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Bill Cosby is slamming Eddie Murphy.

While hosting Saturday Night Live on Saturday (December 21), the 58-year-old Dolemite is My Name actor made a dig at the 82-year-old disgraced actor.

During his opening monologue, Eddie joked that if you told him 30 years ago that he would be a stay-at-home dad with 10 kids while Bill was in jail, he would have taken that bet. He then imitated Bill‘s voice, calling himself “America’s Dad.”

The following day, Bill‘s publicist, Andrew Wyatt, slammed Eddie for “attacking” Bill and called Eddie a “Hollywood slave.”

“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,” the statement on Instagram reads.

“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,” Bill‘s publicist concluded.

Bill is currently serving a three to 10 year prison sentence after being convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault last year.

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It was a big night for Saturday Night Live – thanks to Eddie Murphy!

The 58-year-old Dolemite is My Name actor returned to SNL for the first time in 35 years to host the show on Saturday (December 21) and gave the sketch comedy series the highest ratings in two years.

Eddie‘s episode delivered a 2.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 9.921 million viewers overall in Live+Same Day, according to “fast official” Nielsen numbers ordered by NBC via Deadline.

The last highest-rated and most-watched episode of SNL was in 2017 with host Melissa McCarthy, which received a 2.7 in 18-49, 10.382 million viewers.

Viewership of the Eddie-hosted episode of SNL will continue to grow – about 29% of SNL’s total viewed minutes during the 2018-19 season came on digital platforms through short-form videos and full-episode views.

READ MORE: Eddie Murphy Reveals the One Role He Regrets Turning Down

Eddie Murphy sits down for an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which aired on Friday (December 20).

The 58-year-old actor, who is hosting Saturday Night Live tonight, discussed the one movie role he regrets turning down.

“The only movie I ever turned down that became a big hit was Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” he said. “I was gonna be the Bob Hoskins dude and I was like, ‘What? Animation and people? That sounds like bulls— to me.’”

“Now every time I see it, I feel like an idiot,” he added.

Eddie was also asked to be in the original Ghostbusters movie, but he had to pass as he was already attached to Beverly Hills Cop.

“It wasn’t like I turned it down,” he added. “I wasn’t available because I was doing this other movie.”

Lizzo – like us – is really, really excited about her and Eddie Murphy‘s upcoming Saturday Night Live appearances!

The 31-year-old “Juice” singer and the 58-year-old Dolemite Is My Name actor teamed up in a new promo video released on Thursday (December 19).

Eddie is hosting and Lizzo is the musical guest in the episode airing this Saturday.

The teaser also features cast member Kenan Thompson.

Lizzo gets so excited that she pops a twerk and says “Sexual Chocolate” – aka Randy Watson’s band in Eddie‘s Coming to America – as well as the “Hercules” chant from Eddie Murphy‘s The Nutty Professor.

Watch the promo videos now!

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Eddie Murphy makes an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, airing Thursday (December 5), and shares the reaction he gets when he tells people he has 10 children!

“It’s funny,” the 58-year-old tells Ellen while discussing his offspring — whose ages range from 30, being the oldest, to the youngest who just turned 1.

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“Does that seem like a lot to you or does that seem OK?” DeGeneres asked as a few audience members gasped. “It seems OK,” Eddie quipped. “It’s funny the reaction the audience gives. Men kind of look at me like, ‘He’s crazy. How much did that s— cost?’ And women, there’s something sexy about it. ‘Eddie Murphy must be doing his thing. Eddie Murphy be gettin’ it in.’”

Eddie also discusses starring in the upcoming Coming to America sequel.

“I couldn’t be happier with how it turned out,” Eddie confirms. “That movie more than any picture that I’ve done, I don’t know what it is in the culture — like, on Halloween, some people get dressed up as characters from the movie — so a lot of people had this exception. People would say to me when they found out I was doing it, ‘Don’t f— that movie up. Don’t mess with it.’ So we’ve gone above and beyond about what anybody would thing. I’m really, really happy with it.”

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Saturday Night Live just announced their star-studded lineup for December!

The late night sketch show revealed that Jennifer Lopez, Eddie Murphy and Scarlett Johansson would be taking on hosting duties over the course of the next three episodes.

Jennifer will take the stage first on December 7th with musical guest DaBaby. She will be followed by Scarlett and musical talent Niall Horan on December 14th.

SNL‘s annual holiday epsiode will seemingly be hosted by Eddie who will take the stage alongside Lizzo on December 21st.

Check out SNL‘s official announcement below…

A new Beverly Hills Cop film, starring Eddie Murphy, is reportedly headed to Netflix, THR reports!

This will be the fourth film in the Beverly Hills Cop franchise, and Jerry Bruckheimer will be on board to produce the new movie.

The first three Beverly Hills Cop films were released in 1984, 1987 and 1994. Another movie was supposed to be released in 2016 but it never panned out.

There have been no details released about plot, or potential release dates for the film, at this time. Stay tuned as we learn more.