Eddie Murphy - Delirious
by Bruce Gowers
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Actor: Brian O'Neal, Clint Smith, Eddie Murphy, Gus Loundermon, Kevin O'Neal (II)Director: Bruce Gowers
Brand: STARZ HOME ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 70 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Entertainment Studio
DVD Reviews of Eddie Murphy - Delirious
DVD Review: Eddie Murphy's Glory Days
Summary: 5 Stars
This was Eddie Murphy back in the days, before all that family-friendly crap. This classic 70-minute stand-up comedy is full of insane profanity, and lots of politically incorrect Richard Pryor-like craziness! Some of my favorite segments here are Murphy's impersonations of James Brown (who DOESN'T love that one?!), Michael Jackson, and Elvis. And then there's the segments including world language and the Family Cookout and the Ice Cream: that's good stuff right here! This is the classic Eddie, and I don't think we'll ever see and hear this sort of stuff from the man again sadly due to Hollywood degradation. But we'll still have Delirious and Raw.DVD Review: shoulda waited a bit
Summary: 5 Stars
i bought this a while back. i should have waited at that time. i was clamoring to get my hands on this out of print vhs of what i believe to be the best stand up ever. however, i spend a little more than i would have liked to, especially cause about 5 months later, it was on dvd. that was a kick in the nuts if i ever felt one. what's more, the copy i purchased from here was stolen from me. so it took me about 3 or 4 years to finally buy this on dvd, cause i was so upset about spending the money i did, to have it stolen, and then a dvd come out just to rub salt in the wound. collectible wise, do kinda wish i still had it. DVD Review: Excelent!
Summary: 5 Stars
This one man stand-up show is just great! I especially love the ice-cream guy routine, it was just hilarious! And the thing with Michael Jackson : "Michael Jackson, who is a good-looking man...but ain't the most masculine guy in the world" LOL! Love this one!
Don't hesitate to watch it!
DVD Review: When Eddie Murphy Just Reached The Top Of The Entertainment Mountain...
Summary: 5 Stars
Originally presented on Home Box Office way back in 1983, this one-two-three career punch by Eddie Murphy was to every teenage kid of the 80's one of the most quoteable stand-up routines of their lives. To quote Murphy himself, most of us at the time only knew of Eddie as that black guy doing Buckwheat on Saturday Night Live and that funny 48HRS film. Little did we know that it was his stand-up career (started at the young age of 14) that got him there in the first place. So to see this young dynamic 22 year old performer hit us yet again with a brillant full-length comedy routine was just the amazing icing on the cake. He was our younger version of Richard Pryor the generation earlier. And HBO feed us this special throughout the 80's, again and again, and we came back each and every time.
However, after a world-changing over twenty-five years later, does the material still hold up? Absolutely. Throughout it's 70 minute runtime, Murphy spouted stories, impressions, and humor that remain timeless, be it the excitement of the Ice Cream Man, to just how fun flatulence can be, and the humors of how parents can be so similar no matter what color or area you grew up in. Sure, fashions change but can you imagine Murphy without that red "Elvis from Hell" suit on telling these jokes? Yes, a couple of bits like AIDS/homosexual intolerance and Michael Jackson's only quirk being his feminine-like composure seem a tad dated, but their timing and presence still remind us of what comedians are still telling to this day. There's no way you can watch this and not see comics like Chris Rock and Dave Chappell "borrowing" a couple of pointers straight from Delirious. And unlike his big venue concert follow-up 1987's Raw, Delirious shows Eddie at a career point where he still didn't know if people would accept him as a stand-up as well as funny actor. Raw is where he was King, Delirious shows the young man that could be.
