I just mentioned this a little while ago, where did Eddie Murphy go? Why has he forsaken us? He used to be so funny… Ok, maybe the world grew up and he grew with it. Me? I’m still that 12-year old kid that started swearing just because of this concert. I remember seeing “Delirious” and being blown away. The next morning I was out at the bus-stop hanging on the James/Easy Street sign post and regaling my friends with Eddie Murphy jokes while waiting for the school bus. If my mother reads this, she’ll be horrified to learn the truth about when her precious, innocent little boy turned into the foul-mouthed pervert he is today.
I grew up pretty sheltered from the stuff that most kids are exposed to today. I had one black kid in my school and I had no real idea what a homosexual was. Then there was Eddie Murphy doing a dead-on impersonation of Jackie Gleason being fucked by Ed Norton. “Waaahhooooooo. Humina-Humina” I remember almost blacking out watching this because I had to hold my breath to keep my laugh down so no one would hear me.
This concert is full of the Eddie Murphy classics. Ice Cream Man, 4th of July Cookouts, Aunt Bunny is a Bigfoot… I loved it. It doesn’t have all of the bits that are available on the audio version of the concert called “Eddie Murphy: The Comedian” but it is everything I remembered from the “old” Eddie Murphy.
The next weekend we went out and bought “Eddie Murphy: Raw” and watched that too. It’s just as good and should be considered as “Delirious Part 2″.
I’m so happy they released this on DVD. Now I can throw away my Bit-Torrented version of it. See, music/video piracy isn’t always about stealing. I would have bought this years ago if it was available.
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