Our first guest is a talented actor, a comedy legend.
Please welcome, I love him so much, Eddie Murphy.
Hey, hello, Ellen DeGeneres.
Hello, Eddie Murphy.
How are you?
[INAUDIBLE] too good.
So good to see you.
It's great to see you.
I wish you were here with me, but you're probably
at your house.
I'm at my house.
Yeah, well, you look great.
You look fantastic.
Thank you.
I heard that you're turning 60 really soon.
I don't believe it.
I think it's a lie.
No, I'm getting 60, April 3.
Wow, you look fantastic.
Well, thank you.
Thank you.
How do you feel about it, number one?
Do you care about getting older, and do you work out?
I haven't worked out in a bit.
I need to get in the gym.
And I feel comfortable with turning 60.
I think every 10 years, I think whenever you turn that, it's
like, wow I'm this age?
So I had a little bit of that but I'm cool.
I still feel like me.
Yeah, well, you look great.
You seem as youthful as ever.
And we'll talk about your movie in a minute.
You have not aged at all.
It's crazy to think about how long it's been
since you did the last one.
But anyway, let's talk about first,
you have a couple of kids at home.
Does that-- that must help you feel younger because you've
got so many young kids.
No, that's when you know how old you
are when you're running around these little kids,
and picking kids up, and carry them
upstairs and all that stuff.
That's a reminder of how old you're getting.
You're not still there.
Well, you are--
I've got a two-year-old son, a four-year-old daughter,
and I have a grandchild, my first grandchild called Evie.
So how old is your grandchild?
He's a year and a half.
Year and a half, so close to the same age as your actual son.
My son is two.
And your grandchild is a year and a half.
Yeah, my baby girl, she's four.
Wow, and what does she call you?
She calls me papa.
And is your-- so first of all, I have not
had the pleasure of being in your house.
But I almost went there after that party
when you invited everybody over right
after your daughter was born.
Do you remember that?
You said, come on over, it's midnight.
And everyone--
That sounds like it was after my daughter was born and I said,
a party!
Netflix was having a party where they were honoring comedians.
Right.
All the comedians that they got nominated
for Emmys or something.
And we couldn't go to that party because we had just
had the baby.
And I told Ted, hey, why don't you guys all come over here?
Then Ted came over with the Netflix party.
It was-- the who's who was downstairs in my house.
Yes, I was at his house.
And we were all told because you couldn't go there to come over
to your house.
And then I was told what happened
and what your house is like.
And I regretted it immediately.
It sounds like you live in a fun arcade in a mall.
Like, it just sounds like you have anything you ever
want to do is, in your house.
Downstairs-- when you have 10 kids,
you have to have some recreation area.
So downstairs in my house is like an arcade
you would see in a mall with all the coolest games and stuff.
And we have a bowling alley downstairs
and a movie theater downstairs.
So it's a level where all that stuff
is and not the whole house.
No, no, I wouldn't imagine you have a fun arcade in your study
room.
But I mean, still, what a great place.
If you have to be in lockdown, I would assume every single one
of your family members and friends joined you and stayed
in your house for lockdown.
No, just my kids.
It was really lockdown for real.
It was my kids could come around,
my mother could come around.
My mother is older so we had to keep it
so if you were outside of that little bubble of family,
you couldn't come in.
Yeah, OK.
I was just wondering if everybody was just--
because they'd want to come in.
I'd want to hang out at your house.
I heard, by the way, that Paige is Australian,
but I understand, the only accent you can't do.
I can't get the Australian accent.
It's too close to Australian, and British, and New Zealand,
and South African are also kind of close.
I can't get the Australian one.
I can't do it because I can't get it.
And I hear her every day and she don't even
sound she has an accent to me.
So she's no help at all.
But I can't get that accent.
Well, I want to hear you try it though.
What do you me to say?
Ellen, I miss you so terribly much.
Please come over and hang out with me.
I can't say all of that.
Ellen, I miss you terribly much.
Please come over and hang out with me.
See, it sounded horrible.
Oh, that's all right.
That was terrible.
Your two words in there that were Australian, two.
I do it terrible.
Yeah, no one bad at all.
Hey, I want to talk to you about this.
So you discovered something about your family history.
You did one of those DNA tests or whatever it is?
Yeah, yeah, now, I didn't do it.
But yeah, they found out that we had some cool history stuff.
Who is it?
Ramesses III, I'm in the same--
we are on the same paternal line.
Like, my father's, father's, father's, father's, father's,
father's, father's, father's, father was Ramesses III.
