You know, it's crazy.
We have never met.
This is our first--
We met once at the cross--
at the light.
Right.
I was coming around, and she was at a light.
And I said-- I screamed, I love you!
Actually, I had to open my door because my window was broke.
Right.
He was-- you must go somewhere I was on your exact same time
schedule for a while, because I was always seeing you pass.
But that was the first day that you kind of
were stuck in traffic and I could see you and yell out
to you.
But I used to watch you pass me all the time
as I was driving to work.
You were going--
You were going-- I was going probably going to get coffee.
You were always coming from coffee.
You were always coming from Starbucks or something,
I think.
Oh, The Coffee Bean.
Yeah.
That's where you go?
Yeah, The Coffee Bean.
Every single morning, I'd be--
I'm addicted to Coffee Bean.
And then so I see him and I'm yelling out to him.
And then he yelled out to me.
He tried to get his window down.
And he couldn't get the window down,
so he had to open the door to yell out.
Fancy car, too.
Yeah.
She was like, hey, pretty fancy car
and the window doesn't work.
[LAUGHTER]
Very fancy car and the window didn't work.
But it was funny.
Because then everybody's watching Eddie Murphy open
the door going, hey!
It was cool.
Yeah.
And I can't believe we haven't met before.
But I'm a huge fan.
And I'm a huge fan of yours.
I think you're so funny, for years and years,
and sweet, and sexy, and funny, and the whole thing.
Oh, well.
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I have a funny girl fetish.
When women are funny that, that's really--
that's sexy to me.
You and who's a girl on Saturday Night Live?
Maya Rudolph.
She's sexy.
Yeah.
And Lucy, Lucille Ball-- when I was a kid,
I used to watch Lucy with a [MUTED]..
I would watch her--
[LAUGHTER]
I said, yeah, I love Lucy too.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah.
I'll have you singing babalu, Lucy.
[LAUGHTER]
So is that what inspired you to go into comedy, because you
were attracted to--
Yeah.
I was like, I got to meet Lucy.
No.
It seemed like the natural thing for me to do,
because I was always a funny dude in school.
I was the funny guy.
Yeah.
Because you really got famous early.
Like, you were young.
How old were you on Saturday Night Live?
I was 18, 19, 18 when I got on, 18, 19.
Wow.
And then and then you're touring and playing--
I mean, what was the largest crowd you ever played stand-up
to?
When I stopped doing stand-up, I was doing the Garden
and all those places.
You know?
Out here it used to be The Farm where they played.
I used to do the--
I did The Farm.
My last tour was a really big tour.
And do you think you'll do stand-up again?
Absolutely.
I've been writing.
Yeah?
Recently I've been writing stuff. yeah.
[APPLAUSE]
That's funny that they react like that.
Are you writing now?
Yeah.
Just recently, maybe the last six months or so,
started getting the itch to do it again.
And I started writing stuff and it's like, I got to--
I was like, wow.
I could go do 15, 20 minutes right now.
I was looking at it the other day.
It's like, well, maybe a couple of months
I'll go up there and start working out again.
It'll take a year before I'm ready to go on the road,
though.
You know, it's all the way back to square one.
It is.
And you'll be on stage and--
Oh, you smell great, as well.
What is that you smell like?
Thank you.
Y'all can't smell.
I'm over here going, wow, she even smell good.
Yeah.
But it takes a year.
It's going to take at least a year to get the rust off.
20 years of rust--
I haven't done this in 20 years.
And are any of your kids--
how many kids do you have, eight?
I have eight kids.
Eight kida.
Yes.
I'm the Octodad.
[LAUGHTER]
And here they are.
Are they funny?
Here they are.
My children are typical children.
They're characters, you know, with the little stuff
within the family.
My son Miles is kind of funny.
I don't know if anybody's going to be a comedian, though.
No?
Uh-uh.
But are they singers?
My oldest son, Eric, he produces music and stuff,
and that plays instruments.
