Gumby: Don’t tell me to calm down, trailer boy. And this is the thanks that I get for saving the show? Shame on you Lorne Michaels. Kids of the 1950s and 1960s remember Gumby as the lovable, goofable, flexible green dude who came to life on Howdy Doody. Gumby: How the hell are people not gonna know who I am? I am Gumby, dammit! Let me tell you something. In the 1980s, SNL unleashed their version of Gumby Saturday Night Live, a rare chance for generations to coalesce around a common hero. Michael Che: Well, we just thought people wouldn’t know who you were. He was just a regular corn boy till I saw him. I am the one that made Eddie Murphy a star. Eddie Murphys Gumby crashed Weekend Update, dammit, when the star returned to Saturday Night Live as host for the first time in 35 years in its Dec. "We are all having these discussions in the office about how important he is to all of us, so we are all excited to have him back," said Bowen Yang.Gumby: What am I doing here? The question, Michael Che, is how the hell are you going to put on a show and not have me in the show until now? I should have been in the every damn sketch from the top. We'll have to pitch him and see if he likes anything.
"We are extremely both nervous and excited," Thompson confirmed. Because I knew those would be impossible to get." I did call immediately to be like 'Can I have two tickets?' which I almost never do. "I'm sure they are all really excited," Tina Fey told us last month at the American Museum of Natural History's 2019 gala, chaired by Lorne Michaels. "I'd be so nervous to pitch sketch ideas to Eddie Murphy. His return as host was announced in August, weeks before the season premiered or most of the other hosts of the fall were named, as if they wanted to lock it in as much as possible, and probably make the cast and writers as nervous as possible too. He just stood there and talked about how it was like going back to high school, and he'd always love this show. Murphy went on to appear in the SNL's 40th anniversary special in 2015, though he didn't do anything funny. Robinson (parodying Fred Rogers, who found it amusing) and a morose, cynical Gumby, whose trademark slogan. His characters included a grown-up version of the Little Rascals character Buckwheat a streetwise children's show host named Mr. Eddie coming back, it's like the prodigal son." In the early 1980s, Murphy first earned national attention as a cast member on Saturday Night Live (SNL) and was credited with helping to revitalize the show. Since he hosted in 1984, just a few months after his last episode as a cast member, Murphy has only returned to SNL to make an appearance on the 40th anniversary special, and now he's finally back for what might be the most anticipated show of all time.Īs Kenan Thompson put it to E! News, "That's the biggest reunion the show has ever had. And you certainly know who Eddie Murphy is. Robinson, or James Brown and his celebrity hot tub.
You might not even have been alive at the time, but you've heard of Gumby, Mr. On the Maepisode of Saturday Night Live, Murphy set his sights on another icon: Gumby, the green claymation figure whose television show ran from 1957 until 1969. Robinson’s Neighborhood, Eddie Murphy displayed a knack for putting a new spin on beloved children’s entertainment. You may not have watched the show between '80 and '85. When Eddie Murphy Debuted Gumby on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ Dammit. He even once hosted last minute while still a cast member, when Nick Nolte got sick in 1982. He was one of very few big name cast members of that time period, which also included Jim Belushi and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and he was by far the biggest draw the show had at the time, and kept the show alive as it was struggling without Michaels. Murphy was a cast member from 1980 to 1984, those years when Lorne Michaels had left the show and it was in the hands of Jean Doumanian and then Dick Ebersol.
The audience is a little quiet during the clips. The main focus of this sketch, once again is Eddie Murphy as Gumby, whose 'bloopers' are Gumby clips redubbed with Murphys voice. He's Gumby, dammit, and he's coming home.ģ5 years after he last hosted and left the show, Eddie Murphy is returning to Saturday Night Live to host this year's Christmas show, and it's about as big a deal as it sounds like it might be. A tour of the NBC bathrooms and clips from Gumbys (Eddie Murphy) blooper special, 'Pardon Me, Dammit, I Blew It'.