Right, like royalty, like Egyptian royalty.
Yeah, that's kind of fly.
Yeah, it is really cool.
So Coming 2 America is very closely related to who you are.
Yeah, I'm really of the house of Pharaoh.
So we have to take a break, but I
want to talk to you about-- because you are going to get
out there and do stand up.
And I need to talk to you about what's
going to happen with that, because everyone's
waiting for it.
So we'll take a break.
We're going to talk about that and much more with Eddie.
We'll be back.
That's Eddie Murphy, the clip from Coming 2 America.
So 33 years since the first one, that's amazing.
It's crazy to think it's been that long.
Tell everybody what this one is about.
This is the continuation of that story for the people
that saw the original Coming To America.
This movie is about--
because we went off to live happily ever after
and our fairy tale life.
And the fairy-- in this movie, our happily ever after
is interrupted by a very modern problem
that we have to deal with.
And that's what the film is about.
Yeah, that's a good way to do it without giving it away.
It's very funny.
It's really, really funny.
And there's so many people back from the original one.
So that must have been so fun to have everybody
together again after that long.
Yeah, that made it surreal because it's been so long.
And it was kind of like going back to your old high school
and seeing people who were in high school with,
and giving your schedule, and you have
go do your old daily schedule.
It was surreal.
But there was a warmness on the set
that I didn't feel on other movie sets,
because the movie became like this cult movie.
There is this warmness and affection for the picture.
Everybody that was in it is really happy to be part of it.
So all that was on the set every day.
Yeah, and everybody is so happy.
I mean, tWitch is-- we were talking about a huge fan.
Absolutely, I mean, it's easily like one
of my all-time favorite movies.
And obviously, it's great to see a lot
of the people that returned.
And I just got to ask, man, how was it getting back into Randy
Watson after all these years?
Randy Watson is the most rewarding.
I think that's a very funny picture.
Doing Randy Watson is hard to do because it's a six-hour makeup.
So while I'm doing it, I'm not having fun while I'm doing it.
Like, it's usually 2:00, 3:00 in the morning.
But it's the most fun for me to watch.
When it's all cut together, that's what makes me laugh.
That character makes me laugh because he's
the most rewarding.
But it's not fun to do.
All those six-hour makeups, by the time you get to the set,
you are not having fun.
It is so hilarious though.
That character is my favorite character.
I mean, that is so funny for me to watch.
But I was thinking that like, all of the people
that you do in the movie, all the characters,
I was thinking how much work that is for you
to do every single part.
So much work.
And you know, what's a trick that lots of people
don't even realize that that's us.
That was part of the marketing when the movie came out.
They would say Eddie Murphy and Arsenio and all
these different characters.
But if you were born in the last 20 years,
when you see Coming To America on TV,
you don't read the credits.
You just see an old Jewish guy, then it's a real guy.
A lot of people don't know that we are those characters.
I was talking to just Oprah last week
and she didn't know that I was the old Jewish guy.
She was like, yes, that's you too?
I was like, yeah .
Yeah, no, the old Jewish guy is like that's the hardest
one for me to recognize as you.
I mean, you're covered up there.
Yeah, those makeups were amazing.
So will you do Coming To America Three?
You know, I have an idea for Coming To America Three,
but it can't take place till I'm 75.
Like, you have to wait 16 years.
But do you understand what that's
going to be like for you to sit in makeup
that long when you're 75?
I don't think that the barbers will be in the third one.
OK, all right.
The barbers and the old Jewish man
would have long since have passed on.
I'm playing like James Earl Jones' character in this movie.
I'll be playing that role.
I'll do it mostly from the bed.
And Randy Watson will be interesting at 75 too.
But that would actually be fun.
Yeah, he can be fun at 75.
All right, real quick because we're running out of time.
But you were saying that you were
going to do stand up again.
You were working on material.
Have you been working on material,
and are you still going to do that?
Well, I don't know working on material
is the right word, because I never write stuff.
I never wrote stuff on the pad and [INAUDIBLE]
had the material.
My stuff always came from conversation.
Like, I'd to be talking and I'd say something funny.
And back in the early days, I'd go right to the clubs
and try it out.
But now if I say something funny,
I just put it in my little phone and have a little, oh,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So I got like two, three hours of one, two-line premises
that I had put some structure to.
And then I could have a show.
But I wouldn't exactly call that material.
I would say you found the title of your stand special, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
That's the special.
That's the name of it and we'll all get it.
Everybody here will--
Given my advanced age, that's apropos.
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