Eddie Murphy opens up in his Netflix documentary “Being Eddie” about his decision to stay away from “Saturday Night Live” for decades. It all stemmed from a joke David Spade made on “ SNL ” in 1995 about Murphy’s struggling movie career. Murphy previously called the joke “racist,” but he says in the doc that his anger was toward the show at large and not Spade directly. “SNL” made Murphy a comedy star and Murphy revitalized “SNL’s” ratings when he was a cast member from 1980 to 1984.

About a decade into Murphy’s post-“SNL” blockbuster movie career, he experienced a box office flop with the Wes Craven-directed horror movie “Vampire in Brooklyn.” Spade joked about the movie’s poor reception on “SNL” when he said on “Weekend Update”: “Look, children, it’s a falling star. Make a wish! Yo

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