Eddie Murphy Scores First Emmy For ‘Saturday Night Live’ Hosting
Legendary comedian/actor Eddie Murphy has won his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his ‘Saturday Night Live‘ hosting gig back in December 2019.
Murphy’s first-ever win arrives 40 years after his first appearance on the hit comedy sketch series, and follows five Primetime Emmy nominations throughout his career. Murphy’s December’s appearance marked his first time on the show in 35 years, and featured his famed ‘SNL‘ characters like “Gumby,” “Buckwheat,” “Mr. Robinson,” etc.
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While delivering a virtual acceptance speech, Murphy shared, “Thank you to everybody at the Emmys. Thank you so much for giving me an Emmy. I don’t have an Emmy. This is 40 years since I started Saturday Night Live, this is my first Emmy, so thank you so much. I want to thank Lorne Michaels for putting this whole thing together, and making this happen. And I want to thank, the cast, the writers and the crew at SNL. This was a very, very special thing for me to come back and have the show turn out the way it did. I’m still floating from it. And thank you to everybody for giving me an Emmy.”
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