{"id":373988,"date":"2025-11-12T17:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373988\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:07:13","slug":"eddie-murphy-revisits-david-spades-infamous-diss-that-sparked-snl-feud-in-being-eddie-f-k-yall-thats-what-yal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/373988\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy Revisits David Spade\u2019s Infamous Diss That Sparked \u2018SNL\u2019 Feud in \u2018Being Eddie\u2019: \u201cF\u2013k Y\u2019all, That\u2019s What Y\u2019all Think of Me?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the Being Eddie<\/a> documentary on Netflix, Eddie Murphy is totally over that time David Spade insulted him on Saturday Night Live<\/a>. Mostly. <\/p>\n

Directed by Angus Wall, Being Eddie\u2014which began streaming on Netflix today\u2014is, for the most part, your now-typical, uncritical documentary that presents a one-side tale of celebrated stardom. One of the few moments of \u201ccontroversy\u201d covered by the film is a rehash of that time Murphy got offended by an SNL joke.<\/p>\n

As informed SNL fans know, Murphy\u2014who was hired as a cast member in 1980, where he quickly rose to fame\u2014held a grudge against his former employer for over 30 years, after Spade made a crack at the expense of Murphy\u2019s career back in 1995, a decade after Murphy had left the sketch show. <\/p>\n

Spade was well-known for roasting celebrities on his news desk segment \u201cHollywood Minute.\u201d<\/a> When Murphy\u2019s 1995 horror comedy Vampires in Brooklyn bombed at the box office and with critics, Spade joked, \u201c\u201dLook children, it\u2019s a falling star. Make a wish.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The joke was met with shocked \u201cOoo\u2019s\u201d from the audience, something Murphy was quick to point out in this new 2025 documentary. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe audience there boo and hissed him for saying it, right? I was hurt, my feelings was hurt,\u201d Murphy said in the documentary. \u201cI was like, \u2018Yo I\u2019m from the same-\u2018 It\u2019s like your alma mater taking a shot at you\u2014at my career, not how how funny I was. Called me a \u2018falling star.\u2019 If there was a joke like that right now, and it was about some other SNL cast member, and it was about how fucked up their career was, it would get shot down. The producers would look at it and say, \u2018You\u2019re not saying that joke.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Murphy continued, \u201cThe joke went through all of those channels that the joke has to go through, and then he was on the air saying \u2018Catch a falling star.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t like, \u2018Fuck David Spade\u2019 I was like,\u2018Oh, fuck SNL. Fuck y\u2019all, how y\u2019all gonna do this shit? That\u2019s what y\u2019all think of me? You dirty mother-\u2018 That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t go back for years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Murphy\u2019s claims that he wasn\u2019t mad at Spade personally, Spade revealed in his 2015 memoir that Murphy<\/a> called him on the phone two days after the joke, and let him have it. <\/p>\n

Spade recounted the phone call in his book, writing, \u201c\u2018David Spade, who the fuck do you think you are?!! Honestly? Who. The. Fuck. Going after ME?? You dumb motherfucker! I\u2019m off-limits, don\u2019t you know that? You wouldn\u2019t have a job if it weren\u2019t for me. Talking shit about me??\u2019 Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera . . . on and on and on and making me feel like shit.\u201d Spade was told by mutual friends that Murphy hated him for years after.<\/p>\n

Spade went on to say that while Murphy\u2019s reaction crushed him, he came to see Murphy\u2019s point of view eventually, and finally had a run-in with Murphy in 2011, where the two comedians reconciled.<\/p>\n

\"SATURDAY Photo: NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Murphy finally decided to bury the hatchet with SNL\u2014kind of\u2014and return to the show as a host in 2019.<\/p>\n

In the documentary, Murphy explains his decision. \u201cI was like, \u2018You know what? Fuck this. SNL is part of my history. I need to reconnect with that show, because that\u2019s where I come from.\u2019 That little friction that I had with SNL was 35 years ago. I don\u2019t have no smoke with no David Spade. I don\u2019t have any heat, or any of that, with nobody. I was like, \u2018Hey let me go to and smooth that all out.\u2019 And I did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Being Eddie documentary on Netflix, Eddie Murphy is totally over that time David Spade insulted…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":373989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,24794,434,12137,171,16767,1747,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-373988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-david-spade","10":"tag-documentaries","11":"tag-eddie-murphy","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-lorne-michaels","14":"tag-saturday-night-live","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115537828000976720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}