Comedian Eddie Murphy joins Jemele to talk about his new movie, "The End of the World" and what it's like being a stand up comic in the 21st century. He also talks about how he got into stand up comedy and why he doesn't drink alcohol anymore. He also explains why he's not a morning person and why it's important to have a good night's rest before getting up in the morning. And he talks about why you should be worried about the end of the world because you're not going to end up in heaven, because you don't have to be in heaven to live in hell. This episode was recorded in Los Angeles, CA at the Comedy Cellar Comedy Club in Union Square, which is right across the street from Union Square from the Staples Center in LA. You can get tickets to Eddie Murphy's new movie on Amazon Prime and VaynerSpeakers. Click here to buy tickets here. You can also support Eddie's new comedy project, "Eddie Murphy's The End Of The World" here. You'll get 20% off the entire show when you buy your tickets at Amazon Prime on Prime Video. If you like the show, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a rating and review the show on Apple Podcasts! We're listening to your favorite streaming service! Thank you so much for all the support we've gotten so far this year! We really appreciate all the love, support, support and support we really means a lot to us and we really appreciate it. We appreciate you. We really really deeply. Thank you. - Thank you for being a lot. We can't do this. We're looking out for you, really really appreciate you, we appreciate you! - The Effing Thank You. We'll see you back. We love you. xoxo - Eddie Murphy - EJ. - Thank You, Eddie Murphy - Thank Me, EJ & JUICY! -Jemele - Thank You So Much, JB & JB - Thank Me Back to You, Thank You For Your Support, Thank Me & I'll See You, Gotta Do This, Gave Me Some Effing Me Some Love, Bye Bye Bye, Bye, Gonna See You Soon, Next Week, Soon, Soon Bye, Next Year, Bye. XOXO, Somethings - Ollie
00:00:32.000If you knew that you were now in heaven, and you get to bang some chick anytime you want for the rest of your life, and you get to eat all the food you wanted for the rest of your life, you think that it would be awesome.
00:00:52.000It's part of, we are some sort of a monkey that creates things.
00:00:55.000And if we don't create things, whether you create ideas, whether you create relationships, whether you create houses, whether you create jokes, whatever the fuck you put forth, that's what makes human beings happy.
00:01:06.000If you're just living in the clouds, banging chicks and eating food, you would fucking live in hell.
00:01:11.000You don't think you would, but eventually you would be in hell.
00:01:15.000You would be in some weird situation where a giant part of what it is to be a human...
00:01:44.000The best part about overcoming the financial struggle is now the struggle gets to be about thoughts and ideas.
00:01:51.000Now the struggle gets to be about creating shit.
00:01:53.000Now the struggle gets to be about getting to the center of what the fuck this is.
00:01:57.000Getting to the center of what is this life.
00:01:59.000And you can, guess what, you can think about what is this life a whole lot more when you're a comedian that gets to wake up at 1 in the afternoon and doesn't necessarily have to do anything all day.
00:02:09.000And you can sit in front of your computer drinking coconut juice and smoking pot and reading online.
00:02:13.000You can think things through in a manner that the average person does never get a chance to do You never have that opportunity.
00:02:19.000And that's what you get paid for, too.
00:02:20.000That's what kind of stand-up is, putting it into a funny light, but kind of like surprising people with where you're taking your idea.
00:03:44.000He was really good at jiu-jitsu and we were hanging out together just because we took classes together and he gave me some private lessons and tied me up in a knot.
00:04:46.000So we went out, we got some lunch, get some private lessons, and we started talking about creativity and life and music and stuff because he's a musician.
00:04:54.000And he said that he writes his best stuff when he's stoned.
00:04:56.000And I was like, that doesn't even make sense.
00:06:56.000I love when people, like when I have a friend that's a close friend that's very smart, That will take things in a different way.
00:07:02.000And I don't necessarily always agree with them, but it's a fascinating thing.
00:07:05.000It's almost like if you value their opinion and if you talk to them about things, it's like you have one more you out there interpreting the world from another possible angle.
00:12:36.000But being a part of the community, like having people like you as a friend and having people like, you know, Nick Swartzen come over and Carolla come over and all these people that I'm like, wow, Nick Swartzen's hanging out here.
00:12:58.000It's like part of this fraternity or something.
00:13:01.000I always feel like, you know, boy, when you've done the road and when you've been on stage and, you know, faced audiences who are so different, you don't know how they're going to respond.
00:14:24.000So I've known Bobby since, like I said, I was like 24, and he was probably a couple years younger than me, like maybe 21. That's so funny, man.
00:16:42.000He's just so irreverent, but he was fucking killing the room.
00:16:44.000And then we were all backstage, and I'm with Gary Shanling, and all these guys are in some ways big.
00:16:50.000They've done a lot of stuff in comedy for 20, 30 years.
00:16:52.000And they were all talking about how they just all have so much reverence for comedy, and it's still not easy no matter what, and it's still a challenge, and you're still...
00:18:12.000I mean, it's also, you know, he's trying to figure out some way to get the public on his side because he's got some giant lawsuit coming up.
00:18:41.000And Warner Brothers still has his big poster on their studios.
00:18:44.000Yeah, Brian thinks it's all a scam to make Two and a Half Men the biggest show ever next season when he comes back in his triumphant return.
00:19:38.000Yeah, the executive producer doesn't want this junkie back on his set, and he wants to move on, but he's going to ruin a lot of fucking people's jobs.
00:19:44.000Actually, what they say was that he could strangle a girl and everything else, and then he made fun of Chuck Lorre on that radio show, and that's when he got fired.
00:19:52.000Well, that Chuck Lorre guy, we talked about on the show before, about all the shows that he's produced.
