I don't know a person who hasn't been touched in some way by this disease. I've had people close to me die from the disease as well. "My wife and I have donated both time and money to AIDS research. "I am not homophobic and I am not anti-gay," the statement said. In Los Angeles, Murphy's personal assistant, Paul Bloch, said Murphy "wrote every word, every comma," of his statement, and "we just faxed it out." In the film, Murphy plays a police hostage negotiator. While it (the apology) is late, it's a step in the right direction."Ī spokesman for "Metro," the film Murphy is making in San Francisco, said the actor was on the set and not available for further comment yesterday. "It's important for people in the public eye like Eddie Murphy to recognize they set a tone for the general public.
"This statement certainly does sound as though Murphy recognizes the impact his past statements have had on the gay community," Smith said. The statement is overdue and now the air is clear."ĭavid Smith, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign Fund in Washington, D.C., also applauded Murphy's belated apology. Personally, I think this really shows growth. "This issue is bigger than Eddie Murphy, and a statement like this is very helpful in terms of quashing misinformation. I feel very gratified that he has seen the light. He pointed to the fact that education is important for all of us, and that was the thrust of the press conference. It's 1996 and I'm a lot smarter about AIDS now."Īmmiano, after hearing the apology read to him over the telephone yesterday afternoon, said he is gratified. "I know how serious an issue AIDS is the world over. I think it is unfair to take the words of a misinformed 21-year-old and apply them to an informed 35-year- old man. Referring specifically to his 1981 HBO special called "Delirious," Murphy said, "Just like the rest of the world, I am more educated about AIDS in 1996 than I was in 1981. Murphy said he was young and "misinformed" back then. In his statement, Murphy said, "I deeply regret any pain all this has caused."
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It’s 1996 and I’m a lot smarter about AIDS now.The comic appeared on the show, taped at the Palace of Fine Arts, as planned, and in a subdued conversation with Letterman apologized for something else - his movie crew's disruption of San Francisco traffic.īut for years, when Murphy was doing stand-up appearances, he leaned heavily on jokes about gays, lacing his routines with terms such as "faggot." The protesters Thursday said Murphy never apologized for an old TV comedy routine in which he made jokes about people with AIDS and the transmission of the disease. I know how serious an issue AIDS is the world over.
I think it is unfair to take the words of a misinformed 21-year-old and apply them to an informed 35-year-old man.
“Just like the rest of the world, I am more educated about AIDS in 1996 than I was in 1981. “I deeply regret any pain all this has caused,” he said in a statement at the time, adding that he was “misinformed” about AIDS. Back in 1996, he apologized for the homophobic material in Delirious, which includes the use of gay slurs and jokes about AIDS, as well as homophobic jokes he has told over the years in other sets. This isn’t the first time Murphy has looked back with some regret on his old material.
“That’s a bit much, my goodness,” he quipped, doing an impression of himself watching the old stand-up set, which included homophobic jokes. “I was a young guy processing a broken heart, you know, kind of an asshole,” he said of Raw, noting that his old jokes made him cringe. He also revealed that he’s not terribly fond of the old stand-up material that made him a household name, specifically Raw, the 1987 follow-up to his hit Delirious. In an interview with the New York Times, the comedian-making a major career comeback this year with the Netflix film Dolemite Is My Name-got candid about his return to the big screen, calling this phase a “bookend” to his superstar days of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Consider Eddie Murphy’s awards-season campaign officially launched.
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