The “Beverly Hills Cop” star has revealed that he wants to do new stand-up comedy performances as soon as the pandemic ends.
The actor appeared on SiriusXM’s podcast “Comedy Gold Minds with Kevin Hart” on Thursday, saying if it weren’t for Covid-19 restrictions, he would have already made a comeback.
“All the time last year I would have been working on my deed, trying to get myself right, and then the whole thing closed.”
He added that “if the pandemic is over and it is safe for everyone to go out and do it, then the plan is to do it.”
Murphy, who turns 60 next month, made a name for himself on the comedy scene in the early 1980s with his Richard Pryor-inspired stand-up and often polarizing shows.
His 1987 film “Raw” – which was filmed in Madison Square Garden in New York – received a wide release and is still the best emerging film of all time, earning more than $ 50 billion.
Murphy is then seen in ‘Coming 2 America’, the much anticipated sequel to the 1988 comedy classic ‘Coming to America’.
The second installment, which appears worldwide on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, follows the newly crowned King Akeem (Eddie Murphy) as he returns with his trusted confidant Semmi (Arsenio Hall) to Queens, New York, in search of his previously unknown son and heir to the throne.