| ‘Delirious’, released in 1983, is an early stand-up comedy show by Eddie Murphy. This video runs 70 minutes long and showcases Murphy’s most racy material. It is primarily one of Murphy’s early stand up shows from the Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. ‘Raw’, was later released as a sequel to ‘Delirious’. Eddie Murphy is a very popular American comedian, singer and actor. Murphy’s career as a comedian took off when he was just 16. Three years later, he began performing for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. His characters in this show included a parody of Buckwheat from the Little Rascals and the inner-city black version of Fred Rogers known as Mr. Robinson. Eddie Murphy has been loved and hated for touching on controversial topics during his shows. He had the ability to bring a humor to even the gravest of topics. Topics on homosexuals and singers often provided majority of his material. He transformed his populairty as a stand-up comedian into a lucrative film career with films such as ‘Beverly Hills Cop’, ‘Trading Places’ and ‘Coming to America’, “Dr. Dolittle’ and ‘The Nutty Professor’. Eddie Murphy is also a voice artiste and lent his voice for animated characters such as Donkey in ‘Shrek’ and Mushu the dragon for Disney’s ‘Mulan’. Eddie Murphy was born as Edward Regan Murphy on April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, New York. He lost his biological father at a very young age and was brought up by his mother Lillian Murphy, a telephone-company employee and his stepfather Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a Breyers Ice Cream plant. Eddie Murphy graduated from Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School in Roosevelt, New York and was also voted the “Most Popular” there; thanks to comedy talents. |