And my son Christian kind of raps a little bit.
So they do different things.
Have they to Whatzupwitu?
Oh, no.
You're going to play Whatzupwitu?
No, I'm not.
No.
I just was watching it backstage, though.
Because I was remembering like, you--
That looks like Whatzupwitu.
Which one?
With the flowers.
Because (SINGING) whatzup, whatzup--
it had the flowers flying around.
Yes, it did.
It had the flowers in it.
And Michael Jackson and I are flying around.
He did a video with Michael Jackson, a song
with Michael Jackson.
And who wrote that song?
I wrote the song.
I was like, just to show you how much audacity I have.
It's like, not only do I sing Michael, it's like,
and Michael and I wrote it.
It's like, the most--
the craziest artist on the planet.
And were you friends with him up until recently, when he died?
I was friendly with Michael since I got in the business.
Right up until the end I was friendly with him.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Because you did another video with him too.
You did Do You Remember.
I did Remember the Time with him.
Yeah.
And he used to always call me when he was getting awards.
it must be like 10 award shows where-- and here's--
I gave him trophies a bunch of times.
I was his favorite guy to give a trophy.
I'm sure.
I'm sure you got crazy stories.
And what do you do-- what do you do, like,
hanging out every day?
Are you just creative?
Are you writing?
Do you go in a studio?
Do you like-- what are you doing every day?
I have a pretty normal day because all my kids.
My kids are with me a lot.
Most of my kids are with me, and that's
a pretty regular, normal day.
And I do write.
I do play.
But it's kind of like it just kind of happens.
It's no schedule.
Right now I'm on vacation.
I've been on vacation for a minute.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Where are you going to go?
What are you going to do?
I'm thinking about taking my kids to Italy this summer.
We went to Greece last year.
Oh, that's lovely.
Yeah.
All right.
We have to take a break, but we'll
be back with Eddie Murphy.
Yeah.
I haven't seen that in a while.
Yeah?
Yeah.
That's, of course, his special, Delirious, 1983.
And that was really--
comedians did not usually dress like that.
Nobody was wearing red leather zipped down to their navel.
And you had that sexy rock star thing going on too.
Yeah, I was tripping.
[LAUGHTER]
But you look at that, do you remember that?
Or what do you feel when you see that?
I feel like it's a totally different person.
It's like, wow.
That's because I'm a kid doing it.
And then the clothes that I have on, it's
like looking through an old yearbook
and you see it and it's like, oh, my god.
Yeah.
And in the other one, in Raw, I have on a leather glove.
And on the outside of the glove I
have a ring on the outside of the glove.
Yeah.
My kids saw that one night and they were like this.
Ah!
[LAUGHTER]
Oh, and I have a bunch of little stupid things I wore.
Remember I did a movie called The Golden Child
and I had this little leather hat?
Yup.
And everybody started wearing those little stupid leather
hats.
When my daughter saw that hat once I was like--
my youngest daughter-- my second youngest daughter.
I was like, you never saw The Golden Child?
Here, watch this.
And she sat down to watch it.
And she said, oh, wait.
Daddy, please take that hat off.
You're taking the hat off.
Right?
I wear that hat in most of the movie.
And she wouldn't watch the movie because I had that on.
That is hilarious.
That's the '80s, though.
We all made mistakes.
Yeah, a lot of fashion faux pas in the '80s.
Right.
And Shrek, now you're-- this is Shrek Forever After,
and it's the fourth one, and this is the last one.
This is the last show.
Right.
And I'm so sad, because I wish they would make Shreks
until people just threw up.
I would just do it forever.
I just love doing it.
It's an easy job.
It's fun to do.
And it's great to be part of it.
Any time you want to come over, please come visit again.
I would love to come back.
All right.
I am such a big fan of yours.
Thanks.
It's so good to be here.
Thanks so much.
So good to meet you.
Nice meeting you too.
Yeah, man.
Anytime, come back.
Yeah.
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