I guess it’s fan service to bring back Murphy’s greatest hits (as well as yet another sign of SNL‘s general creative bankruptcy), even though you really have to be at least 45 years old to have any sense of either Murphy’s original bits or the references. The Gumby segment—where Murphy dresses down Che and Jost at the Weekend Update desk—works better than Buckwheat on The Masked Singer, because it’s always fun to see Che and Jost get insulted, especially by a screaming man in a large green foam suit. You don’t really need any context to enjoy it. … [Read more...] about He’s Eddie Murphy, dammit, and he saved this damn ‘SNL’ from the gutter—again
