Eddie Murphy and Bill Cosby have long had a fractured relationship.  When Murphy was starting out Cosby would lecture him about using bad language and talking about how much money he had.

“He wasn’t nice,” Murphy said of Cosby while being interviewed by Jerry Seinfeld. “He wasn’t doing that with everybody, he was doing that with me specifically. He was sh*tty with me.” 

Murphy took a swipe at Cosby, who's now locked up on sexual assault charges, last night in his return to Saturday Night Live.

"My kids are pretty much my whole life now, but if you would have told me 30 years ago that I would be this boring, stay-at-home house dad and Bill Cosby would be in jail, even I would have taken that bet," Murphy said during his monlogue, before launching into a Cosby impression.

Cosby went nuclear in his clap back, which was released through his spokesman this evening, accusing Murphy of cooning and being a slave who decided to stay on the plantation despite being granted his freedom (by Cosby.)

 

 

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Bill Cosby’s Publicist, Andrew Wyatt, responds to Eddie Murphy’s SNL Monologue: “Mr. Cosby became the first Black to win an Emmy for his role in I Spy and Mr. Cosby broke color barriers in the Entertainment Industry, so that Blacks like Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappell, Kevin Hart and et al., could have an opportunity to showcase their talents for many generations to come. It is sad that Mr. Murphy would take this glorious moment of returning to SNL and make disparaging remarks against Mr. Cosby. One would think that Mr. Murphy was given his freedom to leave the plantation, so that he could make his own decisions; but he decided to sell himself back to being a Hollywood Slave. Stepin Fetchit plus cooning equals the destruction of Black Men in Hollywood. Remember, Mr. Murphy, that Bill Cosby became legendary because he used comedy to humanize all races, religions and genders; but your attacking Mr. Cosby helps you embark on just becoming click bait. Hopefully, you will be amenable to having a meeting of the minds conversation, in order to discuss how we can use our collective platforms to enhance Black people rather than bringing all of us down together.” #NotFunnySNL #SNL #FarFromFinished #FreeBillCosby #BillCosby

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Did Murphy deserve Cosby's highly racial attack?