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12728181, RE: Sounds like a diva to me.
Posted by murph71, Mon Feb-16-15 12:44 PM

Yeah...let's take it down a bit, homie....

Eddie coming back was big with in itself....Read up on the history...

In the '90s u didn't see any hit jobs or jokes about SNL alumni on that level...But Eddie was a target...

So imagine....U were the one person (Eddie Murphy) that literally saved SNL. If not for u SNL would have ended by 1980....Throw in race (Eddie being one of the handful of black talents to be involved in a show that has historically been tilted to the VERY white-Second City-Yale-Harvard clique) and the fact that Eddie became the the biggest star from SNL?...That's some real explosive shit...

Murphy felt like SNL owed him more. A lot more. U rarely saw SNL giving shade to the movie bombs that were being made by SNL stars....And if they did it was really playful...Not mean spirited like Spade...

But Eddie was an easy target to a generation that had no idea that he saved that show.....Yeah...he had a reason to be crossed.....