Eddie Murphy

Eddie Murphy is an entertainment G.O.A.T. and he knows it.

Few people, if any, would dare to argue Eddie Murphy has not earned his place as one of the greatest comics the world has ever known.

For two decades, Murphy held the record for being the first Black comic to sell more than $1.1 million in tickets for back-to-back live comedy shows. Entertainment juggernaut Kevin Hart blew past that ceiling when he raked in $15 million for two dates of his 2011 comedy tour, “Laugh At My Pain.” Hart also became one of the few acts to sell out Madison Square Garden, a feat that Murphy pulled off with his iconic “Eddie Murphy: Raw” special in 1987.

However, the 63-year-old is confident that no one has raised the entertainment bar since the world first learned his name. “There’s a lot of people I think are funny, you know, and all of that. I haven’t witnessed the next level. The ceiling of the whole art form, you know stand-up comedy, that’s Richard [Pryor] and the ceiling for, you know, movies and stuff, for me, is [Charlie] Chaplin. And I haven’t seen anyone come along that’s better than Chaplin,” he told The New York Times in a newly released interview.