Eddie Murphy Collection on Letterman, 1984-2011

children make me laugh a lot. Yes, good deal. Eddie Murphy is here, we'll be right back, everyone, Eddie Murphy, later, villain, like you've been in this for a long time, when you met a lot of people, you met everyone, but do you like hanging out with showbiz people? what do you like? people you know someone you really like the last testament last week Sly Stone of the Salina Stone family was that my house was two times less really Sly Stone and George Clinton were not my house it was surreal what had you known him before ? I never met them.

I know a singer named Val Young who sings with uh with sly and she introduced me to sly and I loved meeting people like you, that's how to make music, they're still making music and stuff on Saturday. Night Live I used to meet really cool people that you would never meet. I know people I hang out with like Johnny Cash, that's pajamas later, you'll be back after the party tonight. Eddie June and I sure do. I actually love you there's a lot of cool old people in the old days I knew Jerry Lewis I really knew Yul Brynner if he had been at Studio 54 when I was 19 you owe it to Brenner from studio 54 yeah and he was to have a party then it was Eddie, would you like to come to my house to party and did you go to the party?

No, I did it right, he was like six, he was like nineteen, like an old man's party, yeah, and you're fine, you just turned 63 and you're about to turn 50 I just turned 49 I'll be 50 next year Oh so you've got a ways to go yeah, it's getting closer, yeah, but you know you still look like a kid to me, is that right? your life changed because of your age or not, oh it's changed drastically, really, yeah, a lot of things. different, especially like being single at this age now because it was nice to go out in the old days, you know, it's the cool guy at the club with my glasses on in the corner and you can't do that when you do 49 you put your glasses on a corny creepy LaPenta has changed a lot, but that's what I'm going for, you know, I'm going for free, I'm going for it, that's what that I'm seeing, but the kids, uh, I mean, not really. go clubbing and sit I haven't been clubbing for quite some time, but every once in a while, you know, a big group of people go out to the club, you go out to the club together, yeah, the last time I went to the club was some time ago. girl got girl called me sir.

Murphy, trying to get past her, said, "Excuse me, sir." Murphy, it's time to go home, I mean, it's good that you've reached that position of respect, on the other hand, it's time to go home, this Shrek movie, now this is a license to print money, isn't it? So? Shrek has been very successful all over the world and everyone loved it and you are the voice of donkey donkey donkey in the movie, what can you tell us about your character? He's an idiot, oh I see, let's watch a clip here. The film opens on May 21. This will be the first of the big summer blockbusters.

I guess we need some explanation for the clip. Eddie. I think the ducklings will see some waffles and in the woods that's suspicious and Shrek is there. trying to make the one who eats the waffles the donkey can resist ok suspicious suspicious the offices what suspicious waffles very good very good Shrek Forever After opens on May 21 Eddie Murphy let his gentlemen have the great pleasure of having them here come back again we will be back with kaley cuoco, everyone magazine is an academy award nominated actor, a very funny man and he's in a new movie titled tower heist, it comes out on november 4th, ladies, gentlemen, here's

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I took it out of the program. something here this is from 1983 oh no I'm not okay now we're getting somewhere yeah I remember that guy yeah I remember how many of those leather suits you have. I had a lot of them, different types, but not anymore. Are they now? Some of them are in storage and that one has been vandalized. Keenen Ivory Wayans destroyed him one night for a dare. We went to the club. I dared you not to dare them to wear it out in the club. I broke it in the club when a deity, is that you were doing a stand-up special for HBO?

Haven't done stand-up in a while? I've known this since I was 27 years old. right, will you do it again? Yeah, maybe one day you won't do stand-up anymore. I never really did it well. I tried, but I think it's a lot of work, a lot of work for parents, that's why I haven't gone back. And I've still done it because I can go to the club and hang out at the club to see the trick. You did it right and it's not easy for some people. I think it's pretty easy for me. It was never easy.

Was it easy for you? accumulating material, yeah, and you know, the same things happen that would end up on stage, it still happens. Still, you know, have an idea, but don't go to the club and try it, okay, don't say funny. things at home checks are smaller when you say it at home when you go out on the road a little bit yeah, I don't know if you told this story once when you were on the old NBC show, it's a tremendous story, so your first season is Saturday Night Live and I guess on the way home or during that period of time you saw something on a car that you liked in a parking lot or something, no, no, I stole some hubcaps, yeah, that's it, yeah. but it's not like I what happened was that one day I had to take the train to the city in my first year on SNL.

I took the Long Island Rail Road into the city when that couldn't be done and I parked in Freeport and I had a car with nice hubcaps when I came back one night and my hubcaps were breaking, you know, and I took someone else's, but I was already in TV, that was still busted, your hubcaps had been stolen, yeah, of course, well, now I'd only been on TV for a few months so technically I still had, you know, one foot in the world where you'd steal hell, yeah, Now tell us about your role in that world, what else did you do when you were intending to steal hubcaps, what else did I do?

Look, yeah, yeah, before you're a TV star, that's what I, you know, what else would I steal some sunglasses, you know, those glasses, when you go to the store for that round thing, you could sterilize , you'd have all those horrible cheap crystals, yes I would. steal them for years, for years, for years, I would steal them, no one is looking at that display, you could take that many I think, turns out they were free, thanks for buying, I have some sunglasses, but you couldn't do that kind of thing today. I mean security is completely different and with some sunglasses you wouldn't take any chances and then at some point you gave up a life of crime, obviously I stopped stealing the glasses and hubcaps and I'm on the right track. since then, yes, but who was in the original cast with you at the time you were stealing things from me?

