{"id":134830,"date":"2024-07-14T18:06:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T22:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134830"},"modified":"2024-07-14T18:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T22:06:01","slug":"eddie-murphy-is-still-waiting-for-someone-to-raise-the-comedic-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=134830","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Murphy Is Still Waiting For Someone To Raise The Comedic Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eddie Murphy<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eddie Murphy is an entertainment G.O.A.T. and he knows it.<\/p>\n

Few people, if any, would dare to argue\u00a0Eddie Murphy<\/a>\u00a0has not earned his place as one of the greatest comics the world has ever known.<\/p>\n

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, \u201cLaugh At My Pain.\u201d Hart also became one of the few acts to sell out Madison Square Garden, a feat that Murphy pulled off with his iconic \u201cEddie Murphy: Raw\u201d special in 1987.<\/p>\n

However, the 63-year-old is confident that no one has raised the entertainment bar since the world first learned his name. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people I think are funny, you know, and all of that. I haven\u2019t witnessed the next level. The ceiling of the whole art form, you know stand-up comedy, that\u2019s Richard [Pryor] and the ceiling for, you know, movies and stuff, for me, is [Charlie] Chaplin. And I haven\u2019t seen anyone come along that\u2019s better than Chaplin,\u201d he told\u00a0The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0in a newly released interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eddie Murphy Eddie Murphy is an entertainment G.O.A.T. and he knows it. Few people, if any, would dare to argue\u00a0Eddie Murphy\u00a0has 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134832,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134830\/revisions\/134832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}