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Murphy won for his performance on the December Christmas 2019 episode of the long-running NBC variety series then promoting his Netflix film Dolemite is My Name. Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat, Mr Robinson, Gumby, and Velvet Jones on the December 21, 2019 episode of Saturday Night Live Images courtesy of NBC Eddie Murphy's Favorite Characters Return to SNL In[...]

From 1980-1984, Murphy worked his way up from repertory player to feature player to writer – to show savior. Over the course of four season, Murphy introduced us to hot-tubbin' James Brown, grown-up Buckwheat, street prophet Mr Robinson, cranky Gumpy, and .smooth-talkin "motivational speaker" Velvet Jones When he wasn't showing us what it was like being[...]