Eddie Murphy - Eddie Murphy - Greatest Comedy Hits
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Artist: Eddie MurphyEdition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics, Live
CD Release Date: 1997-05-27
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- The Barbecue
- Drinking Fathers
- Singers
- Old Jew
- Ice Cream Man
- Boxers
- Hit by a Car
- Cumin' Hard
- Skeleton in Closet
- Grandma Klump
- Buckwheat
- Niggaz in the '70s
- Moses
- Lost in Space
- Little Richard
- Black Sambo
- Almost Fucked a Midget
- Seeing Birth
Music reviews of Eddie Murphy - Greatest Comedy Hits
Music Review: Good CD but some great material was left out...
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a good CD if you need some Eddie in your life. However, being a die-hard fan of Eddie's since his SNL days, I was disappointed to discover the first track is not the entire "Barbeque" bit that was on the "Comedian" album ("Delirious" VHS). It was chopped off and only contained Uncle Gus setting Charlie on fire, "Roll Charlie around, he'll be alright." Then it fades off into track 2, the rest of the "Barbeque" bit ("Goony-Goo-Goo" "Your wife is a big foot, isn't she Gus?") which is titled, "Drinking Fathers." Huh? This is the way it should have been: the first track should have been "The Barbeque" in its entirety, then track 2 should have been the actual "Drinking Fathers" which was released on Eddie's very first CD. It is just hiliarious. Also left out from the first CD was Eddie's bit about his senile grandmother always asking, "What time is it?" and "Why it's so cold in here?" Hiliarious. The song "Enough Is Enough" featuring Buckwheat and Little Richard was also left out. The first CD is out of print so it's usually expensive when you do find it. Luckily, my brother has the tape so I copied his.
The rest of the CD is fine but they could have left off "Old Jew", "Buckwheat", and "Grandma Klump" and replaced them with one of the bits I mentioned above. I wish "Raw" was available on CD but unfortunately, it's not. They do have "C----' Hard" from "Raw" on this CD but that's it. It sounds as if it was recorded at a club maybe because it is not the exact same, word-for-word bit that's on "Raw." However, it is very funny, maybe even funnier than the one used on the VHS version.
Like all greatest hits compilations, they always seem to leave some good stuff out. Whenever you pick up a greatest hits package, why is it that "your song" is never on there but the one you weren't so crazy about is? These are really not Eddie Murphy's greatest hits, but they are great and well worth the purchase.
Description of Eddie Murphy - Greatest Comedy Hits
Even though he's suffered through some bad scripts and an ill-advised singing career and been eclipsed by a younger generation of black comics (like Martin Lawrence and Chris Rock), Eddie Murphy remains one of the most important--and funniest--standups to come along since Richard Pryor. This album reminds you why. At his best, Murphy is wonderfully inventive and accessible. There are some excellent old bits here: "Drinking Fathers," "Ice Cream Man"--plus some rare, unreleased routines from Murphy's New York nightclub days. This CD is an excellent addition to any collection; Murphy's impression of James Brown is worth the price alone, as are lines like, "What the f*** does 'gooney-goo-goo' mean?... Gus, your wife is a Bigfoot!" -- Michael GerberGeneral CDs
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