Eddie Murphy Channels Tracy Morgan On ‘SNL 50’ Sketch

Eddie Murphy’s impression of Tracy Morgan throughout “Black Jeopardy” proved to be a serious hit on Saturday Evening Reside’s fiftieth anniversary particular.

The iconic comedy sketch present Saturday Evening Reside celebrated 50 years on the air final Sunday (February 16),  with certainly one of its highlights being the return of “Black Jeopardy” that includes SNL veteran Kenan Thompson internet hosting as Darnell Hayes aka “Alex Treblack”. Eddie Murphy stole the present, showing as Tracy Morgan whereas the true Morgan stood alongside him enjoying a person named Darius. One other SNL alum, Leslie Jones additionally performed a contestant named Shanice.

“Welcome to ‘Black Jeopardy,’ the one ‘Jeopardy’ the place each single viewer absolutely understood Kendrick’s halftime efficiency,” Thompson stated, opening with a reference to Kendrick Lamar’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present. As he launched Eddie Murphy, who was wearing a tracksuit just like what Morgan wears, Murphy yelled out in an exaggerated voice uncannily like Morgan’s, “Huge canine gonna make some huge cash!”

“Now wait a minute, Tracy. Don’t you have already got some huge cash?” Thompson requested. “You gotta have some huge cash in the event you dwell like I dwell,” Murphy shot again. “I eat four-cheese lasagna. In the event that they solely acquired three cheeses, I ain’t consuming it.” As Thompson tried to chop him brief, Murphy acknowledged, “I refuse to ingest three cheeses.” The sketch took one other hilarious flip quickly after.

“Darius, Tracy, y’all seem to be you is likely to be associated,” Thompson stated to Murphy, who replied: “Effectively, James Earl Jones is my organic father. James Earl Jones impregnated my mom on the set of ‘Claudine.’ You understand what? We is likely to be associated.” The late James Earl Jones performed Murphy’s father within the Coming To America motion pictures. Morgan, wearing a checkered short-sleeve shirt instantly replied trying irritated, “I don’t see it.”

The sketch would take a pair extra memorable comedic turns, with one other SNL alum Chris Rock becoming a member of in for one query, joking that he was a fan for the reason that Nineteen Seventies when the present was referred to as “Mama’s Acquired Questions”. His query requested the contestants to determine the Church Girl, a personality fellow alum Dana Carvey performed within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties. The reply was provided by Tom Hanks, popping up as Doug, a MAGA supporter who he first portrayed on “Black Jeopardy” in 2016. MAGA Land didn’t like that.

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