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Light years before political correctness--1983 to be exact--or his comeback in tame Disney comedies, Eddie Murphy was a charismatic, wonderfully offensive, egocentric 22-year-old black comedian known for crude celebrity impersonations and often shockingly frank diatribes on racial and sexual politics. Dressed in a skin-tight red leather suit and delivering endless streams of obscenities faster than Richard Pryor ever did, Murphy is captured in this raunchy HBO special (a filmed document of his Grammy-winning album, Eddie Murphy, Comedian) at his confident, swaggering, comedic peak--a posture that soon disappeared after a string of bland Hollywood comedies. Here, however, his energy and sheer virtuosity command complete control over the audience for 107 minutes, whether he's mocking personalities like Elvis, James Brown, and Stevie Wonder, or spinning long, gag-filled personal anecdotes about the ice-cream man or dysfunctional family barbecues. There's no apologizing for the immature stereotyping, blatant homophobia, and sexism (though Murphy did so several years later) that surface during the routine. But, then again, unlike his much nastier, one-sided concert film, Raw, no topic here is safe from Murphy's uproarious tongue-lashings--including the comedian himself. --Dave McCoy
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Bruce Gowers |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1983 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount Home Entertainment (UK) |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | PAL |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
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Customer Reviews of Eddie Murphy Delirious
The best stand-up comedy act ever filmed! I rented Eddie Murphy's DVD of "Raw" just last year. So I was thinking: "Maybe they released this one because everyone thinks it's better." But, I feel: "No way! "Delirious" is a hundred times funnier!" On "Raw", Eddie sounded a little more mean-spirited, especially about women. "Raw" just seemed like he had some indirect points to make regarding his own problems involving a particular woman recently in his life. You can see and hear some sincere bitterness in that performance. <
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>"Delirious" is the performance that made him a star. The humor on "Delirious" was far more variable too. He did more celebrity impressions and even created exaggerated performances of his own family. He took the subjects of humor that Bill Cosby probably would do, but Eddie Murphy made it far more nastier. <
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>Even Bill Cosby's 1982 performance on DVD called "Bill Cosby Himself", is a great DVD to have also for a night of comedy to share when your friends are over. And Cosby's performance is generally quite clean. And, to me, if you can be hilarious as hell, and get people rolling on the floor laughing, without having to be vulgar in any way, this is what makes a comedian great. However, Eddie is just the opposite of Bill Cosby. But, Eddie does have a lot more talent than the average black comedian. His timing is in check, his effective use of dramatic pause, and his gift of accurate celebrity impersonations is what made this whole show great. He was just as good, if not better than Rich Little. I've always thought that people who have to use fowl language to express themselves is usually a sign of someone trying, very loudly, to cover up their ignorance. Black and white people both do it. But, I guess it's routine for black comedians to depend on it more than white comedians. Eddie sure cleaned up his act over the years, hasn't he? Just like Cheech Marin (of Cheech and Chong), they were once vulgar comedians, and now they both do voices for Disney cartoons. <
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>I sure hope they don't alter this DVD for the sake of "political correctness". Back in the day, I remember when this show was first released on an album called "Eddie Murphy: Comedian". I wanted to buy it so bad. Today's kids have no idea what it`s like to struggle to put some money together just to buy an album that you wanted so badly. Back then, we respected our vinyl LP's like they were as cherishable as a piece of fine jewelry. We worked so hard just to buy one new album! I never thought that my parents owed me anything, so if I wanted to buy a record, I had to go out and make my own money. I went out and raked leaves, shoveled snow, washed cars, and did whatever it took just to get a few bucks together to buy that one new album that I just had to have. Today's kids have no idea how spoiled they are, and yet they still complain that they don't have enough. They measure themselves against their other friends who may have more than them and they try to make us parents feel guilty about it. Of course, they would never tell us about the kid's they know who have much less than them. And I know there are many. <
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>I hope they can give their own kids "half" of what we gave them growing up. They are going to be in for a shock!! I know I drifted off the point here about this review, but I just remember fondly of how I applied myself to the working world as a kid to have the nice things that my friends didn't have because they were too lazy to go out and work for anything. The album of this show, was one of the things I worked hard for and had no regrets nor had anyone else to blame for what I didn't have. Can you relate? <
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What Took So Long!!!???!
I've been waiting for the release of this DVD for YEARS!!! Absolutely,Positively the funniest standup I've ever seen!! Not for the young kids. Except for the bear and rabbit joke of course.
man oh man
i can't believe they're finally releasing this on DVD. this is the dirtiest, filthiest, most gut bustingest HILARIOUS stand-up performance ever recorded (and that includes Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and George Carlin). me and my buddies recorded this off HBO back in the eighties and we would play it over and over at parties. classic party video that will now be a classic DVD. recommended!