SeaComedy Late Night Highlight Go to show page Tags: Bruce Dern Gumby, Bruce. It used to be a yearly tradition for SNL to always include this in their annual Christmas compilation special. Gumby: Competition CLIP 03/12/83 Details Bruce Dern tries to take Eddie Murphys role as Gumby. "You're thinking, 'The kid's young, he's 19 years-old.' Am I going to be a burnout? I don't think so." Murphy became the show's breakout star for the next three years. Frank Sinatra (JOP) sings on Gumby’s special Ah, here’s what’s considered the quintessential Gumby sketch, as well as a famous classic sketch in general. "I know what you're thinking," he said when announcing his promotion on the show. For a taste of classic Eddie-Murphy-as-Gumby, here’s Broadway Gumby Rose, a parody of Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose featuring Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Martin Short.
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But it was that exact monologue that would later save the show those five precious minutes and established Murphy as a bona fide member of the SNL cast in 1981. Best of SNL- I am GUMBY, Dammit President Polo 3.38K subscribers 14K views 1 year ago See Eddie Murphys GUMBY in full here for the original SNL vintage clip. "I didn't have enough budget to put Eddie on as a member of the cast, because I had already selected the cast when I auditioned him," she recalled. Levy was so impressed he tried to convince Doumanian to sign him full-time. He was so persistent that Levy finally called him in for an audition, where he performed his monologue of Harlem characters. And he would call every day for about a week." (Murphy, in fact, had only one sibling.) "And I told him, 'I'm sorry, we're not auditioning anymore.' But he called again the next day, and he would go into this whole thing about how he had 18 brothers and sisters and they were counting on him to get this job. In this parody of Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose, Gumby (Eddie Murphy) bickers with his aged show biz pals (Billy Crystal, Martin Short. "This guy Eddie Murphy started calling me," Levy remembered. Doumanian had already hired comedian Robert Townsend for the role, but that didn't stop the 19-year-old Murphy from presenting his case anyway. When Eddie Murphy Debuted Gumby on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Dammit Dave Lifton Published: OctoNBC With the success of Buckwheat and ' Mr. So when Murphy got word in 1980 that the “Black slot” in SNL’s cast was open due to Garrett Morris' departure, he jumped at the opportunity to fill the shoes. In 1979, he told The New York Times he considered himself a “universal comic whose material would play equally well in front of both Black and white audiences.” In many ways, Levy was right: Murphy had been waiting for that moment his whole life. When he was 17 and still in high school, he began performing regularly at the White House Inn, a club on Long Island where he was the first Black comedian to be in showcase.
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