They're giving me Razzies A nine-time Razzie Award nominee and three-time winner, Murphy was given a special prize for worst actor of the decade in He took a break from acting, only starring in the indie drama "Mr Church" between and At least then they'll know I'm funny. He rose to fame on the late-night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live SNL , for which he was a regular cast member from to But this'll be perfect, because I don't wanna do anything else that sucks ever again.
I don't wanna suck no more. That's understandable. Remember Norbert? No, neither do I. Because no-one watched it. The movie won three awards, sadly they were all Razzies. If you're not familiar with them, they're given to the shittest movies each year. Not something you'd put on your mantelpiece.
He also spoke to The Washington Post in when he said: "The [paycheck] movies are over for me. You may not know this, but Eddie has nine children to five different mothers. Paulette McNeely is the mother to his first son, Eric, born in He then had another son in with ex-girlfriend Tamara Hood. Mitchell filed for divorce in citing 'irreconcilable differences'. Murphy then began dating former Spice Girl, Mel B.
She got pregnant, but when asked about the pregnancy, he told Dutch reporter Matthijs Kleyn: "I don't know whose child that is until it comes out and has a blood test.
I play my guitar, hang out with my girl. My kids went to their mom's this week. I'm chilling, no stress. After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.
I'm trying to maintain my s— like this, and do a fun project every now and then. At this point, Murphy's weakness for choosing doomed scripts has come to overshadow a film career that started brilliantly—and he's no longer willing to keep adding to that streak of failure.
Speaking to Ellen DeGeneres about the delays dogging Beverly Hills Cop 4 in , Murphy explained he and others were still fine-tuning the script in an effort to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past. But this'll be perfect, because I don't wanna do anything else that sucks ever again. I don't wanna suck no more. Although you may not see much of Murphy these days, that doesn't necessarily mean he'll be gone forever. In fact, the actor, now 55, has a number of projects in development, including a role playing Richard Pryor's father in a movie for Lee Daniels and the long-gestating fourth installment in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise.
Before he made his big splash on Saturday Night Live , Murphy honed his standup act in the clubs, developing the brilliant stage rapport that made his concert film Delirious and, to a lesser extent, 's Raw an all-time comedy classic.
He's been off the road for years, although he's occasionally made a little noise about returning to standup—and these days, taking the mic is apparently on his mind once more, albeit with a few caveats. But it won't just be standup. It'll be music. It'll be comedy. It'll be stuff from my movies I've just got to figure out a way to put a show together. Because me just coming out on stage and doing standup, I can't see myself doing just that. I can see having some of that, and then doing everything else.
We'll see. Murphy fans have long fantasized about the prospect of a second act for his standup career, and although it's hard to imagine he'd be anywhere near as hungry for laughs as he was at his legendary peak, the fact that he walked away from live comedy at such a high level—and has been missing in action for so long—would arguably make a tour the most high-profile project he could conceivably take on, even if it wasn't strictly a standup show.
With retirement weighing on Murphy's mind, it could also be a wonderful way of bringing his career full circle. Getty Images. He made a whole bunch of flops. He dropped out of hosting the Oscars Getty Images. Church was too built up Getty Images. He actually doesn't care if his movies bomb.
He's hinted at retirement for awhile Getty Images.
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