Eddie Murphy to return to 'Saturday Night Live' after 30 years
VIDEO - Eddie Murphy reveals that he's returning to NBC's 'Saturday Night Live' after more than 30 years...
After a more than 30 year hiatus from the show that launched his career, Eddie Murphy is making his long-awaited return to Saturday Night Live.
Murphy was officially an SNL cast member from 1980-1984.
“It just never worked out where the timing was right for me to do it,” Murphy, 53, said during an interview with Roland Martin on News One Now.
“They’re having a 40th anniversary. I’m going to that. And that will be the first time I’ve been back since I left.”
Murphy didn’t appear on SNL for more than 30 years because he says the show was shi**y to him after he left.
“They were shi**y to me on Saturday Night Live a couple of times after I’d left the show. They said some shi**y things,” Murphy said in an interview with Rolling Stone in 2011. “There was that David Spade sketch. I made a stink about it, it became part of the folklore. What really irritated me about it at the time was that it was a career shot. It was like, ‘Hey, come on, man, it’s one thing for you guys to do a joke about some movie of mine, but my career? I’m one of you guys. How many people have come off this show whose careers really are f***ed up, and you guys are s****ing on me?’ And you know every joke has to go through all the producers, and ultimately, you know Lorne or whoever says, [Lorne Michaels voice] ‘OK, it’s OK to make this career crack.'”
Murphy will appear on SNL‘s 40th anniversary show special on February 15. The last time he appeared on SNL was in 1984, to promote his hit film, Beverly Hills Cop.
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