“Looking out to the audience, I knew that it was show biz for the rest of my life.” Soon Eddie was doing comedy in some clubs around town. When a teacher showed disapproval about his joking around, Eddie answered back, “I’m going to be bigger than Bob Hope”.Īt age 15, Eddie hosted a youth center talent show, and was a big hit with the audience. He worked on his routines after classes, and in high school became an expert at “ranking”(a form of witty insults). Developing his comedy skills was what Eddie wanted to do and he used school to try out his jokes. But not the kind of studying his teachers had in mind. He was a naural born class clown and thought of school as a never-ending party, just a place to get laughs. I used to do Sylvester the Cat (‘thufferin’thuccotash’) all the time.”Įddie didn’t care much about school. “My mother says I never talked in my own voice-always cartoon characters. He did imitations of cartoon characters, such as Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry. Eddie spent a lot of time watching TV and soon began imitating what he was watching. When Eddie was nine, his mother remarried and the family was reunited and moved to Long Island, New York. Staying with her was probably the reason I became a comedian.” Murphy and his older brother Charles were put in the care of a woman whom Eddie calls “a kind of black Nazi”. Although he stayed in foster care for just about one year, he credits the experience with helping him develop a sense of humor and making him realize how important it is to find something to laugh about in every situation. He was just eight years old when he and his brother were sent to a foster home because of his mother’s illness. They struggled financially and it was during this time that his mother was hospitalized for a long period of time.Įddie Murphy’s experience in foster care was a short, but very important part of his life. After that the little family, Eddie, his mom and older brother, Charles, had a really hard time. Five years later, they heard the news that Eddie’s father had died. His mom and dad weren’t getting along and they divorced when Eddie was 3 years old. It wasn’t long before Eddie’s life began changing for the worse. His mother Lillian, was a telephone operator. Even as a child, Eddie liked to make relatives and friends laugh with jokes about boogers and other naughty things that children think are hilarious. His dad was an amateur comedian, so growing up he, too, saw himself as a performer. You might say that comedy was in Eddie’s blood.īorn in the Bushwick projects in Brooklyn, New York, he personally observed the scandals that are the subject of his later comedy. Almost every movie Eddie stars in becomes an instant hit. Starting out as a stand-up comedian he moved into acting and became one of Hollywood’s top box office leading men. Going after it no matter what.Įddie Murphy has achieved his dream: “I knew it was show biz for the rest of my life”.
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