The Many Faces of Eddie Murphy

Getting his start on Saturday Night Live in 1981, a then-nineteen-year-old Eddie Murphy pulled the sagging sketch-comedy show from the depths of irrelevance with spot-on impersonations of everyone from Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson to Little Richard and Muhammad Ali. His hysterical portrayals of Buckwheat, Gumby and Mr.T helped Eddie make a name for himself, but it was movies that would soon catapult him into…

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