The comedian reflected on a joke David Spade made in 1995 and questioned the show's intent in allowing it.
“Back in the old days, used to be relentless on me, and a lot of it was racist stuff,” he said in a new episode of
During his “Hollywood Minute” segment on “Weekend Update,” Spade showed a picture of Murphy and said, “Look children, it’s a falling star. Make a wish.”it was like: ‘Yo, it’s in-house! I’m one of the family, and you’re with me like that?’ It hurt my feelings,” he said, especially since multiple people would have had to approve the joke—including, presumably,: “It was horrible,” he wrote in the op-ed, “I didn’t hate him. Of course not.
“And I know that he can’t just say that. A joke has to go through these channels. So the producers thought it was OK to say that. And all the people that have been on that show, you’ve never heard nobody make no joke about anybody’s career,” he continued. “Most people that get off that show, they don’t go on and have these amazing careers. It was personal.”
Murphy said he thinks the intent behind allowing the joke about him went even deeper—and that such a joke about analum wouldn’t have been allowed to air had he been white: “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, and I thought—I felt it was racist.”
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