By Marc S. Sanders
There is no way. NO WAY that Eddie Murphy’s Raw would ever be produced today. Nearly every sentence is of the highest caliber offense of any modern day societal belief. Still, Murphy’s expressions and delivery are lightning in a bottle. You can’t help but at least grin at his close ups and physicality.
This guy is so incredibly bright that only his comedic stand up monologues could actually feel like you are learning from a college professor who offers up what guys like Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson and Mr. T are really like. At the same time, he’s somewhat frank with how men and women communicate. It’s comedy. It’s terribly exaggerated like comedy needs to be, but I can’t deny at least some truth in what Murphy talks about. If there wasn’t even a fraction of validity in his material, then it would never have been funny, and Eddie Murphy’s career would have ended well before the 1980s came to a close.
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