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Eddie Murphy Returning to “SNL” for Its 40th Anniversary Special

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013015 EddieMurphySNL?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1422646888742Al Levine/NBC(NEW YORK) — Eddie Murphy has not appeared on Saturday Night Live, the show that launched his career, in over three decades, but that will soon change.

The comedian has revealed he will appear on the sketch-comedy program’s 40th anniversary special, scheduled to air on NBC on Feb. 15.

When asked about his extended absence from the SNL stage during a phone interview with TV One’s News One Now, Murphy commented, “It’s just timing. It just never worked out where the timing was right for me to do it. …They’re having a 40th anniversary, I think, in two weeks, I’m going to that. And that will be the first time I’ve been back since I left.”  

Murphy was a cast member on SNL in the early 1980s, making his mark with characters like Buckwheat, Gumby and Mr. Robinson. He left the show in 1984.

Murphy has stated in the past he was upset with SNL after David Spade cracked a joke about his career on the show in the 1990s.


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