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Eddie Murphy is reflecting on some of the “cheap shots” he feels he’s taken over the years.



The Oscar-nominated actor and comedian – whose new film, hits Netflix next week, was asked in an interview with the New York Times if he feels he’s received unfair treatment from the press and his peers over the years.



“Back in the old days, they used to be relentless on me, and a lot of it was racist stuff,” Murphy said.



After mentioning how it “was a whole different world” when he was coming up in the 1980s, Murphy brought up an instance “when David Spade said that s-–t about my career on ‘SNL.’”



“It was like: ‘Yo, it’s in-house! I’m one of the family, and you’re f-–king with me like that?’ It hurt my feelings like that,” Murphy said.



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Eddie Murphy and Chevy Chase during the &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221; segment of an April 1981 episode of &#8220;Saturday Night Live.&#8221;&nbsp;Fred Hermansky/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images



“The producers thought it was OK to say that. All the people that have been on that show, you’ve never heard nobody make no joke about anybody’s career. Most people that get off that show, they don’t go on and have these amazing careers. It was personal,” Murphy later added. “It was like, ‘Yo, how could you do that?’ My career? Really? A joke about my career? So I thought that was a cheap shot. And it was kind of, I thought – I felt it was racist.”



Spade later wrote about receiving a phone call from an upset Murphy after the bit and feeling horrible about his “stupid joke.”



“In the long run it’s all good, worked out great. I’m cool with David Spade, I’m cool with Lorne Michaels. I went back to SNL,” Murphy said this week. “It’s all love… but I had a couple of cheap shots!”

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Eddie Murphy is still stung by that David Spade joke on ‘Saturday Night Live’

AUTHOR: CHRISTOPHER RANSON

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