Eddie Murphy

Saturday Night Live: the 10 best sketches from the 45th season
An unusual, partly remote, season still delivered some winning skits including appearances from Jake Gyllenhaal, Eddie Murphy and Adam Driver
Zach Vasquez
18, May, 2020 @8:15 AM

'I crack up every time': comedians' all-time favourite standup routines
Top comics pick the routines that make them howl with laughter, from Eddie Murphy on Rocky to Eddie Izzard on penknives and Michelle Wolf on women’s worst enemies
Interviews by Ben Williams
06, Apr, 2020 @4:00 PM

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood gets Oscar boost at Critics Choice awards
Quentin Tarantino’s latest wins best film as Parasite’s Bong Joon-ho and 1917’s Sam Mendes tie for best director
Staff and agencies
13, Jan, 2020 @11:13 AM

Saturday Night Live: Eddie Murphy returns after 35 years and lives up to hype
Murphy reprises some of his most popular characters, and reminds us that no one can match him
Zach Vasquez
22, Dec, 2019 @2:15 PM

The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: the full list
Our pick of the top films released in the US this year brings a shocking class war, tearjerking breakups, war, glamour, horror and everything in between. Tell us your favourites too
20, Dec, 2019 @1:50 PM

The 50 best films of 2019 in the UK: the full list
Our pick of the year’s top movies released in the UK reveals the end of an era, painful breakups, festive families, horrors both real and imagined, and heroes of many kinds
20, Dec, 2019 @9:36 AM

After a string of flops has Eddie Murphy rediscovered his comic genius?
Dolemite is my Name has repaired the comic’s sagging reputation. Now he’s returning to standup and Beverly Hills Cop. Is the old Eddie really back?
Steve Rose
25, Nov, 2019 @10:08 AM

Hollywood's gender divide laid bare by analysis of this season's Oscar contenders
Exclusive: Data on this year’s awards contenders reveals three youngest best actor hopefuls have never made a film with a female director
Katherine Purvis and Catherine Shoard
15, Nov, 2019 @3:38 PM

Whitney Houston's close friend Robyn Crawford says they had sexual relationship
Long-rumoured relationship detailed in Crawford’s new memoir, which also depicts friendship with Eddie Murphy
Ben Beaumont-Thomas
07, Nov, 2019 @10:20 AM

Streaming: Meryl Streep kicks off a season of starry Netflix offerings
Get comfy on the couch with a new Soderbergh and a bravura turn from Eddie Murphy, the first of the streaming giant’s big autumn films
Guy Lodge
19, Oct, 2019 @7:00 AM

Dolemite Is My Name review – Eddie Murphy is richly enjoyable in real-life showbiz drama
Murphy is likable and big-hearted in this story of cult 70s blaxploitation star Rudy Ray Moore’s rise from nightclub standup to the movies
Peter Bradshaw
11, Oct, 2019 @1:00 PM

Eddie Murphy shows you can evolve, apologise – and still be funny
A 30-year-old video of George Carlin is proof some standups have long understood the ugliness of attacking underdogs. It’s a lesson many current comics are learning
Arwa Mahdawi
01, Oct, 2019 @2:42 PM
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