Eddie Murphy To Receive Comedy Icon Honor At Comedy Awards

COMMENTS (20)

• Karate Man bleed on da inside!

  Comment by Billy Ray — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 1:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• This IS a joke, right?

  Comment by gary — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “Billed as the first awards show celebrating comedy”, Somebody call George Schlatter and tell him he wasn’t the first.

  Comment by Gabe Kaplan — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 1:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is this different from the Johnny Carson Award that was announced two weeks ago? At the time, I was surprised that the Carson estate was fine with it. Now I’m curious whether they told MTVN to cease and desist, or if the showrunners are creating multiple nondescript awards that can be given to whichever have-beens RSVP. I do like Eddie, but his years of sucking now outnumber his years of being great.

  Comment by Patrick — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 1:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• outside of Annie Hall comedy never wins anything so they might as well create a few award shows to celebrate themselves, just what we need.

  Comment by stix — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 2:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Goonie Goo Goo

  Comment by Charlie — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 2:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• another award show we don’t need. let’s watch celebrities congratulate themselves for a few hours.

  The oscars this year really proved how much of a waste of time this nonsense is.

  Comment by sparced — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 2:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Bingo. Who wants to watch anti-American drivel with America-hating hosts anymore?

    Comment by Smarg — Tuesday March 22, 2011 @ 9:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• I will not be watching this…who cares?

  Obviously, being the ICON Award winner doesn’t take into consideration Eddie’s plummeting career especially when it comes to comedy films and/or other projects within past 10 years or so.

  Hopefully, this show will be much funnier than Eddie has been of late. If not, it will not be around for any length of time.

  Comment by tom — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 3:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Comedy is so mediocre these days. 30 Rock is beginning to fade and everything else is also so blah. It’s the “Kimmeling” of comedy. The acceptance of anything that seems like it should be funny, but really isn’t.

  Someone drop a bomb on this award show and let’s start from scratch.

  Comment by fredo p — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 3:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Watch Community. Best thing on the majors by far.

    Comment by Anonymous — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 3:23pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Have the producers of this show not seen “Meet Dave”?

  Also, who’s next on their list of ‘Comedy Icons’ – Rob Schneider?

  Comment by yo — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 3:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Eddie hasn’t been able to make audiences laugh for a very long time but this award is hilarious. By all means give the man an award he deserves it.

  Comment by Norbet Pluto Nash — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 3:29pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Good for Eddie and especially for all the people who’ll earn a day’s pay from this endeavor.

  Comment by Curtis Scoon — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 3:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Eddie Murphy getting a comedy award? While we’re at it let’s honor those other great comics. The brilliant Rob Schneider, Jay Leno, Carrot Top and Dane Cook. I actually apologize to Carrot Top. He made me laugh twice and I shouldn’t lump him in with these no talents.

  Comment by Minnie — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 3:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Anybody remember Raw? Delirious…Eddies family dog bit? Or James Brown in the hot tub? Or Mr.Robinson’s neighborhood?

  C’mon, white people!

  Or maybe you would have preferred they give the award to Robert Klein.

  Comment by Marty Michaels — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 4:39pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Cil my landlord, cil my landlord, C-I-L my landlord,,kill the white man,,

  Comment by brutony — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 8:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hey, Eddie Murphy still can be funny, it is just the projects he’s done were not well thought out. Daddy Day Care, Eddie was charming funny…like a black Cary Grant.. Nutty 1 he was extremely funny and sweet as Sherman Klump… Eddie needs great director writers like Judd Apatow to bring it out on the page first… Look at Steve Martin the last really funny thing he was in was Bofinger w Eddie.

  Comment by Chris Jackson — Monday March 21, 2011 @ 9:46pm PDT  Reply to this post

• thank God he deserves it. he is a groundbreaking comedic icon. thank God it’s not the same unfunny comedians that only serve one audience.

  Comment by Carlton Jordan — Wednesday March 23, 2011 @ 10:54am PDT  Reply to this post

• When we get to a place that awards are not worth our time or worth watching but reality shows about drugs and having sex with as many people possible is GREATER than a achievement then God helpus all.And dont watch what you dont want to watch dont cry about it.

  Comment by marie davis — Sunday April 3, 2011 @ 7:02am PDT  Reply to this post