Eddie Murphy

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q43874: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, which ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Saturday Night Live (1975); 48 Hrs. (1982); Trading Places (1983); Beverly Hills Cop (1984); The Golden Child (1986); Beverly Hills Cop II (1987); Raw (1987); Coming to America (1988); Boomerang (1992); The Nutty Professor (1996); Mulan (1998); Bowfinger (1999); Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000); Dreamgirls (2006); Norbit (2007); Dolemite Is My Name (2019); Dolomite Is My Name (2019).

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

1970s cop movies: 1 line

  1. lineage (tone lineage) · through Beverly Hills Cop (1984), which they acted in: 1970s cop movies ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read). The first film feels like an extension of 70s cop movies, especially the Detroit material, while the sequel feels glossy and 80s.
    “There's a world in which that almost feels like an extension of like 70s cop movies.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:07:52 · Chris Ryan (0.70 sure it was them)

Dolomite (1975): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Dolomite Is My Name (2019), which they acted in: Dolomite (1975) ⇒ Dolomite Is My Name (the maker said so: the writers' own account on the show). Rudy's original Dolomite, Human Tornado and Disco Godfather trailers are where they first saw him.
    “the 3 Rudy Raymore trailers, Dolomite, the Human Tornado, and Disco God”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:30:01 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

Ed Wood (1994): 1 line

  1. people (people) · through Dolomite Is My Name (2019), which they acted in: Ed Wood ⇒ Dolomite Is My Name (the host's read). Eddie Murphy first met them reciting lines from Ed Wood, which led to the Rudy Ray Moore project.
    “Eddie started doing, um, uh, lines from Ed Wood.”
    The Big Picture · The 10 Best Horror Movies of the Decade | The Big Picture · 1:32:59 · unknown (Alexander or Karaszewski) (0.40 sure it was them)

In the Heat of the Night (1967): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Beverly Hills Cop (1984), which they acted in: In the Heat of the Night ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read). Described as In the Heat of the Night meets Beverly Hills; both are fish-out-of-water movies.
    “said that the Beverly Hills Cop is essentially in the heat of the night meets Beverly Hills.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:27:42 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Michael Eisner: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Beverly Hills Cop (1984), which they acted in: Michael Eisner ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the maker said so: a podcast the speaker did with Eisner). Eisner claims he came up with the idea after a speeding ticket in 1975; Simpson claimed it from 1977.
    “in 1975, he got a speeding ticket with a cop, thought the guy was a little bit of a dick”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:06:23 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

The French Connection (1971): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Beverly Hills Cop (1984), which they acted in: The French Connection ⇒ Beverly Hills Cop (the host's read). Recast Popeye Doyle as Axel Foley and the movie barely changes; the apartments are essentially the same.
    “Like you take the French connection and you recast Dean Hackman's, you make Popeye Doyle, Axel Foley.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:34 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986): 1 line

  1. craft (comedic device) · through 48 Hrs. (1982), which they acted in: 48 Hrs. ⇒ Ferris Bueller's Day Off (the host's read). Ferris's impersonation bit is the suburban white guy riff on Eddie Murphy in 48 Hrs.
    “it's the suburban white guy riff on, on, uh, Eddie Murphy in torchies in 48 hours, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:37:28 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)

Mike Myers: 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through The Nutty Professor (1996), which they acted in: The Nutty Professor ⇒ Mike Myers (the host's read). Playing multiple roles was a 90s trend after Eddie Murphy's Nutty Professor.
    “Nutty Professor, I think is 96.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:08:24 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Mulan (2020): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Mulan (1998), which they acted in: Mulan ⇒ Mulan (the host's read). Sean says the remake is what happens when filmmakers do not know what is good about the original.
    “I think Mulan is kind of what happens when you don't really know what's good about your movie.”
    The Big Picture · Did Disney’s ‘Mulan’ Experiment Work? A Binge Mode Investigation · 0:26:03 · Sean Fennessey (0.85 sure it was them)

Shawn Ryan: 1 line

  1. programming (programming) · through Beverly Hills Cop (1984), which they acted in: Beverly Hills Cop ⇒ Shawn Ryan (the host's read). Shawn Ryan tried a Beverly Hills Cop TV show; CBS made a pilot that didn't work.
    “that CBS did a pilot for and apparently it didn't work.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:09:37 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

