

Eddie Murphy is experiencing a bit of a comeback in the Year of Our Lord 2019, thanks to his pretty good Netflix film Dolemite Is My Name and a more or less triumphant return to Saturday Night Live as a host. He’s also, it seems, doing a little self-reflecting, which is progress, I think?
Murphy was on CBS Sunday Morning this weekend plugging Dolemite, when correspondent Tracy Smith asked him about some of his decidedly homophobic standup from the 1980s. (I’m not going to include the “jokes”, but Queerty has a good rundown.) “When you watch that stuff, do you laugh? Is it still funny to you?” Smith asked. “Some of it. Some of it, I cringe when I watch,” Murphy responded. “I’m like, oh my God, I can’t believe I said that!”