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Between then and now, he became the biggest movie star that the show has ever produced. This weekend, Eddie Murphy will host Saturday Night Live for the first time since 1984. “Right afterwards, I said to myself, ‘Oh yeah. “He just won ’em over,” says Gail Matthius, Rocket’s eventual “Update” cohost that year. “The moment he went on the air it was like, ‘My God, this guy’s incredible,’” Blaustein says. As he crossed his arms and glared at Piscopo, the audience’s laughter spiked.īlaustein and Sheffield were standing just off camera. If God would’ve wanted whites to be equal to blacks everybody’d have one of these.” From under the desk, he pulled out a boom box. “All I’m saying is that y’all stay on the hockey courts and the polo fields, and let us stay on the basketball courts. “I don’t see no judge saying that every two bathroom attendants got to be white,” Raheem continued. Now it’s 1980, we on welfare-by the end of next year y’all gonna be on welfare, too.” At that point, the camera zoomed in on Murphy’s face. In the early ’70s we braided our hair, then in the late ’70s you had to braid your hair. In the ’60s we wore platform shoes, then y’all had to wear platform shoes. Is nothing sacred? Anytime we get something going good y’all got to move in on it. “Yo, baby,” Raheem said before jumping into a short, righteous screed that felt borrowed from Murphy’s stand-up routine. “The moment Eddie went on the air it was like, ‘My God, this guy’s incredible.’” -Barry Blaustein What’s the story Raheem?” Sitting to his left was Murphy in a black and yellow letterman’s jacket. Fair? Unjust? Comment: Cleveland high school student Raheem Abdul Mohammed. “Judge ruling all high school basketball teams must have two white players.
“The other big story this week, Cleveland,” he said after making a joke about boxer Roberto Durán.
On December 6, in the middle of the satirical news broadcast, fake anchor Charles Rocket tossed it over to Joe Piscopo for a sports segment.
It was really, really good.” So good, in fact, that it landed Murphy on “Weekend Update” for the first time. “And then he wrote something up and he showed it to David Sheffield and myself. “I asked Eddie if he thought he could do anything with it,” he says. That guy, Blaustein figured, would be the perfect person to make fun of the ugly situation in Ohio. “We were just like, ‘Boy, that guy’s funny.’” “The joke was that he always went to the wrong theater in the multiplex,” Sheffield says. But one day, when Blaustein and Sheffield were hanging out with him at work, he began effortlessly riffing as a character named Raheem Abdul Mohammed, an aspiring cultural commentator and film critic. The late-night series’s overwhelmingly white writing staff barely seemed to know that the young black man existed. Kept to himself.”īack then, Eddie Murphy was all of 19 years old. He didn’t appear in anything to speak of. “He was not a member of the regular cast. “He was only a featured player,” Sheffield says. Fortunately, they had a colleague itching for screen time. He and his writing partner, David Sheffield, just needed someone they could pitch the idea to. “But it does not live up to the highest values in sports.”ĭesperate for material, Blaustein decided that this notoriously misguided attempt at integration would be the perfect thing to skewer in a sketch.
#Charles rocket curses on snl series#
“The directive indicates that Cleveland basketball teams may eventually be chosen by casting directors from The White Shadow,” New York Times columnist George Vecsey wrote, name-checking the television series about a racially mixed Los Angeles high school squad. Waldrip, who as part of a larger desegregation plan, had ordered the city’s mostly black high school basketball teams to diversify their rosters with more white players. The report focused on court-appointed administrator Donald R. In the fall of 1980, during the disastrous sixth season of Saturday Night Live, first-year writer Barry Blaustein’s father sent him a story out of Cleveland. It began with-of all things-a newspaper article.
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