Eddie Murphy

On Inside the Actor's Studio. Jesus, thinking back on this guy's career, it's amazing all the shit he's done. The comedy plus the movies, plus the fact that he plays multiple roles in multiple movies and then to think of all the stages to his career. Insane. The dinner table bits from the Nutty Professor. Good God. I forgot how funny those parts were.

Thinking back...

1. Saturday Night Live - part of the famous sketch comedy team
2. Stand Up Comic - Delirious and Raw - becoming the next richard pryor
3. Coming to America - big time movie star playing multiple comedic roles
4. Beverly Hill Cop and 48 Hours - helped invent the action-comedy movie genre
5. Harlem Nights - movie director
6. then there seemed to be some down time until...
7. Nutty Professor where he sort of has a Coming to America-esque mini renaissance
8. then comes a bad period where he starts making all these crappy, family like films, Pluto Nash, Dr. Doolittle, etc and all the classic Eddie Murphy fans are thinking - what the hell is going on with this guy.
9. Then a weird little mini hit in Shrek
10. Dreamgirls and Oscar

So what he really needs now is to be in a Tarantino movie, like JT in PF.

The guy is amazingly still pretty young. Guess that's what happens when you're famous at 19.

He said a funny thing about being worried when he turned 30. He kept seeing 30 as this big moment in life to dread like "I'm not young anymore." But he said it was the complete opposite, it was like: this is the beginning. This is when I get to make up for all mistakes of my 20s.

I think the 30s are going to be good.