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The resurgence of Eddie Murphy continued on Sunday night at the 25th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award as well as two wins for Dolemite Is My Name including the award for best comedy film. The 58-year-old comedy icon has been enjoying a brighter spotlight in recent months thanks to his…

The Critics' Choice Awards, hosted by Taye Diggs, were handed out on Sunday night and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood took the award for Best Picture and on the TV side, Fleabag nabbed the trophy for Best Comedy Series while Succession went home with Best Drama. A big shocker of the evening was the…

It’s time to get out of holiday mode and get down to business — Oscar business that is, as nominating ballots for the 92nd annual Academy Awards now are live. The roughly 8,730 active voting members have just five days, until Tuesday, to determine the nominees for the best of 2019. The nominations will be announced on…

Just who will receive the Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award this year? It’s Gumby, dammit! Well, Eddie Murphy, to be exact, as the veteran comic and actor’s resurgence continues. The Saturday Night Live alum and Oscar-nominated actor will be feted for his extraordinary roles over the years, most recently his…

A column chronicling events and conversations on the awards circuit. Lots of questions this week as Christmas Day has come and gone and we are just six days away from Oscar ballots going live. Are there upsets looming in a year that has become wildly unpredictable as to which way the Oscar winds may be blowing? We…

One of the top highlights from Eddie Murphy’s first hosting stint on Saturday Night Live in 35 years came in the opening monologue where he brought back his Bill Cosby impersonation while taking a shot at the disgraced comedian. "If you told me 30 years ago that I'd be this boring stay-at-home house dad and Bill Cosby…

A return 35 years in the making gave Saturday Night Live its biggest ratings in two and a half years. Former SNL star Eddie Murphy’s first hosting stint on the venerable NBC program since 1984, delivered a 2.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 9.921 million viewers overall in Live+Same Day, according to “fast official&#8221…

Hey, old-school Eddie Murphy fans: A-member his early-’80s comedy albums? They featured, oh, one or two rather blue moments, famously drawing the ire of then-America’s Dad Bill Cosby. Well, fast-forward nearly four decades, add Twitter Outrage, and you just knew that NBC’s Saturday Night Live censor-minders had their…

Eddie Murphy teased during an interview earlier this week that he may bring back his Bill Cosby impersonation in his return as Saturday Night Live host after 35 years, and he did during his monologue. “If you told me 30 years ago that I’d be this boring stay-at-home house dad and Bill Cosby would be in jail, even I…

Eddie Murphy made his first episodic Saturday Night Live appearance since 1984 tonight, and he reprised a quartet of his most memorable characters from that 1980-84 stint as a castmember in new sketches. First up was “Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood”; watch that one here. And it probably wouldn’t be an Eddie Murphy…

It’s been three and a half decades since Eddie Murphy last reported from “Mister Robinson’s Neighborhood,” and lots has changed. Watch the updated sketch from Murphy’s return to NBC’s Saturday Night Live above. ‘SNL’: Eddie Murphy Roasts Bill Cosby, Welcomes Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock & Dave Chappelle In…

Before Eddie Murphy took the stage on Saturday Night Live for his highly anticipated opening monologue, the show kicked things off with a cold open spoofing Thursday night’s PBS NewsHour/Politico Democratic debate. Watch the clip above. The sketch made fun of the debate’s lack of diversity with celebrity cameos; a…