Eddie Murphy not only had his feelings “hurt” by a 1995 Saturday Night Live joke that may have caused him to stay away from the show for 35 years. Now, he says, the fact that the joke made it to air was in itself “racist.”
“Back in the old days, [the press] used to be relentless on me, and a lot of it was racist stuff,” he said in a new episode of The New York Times podcast The Interview. But none hurt him more than a joke David Spade told on an SNL episode that aired in 1995.
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.”
