Eddie Murphy hasn’t forgotten how David Spade treated him in the 1990s.
The star of “Shrek” The New York Times The two comedians reportedly had a falling out after Spade, 59, made a joke about Murphy on Saturday Night Live that he felt was “racist.”
In 1995, Spade “Hollywood Minutes” So he showed Murphy a picture of his horror film, The Vampire Diaries, a box office flop, and said, “Kids, look, it’s a shooting star. Make a wish.”
In an interview with The New York Times published Saturday, Murphy acknowledged that he was surprised by Spade’s comments at the time.
“I was like, ‘Hey, this is an internal issue! I’m part of the family and you’re going to embarrass me like that?’ That’s how hurtful it was,” he said.
“This is Saturday Night Live. I’m the biggest thing that came out of that show,” Murphy continued. “If I hadn’t come back, the show would have been cancelled. And now someone on the show is making jokes about my career? I know he wouldn’t say that. The jokes have to go through these channels. So the producers thought it was okay to say it. And the people who were on that show, I’ve never heard of anyone making jokes about somebody’s career.”
Murphy added, “Most people who leave that show don’t go on to have great careers afterwards. It was personal. I was like, ‘Dude, how could you do that?’ My career? Really? A joke about my career? So I just felt like it was a cheap attack. And I just felt like it was kind of racist.”
But Murphy said he and Spade are “cool” today.
“In the long run, it’s all worked out well,” he told The New York Times. “It’s worked out well. I’m good friends with David Spade. I’m good friends with Lorne Michaels. I’m back on SNL. I’m good friends with everybody. It’s all about love.”
The Post has contacted Spade’s representatives for comment.
Spade discussed Murphy’s reaction to the joke in a 1997 interview. Entertainment Weekly.
“Chris Rock said to me, ‘Spade, Eddie is in the biggest movie of the decade and he has a beautiful wife and he still can’t get over the fact that you attacked him.’ I said, ‘Tell him three words that will change his life: Forget it,'” Spade recalled.
The “Grown Ups” star revealed in his 2015 autobiography, “Almost Interesting,” that he eventually understood why Murphy was upset by the joke.
“I try not to think of the victims when I tell dirty jokes, but sometimes there are consequences,” Spade wrote in the book. “I know it would be unbearable if it happened to me; it would be awful for the same reasons. In this case, I understand Eddie’s point.”
“Everyone in showbiz wants to be liked; that’s how you get a fanbase. But when you get criticized in a sketch, online or whatever, it’s the worst. And the negative effects add up quickly,” he added.
The two comedians had never appeared on “SNL” at the same time.
Murphy appeared on the show from 1980 to 1984.
Spade joined the show in 1990 and left six years later.
