In a recently resurfaced stand-up routine from 1983, Eddie Murphy spends five minutes being very derogatory about gay people, and even saying that he is petrified to hang out with women who have gay friends in case they are carrying AIDS.



Even if he was a comedian, he obviously had some homophobic feelings and I really hope he has changed his views since then.

That's the 80's though. The worst time in recent memory to be gay. Thankfully we had Madonna standing up for us

"recently resurfaced"

uploaded on: Jan 25, 2009

It's recently been brought back up because his show was uploaded to Netflix

but thanks for your input

ahhh the wonders of a simple Google search

he was never funny to me so

ok hun, at that time 90% of ATRL wasn't even born, and those who did were being ignorant and homophobic themselves

The year says it all.

Although I think he may still be trash.

A mess but that was what it was like back then. The majority of society was homophobic. 1983 was over 30 years ago.

He's apologised for his comment and has donated to AIDS organisations

Like I said, Google sis

This may have been decades ago and for that I'd usually let him off because of how different things were back then, but he is obviously still happy enough to gain and profit from homophobia given that this has just been put up on Netflix.

This isn't proof that he's homophobic. He's probably joking given that he's doing a comedy show.

No wonder why nobody heard of him for a while.

33 years ago... He's apologized and become a better person since then. Let's not lose sight of what SHOULD be the point of calling people out for problematic behavior: helping them see the error of their ways and do better

And homophobia (literal emphasis on the phobia part) in addition to a fear of aids were super prevalent back then.

racism is the same as homophobia, how stupid can you be?

He wasn't a child and making fun of such a horrible disease is not funny

I remember watching this when I was a kid

But then again didn't he use to have sex with transexual and transvesites prostitutes back in the days?

Not 1983

Resurfaced? Raw and Delirious have been online since forever. I remember watching it early 2000's and throughout the years showed it to several people that didn't know his stand up routines.
Only because you noticed it now as it's on Netflix doesn't mean it's "resurfaced".

And yes he says things that through our eyes now is hurtful and disgusting but that's how we evolved and educated ourselves throughout the years. In the 80s, what he was saying was what basically everyone was saying and believed...until we knew better.