2:06 Fact...that crooked manager Ritchie and his partner took 50 percent commission for everything Eddie did until he fired them years later.. Eddie signed that contract when he was 18

@davidforbesbrown51

11 ай бұрын

Oh man I didn't know that. What a dick.

@lynnhubbard844

4 ай бұрын

@@davidforbesbrown51 just like Elvis' manager, the Colonel

@davidforbesbrown51

4 ай бұрын

@@lynnhubbard844 Wow

Eddie became famous around 18/19 years old. It’s mind blowing to think that he handled as cool as he did, but even more amazing that he was able to keep producing such great work for as long as he has. An incredibly rare talent.

@seanwright3940

Жыл бұрын

Murphy was a great talent & did amazing work for about 10 years, but after about 90 he fell off fast.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

So true. In the cast of SNL he was asked to HOST 'cuz he was so huge already.

I love what a fan of Elvis, Eddie was/is.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

Dave Letterman certainly was no racist, but funny that’s how Eddie razzed him about it. Love Eddie Murphy.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

So true and me too.

Kept asking the man how must shit cost🤷🏾‍♂️

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Yeah Letterman used to do that with a lot of guests.

Any David Letterman fans remember... The monologue when he was talking about Frank Sinatra's alleged mob ties? He said Sinatra was coming out with the line of men's neckwear. So David Letterman suggested the name be "Mob Ties" carefully inserting "alleged" so he wouldn't be sued. The funny part is when a little later in the monologue, David walks up to the camera and pretends to slap us all upside the head, mumbling... "Frankie wants to talk to you" or something like that. What day was that??? I doubt anyone knows, but just in case. I've tried researching it.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

"Any David Letterman fans remember" - NEXT!

@JohnRCWilson

6 күн бұрын

February 7th 1994.

@JonathanSterlingUSA

6 күн бұрын

@@JohnRCWilson S01E105 Show #0105 February 7, 1994 CBS

Great clip! Eddie's the fkn man!!

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he is!

Candy Carell was my dream girl back then. I'd always look for her when they showed backstage.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Lovely blond goil ya got yer.

Two great comics who give and take

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Well said.

His laugh 😂

Murphy doesn’t “accuse Letterman of racism.” He makes a joke about letterman’s questions being racially tinged. It’s a funny joke & like most funny jokes, it contains some truth. But he was having fun with it. Didn’t seem angry or accusatory or anything. He just peeped something about Letterman’s line of questioning and had some fun with it. Calling it an accusation is seeing it through a millennial/Gen-z lens.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

"These are negrofile questions" is an accusation. That's why it bothers Letterman so much. I love both Eddie and Dave. And all my KZread posts are directly taken from my personal 1980's VHS collection and put onto KZread via an old school VCR. I was born in 1964. You?

@seanwright3940

Жыл бұрын

@@davidforbesbrown51 I was born in 71 & am a long-time fan of both men as well. Letterman was all about making his guests uncomfortable. Murphy was quick-witted & funny enough to turn the tables on him. Of course there’s an implication of racial bias in his statement, but I don’t think it rises to the level of an accusation of racism.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

@@seanwright3940 Fair enough. But most people believe this to be a blatant, obvious accusation. Because it clearly is. What matters most is that we were entertained by it. And I 100% agree - Letterman loved to make his guests uncomfortable and Eddie turned the tables on him. So true.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

I also agree that too much snowflakery is bad.

@kathyduby8150

Жыл бұрын

@@davidforbesbrown51 Letterman was bothered that Murphy came out and sat down before "The Star" sat down. Then he whines about Polaroid not paying him. C'mom, man.

I miss "Rock Star" Eddie Murphy! Elvis suits and all!!!

Dave seemed nervous about all those "big black guys" with money in his space.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

The old go-to joke backfired a little this time. But I like both these two.

I watched Letterman for over 30 years. I’ve never seen any hint of Letterman ever being a racist. I could see why Letterman would take offense to it.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Yes the fact he showed how much he cares says it all.

@stockdogg

Жыл бұрын

I agree, but the rest of the interview was horrible. Letterman was obviously flustered.

@toreckman8899

Жыл бұрын

@@stockdoggEddie was that way with Carson too. Eddie be playing race bait with whitey.

@rayhewitt4688

Жыл бұрын

Eddie is being racist

@franks7111

Жыл бұрын

@@stockdogg Or bothered

"Boy do I feel like a White guy.." ^^^ ahead of its time quote. Letterman is KING

9:50 LOL

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

"These are negrophile questions."

I hope the interview got better, I couldn't get through the first segment.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Not a Letterman or a Murphy fan, huh.

Eddie CHECKED Letterman's ass. Shut him DOWN. Well done.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

great television

Eddie is rare talent 👏 ✨ very cool customer 😎

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

At age 18/19 the best cast member on SNL.

@MapleSyrupPoet

Жыл бұрын

@@davidforbesbrown51 yauhhh maunnn

There's a scene in Beverley Hills Cop that I always think of when I see old clips of a very young Eddie Murphy wearing all leather: When Axel Foley is walking down the street after arriving in Beverley Hills and cracks up as two people walk past him wearing really obnoxious all red and black leather outfits. The irony.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Ha!

@secef316

Жыл бұрын

That was clearly an intentional reference. Delirious was still huge when Beverly Hills Cop came out.

@maximusmax4557

Жыл бұрын

@@secef316 I thought it was a "Thriller" reference.

it was annoying to me, maybe its a laughable question once about something but letterman brought up money a lot on 2 shows and seemed to stay on the subject but of course would answer nothing about his own situation. how long had letterman been a big deal at this point, not very long i think so eddie could have asked the same thing. im not a band wagon everyone's oppressed etc person either but when half the show is annoying questions like how big and expensive is your house etc its like fuq lets move on

@davidforbesbrown51

Ай бұрын

Letterman always asked those money questions to the biggest, most successful celebrities. Eddie didn't know that, but he made the interview way more fun because Letterman was so rocked by the accusation.

