it's a pleasure to welcome my first guest to this bro actually my
my second guest to this program the man with the toys was number one this will be number
two he is currently starring in a film called beverly hills cop please welcome eddie murphy
thanks for being here
how you doing
thanks for being here the folks uh very excited about you why well they uh they uh they heard
you were gonna be here and they know you and they love you and they uh i thought it'd be
you uh you you came in town to do uh saturday night live uh uh over the weekend right in new
jersey yeah right now are you do you uh have you lived there all your life no i
grew up in roosevelt long island yeah y'all didn't grow up in the roosevelt
and uh why did you select new jersey because i want to be close to my mother but i want to be
far from roosevelt i got kind of like it's like it's not too far away and not too close yeah
perfect now at some point when you were when you started out doing comedy uh your mom was probably
thinking well i you know i guess it's better than him being in trouble with the law she still says
that the side of stuff that i do is controversial but but what does she think of this unbelievable
success she's happy for me most parents are happy for their children when they're successful
is that like a shame on my boy he's making he made something of himself and i can't live with that
she's happy for because i was real bad in school so if things didn't work out
how were you bad explain that i just didn't go to class so you said
so it'll be like can you pull the call up so we can get all the soap on it
but you know eddie the kind of success that you've had in a very short period of time is the kind
of thing that uh i don't i never remember this happening to anybody before so i'm just thinking
that your mom i mean doesn't have to walk around and sit down every few minutes and think oh my god
this is just unbelievable i guess she does let's get mom out here no she is mom here no she's home
yeah she's up in my house in new jersey you just can't shake mom my left bro no i actually come up
to the house and spend some time with me she's up at the house in jersey now are you gonna now that
you're uh you're gonna move to hollywood and leave them on no my mother's moving to jersey
so she could be close to me she's moving out to new jersey and i'm staying
we're going to be jersey people now so
uh how was it saturday night being back there it was it was scary because i hadn't
done it in so long and i was a little nervous but the show came out okay
it wasn't i mean you watch the show and sometimes it's okay and last last saturday was
okay it didn't suck like it does sometimes but no because something can you say suck yeah you know
you can say anything you want you can say anything it didn't that's what's gonna um it was okay now
why were you nervous what was the because i hadn't done it in so long and you mean you haven't done
working on live tv before in a while yeah and plus everybody expected the show to be fantastic like
when i hosted like oh you'll see all those old characters and it was it was just okay
i was nervous but it was pretty it was a couple of funny things in the show well i think you're
probably being hard on yourself i always am yeah are you really you yeah now when you go see
a film like uh beverly hills cop are there things that you look at in there that make you kind of
now i don't now if i go see 48 hours now i'll sit there and i go oh
how can i because there you see growth now when i go see beverly hills cop it looks fine to me
but three years from now i'll probably go and see that and say how can i do it yeah
i'm nervous now you know why two years ago when this was how long you've been
in three years two years this is like to me like the hippest show on television
it is and the reason i never came on was because you know those hollywood rumors i got a rumor that
they said you know david letterman doesn't like you and i was crushed i was like david letterman
that's why i never came on the show before because i thought you didn't do you like me well yeah well
you know the the deal of it was you you became such an unbelievable star uh in such a short
period of time that there is a group of people that you would love to have on the show but you
know there's no way in hell to show up and you you were in that group yeah we we just figured yeah
well save your time don't waste a phone call david stroking each other well your show is so wonderful
we have a little gift for you we uh
we'd like you to take this blimp back to uh uh new jersey or
this is a remote controlled blimp that the guy from uh hammacher schlemmer won't turn loose
up here you wanna why don't you send that out into the audience i'll unheather it here oh
now this one this is up and down there you go what's that what's downstairs this
is done you push it up and it comes down who is this man from hammacher schlemmer
it uh it's about 500 really yeah is this one for sale this one i think yeah this probably
is for sale i'm sure you get a sizable discount for this one because well because it's you yeah
uh all right you figured that out we'll do a commercial and then we'll come back uh more with
eddie murphy here tell me about your uh we got the blimp stuck by the way yeah i see uh tell
me about your uh your music career you've done one album right that hasn't been really done too
but they were comedy and i'm working on a music album now you know what happens is after a while
you start i guess your ego goes nuts and you say like i can do anything
and you go like i'm in the studio now recording a music album and you have people that work for you
and they're on the payroll so they start saying you can do anything so enough so i'm in a studio
recording the album and i don't even know how great it is because like i'm in there saying i'm a
go outside yeah listen oh it sounds wonderful ass you're a genius um is my check ready
i don't know how the album sounds the way i figured is if it doesn't sound good
the most i'll do is get another five minutes of my stand-up routine because i can talk about the
album next year good experience yeah now but is this the one that you worked on with rick james
or is that we just did one song with rick i party all the time yeah and what happened was i was just
gonna do a 45 and party all the time came out real good that's because i was working with rick
it came out real nice and i tinker around i got a music room in my house with with little four track
recorder and i made little demos and stuff and it sounded okay so we got this stuff together and we
decided to just do a whole album and just try it yeah give it a shot well i'm sure it's going
