Invoice Cosby Calls Eddie Murphy A ‘Hollywood Slave’ For ‘SNL’

Eddie Murphy’s return to Saturday Evening Stay was a triumphant one and fetched the weekly NBC sketch comedy program its highest rankings in over two years. That stated, not less than one individual didn’t discover the lauded efforts of the legendary comedian very humorous.

Late Sunday (December 22), Invoice Cosby’s publicist, Andrew Wyatt, launched an announcement by way of Invoice Cosby’s Instagram account and criticized Murphy’s efficiency, notably his opening monologue on SNL, throughout which he took pictures at Cosby.

“My youngsters are literally just about my complete life now,” stated Murphy throughout his monologue. “And you understand what—should you informed me thirty years in the past that I’d be this boring, stay-at-home, you understand, home dad, and Invoice Cosby can be in jail? Even I’d have taken that guess. Who’s America’s dad now?”

In response, Wyatt, by way of Cosby, known as Murphy a “Hollywood Slave” and stated of his act, “Stepin Fetchit plus cooning equals the destruction of Black Males in Hollywood.” Wyatt additionally famous all of Cosby’s accomplishments in Hollywood.

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“Mr. Cosby turned the primary Black to win an Emmy for his function in I Spy and Mr. Cosby broke coloration obstacles within the Leisure Business, in order that Blacks like Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappell, Kevin Hart and et al., might have a chance to showcase their skills for a lot of generations to come back,” he wrote. “It’s unhappy that Mr. Murphy would take this wonderful second of returning to SNL and make disparaging remarks in opposition to Mr. Cosby.”

The feedback made by Invoice Cosby’s illustration appear wealthy contemplating Cosby’s been accused of policing Black tradition for many years. Again in 1987, throughout Murphy’s famed stand-up particular Uncooked, Murphy had a bit about Invoice Cosby and Richard Pryor, claiming Cosby known as him and informed him his act was “too soiled.”

“I sat and listened to this man chastise me, and when Invoice Cosby chastise you, you overlook you’re grown,” he stated to viewers laughter. “You are feeling like one of many Cosby youngsters. I ran in the home to speak to Invoice and to select up the phone and Invoice acquired actual uncooked with me.”

In 2007, Cosby denied Murphy’s account of their dialog and known as him a “liar.” 

“Eddie is a liar,” stated Cosby on the time. “And Malcolm-Jamal Warner was in that room and heard me speak to Eddie on the phone. And Malcolm is aware of that’s not what I stated to him. … this can be a very nasty, nasty liar. Interval.” 

Invoice Cosby is at present serving a 3 to 10-year jail sentence after being convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault final spring.