Eddie Murphy slams David Spade over 'cheap shot' joke about him on 'SNL': 'It was racist'
with David Spade , calling out the comic over a joke the latter said about him on “Saturday Night Live” in 1995.
“Look children, it’s a falling star. Make a wish,” the “Joe Dirt” star said on the “Weekend Update” segment.Eddie Murphy said in a new interview that David Spade’s joke about him on “Saturday Night Live” that led to a fallout between the comics was “racist.”Duke alum Kyle Filipowski's family accuses fiancée Caitlin Hutchinson of grooming, isolating the NBA newcomer
The “Coming To America” star — who was a regular cast member on “SNL” from 1980 to 1984 — said he was the “biggest thing that ever came off that show” and also called out producers for allowing the jab.“The show would have been off the air if I didn’t go back on the show, and now you got somebody from the cast making a crack about my career? And I know that he can’t just say that,” he added.
The “David Spade: Nothing Personal” comic admitted in his book that he felt terrible over what had occurred so he “took beating.”“In the long run, it’s all good,” the “Nutty Professor” star told “The Interview.”
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