Not dirty language, “but rhetorical flourishes, things that have rhythm to them and have kind of a value of their own in just the way they sound.” Of course, the first obligation is to be funny. You’re building on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations, with language that George Carlin said could be, “stunning or spectacular.” He used those words advisedly. But for the most part, if something didn’t work, 90% of the time, I believed it was my fault. This is because I believe a comic should be angry about something, even if it’s something very trivial. To a degree however, I do look at stand-up as a relatively combative artform, hence all the violent language among comics regarding success (killing, slaying) or failure (bombing, dying) on stage. This contributes to a mistaken idea people get about stand-up that hinders its capacity for respect and recognition as an artform. That would tell the audience that I have a combative motivation in how I speak to them. I would never scream, “oh, take a joke!” in people’s faces or anything like that. When those walls get broken, that’s the surprise. It was my observation that people who constrict themselves, who have walls built around themselves - morally, patriotically, or due to just plain old conformity or whatever - are, in a way, living in little prisons. A shock at its core is just a form of surprise, of which there are only varying degrees. What’s shocking depends on who’s receiving the shock. To never have to encounter speech that makes us uncomfortable is a right we don’t have. You have a right to be offended.īut in another way, you don’t have a right to never be offended.

After all, I’d joked about something that made them uncomfortable. But I never bothered too much if someone was offended. If I didn’t get the results I wanted, then I didn’t articulate my point well enough. If I didn't make the people laugh, then I had a bad day at work. Just theorizing.As a performer, I had no time for other people’s arbitrary standards about speech. Love everything up through Coming to America, but virtually nothing after that, when it seemed like he got more worried about and consumed with his 'polished' looks and reputation than his actual comedy. It's akin to the difference in his 80's vs. By the time he did 'Raw' (just 4 years later), he was a bona-fide movie star, and was perhaps getting a little bit full of himself and into the fame and fortune, and the material didn't feel quite the same, or quite as honest to me. Personally speaking, I think I liked his earlier Delirious material more, because (ironically) it seemed more 'raw' to me, since Eddie was just an up-and-coming comic at the time, not as worried about his looks/image/content.

So I guess the most we could look forward to on Blu-ray would be a Double Feature of Delirious and Raw. So there ya' go, I think we've got it straight now. So I guess what you said is likely correct, that the Delirious stand up special drew material heavily from his Comedian album (and probably the original ' Eddie Murphy' album too). Then he had two stand-up films: Delirious and Raw. But apparently the first one is just self-titled ' Eddie Murphy' and the second one was ' Comedian'. So I did a little online research too, and it looks like Eddie had a couple of comedy 'albums', which I had on cassette tape back in the day, which is what I was referring to. Since I'm getting old, you've made me wonder if I'm remembering things correctly now. Not sure why the album and the live recording would be called two different things, but meh. Based on what I've read, and by looking at the tracklisting for Comedian, it appears to be just the album version of Delirious.

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