Which is funnier delirious or raw

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By Yohana Desta. But I like Raw mostly because of what Eddie said concerning the importence of having a pre-nup before marriage. New topic Printable Log in to 'subscribe' to this topic. Which was his better stand-up show? I own both, gotta watch both agaon.

What ever happened to Eddie Murphy's Delirious red suit? Ivory is a nut and so is Eddie. Of course I remember laffing so hard it hurt. Milty said: i have to go with Delirious. JabarR74 said: Which was his better stand-up show? Tweet Share Message. Eddie Murphy: Delirious or Raw?

Murphy and Joe Piscopo were the only members of the cast to make it to the season. In the middle of his SNL tenure, one marked by a series of memorable characters including a full-grown Buckwheat and the host of Mr. Nostalgia Demo : Anyone between their teens and 30s in the eighties who liked comedy, or going to the movies; anyone born in the eighties who got wind of Murphy from older siblings, his comedy records, or Saturday Night Live reruns.

And this week, 24 years after Raw and with little to no stand-up appearances in between, Murphy went and got named host of the upcoming Oscars , making his comedy specials all the more relevant. Come February, Murphy will, essentially, be doing stand-up for all the world to see. Admittedly, I was not an obsessive watcher of Delirious and Raw in my youth.

Even if I had been watching these films at a younger age, as a high-schooler in the second half of the nineties in liberal New York City, this would still have been offensive. Eddie Murphy has probably come a long way since then, but so have audiences. In the course of doing this fact check, a number of men told me that when they were younger, in their early teens, they used to put on Eddie Murphy records, or watch his performances, and cackle.