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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Entertainment Studio
Salesrank: 2815
Released: February 6, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Taped live and in concert at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. in August, 1983, Eddie Murphy Delirious captures Eddie Murphys wild and outrageous stand-up comedy act, which he performed in New York and in eighteen cities across the U.S. to standing-room-only audiences. Eddies comedy was groundbreaking, completely new, razor sharp and very funny.
Eddie Murphy pontificates in his own vulgarly hilarious fashion on everything from bizarre sexual fantasies to reliving the family barbecue, and is peppered with Eddies one-of-a-kind wit. Laugh along as Eddie reminiscences of hot childhood days and the ice cream man intermixed with classic vocal parodies of top American entertainers. Experience Eddie Murphy at his best, live and red hot! Delirious! Uncensored and Uncut!
Description of Eddie Murphy - Delirious:
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
Eddie Murphy - Delirious Reviews:
Eddie Murphy Delirious 
2009-08-26 - Has some profanity and comments about gays but if you are open minded you will find it hysterical!
Timeless
2009-06-22 - Whenever I introduce someone to Delirious, it is always followed by them asking if they can borrow my dvd to show someone else how funny it is.
The best stand up I ever seen.
2009-05-27 - The first time I seen this I was about 7 and I couldn't believe the stuff he was saying. But I watched Delirious about fifty times since then and it's still the funniest stand up comedy to me.
HiLaRiOuS
2009-05-19 - I love Delirious!! It is Hilarious!! This one will keep you rolling!!! I definitely recommend this video to anyone that has a sense of humor! It's old school, but still funny as ever!
Eddie Murphy's Glory Days
2009-04-24 - This was Eddie Murphy back in the days, before all that family-friendly crap. This classic 70-minute stand-up comedy is full of insane profanity, and lots of politically incorrect Richard Pryor-like craziness! Some of my favorite segments here are Murphy's impersonations of James Brown (who DOESN'T love that one?!), Michael Jackson, and Elvis. And then there's the segments including world language and the Family Cookout and the Ice Cream: that's good stuff right here! This is the classic Eddie, and I don't think we'll ever see and hear this sort of stuff from the man again sadly due to Hollywood degradation. But we'll still have Delirious and Raw.