As for it's long-overdue 2006 DVD release, it has come to the format in quite an exceptional way. Shot and presented as it first was, in 2.0 Stereo shot on FullFrame video (unlike Raw's motion picture widescreen film), it looks almost exactly as you remember almost thirty years ago off HBO. However, I happened to notice a couple of video hits here and there associated with video damage (think like videotape's version of scratches on a film print) that probably came from a bad master handed to Starz Home Entertainment. But the colors and white/black levels are spot on, no matter how bad the screen capture on the back of the case looks (it looks nothing as bad as that, thank goodness!). But those flaws are very few and will not completely distract you from what is essentially a great visual disc, though here's hoping for an even better master found for a possible Blu-Ray version in the future.
But if the entire uncut (complete with Bus Boys musical opening act) concert wasn't enough, there a total of 39 minutes of additional features! First is a four minute extended/deleted scene of the show, something of which I have never seen. About maybe twenty seconds of it ended up in the show, but now you can see what was originally around it, being a heckler of sorts wanting a live Buckwheat performance and Murphy's reaction to it (whatta think he would say, huh?). Though it's timecoded and a lost nugget, it still isn't worth putting back in, but as a bonus feature it's a great find. The other 35 minutes is a one-on-one interview with Murphy and long-time friend and interviewer Byron Allen. Recorded somewhere in the early-to-mid 2000's, both men reflect on Delirious, Eddie's early days, the then public reaction, and if Murphy ever will come back to stand-up one day. Eddie seems very open and lively during this interview, unlike many others I've seen of him recently, and Allen does get alot out of him with little coaxing. Definitely interesting watch, and Eddie tips his hat respectfully to the artists that inspired him. Two very nice additions.
Overall, it's strange to once again see the man the world once heralded as the funniest man alive in his prime again. To young fans of The Nutty Professor and Dr. Doolittle, this isn't the Eddie you currently know, but the young man that gave most of us a reason to love him in the first place.
Pros:
*Not since HBO's heyday have you seen this first Eddie Murphy
stand-up concert like this.
*90% of the jokes will still make you laugh today, no matter how
many times you've heard them.
*The extras are really great bonus features that give this release a boost that Paramount's bare-boned Raw could have used.
Cons:
*Though it looks great, the master used here could have been
from a better, remastered source.
*A couple of jokes, like Reaganomics and where AIDS come from
are dated, but again it was almost thirty years ago....
*I bet everytime Murphy sees himself again at the beginning in nothing but a Speedo, he's gotta cringe a little. Which is worse, the redsuit or that? Gotta be that. Gotta.
(RedSabbath Rating:9.0/10)
DVD Review: Hilarious!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic piece of stand-up comedy from early in Eddie Murphy's career. If you like funny, you will like this.
Description of Eddie Murphy - Delirious
Eddie Murphy's raunchy raucous stand-up comedy routine is captured for posterity on this tape. Not for folks who dislike foul language. System Requirements:Run Time: 90 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?COMEDY Rating:?R UPC:?013137007392 Manufacturer No:?DV70073Light years before political correctness--1983 to be exact--or his comeback in tame Disney comedies, Eddie Murphy was a charismatic, wonderfully offensive, egocentric 22-year-old black comedian known for crude celebrity impersonations and often shockingly frank diatribes on racial and sexual politics. Dressed in a skin-tight red leather suit and delivering endless streams of obscenities faster than Richard Pryor ever did, Murphy is captured in this raunchy HBO special (a filmed document of his Grammy-winning album, Eddie Murphy, Comedian) at his confident, swaggering, comedic peak--a posture that soon disappeared after a string of bland Hollywood comedies. Here, however, his energy and sheer virtuosity command complete control over the audience for 107 minutes, whether he's mocking personalities like Elvis, James Brown, and Stevie Wonder, or spinning long, gag-filled personal anecdotes about the ice-cream man or dysfunctional family barbecues. There's no apologizing for the immature stereotyping, blatant homophobia, and sexism (though Murphy did so several years later) that surface during the routine. But, then again, unlike his much nastier, one-sided concert film, Raw, no topic here is safe from Murphy's uproarious tongue-lashings--including the comedian himself. --Dave McCoy
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