The Rock (1996): 1 line

  1. theme (scrapped premise) · through Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), which they acted in: Beverly Hills Cop II ⇒ The Rock (the host's read). The abandoned England/Scotland Yard concept with Sean Connery became the backbone of The Rock a decade later.
    “initially written Beverly Hills Cop 2 to be Eddie Murphy in England, solving crimes with Sean Connery, actually, which basically, I think, winds up being like essentially the backbone for what the rock is 10 years later or whatever.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 1:00:18 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (34) everyone in acting

Other (3) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (7)

  1. career (career decline): Eddie Murphy → The Distinguished Gentleman. The set indulgence of 1987 Eddie leads eventually to the wheels coming off by The Distinguished Gentleman.
    “at some point that leads to, you know, you're doing the distinguished gentlemen and the wheels have just gone, the wheels have come up.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:16:08 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Eddie Murphy → Will Smith. The fish-out-of-water star moment is compared to Will Smith making the first Bad Boys.
    “when Will Smith made the 1st Bad Boys”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:34 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Eddie Murphy → Michael Jackson. In four years Eddie became the biggest star in the world except for Michael Jackson.
    “he becomes the biggest star in the world except for Michael Jackson.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:16 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Coming to America → Eddie Murphy. After this film Eddie leans back into Gumby-style comedy even in Coming to America, which the speaker loves.
    “even coming to America, which I love, you could sense him leaning back into like, I'm the guy who does Gumby”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:10:32 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Eddie Murphy → Jerry Lewis. Jerry Lewis is floated as the only comparable run to Eddie's three years as funniest person.
    “maybe Jerry Lewis is the only other comparable person.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:44 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. career (career): Eddie Murphy → Dan Aykroyd. Trading Places was a Dan Aykroyd movie; Eddie got Beverly Hills Cop only two weeks before shooting.
    “Trading Places was a Dan Ackroyd movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:16:15 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. career (career): Beverly Hills Cop III → Eddie Murphy. Murphy wanted serious roles like Denzel and Snipes, so on the Landis-directed third film he refused to tell jokes.
    “So they hire John Landis to make a funny movie. And then Eddie Murphy's like, I will not tell jokes in this.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Iron Man 2 · 1:02:14 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

contrast (8)

  1. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Jim Carrey. Murphy had a similar seven-year run and bigger box office but never landed drama the way Carrey did.
    “he never figured out the drama side in the same way.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘The Truman Show’ With Bill Simmons, Glen Powell, and Chris Ryan · 0:28:43 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Richard Pryor. Pryor and Bill Murray visibly wait for their moment to steal a scene; Eddie is present and connected instead.
    “Richard Pryor was like this and Bill Murray can be like this where you can tell that they're waiting for their moment to do the thing that they're going to do that steals the scene.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:18 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Bill Murray. Murray is calculating about when to pull the rug out from scene partners; Eddie trusts his comedy and does not need to win every moment.
    “You can see Bill Murray calculating sometimes when he's gonna pull the rug out from under the people in the scene with him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:31 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Kevin Hart. A scene of Eddie staring down Maitland is real acting; Kevin Hart would just bulge his eyes.
    “if Kevin Hart's doing that.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:07:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Arnold Schwarzenegger. Eddie is not like Schwarzenegger or the other 80s action guys.
    “it's not like Schwarzenegger.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:08:01 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Will Ferrell. Eddie's comedy does not evaporate when a joke fails; Ferrell's and Carrey's depend on the laugh.
    “He's not gonna evaporate if the joke doesn't work.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:16 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
  7. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Jim Carrey. Carrey and Ferrell put themselves in the hospital for your laugh; Eddie does not need you to laugh.
    “I mean, they are really putting themselves in the hospital for your laugh.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:31 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
  8. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Chevy Chase. Chase would do anything physically for a laugh, but Eddie seemed more natural.
    “Chevy Chase was willing to do anything physically to make you laugh.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Gene Hackman → Eddie Murphy. Popeye Doyle's apartment is essentially Axel's apartment.
    “I mean, it's literally, like, the apartment, Popeye's apartment is the same as Axl's apartment, essentially.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:23:52 · Wesley Morris (0.60 sure it was them)

industry (2)

