When it comes to Eddie Murphy‘s anticipated return to Saturday Night Live this weekend, the 58-year old actor and comedian said he wouldn’t mind playing Gumby, Buckwheat or even Bill Cosby – characters that became his trademarks on the show.
For all the people too young to relate — Gumby was a mythical, pliable, asymmetrical green person who was the star of a children’s show. Buckwheat was a Black character on TVs Little Rascals played by late actor William Thomas Jr. Both were on the air when Murphy was growing up. On SNL, Murphy portrayed the innocent Gumby as a wisecracking cigar smoker and Buckwheat as a messy headed wide-eyed man of the world. Murphy’s portrayal of Cosby predated the entertainer’s fall from grace and 2018 imprisonment on a sexual assault conviction.
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“We’re talking about a Gumby thing; we’re talking about a Buckwheat thing and I told you a Bill Cosby thing, maybe,” Murphy told the Today show’s Al Roker on Thursday.
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