YMMV / Eddie Murphy

• Audience-Alienating Era: It's generally accepted that Murphy's films between 1989's Harlem Nights and The Nutty Professor (1996) comprised this (though Boomerang (1992) has been Vindicated by History). His films from the 2000s, with the exceptions of the first two Shrek movies and Dreamgirls, also qualify.
• Award Snub: At the 79th Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor.
• Awesome Music:
  • His 80's foray into music, "Party All the Time", featuring Rick James.
  • "Boogie In Your Butt," which also doubles as a funny moment.
• Funny Moments: Just watch Delirious.
  • Or Raw, for that matter.
  • His tenure on Saturday Night Live: a genuine breakout star who saved the show in its darkest hour - when it could have legitimately been cancelled due to the miscues after the original cast had departed - providing some of the most hilarious sketches of The '80s.
  • The episode Stevie Wonder guest-hosted, and Eddie breaks out his Stevie impersonation... right in front of him.
  • Most of his lines in Mulan and Shrek.
• Glurge: His hippy-soul album, Love's Alright, is about as sappy as it gets. Hearing a foul-mouthed comedian singing about world peace and racial equality is near-impossible to take seriously.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One of his signature bits from RAW was taking a giant swing at Bill Cosby's moral compass towards his lewd routines; of course, that moral compass seemed to be a façade when Cosby was hit with over 50 allegations of sexual assault in 2014-15.
  • Doubly so when after Cosby was convicted of sexual assault in 2018, Cosby allegedly swore at the prosecutor. The irony was not lost on Twitter. Murphy got in his own licks when he guest hosted Saturday Night Live at the end of 2019 — noting that he had ten kids and Cosby was in prison, he joked: "Who's America's Dad NOW?"
• Memetic Mutation: The famous "house burger" bit from RAW spawned countless jokes in a "Mommy, can we have [x]?" — "No, we have [x] at home." format when discussing any kind of Poor Man's Substitute or Shoddy Knockoff Product.
• Values Dissonance: Delirious features a lot of jokes about "AIDS spreading homosexuals," this being when it was believed that the disease only affected LGBT people, and is now considered both deeply unfunny and extremely offensive. During his Career Resurrection in 2019, Murphy talked frankly about how ignorant he and so many others were about the subject back then, and he’d never do jokes like that now.

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