a check that I had never seen before.
And my morals and principles went right out the window.
Yeah.
And my career almost went out with it, too, but...
That was a small part.
You were just barely in the film, right?
But they told me, they told me, I was like, look, Eddie, we're not going to
advertise much
with you.
It's a Dudley Moore film.
Next thing I know, Eddie Murphy!
Best Defense!
And I'm standing there like this.
So that's what happened.
Tell us how big the check was.
It was more money than I had been paid to do 48 hours in trading places
combined to do
Best Defense.
Oh, my.
That's how much money it was.
So that's how I was...
I freaked, man.
Now, how about Beverly Hills Cop?
Because this was this...
You weren't originally considered for this thing, were you?
It was somebody else's...
It was Sylvester Stallone.
Yeah.
So how do you get into that?
And to me, like, this is going to happen.
Like, this is going to happen.
Somebody says, well, you know, Sylvester Stallone was going to do it, but now
you can
do it.
I think to myself, oh, jeez, what do I want to do with Sylvester Stallone film?
They had...
Originally, the script for Beverly Hills...
Well, I wasn't the first choice for 48 hours.
Yeah, I was like choice number five.
And at 48 hours, they were like, first they wanted, I think, Howard Rollins,
then they
wanted Gregory Hines.
And I mean, I was like after Jimmy Walker on the list.
Let's get Eddie Murphy.
That's what happened.
And with Beverly Hills Cop, it was action comedy at first.
Right.
And Stallone got it and Stallone rewrote it and it became more action.
And the producers wanted to do an action comedy.
And Stallone was like, well, I don't want to do the film then.
And they had already set up pre-production and everything.
So it was like, well, Eddie Murphy's pretty much a shell now because Best
Defense just came
out and he's just wandering around.
Because I was like happy to get the part.
Yeah.
So you mean you really, you were affected by the role in Best Defense?
You weren't...
I was affected emotionally.
I was upset.
Yeah.
I felt like...
Well, you learned something there.
Yeah.
Next time you see a check, don't ju