to do very well uh we hope so it either what kind of music you can't it's r b a little pop a little
it's it's dance music and easy listening kind of stuff yeah look i'm real y'all gonna freak
when you're here because it doesn't sound like me and i tell you either be very good or because i'm
it'll be very funny so and because i'm a comic i don't mind it coming out funny i can't lose yeah
and uh is are you working on another film now are you not filming for a while
no i was i was going to do um we were supposed to do a concert movie and we don't know what
we're going to do now we're just like up in the air so how do you go about picking your films
because uh the of the three that you've been one of the principals in they've all done unbelievably
well i mean at least it looks like beverly hills cop is doing record-breaking business already it's
only been out a week or so right but how do you how do you pick these out how do you know that
this is going to be okay i i trust my feelings the only movie i've had a bad feeling about
when picking up the script was best defense before i even opened it up it was like i opened this
script up and read it and i felt bad but they had a check that like i had never seen before
my morals and principles went right out the window yeah oh my career almost went out with it too but
that was a small part you were just but i didn't they told me they were like look eddie you're
not we're not going to advertise much with you it's a deadly more film next thing eddie murphy
and i'm standing there like this so that's what happened you tell us how big the check was
oh it was big it was more money than i had been paid to do 48 48 hours in
trading places combined to do best defense my that's how much money it was so that's how i
i freaked man now uh now how about beverly hills cop because this uh was this or you you weren't
originally considered for this thing were it was somebody else's sylvester stallone yeah
so how do you get into that and and and to me like this is going to happen
like this is going to happen somebody says well you know sylvester stallone was going
to do it but now you can do it i'd think to myself oh geez what do i want to do a celeste
sylvester stallone film they had originally the script well i wasn't the first choice for uh
48 hours yeah i was like choice number five 48 hours they were like first they wanted i think
howard rollins then they wanted gregory heinz and i mean i was like after jimmy walker on the list
jimmy won't do it well let's get eddie murphy that's what happened and um
with the beverly hills cop it was it was uh action comedy at first
right and stallone got it and stallone rewrote it and it became more action and the producers
wanted to do an action comedy and salon was like well i don't want to do the film then
they had already set up pre-production everything so it was like um well eddie murphy's pretty much
a shell now because best defense just came out and he's just wandering around because i i was like
happy to get the part yeah so you mean you really you were affected by the the role in best defense
you weren't i was affected emotionally i was upset yeah i felt well you learned something
there yeah yeah next time you see a check don't just take it because the script is
if the script ain't go i don't know i don't think i'd do another movie just
for money anymore yeah yeah like well unless it's like a tremendous amount
because people you can't get mad at a guy for that like
well no i think they'd understand more if you told them the exact amount
it was a lot of money a lot of those it was a lot of money to do that part for like the time that i
spent doing it was like a weekend or something right it was a hotel in new jersey or something
no it was like i worked three months on 48 hours and three months on on on
trading places and this was like more money to work a week on another movie so it was like i
hollywood goes nuts if you do a good move well think about it they're guys that do like one
two good movies and don't do another good movie for like 10 movies and still get hollywood is
crazy they just keep shoveling and i would you can't blame people for saying that's a big check
so you know you know martin maul i think had the best line about this kind of thing he said
show business is like high school with money that's pretty much it if you think about it um
but you know did you feel a lot of pressure doing beverly hills cop because this is
this was the first this was really your movie this one huh no i had fun doing beverly hills
yeah as much fun as you have while doing a film yeah but did you did you worry about
this one being as successful as the the earlier two that you were in with the i had a very good
vibe i vibe off things real good and i had a very good vibe going into beverly hills cop
so i didn't worry about it yeah so what are you gonna do for fun what do you
have so a little time off so what do you do you're gonna spend some of this money what
are you what are you doing with your money johnny carson asked me that it's a strange
question i don't know i'm doing what do you do with your money you got more money than me
doing this thing up here but what do you do for fun you like to travel do you what do you go
what do you do the same things everybody else that i go to movies and i hang out you can't go
to a movie now yes you can go to movies but don't people just just jump all over you and steal your
wallet people go hey eddie and you say how you doing and you go to movies i don't mind saying
am i saying hi so it's no big deal yeah entertainers you i think a lot of people
bring that on themselves you know like where you can't go places like i dress normally so i
can go places if i had on a a glitter glove and a glitter suit i couldn't go to music
gee uh eddie i'm really happy you could come by i know that you're probably
well you're just on your way home to new jersey all right yeah i was thinking you're
going 15 minutes i drove over we hopped in a little car and hopped over here
well i really appreciate you coming by you don't have a clip of the movie and nothing
what time do we have mr murphy would like to see a clip of uh
is the show i know what you could do roll a clip while the credits are going and don't
have no sound just have like don't just roll the credits over the clip
that's a good look i like that uh i want to thank everybody who was
yeah cleaning up cleanup kit i want to thank you actually this is about right
i want to thank john lowe edie mccleary will be here tomorrow night and again my thanks to eddie
murphy also uh george wallace will be here and uh fran leibowitz uh mel tell us also good night