  1. industry (same-year release): Eddie Murphy → Raw. Murphy had two of the top 20 movies of 1987, Cop II and Raw.
    “So he's 2 of the top 20 movies in 1987.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:18:43 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Eddie Murphy → Walter Hill. Eddie mostly worked with really good directors early: Walter Hill, Tony Scott, Robert Townsend, Landis, with Brest the exception.
    “Walter Hill, Tony Scott, Robert Townsend, doing shooting the comedy special,”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:50:20 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Sidney Poitier → Eddie Murphy. Eddie's fight in 1984 is just to be in a movie with white people without facing the blatant racism Poitier had to face.
    “the fight that a person like Eddie Murphy has to have in 1984 to just be in a movie with white people where he doesn't have to face racism.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:26:32 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

people (2)

  1. people (people): Good Times → Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy owns the Ernie Barnes Good Times original painting.
    “Oh Eddie Murphy has it?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Saturday Night Fever’ With Bill Simmons and Jimmy Kimmel · 1:25:19 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. people (unrecognized acting under prosthetics): Ron Perlman → Eddie Murphy. Both did Oscar-worthy acting under heavy makeup that went unnominated.
    “Perlman should have gotten an Academy Award nomination for Hellboy because he was emoting under the thickest latex”
    The Big Picture · ‘Nightmare Alley’ and Our Favorite Films Noir, With Patton Oswalt! · 0:38:59 · Patton Oswalt (0.90 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (programming): Saturday Night Live → Eddie Murphy. Being on SNL meant Eddie brought it every week; his movies were not shot 18 months earlier, he was appointment viewing.
    “oh, he was like on television every weekend was appointment viewing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:16:07 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (5)

  1. theme (sports analogy): Eddie Murphy → LeBron James. Paying 1987 Eddie any price is compared to getting LeBron in 2013.
    “It's like getting LeBron in 2013.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:04:58 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. theme (sports analogy): Eddie Murphy → Luka Doncic. Murphy-centered scenes are likened to a team built around one heliocentric player taking a fadeaway.
    “It's like watching a team with one heliocentric good player.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:05:41 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. theme (era shift): Do the Right Thing → Eddie Murphy. Do the Right Thing marks the shift at the end of the decade away from Murphy's sole mainstream prominence.
    “Things like do the right thing come in and then it starts to shift.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:27:04 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Eddie Murphy → Madonna. Eddie's 1984 fame is placed alongside Madonna, Prince and Springsteen as a youth-culture phenomenon.
    “on the level of Madonna Prince Bruce Springsteen”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:02:48 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Eddie Murphy → Michael Douglas. Like Michael Douglas, Eddie trusts the movie to be on his side, which lets him take risks.
    “he trusts his comedy enough to know that he doesn't have to win all the time”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:38 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (7)

  1. unmapped (writing): Eddie Murphy → Beverly Hills Cop. Murphy effectively made up the movie's script, so he deserved an acting nod too.
    “Eddie Murphy wrote that whole movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Starman with Katey Rich · 1:56:16 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (screaming comedy): Another 48 Hrs. → Eddie Murphy. Murphy's funny stuff there is mostly screaming, unlike his subtler early work selling the other actors.
    “A lot of like his quote unquote funny stuff is just kind of him screaming.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:19:23 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (TV appearance): Eddie Murphy → Joe Piscopo. Murphy appeared on a Piscopo comedy special doing a Miami Vice parody during his scarce public years.
    “He was Joe Piscopo, had a comedy special that was great. where Eddie went on that and they did a Miami Vice parody.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:24:54 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  4. unmapped (fandom scale): Eddie Murphy → The Beatles. Fandom around young Murphy was Beatles-esque, built on records and comedy specials.
    “the fandom around him is like, it was Beatles-esque.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:25:22 · Chris Ryan (0.60 sure it was them)
  5. unmapped (modern equivalent): Eddie Murphy → Dave Chappelle. A modern equivalent would require combining a piece of Chappelle with five other peak performers.
    “It's like a piece of Chappelle, and then you'd have to take 5 other people who are at the peak of their powers and combine them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:25:49 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  6. unmapped (Black stardom in 1987): Eddie Murphy → Bill Cosby. Murphy was the only Black star in the 1987 top 20 and, with Cosby, carried outsized importance.
    “So he's the only black star in the top 20.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:26:44 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. unmapped (wardrobe knack): Chevy Chase → Eddie Murphy. Both could wear terrible 80s clothes and look cool, Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop, Chase in Fletch.
    “him and Eddie Murphy had a real knack for being able to wear absolute dog shit clothes and make them look really cool.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:49:27 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (all-time favorites): Eddie Murphy → David Letterman. Simmons ranks Murphy on his short list alongside Letterman and Larry Bird.
    “I don't know whether he's where he ranks against Letterman and Larry Bird and, you know, the Alzheimer's for me, but he's right. He's on the short list.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:23:58 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Eddie Murphy → Dolomite Is My Name. On Joe's best-actor ballot alongside Reeves, Burke, Sandler.
    “Eddie Murphy in Dolomite is my name.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid (Ad-Free) · 0:53:23 · Joe Reid (0.45 sure it was them)

what-if (7)

