{"id":389621,"date":"2025-11-19T09:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389621\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T09:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T09:32:12","slug":"eddie-murphy-explains-his-side-of-infamous-beef-with-snl-that-stemmed-from-a-single-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389621\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy Explains His Side Of Infamous Beef With &#8216;SNL&#8217; That Stemmed From A Single Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t the nastiest joke, but Eddie sure didn&#8217;t like it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>November 18, 2025 8:32 PM EST\u2022<strong>Updated<\/strong>November 18, 2025 8:32 PM EST<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"fb\">Facebook<\/li>\n<li class=\"tw\">Twitter<\/li>\n<li class=\"email\">Email<\/li>\n<li class=\"link\">Copy Link<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The new Netflix documentary about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/eddie-murphy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eddie Murphy<\/a> \u2014 titled Being Eddie \u2014 and we&#8217;re learning a lot about the comedy great from it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">And, believe it or not, we&#8217;re learning more than just the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/eddie-murphy-claims-yul-brynner-made-sexual-proposition-his-21st-birthday-party-studio-54\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hollywood legend Yul Brynner propositioned him at Studio 54<\/a> while he was celebrating his 21st birthday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In the documentary, Murphy sheds some light on his decades-long feud with Saturday Night Live, a show that he pretty much saved from cancellation in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The feud famously centered on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/hdRfl0W6qbM?si=2-p-0zTwgzHQeDMf&amp;t=167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a single joke David Spade told on the show back in 1995<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;Look, children, a falling star,&#8221; Spade said as a picture of Murphy appeared on screen. &#8220;Make a wish!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">That joke came during a lull in Murphy&#8217;s film career, and he sure didn&#8217;t appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">In fact, he later called it &#8220;racist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I can&#8217;t for the life of me figure out how, but okay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Anyway, still not fun to be on the receiving end of it, with Murphy saying in the film that it was like &#8220;your alma mater taking a shot at you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/eddie.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">In the new documentary, Being Eddie, Eddie Murphy explains his side of the infamous, decades-long beef between himself and Saturday Night Live. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;If there was a joke like that right now, and it was about some other SNL cast member, and it was about how f&#8211;ked up their career was, it would be shot down. The producers would look at it [and say] \u2018You\u2019re not saying that joke.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">That&#8217;s a fair point, but give it enough time, and someone will do the exact same joke about Pete Davidson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Murphy said he didn&#8217;t hold a grudge against Spade because he knew that joke had to get through a lot of people before it hit the airwaves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">&#8220;\u2018F&#8211;k SNL, f&#8211;k y\u2019all. How y\u2019all gonna do this s&#8211;t? That\u2019s what y\u2019all think of me?&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;And that\u2019s why I didn\u2019t go back for years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Of course, things eventually mellowed, and Murphy made his first appearance on the show in 35 years when he hosted it in late 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t the nastiest joke, but Eddie sure didn&#8217;t like it&#8230; PublishedNovember 18, 2025 8:32 PM EST\u2022UpdatedNovember 18,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-389621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115575675365682390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389621","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=389621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}