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Coming 2 America: The rare joy of watching a comedy icon age gracefully – Sydney Morning Herald
At a time when many of Eddie Murphy’s ageing fellow comedians have been railing at political correctness for supposedly wrecking comedy, Coming 2 America feels…
In Beverly Hills Cop (1984) there he was driving a Ferrari and having sex all around, very unrestrained in the way he parodied the power of being a cop in the most white, upper class part of America you could think of. He really played with ideas of race, of being black in Hollywood and not giving into the pressures of the dominant society.
But as Murphys preference shifted away from confrontational standup to wide-scale, family-friendly comedies such as The Nutty Professor, Dr. Dolittle and Shrek…
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