00:21:25.000Somebody gets exactly what they want and they're a little too young to handle it or they get exactly what they want and they don't have the imagination to figure out where else they can grow, they get into fucking trouble.
00:21:35.000Too much money, no imagination, and you didn't earn it?
00:21:57.000Wait, he's having guests on the show or comics opening for him?
00:22:01.000Comics, what they do is the comics will interview him.
00:22:04.000There's a video of him interviewing Russell Peters where, Russell Peters rather, interviewing Charlie Sheen where Charlie Sheen talks about accidentally leaving his gun out and Kelly Preston was living with him and she dropped the gun and shot her.
00:22:16.000It shot the toilet and it ricocheted and hit her.
00:23:13.000Whoever the fuck the guy is inside of him that was the guy that was in Wall Street or was the guy that was in Platoon, that guy's a bad motherfucker.
00:23:19.000And if you could find who that guy is, you know, people lose their way and regain it.
00:25:06.000How about what Zeppelin did, but it's under 24. I mean, like, you hear them, like, Cashmere and Led Zeppelin 1. They were like 23, 24, 25. That's ridiculous.
00:28:28.000He said, I don't know what's going to start the third world war, what weapons will be used, but the fourth world war will be fought with sticks.
00:28:36.000But the point is that I think when you live in times of great uncertainty, And times of great hope and times of great violence.
00:28:43.000Remember, in this country, we'd come off a number of assassinations, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, John Kennedy, Joe Kennedy, and it goes on and on.
00:28:52.000I mean, there was this notion that we were in a real battle and a real social battle for our souls, man.
00:28:59.000You had government sending young boys off to die in a war.
00:29:02.000Most people hadn't even heard of that fucking part of the world.
00:29:05.000And there was this idea that we gotta get in the streets and say something and do something.
00:29:10.000More importantly, if we do so, shit will change.
00:29:13.000And people were getting hosed down and black people didn't have the vote until 1964. It was only 10 years old.
00:29:19.000So when you think about how extreme Things were not only that, but how uncertain and how it was the beginning of so many different ideas that were competing.
00:29:30.000When you get a society in turmoil, usually, and what's very positive about it is you want a cross-current of ideas.
00:29:38.000You want ideas bashing heads like fucking rams.
00:29:42.000And when you have that, provided you keep the violence out of it, but there's always going to be a little violence, but when you have that and people where they're fighting for their souls with an idea, You're going to get something pretty fucking cool.
00:29:54.000And you're going to get certainly very volatile artistic expression.
00:29:57.000And a lot of that expression can very well be Miles Davis who was saying, I'm a black man in America and I still don't feel free or whatever it might be.
00:30:09.000Well, Bieber is candy compared to, think about it, how much music counted back then.
00:30:14.000Jazz was the only place that a lot of black people could really express themselves honestly, through a fucking horn.
00:30:21.000So if your heart's broken, you either sing it or you shoot it through a horn because if you say otherwise, you're going to get fucking hung or shot or arrested.
00:30:29.000That's what it was to be black in the 1940s, 50s, 60s, and even the 70s for a lot of them.
00:30:37.000And I think in today's world where everything's at the touch of a button, where everybody has plenty to eat, even if it's not healthy food, and we feel safer.
00:32:21.000Well, truly be doing what you enjoy doing.
00:32:22.000You do have to constantly stoke those fires.
00:32:26.000And one of the things about stand-up is the fear of bombing also gives you another added incentive and motivation that I think some artists are without.
00:32:45.000And it's not, it was just, I mean, look, just life is temporary and we all need to wrap our fucking heads around that.
00:32:51.000If we all just step back, this whole world is moving on momentum.
00:32:55.000And that is our number one problem as a race.
00:32:57.000We're moving in the way that our ancestors have been moving.
00:33:01.000No one ever just stops and goes, whoa, whoa, whoa, let's just settle down and talk this over.
00:33:05.000Let's have a 30-day summit where the leaders of the world get together and try to figure out how are we going to redesign the human race to make us all function together?
00:33:15.000How is there going to be a reasonable distribution of the natural resources of the earth so that One country doesn't grow rich because they have the fucking missiles and the nuclear bombs.
00:33:26.000And somehow or another it's distributed amongst everyone so we get some sense of fairness and all work together to make sure that people don't have too many fucking babies so we don't run out of food on this crazy rock.
00:33:36.000Let's organize this thing and let's do it together.
00:33:39.000The only way that's going to happen is the kids that are in college right now who are listening to shit like this, who are going online and researching the world and looking at things in a way that we never had the ability to and the access to information that we never had access to.
00:33:53.000And they're getting a chance to see the world from a fresh eye and fresh perspective and realize that this is some weird thing where we're all running in the same direction hoping that someone knows where we're going.
00:34:10.000And the responsibility for those kids is figuring out a way to sift through all the information.
00:34:15.000There will be some in the system right now that will be sensitive to it and the next wave will integrate.
00:34:20.000And the next wave of people that are trying to be politicians will be like Gary Johnson, will be like Ron Paul.
00:34:24.000They'll realize there's freedom and love in telling the truth and really trying to do the right thing instead of being some bitch to a corporation, which is what most politicians are.
00:34:59.000Not to say that this is why we're doing it, but I hear it all the time that this podcast changes the way people think.
00:35:04.000And I think having a guy like you in my life has definitely changed the way I think.
00:35:09.000And I think all of us together, we help each other.
00:35:13.000And I'm very happy and very proud that we can put out this resource, not just for entertainment, this podcast, but also, you know, it gives you an opportunity to hear another point of view that you might not come in contact with in your life.
00:35:26.000I don't know too many people like you.