Eddie Murphy is ready to bring Donkey back to life and talks about a potential Shrek 5 as well as hopes for a spinoff.
11.01.2023 - 20:47 / perezhilton.com
Eddie Murphy received a well-earned lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes on Tuesday night — and the funny and charismatic star couldn’t resist using it as an opportunity to make a joke!
The longtime film star accepted the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award during the evening’s show. The audience erupted in applause when Murphy came on stage the Beverly Hilton to accept the honor. And they continued to cheer him on as he made a speech in front of the packed crowd and national television audience.
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The 61-year-old Brooklyn-born star was feeling a lot of gratitude in his speech, with the Norbit star paying homage to those who have come before — and those who have helped him along the way. First, the Beverly Hills Cop legend said:
That it has!
Then Murphy thanked his family, co-stars, producers, peers, and his agent.
But he couldn’t resist delivering a HIGHlarious closer before walking off stage! He’s too funny not to do it!! As he wrapped his speech, the Coming to America star delivered advice for those looking to chase their dreams in show business:
LOLz!!
Of course, that’s a reference to his peer’s infamous moment at least year’s Academy Awards. How could we forget?! In that viral event that went down nearly a year ago now, Will stormed the stage to slap presenter Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith.
You can watch the Nutty Professor legend’s full speech upon receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in the clip (below):
What a great delivery!
We kind of figured somebody would reference the Oscars slap. Now, we wonder if
Eddie Murphy is ready to bring Donkey back to life and talks about a potential Shrek 5 as well as hopes for a spinoff.
How do you make the norm abnormal for the sake of comedy? Interracial/mixed-race families are so ordinary these days (I’m part of one as we speak), but comedy often has to exaggerate our differences to strike at deep laughs that speak to deeper, uncomfortable truths. That’s fair enough, and writer/director Kenya Barris’ (“Black-ish”) well-intentioned family comedy, “You People,” certainly seems to have the plan to use racial misunderstanding, misfires, and mis-intentions, to create a funny, insightful dialogue about families, love, and race in America today.
In a nutshell the brilliantly hilarious, pertinent, and wickedly smart new movie, You People is in some ways a new age Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, that landmark 1967 Tracy-Hepburn-Poitier Oscar winning comedy about the effect an interracial relationship has on the parents of the young couple. Of course back then it was a major social issue and even had trouble booking some southern theatres. The idea was switched in a Bernie Mac/Ashton Kutcher 2005 remake that all those years later did not have the same impact. With anti-semitism and racism back on the rise in 2023 America however the concept of an interracial/interfaith marriage, Black and White, Jew and Muslim, could not be more timely or needed, and in co-star Jonah Hill’s and director Kenya Barris’ whipsmart screenplay is also a knock-you-out-of- your-seat laugh riot. Ironically I saw it this week at its World Premiere at the same Westwood Village theatre where I saw Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner all those years ago. With a packed house the laughter was so continuous and loud for You People it was hard to hear a lot of the lines. When was the last time that happened?
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It’s not often that Cecil B. DeMille award recipients come backstage at the Golden Globes, but Eddie Murphy did for a brief three minutes.
Eddie Murphy was the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes on Tuesday for his work in Hollywood. The actor ended his speech with the “blueprint” for up-and-coming actors to achieve success in the industry.
After all the scandals and skepticism, was tonight the Golden Globes that NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the Todd Boehly-owned dick clark productions really wanted?
He went there! As Eddie Murphy was honored with the prestigious Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 80th Golden Globe Awards, he addressed Will Smith’s now-infamous Oscars slap.
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The Golden Globes return to NBC after a year’s hiatus and are set to air Tuesday, January 10 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT live on the network as well as on the Peacock streaming service. Jarrod Carmichael will host the ceremony taking place at the Beverly Hilton.