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, the 63-year-old Murphy recently opened up about the “cheap shots” he feels he suffered from the late-night comedy series, where he became a breakout star in the 1980s.
Murphy went on to insist that it was a “while different world” when he was shooting to stardom and he had little support from the industry’s establishment players. And when Spade joked that Murphy’s career was over on the very show the“Back in the old days, they used to be relentless on me, and a lot of it was racist stuff,” Murphy said, adding that, “there was no Black Hollywood. There was no rappers, hip-hop. It was the ‘80s.
“I know that he can’t just say that — a joke has to go through these channels — so the producers thought it was okay to say that,” an aggrieved Murphy said. “All the people that have been on that show, you’ve never heard nobody make no joke about anybody’s career. Most people that get off that show, they don’t go on and have these amazing careers. It was personal.”“It was like, ‘Yo, how could you do that?’ My career? Really? A joke about my career? So I thought that was a cheap shot.
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