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Eddie Murphy: Father
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In 1983, Eddie Murphy was not quite the mega-star he would become, but by the time Comedian came out he had become a household name. Although the homophobia is a bit much to take in this day and age, he doesn't display the arrogance that ruined his standup act by the time of Raw. Get past the anti-gay negativity and Eddie does truly astonishing singer impersonations, gets plenty of Pryor-worthy laughs and even makes some light political insights. As always, any time he talks about his father ("The Barbecue") he takes it to another level.
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Comedian and actor Eddie Murphy has acknowledged that he is the father of the baby daughter born to Spice Girls member Melanie Brown. The singer brought a paternity suit against Murphy last week after he had failed to accept publicly that the girl, called Angel, was his.
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A conscientious father (Eddie Murphy) loses his lucrative dot-com job and finds himself facing financial ruin and possible bankruptcy. So, he joins his friends (Steve Zahn and Jeff Garlin) in opening an entrepreneurial "guy-run" business called Daddy Day Care. Read More
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Murphy's public career prospered as mightily as his private life. By sixteen, he was headlining at comedy clubs up and down Long Island. Before Eddie got his driver's license, Vernon [his father] would chauffeur him to gigs. When Lillian [his mother] attended a club for the first time, she was shocked by her fifteen-year-old's triple-X shtick. [Murphy's comedy routine was heavily laced with profanity, vulgarity and sexually explicit content.] Mom always insisted the expletives were a pose. Underneath the smut, he was just a nice boy from suburban Long Island.
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