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Eddie Murphy<\/strong> recalled David Spade<\/strong>\u2019s joke on Saturday Night Live (SNL) about his then-turbulent career in his new Netflix documentary, Being Eddie. He says that the joke \u201churt\u201d him and made him cut ties with the show, calling them \u201cdirty motherf****r.\u201d<\/p>\n In Being Eddie, the Beverly Hills Cop actor recalled how a joke David Spade made during a December 1995 SNL episode offended him, as it mocked his rocky career he was going through at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like your alma mater taking a shot at you,\u201d Murphy recalled. \u201cI wasn\u2019t like, f**k David Spade. I was like, oh, f**k SNL. F**k y\u2019all. How y\u2019all gonna do this s**t? That\u2019s what y\u2019all think of me? Oh, you dirty motherf*****s.\u201d He added, \u201cAnd that\u2019s why I didn\u2019t go back for years.\u201d<\/p>\n The joke Murphy refers to happened on December 9, 1995. During his \u201cSpade in America\u201d segment, Spade mocked the former\u2019s box office flop, Vampire in Brooklyn. Furthermore, after a photo of Murphy appeared on the screen, Spade said, \u201cLook, children, it\u2019s a falling star. Make a wish.\u201d Moreover, his comments drew immediate disapproval from the studio audience.<\/p>\n \u201cThe audience there said \u2018boo,\u2019 and hissed him for saying it,\u201d Murphy recalled in the documentary. \u201cI was hurt. My feelings was hurt.\u201d He further explained that the producers had reviewed the joke but still allowed it to make it to the live show, which disappointed him. This decision made him cut ties with the show he had been part of since 1980.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, the Coming to America star acknowledged that the producers have since changed the process, and such jokes would be \u201cshot down.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIf there was a joke like that right now, and it was about some other SNL cast member, and it was about how f****d up their career was, it would get shot down,\u201d the Dr. Dolittle actor explained. \u201cThe producers look at you, \u2018You can\u2019t, you\u2019re not saying that joke.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n However, 35 years after the incident, Murphy hosted an SNL episode on December 21, 2019. He said that going back to host the show \u201cwas a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n Being Eddie is currently available to stream on Netflix.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Harsha Panduranga on\u00a0Comingsoon<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n The post Eddie Murphy Confirms Why He Didn\u2019t Return to SNL for Several Decades<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eddie Murphy recalled David Spade\u2019s joke on Saturday Night Live (SNL) about his then-turbulent career in his new Netflix documentary, Being Eddie. He says that the joke \u201churt\u201d him and made him cut ties with the show, calling them \u201cdirty motherf****r.\u201d Eddie Murphy revisits David Spade\u2019s SNL joke, explains why he didn\u2019t return for years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2161367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[313250,305348,21890],"class_list":["post-2161366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-david-spade","tag-eddie-murphy","tag-saturday-night-live"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Eddie-Murphy-Confirms-Why-He-Didnt-Return-to-SNL-for.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161368,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161366\/revisions\/2161368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Eddie Murphy revisits David Spade\u2019s SNL joke, explains why he didn\u2019t return for years<\/h2>\n