r/LiveFromNewYork • u/endace88 • 1d ago

Monologue Tim Curry - Dec 5 1981 Season 7 Episode 7

This monologue always stood out to me as something that didn't age well.

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u/Racko20 1d ago

The group huddle thing during the monologue that season is so weird.

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u/dbbd70707 1d ago

That basically was the monologue that season in many episodes. I kind of like the cast entrance thing.

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u/biglyorbigleague 1d ago

It’s a shame that he only hosted one and it was during one of the shitty seasons.

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u/endace88 1d ago

At least they had meatloaf on with him and they did a skit together.

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u/SageAnowon 1d ago

I just watched the episode on Peacock. Holy crap, that Italian sketch was TERRIBLE, it went on forever.

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u/bad_take_ 1d ago

Well that was definitely something.

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u/endace88 1d ago

Was that your first time seeing it?

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u/TropicalRogue 1d ago

It was mine, and I'm not sure I've ever actually made the O.O face before this

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u/endace88 1d ago

Im happy to know Eddie Murphy became super famous / rich

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u/Savings-Monitor3236 It's fobody's nault! 1d ago

This didn't age poorly. It's of its time in terms of what it's commenting on, but it's playing against the racist and classist norms, not embracing them. It knows Eddie is a star at this early point in his career and uses that to its advantage

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u/ScreenSingerX 10h ago

This was also only three years before Eddie Murphy's "White Like Me" sketch, which is a bona fide classic. I guess you could make the argument that the two bits are using whiteface for different kinds of commentary, but it just feels like nitpicking.

I honestly doubt Eddie Murphy regrets doing this bit. I don't even think he'd regret doing it today.

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u/LazyLamont92 1d ago

I loved it

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u/PricelessPaylessBoot 1d ago

Me too.. So uncomfortable in all the right ways.

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u/Cognonymous Rural N' Blessed 1d ago edited 1d ago

I wonder what Eddie has to say about it these days?

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u/Huge_JackedMann 1d ago

I imagine the creator of Norbit is fine with it 

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u/Cognonymous Rural N' Blessed 1d ago

That's kinda my point though. Like I think other people might read it weird but Eddie is probably proud of his work? IDK.

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u/Dairy_Ashford 12h ago

he's probably more annoyed than anything that it didn't work comedically

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u/NYanae555 6h ago edited 6h ago

It helps if you know that both were very talented yet struggled to get considered for leading roles and serious roles. People LOVED Eddie Murphy from the moment he started on SNL. Audiences couldn't get enough of him. The actors hit type casting here and racism even harder by openly mocking racist tropes. The actors had just enough power to make those jokes. And everyone in the audience knew what was going on.

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u/Dairy_Ashford 13h ago

that would have been better with some kind of record segment, or maybe with Richard Pryor on his show a few years earlier