As the most talented and influential comedic force to emerge from the 1980’s, comedian-actor Eddie Murphy blazed the trail for an entire generation of young black comics to follow. Just as Murphy was inspired by the comedic stylings of the legendary Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx in the 1970’s, Murphy influenced a whole new wave of African-American comedians who came of age in the 1980’s – among them: Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock, Jamie Foxx, and Dave Chappelle. However, it was as a movie star that Murphy made his greatest impact. Hollywood’s first global superstar, Murphy boasted a cumulative
Yikes! A look at the oeuvre of the former Saturday Night Live mainstay shows a sharp deterioration in his work of late. Perhaps Eddie Murphy's on a bit of an upswing, though, because while Imagine That bored even the children at…
