Joe Piscopo Wonders If He Could Still Do ‘Ebony and Ivory’ ‘SNL’ Sketch With Eddie Murphy
The Saturday Night Live team-up of Frank Sinatra and Stevie Wonder in the sketch “Ebony and Ivory” was a classic for Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. But in Piscopo’s upcoming memoir Average Joe (out on February 11th), the comic has “to wonder if we could even do a sketch like that on SNL today, given how political correctness has been ruining comedy for a decade or two now.”
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Piscopo would like to think it’s possible, given that the sketch is one of his all-time favorites. But even in 1982, he wasn’t sure they could pull it off. “Eddie led the way in that,” Piscopo tells me. “I have to give him credit. I’ll tell you why.”
That reason why: Murphy took risks that only worked because his characters were so funny. Only Murphy could watch Mr. Rogers and decide, “I’m going to do a street version of that.
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Piscopo would like to think it’s possible, given that the sketch is one of his all-time favorites. But even in 1982, he wasn’t sure they could pull it off. “Eddie led the way in that,” Piscopo tells me. “I have to give him credit. I’ll tell you why.”
That reason why: Murphy took risks that only worked because his characters were so funny. Only Murphy could watch Mr. Rogers and decide, “I’m going to do a street version of that.
- 1/17/2025
- Cracked
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