Eddie Murphy opens up about long-running 'SNL' feud

Eddie Murphy is finally speaking out about his longstanding feud with Saturday Night Live, explaining why he felt the show crossed a line by mocking his career.

In his new Netflix documentary Being Eddy, which hit the small screens on Wednesday, November 12, the 64-year-old actor and comedian stated, "It’s like your alma mater taking a shot at you. At my career, not how funny I was."

"Called me a falling star," he added.

The Beverly Hills Cop actor used to be a part of the sketch comedy show from 1980 to 1984.

After exiting the show, he achieved movie stardom. During his tenure on SNL, he claimed that any jokes that targeted a cast member were instantly rejected.

“If there was a joke now about a former SNL cast member, about how f***ed up their career, it would get shot down,” he recalled. “It went through all those channels that the joke has to go through and then it was on the air.”

However, years later David Spade referenced Eddie in a joke about his film Vampire in a Building, the movie that initially didn’t do well but is now considered as a cult classic.

In the show's 1995 “Spade in America” sketch, the Grown Ups actor spotlighted a photo of Eddie and quipped to viewers, “Look, children, it’s a falling star. Make a wish,” leaving the Shrek star hurt.

So I wasn’t, like, f*** David Spade, I was like, f*** SNL. That’s what y’all think of me?” he said in Being Eddie. “Oh, you dirty mother f***ers. And that’s why I didn’t go back for years.”

Now, he has put past conflicts behind him, leaving a clean slate with both SNL and David.

He buried the hatchet with the comedy show back in 2019, when he came back as a host.

“That little friction I had with SNL was 35 years ago,” he shared. “I don’t have no smoke with David Spade. I don’t have heat with any of that or nobody. So I was like, ‘Let’s go to SNL and smooth it all out.’ And so I did.”