Joe Piscopo right, Gilbert Godfrey and Risley Gail Mathias Charlie Rock on the late Charlie Rock Denny Dillon and I think that's it, did you keep in touch? with any of these fields through roads with them every once in a while you'll see that someone had a little fun and you'll see that you really hang out with it, yeah, there's a scene in this movie that reminds us of us stealing sunglasses. You're at the point where you tell the guys that if you're really into this you have to show me oh yeah yeah yeah so you said I'd send them on a little crime and crime trial.

Can they know how you worked with Ben? Stiller never before, but he wanted to. I'm a fan of the physicality, it's a lot of fun, yes, and also in Broderick Crawford. I know that's not his name. Matthew Broderick. You know, it's just me. I don't know. Now everything is gone. Story by Leone and Alan Alda. Leone is great Michael Pina Casey Affleck, you know, this was filmed at the Trump International Hotel over there, where it's sort of okay, I know it's not at the Trump International, this right here, the International Hotel, right? Shoot it in that hotel, yeah, I don't think we'll shoot it in your hotel.

Were we at Trump's hotel? I just knew we were in a big building. I don't know what building we were in. I was told that Donald Trump whether it was his building or not, he was always hanging around. I guess it doesn't have to be his building for him to be hanging around. It's always welcome, but you don't remember it's over. Would it kill you to play along and do something? The catering truck would never arrive. We'll be right back with Eddie Murphy. You all will be hosting the Academy Awards. I am the host. How did that come about?

I have not done it. I want to do some things I haven't done. you know, try something to have it, it's not as good as it seems, it will be seen, no, I'm not afraid and I'm looking forward to it, oh well, that's the approach you should expect. Yes, do you have anything planned? No, no, no, sing and dance, oh no, you couldn't sing, you know, but I'm not going to make it easy. That was the only thing when they first talked about it that first came up. my mouth is I'm not going to do it credit dance number we're at the Oscars you were tremendous in that there's a Dream Girlz movie just tremendous there thank you thank you you should do that I should go out make a big dream that go out and just kill them, just leave them, dad , come out, yeah, do a split just like that yeah, I'm so excited, these are your movies that have made seven billion dollars.

Wait, wow, man, let's go back to 48 hours in 1982, how old were you? in 1982 21 what 21 years and you're in this movie with Nick Nolte and it's a huge movie in a huge movie 1983 Trading Places someone told me that then you put John Landis, the director, in a headlock, it's true, it you strangled oh We had a little fight on the set of coming to the United States, but that was years ago and now we love each other very much. How long was he gone? I don't know if he ever completely lost consciousness. It's that light. I only want. to make him feel completely, okay, Oh Harlem Nights, oh man, Harlem Nights, Richard Pryor, Redd Foxx, wow man, did you and Richard become friends, close friends or guys, did you just know each other?

They could really see who he was. he's like my idol, so it's like it's always been like yeah, this about Richard, yeah, and he's what we were older than me, so it was always that relationship where he would be there and not like me when you were a child he was the guy, although he was absolutely a stand-up, but there were so many people that I liked growing up with and a stand-up. He's the one who remembers an album that came out so crazy that it was when I heard Stand Up for the first time and I was like, wow!

I want, I want to do what this guy was doing when I first heard that album, what about Redd Foxx? What was your relationship with him like? Oh, I just thought it was really funny and I was a fan and a Sanford on the sideshow that it was. like an old uncle, he'd be sitting in the room telling you old stories, sitting in the room, funny Redd Foxx, yeah, he was, he was. I didn't know him well, but other than what he did on stage, he was just funny, yeah. funny human being naturally funny one of those guys 1990 another 48 hours nick nolte singleton jr. no, everyone can see Julia Oh, man, 1992 boomerang, Halle Berry, come on and Chris Rock, Beverly Hills Cop 3, that's what happened, it wasn't a very good account of Beverly Hills.

I think it was the one where John Landis got dizzy smelling reconciliation in that movie. It was after that movie, after we arrived in the United States, then we made up on the set of Beverly Hills Cops, a nutty professor. Oh, you know, you know what I've come to love and I hope I express this correctly. My son started watching the Shrek movies. and thank you, thank you very much and I'll be honest with you, I thought I was right, but I started watching it and the donkey is tremendous, he loves it, I love it, we've seen all of them, I don't know nine of them, ramen either. been donkey is our favorite oh thanks mine too you will do more of those it didn't happen well actually I don't know if I will do another animation but I won't do any more Shrek movies, they have stopped Shrek The franchise has stopped, oh come on you have so many trips that ...look now like you get four or five strikes and you have enough Shrek to last longer, yeah, and in many countries there are no sharks here. in this country we are lucky that we have abundance exactly now this movie what a tremendous idea for a movie and what a great cast absolutely and the movies are entertaining and then you get in and it really becomes entertaining so let's take a look at a clip here it's called Tower Heist what are we going to see what are we going to see I don't know oh for the love of God I have to try my best to see a clip let's see a clip from the movie where we are terribly funny in the clip Eddie, you don't even try, If you keep this up you'll end up stealing hubcaps, okay Tower Heist, let them take a look at you.