NEW STRIP :: "Everything's Better As Comics: Eddie Murphy"
Now up in the STRIP section is a new installment of my exceptionally unfunny series "Everything's Better As Comics." This time I laser in on the 1983 concert film "Delirious," by Eddie Murphy. It may just be nostalgia, but this movie is still monstrously impressive--Eddie was at the top of his game back then, with delivery and timing that just could not be improved on. What happened?
When I was in high school I had an audio tape of the concert, which I listened to constantly and can still recite from verbatim. I would listen to it on headphones and just cry laughing--I thought of stand-up comedy as a real art-form, largely because of Eddie Murphy. Today--well, not so much.
Although: maybe it was just the time, but "Delirious" is CHOCK full of all sorts of homophobic slurs, which kind of messes up the rhythm now. When you're in high school the idea of Mr. T telling someone to--well, it involves his butt--is pretty funny, but now... I don't know. And in the light of Murphy's transvestite-prostitute troubles a few years ago, it's even more suspicious.
And by "suspicious" I mean HILARIOUS. Enjoy the strip.
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