I Love This Eddie Murphy Interview

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

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🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Cannonball is off this week for the holiday. But I wanted to share something with you from our friends over at The Interview. It’s a conversation that my colleague David Marchese had awhile back with one of our biggest stars, Eddie Murphy. I've been thinking about it recently because there's a new documentary about Murphy that just came out on Netflix -- and I highly recommend this conversation as a kind of companion listen over your long weekend. Murphy reveals a surprising side of himself that I hadn’t heard before. Hope you enjoy it, and see you back here next week!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, it's Wesley. And happy Tea Day. I just want to start with that. And because it's
0:07.0	T-Day, we at Cannonball are going to take this Thursday off. We'll be back next week. But in the
0:12.4	meantime, I would like to share with you something else that the New York Times also makes.
0:18.0	And it is an episode of the interview. And the reason that I am sharing this particular
0:24.3	episode is that we hear on Cannonball practice criticism. We talk about things that people have made.
0:32.7	And on the interview, what frequently happens is the hosts, they talk to the people who make the things that we hear on Cannonball wind up talking about.
0:43.4	So there's this new Netflix documentary about Eddie Murphy.
0:48.3	And it's called Being Eddie Murphy, I cannot believe they could not come up with a better title.
0:52.5	But there you have it.
0:54.1	One of the greatest movie stars of all time gets one of the most basic. I cannot believe they could not come up with a better title, but there you have it.
0:56.6	One of the greatest movie stars of all time gets one of the most basic titles for a documentary about him.
1:00.3	But the whole time I was watching this thing,
1:02.9	I just kept thinking, you know,
1:05.8	Eddie Murphy was being Eddie Murphy really well on the interview.
1:10.3	And that conversation is funny. It is
1:13.8	really surprising. At some point, Eddie Murphy, you'll hear it. He plays for David Marquesi,
1:21.8	the trailer for a movie he's been trying to make for a long time. Anyway, I just found this side of Eddie Murphy to be revealing he seemed newly open to talking about his life.
1:33.2	And it's a really great companion experience to this Netflix documentary.
1:38.7	That's it.
1:40.1	Please enjoy it.
1:41.3	And we'll be back next week.
1:43.3	Happy Tea Day.
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