After three decades and multiple blockbuster movies, Eddie Murphy is planning a return to the medium that helped launch his acting career.
그만큼 “Beverly Hills Cop” star has revealed that he wants to do new stand-up comedy performances once the pandemic ends.
Appearing on SiriusXM’s podcast “Comedy Gold Minds with Kevin Hart” 목요일에, the actor said had it not been for Covid-19 restrictions, he would have already made a comeback.
“My plan was to do ‘Dolemite,’ ‘토요일 밤 라이브,’ ‘Coming 2 미국,’ and then do stand up. And then the pandemic hit, and it shut the whole sh*t down,” 그만큼 “토요일 밤 라이브” alum explained.
“The whole time last year I would have been out working on my act, trying to get my sh*t right, and then the whole thing shut down.”
He added that “when the pandemic is over and it’s safe for everybody to go out and do it, then the plan is to do it.”
머피, 누가 돌아 60 next month, started making a name for himself on the comedy circuit in the early 1980s with his Richard Pryor-inspired stand-up and often polarizing shows.
그의 1987 필름 “Raw” — which was filmed in New York City’s Madison Square Garden — received a wide release and remains the top-grossing stand-up comedy movie of all time, earning more than $ 50 십억.
Murphy can next be seen in “Coming 2 미국,” the hotly anticipated sequel to the 1988 comedy classic, “Coming to America.”
The second installment, which premieres globally on Amazon Prime Video Friday will follow newly crowned King Akeem (Eddie Murphy) as he returns to Queens, New York with his trusted confidante Semmi (Arsenio Hall) in search of his previously unknown son and heir to the throne.
