Harlem Nights vs. LIFE

[Methodical]

Maybe he didn't have any material.

Maybe he can give them like 10 mins with top off his head....If he's a truly comedian so I'm sure he can pull it off with just a simple 10 mins or can roast at their friends with 10 mins. I'm sure a lot of comedian can pull it off.

I just think he just lost interest.

 

[Sbp]

Harlem Nights but maybe its an 80s baby thing.

Gotta be cuz it ain't even a contest for me Harlem nights soon as I saw the thread title.

 

[DA_LURKA]

Maybe he can give them like 10 mins with top off his head....If he's a truly comedian so I'm sure he can pull it off with just a simple 10 mins or can roast at their friends with 10 mins. I'm sure a lot of comedian can pull it off.

I just think he just lost interest.

You have a point cause Dave Chapelle, who i don't find to be funny at stand up killed it in that first clip when he was in London. He had me rolling and he came through on the humble.

 

[JCalli]

Harlem Nights and it ain't even close.

Thats not to shyt on Life, but Harlem nights is on another level. One of my go to comedies still to this day.

I'd have to agree with the poster who said it must be an age thing. Ain't no way in hell you an 80s baby and got Life over this.

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

I remember it was two years ago on Spike TV where they having Eddie Murphy comedy legend honored by Samuel L Jackson, Russell Brand, Jamie Foxx, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Martin Lawrence, Arsenio Hall, his older brother Charlie Murphy, Keenen Ivory Wayans,Tracy Morgan etc many mores. by Spike TV channel.

I thought they gonna roast Eddie but it wasn't, it was just paying tribute to Eddie Murphy. Then when Arsenio Hall came on the stage and he was begging and asked the crowd to begging like to Eddie just do the comedy stand up for last time in here and Eddie was like , and was like "nah" then Arsenio kept begging then realzied Eddie really didn't want to do it so he was like "all right"


.

That shyt had me thinking, maybe he doesn't have in him anymore to be funny? or didn't want to get embarrassed that his joke are whack while you have people would try hard to pretending and laughing with him just for his sake and he didn't want that either that would insult his intelligence

i remember chris rock had that show on hbo... martin was his guest... it was just as kings of comedy was blowing up

chris: me, you and eddie should do a real kings of comedy

me & Martin:




then i never heard another word.... i know where that no came from... so sad... he got caught with that tranny and been doing kids flicks ever since

 

[Ruck]

Life! i tried to watch harlem nights, but couldn't make it halfway through. the dynamic between martin and eddie was phenomenal. why the fukk haven't they made another movie together?

 

[Danie84]

I know it's Blasphemy, cuz Harlem Nights has all the BLACKEXCELLENCE comedic legends, but I prefer Life

 

[MostReal]

Life easy.

Thinking about how they got they entire lives taken from them

Harlem nights was alright. In reality the only thing I think of when I think of that movie is the pee shooter scene.

what really elevates the movies IMO is how smart they were.

Eddie was speaking on history & how it destroyed black lives. Peonage & how the Harlem Renaissance was destroyed by the Mob in part. He told you the truth while making you laugh about it

 

[Anbesa]

life was the first rated R movie I ever saw. Its forever ingrained in my memories. That cornbread scene .
The part where all the inmates start passing away one by one gets me emotional every time

 

[Urethra Franklin]

Harlem Nights and it ain't even close.

Thats not to shyt on Life, but Harlem nights is on another level. One of my go to comedies still to this day.

I'd have to agree with the poster who said it must be an age thing. Ain't no way in hell you an 80s baby and got Life over this.

Both Eddie Murphy and the movie combined received two Golden Raspberry Award nominations for the film for both Worst Director and Worst Screenplay with Murphy and the movie winning for the latter.

By his own admission, Eddie Murphy felt that he didn't dedicate enough thought or care to the directing of his debut. He was more concerned at the time with figuring out where the next party was going to be.

The movie won Worst Picture at the Hastings Bad Cinema Society's 12th Stinkers Bad Movie Awards in 1989.

According to TV Tropes, "after this movie's failure, Eddie Murphy's career wouldn't recover until the 1996 remake of The Nutty Professor

Despite a fair gross, the film was considered a box office disappointment by the studio, earning roughly half of Murphy's earlier box office successes Coming to America and Beverly Hills Cop II from the previous two years.

 

[Milk N Cookies]

Ya know, they never said why Cantgetright did that landed him in there with all the life serving inmates...

 

[Long Live The Kane]

Harlem Nights but maybe its an 80s baby thing.

Maybe. ..cause I'm sitting here damn near in shock that the overwhelming response isn't ...Harlem Nights one of my favorite movies ever. .. I have to watch Life again off the strength of this thread

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

SWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[madness]

harlem nights caught a lot of hate when it first came out. it wasnt until richard pryor, robin harris and redd foxx died did people go back and see how funny it was.

but life was just funny as shyt, eddie is always at his best when he's doing those slick-talking roles and the way he was cracking jokes on martin's meek character was priceless.

lowkey that flick also had superb makeup crew, they did an amazing job on martin and eddie as they got older throughout the movie

i thought eddie was gearing up for a career comeback when he was supposed to host the oscars a few years back. then the fakkit community got mad at brett ratner and he dropped out.

 

[Majestic Pape]

I remember it was two years ago on Spike TV where they having Eddie Murphy comedy legend honored by Samuel L Jackson, Russell Brand, Jamie Foxx, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Martin Lawrence, Arsenio Hall, his older brother Charlie Murphy, Keenen Ivory Wayans,Tracy Morgan etc many mores. by Spike TV channel.

I thought they gonna roast Eddie but it wasn't, it was just paying tribute to Eddie Murphy. Then when Arsenio Hall came on the stage and he was begging and asked the crowd to begging like to Eddie just do the comedy stand up for last time in here and Eddie was like , and was like "nah" then Arsenio kept begging then realzied Eddie really didn't want to do it so he was like "all right"


.

That shyt had me thinking, maybe he doesn't have in him anymore to be funny? or didn't want to get embarrassed that his joke are whack while you have people would try hard to pretending and laughing with him just for his sake and he didn't want that either that would insult his intelligence

I don't think it has anything to do with him being scared of not being funny or embarrassing himself (hilarious people rarely stop being funny anyway). Stand up is just such a time consuming endeavor, he probably just doesn't want to put the work in. It's easier (and more profitable) to read off of a script and adlib and improv where needed. I very much doubt Eddie is too shook to do it though.