  1. what-if (what-if): Samuel L. Jackson → Eddie Murphy. Eddie Murphy was on the initial list for Jules, like Will Smith and Django.
    “Eddie Murphy was on the initial list too, which I thought was a really fun idea.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 1:37:31 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Eddie Murphy → Sylvester Stallone. With anyone but Eddie, including Stallone, it would be an actively bad movie because the plot is known in the first 30 minutes.
    “I think that you could safely say this would be an actively bad movie with anybody besides Eddie Murphy”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:17:22 · unknown (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Raw Deal → Eddie Murphy. Raw Deal is an Eddie Murphy movie with Schwarzenegger doing all the Eddie Murphy stuff.
    “it is an Eddie Murphy movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger doing all the Eddie Murphy stuff.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. what-if (what-if): Top Gun → Eddie Murphy. Asked which 80s movie they wish Eddie had starred in, the answer is Top Gun, though everything changes if he does.
    “everything changes if Eddie Murphy's the star of Top Gun, right?”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:11:43 · Wesley Morris (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. what-if (what-if): Wall Street → Eddie Murphy. Eddie could not have been a supporting character like Bud Fox in Wall Street; he had to be the giant star.
    “Eddie hit a point where he couldn't have been like Bud Fox in Wall Street.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:07 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. what-if (what-if): Die Hard → Eddie Murphy. Die Hard would be an Eddie Murphy movie in the what-if game.
    “I mean, Diehard is an Eddie Murphy movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 1:12:32 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  7. what-if (what-if): Grumpy Old Men → Eddie Murphy. A reported Grumpy Old Men remake with Eddie Murphy.
    “they announce he's going to make a fucking grumpy old men remake.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger (Ad-Free) · 1:13:02 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Eddie Murphy: Murphy arrived with a huge trailer and an entourage including his Uncle Ray, brother Charlie, cousin Ray Jr., Fruity, and a 21-year-old valet, and was late all the time, then ad-libbed.
    “he was late all the time, according to one of the crew.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:15:50 · Bill Simmons (0.70 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Eddie Murphy: Murphy bought a $65,000 Porsche at lunch when depressed, and fought producers to keep the Ferrari from the movie; the producers' spokesman denied they ever gave him one.
    “Eddie may have bought a red Ferrari, but Don and Jerry never gave him one.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:17:45 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Eddie Murphy: Foley never keeps money in the movie: he hands the $20, $50 and $200 to others, so he never actually takes money.
    “So he never actually takes money in this movie.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop II’ With Bill Simmons and Chris Ryan · 0:54:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Eddie Murphy: Eddie's first reaction rewatch: he is soft and present, not the macho guy people remember; critics of the time were 'scared of Eddie Murphy'.
    “People were really scared of Eddie Murphy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:31 · Wesley Morris (0.70 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Eddie Murphy: The costume was deliberate: the cropped sweatshirts, jeans and Mumford shirt are what a 24-year-old would wear.
    “stuff you would wear when you're 24 years old because they're trying to get across the fact that this dude's 24 years old.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:05:58 · Bill Simmons (0.50 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Eddie Murphy: On Letterman after this film, Eddie came on in a Michael Jackson suit and behaved differently; after buying Bubble Hill, the speaker says, a mansion every night is death for comedy.
    “He was one of the biggest stars in the world and he had reached a point where there was no way to have normal interactions with anybody.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:11:41 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Eddie Murphy: The 'funny person championship belt': Eddie held it 1982-84, the best three-year run by a funny person ever.
    “the best 3 three-year run by a funny person ever.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:15:29 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Eddie Murphy: Axel's checking-in-at-the-Beverly-Palms bit: a Rolling Stone writer doing a Michael Jackson cover story, crying racism without saying it, and getting a room at half price. Watch his wordless take when he hears the price.
    “he gets like one of the all-time, like, wordless takes where they give him the price of a single room.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:34:54 · Bill Simmons (0.40 sure it was them)