American comedian and actor Eddie Murphy talked about the 'racist' joke that David Spade made about him on Saturday Night Live, reported People. He opened up about the unjust criticism and treatment he has experienced over the years, both from the media and, in particular, one joke Spade made during a December 1995 Hollywood Minute comedy sketch. In the famed sketch, a picture of Murphy came on screen as Spade said, "Look children, it's a falling star, make a wish.
" The sketch came less than two months after the theatrical release of Murphy's film 'Vampire in Brooklyn', which Murphy said had flopped. "It was like, 'Yo, it's in-house! I'm one of the family, and you're..
.with me like that?' It hurt my feelings," said Murphy. "This is Saturday Night Live.
I'm the biggest thing that ever came off that show. The show would have been off the air if I didn't go back on the show, and now you got somebody from the cast making a crack about my career? And I know that he can't just say that," Murphy continued. "A joke has to go through these channels.
So the producers thought it was okay to say that," he added. "And all the people that have been on that show, you've never heard nobody make no joke about anybody's career. Most people that get off that show, they don't go on and have these amazing careers.
It was personal." Murphy then noted that he considered the joke 'a cheap shot' and 'felt it was racist.' The comedian -- who didn't return to the SNL stage until years later for the sho.