@CamoShirt

Ай бұрын

@@davidforbesbrown51 letterman should have been less annoying to everyone then. never knew he would be so annoying to ask everyone how much money they have etc but i probably watched a lot more later episodes.

@davidforbesbrown51

Ай бұрын

@@CamoShirt Yeah, I bet Letterman stopped doing that as much due to people on his staff and celebs complaining. He largely stopped doing it pretty early.

What's w/the TimesSquare, sex tour, at the end of the clip.....?!

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

It was next on the Letterman episode, so I figured what the hell.

He dressed like lil Richard lmao

@rustymertz

Жыл бұрын

I see a more 1980’s type of Elvis outfit.

@kevinwalsh4652

Жыл бұрын

I have a rather disturbing Little Richard story: I'd say around spring 1986, Los Angeles pharmacy in a bad part of town, I'm grabbing some Xanax and he's waiting on Vicodin, fresh from some sort of car accident, he asked me a very strange question, extremely uncomfortable. (I'm sure you can guess)

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

He's an Elvis fan.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Holy crap.

Yeah, I remember him making him look out of touch a little bit but Dave was cool AF so it evened out.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

You can see they respect each other.

Eddie's got a point and I can see how a guest if he was white, he wouldn't ask questions like that. It's akin to sexualizing a talented actress and asking her questions about her sex life. It's the lowest common denominator when they're so much more than that and yet reduced to talking about what they do with the money they're accumulating. Dave's not a racist though, just committed a faux pas and I'm sure he learned a lesson. Eddie's smart and Dave should've known that he doesn't suffer foolish questions gladly. If he was interviewing MC Hammer, it would've been a different story and he wouldn't have been called out for it.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

But I think Letterman would ask those same questions---as I saw him do---to anyone (especially young) and successful in the biz. He asked the same questions to Arnold Schwarzenegger, for one example.

@totalbliss1

Жыл бұрын

@@davidforbesbrown51 Well, he should find better questions to ask then. I remember Arnold only getting respect after he became a governor. Before that, he was viewed by some people as some dumb foreign actor with muscles.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

@@totalbliss1 Yes, Letterman stopped asking the "shocking" questions eventually.

9:58 " *This is negro file these questions....do you like cars?.......do you have a big house* ?......" I can understand why Murphy would be peeved and sensitive at these kinds of questions. No guests like to talk about their money or what they're spending it on. Letterman certainly wouldn't have asked Harrison Ford these kinds of questions. Or Julia Roberts. Letterman made a mistake and learned a lesson. I don't believe he's a racist at all.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Young Letterman liked to make his guests uncomfortable. He grew out of that.

Murphy did alot shitty movies too. I still haven't seen "Golden Child." I knew as a kid in 80s it prob sucked.

@cluman1

Жыл бұрын

A lot is two words. Golden Child wasn't very good. If you grew up in the 80s then shame on you for missing this crappy movie.

@jasonpeters9716

Жыл бұрын

@@cluman1 Yeah..lol. Ok. Seriously? "Golden Child?" 😆 🤣.. U act like Murphy didn't make ALOT shit movies as well as a few good1s. Shame on u for missing PCU in 94.

@kevinwalsh4652

Жыл бұрын

Total gross worldwide: $2.7 billion dollars....them crappy movies pay off

@jasonpeters9716

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinwalsh4652 Jesus....your literally defending "Golden Child" 1986? Lol Is this a social media joke? You f'ing write or direct it or something?

@jasonpeters9716

Жыл бұрын

@@kevinwalsh4652 He was hot AF at that time....Every idiot in 1986 went watch it cuz Murphy was in it. But that was beginning of him choosing shitty/cheesy movies. Then by mid90s? Murphy was known for terrible movies. His best movies.. 1. Coming 2 America. 2. Nutty Professor 3. 48 HRs 4. Trading Places 5. Then I guess a cartoon donkey in Shreks He was cool in Tower Heist

It’s BS. Before every celeb’s appearance a producer talks with their manager about what’s going to be discussed, and they figure it out together. There’s almost never any surprise about what’s coming from the host, no matter how much they pretend. Even Letterman. What the guests say and do, otoh, can go off the rails.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Ha there's nothing BS here.

@stockdogg

Жыл бұрын

Letterman was obviously taken back. He seemed nervous and uncomfortable. Probably would have handled it differently later in his career.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

@@stockdogg So true.

I can see both sides of this. To Eddie these questions don't come out right, to Dave, these are relevant questions about Eddie and his current situation. He admittedly was very into cars and he was literally in the process of building a new home

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Yes Dave would have asked these questions to anyone of any color if they got hot so young.

When you’re black EVERYTHING is viewed through the victimhood lens. The joke has gotten so old and people are so bored of the whining.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

The most boring people I find are the pussies with the confederate slave flag. What tools.

abuse of letterman is not cool, they need to go after these false abusers calling them racist is evil

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

I think Dave and Eddie worked things out at the end.

@onlythewise1

Жыл бұрын

@@davidforbesbrown51 it was all show

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Letterman's not a good enough actor to be putting on a show.

Usually it’s projection. Philosophy says to accuse others of what you are actually doing therefore to take the heat off of you

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

the Heat Is On

@whothefuckcaresionly

Жыл бұрын

Oh like democrats

Letterman can be an asshole but racist he isn't. Murphy is someone that can get butt hurt really easy, though.

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

Letterman is definitely not a racist.

1986 geez

@davidforbesbrown51

Жыл бұрын

I was 22 and watched Letterman almost every night and loved SNL.