The genre became a specific draw in North America in the eighties when comedians such as Eddie Murphy started taking more action oriented roles such as in 48 Hrs.

Popular comedy stars in the 1980s included Dudley Moore, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.

Eddie Murphy made a success of comedy-action films including 48 Hrs.

Beginning in 1982, Eddie Murphy began a parody of Gumby on Saturday Night Live.

Other examples are the Star Trek series and a string of films starring comedian Eddie Murphy like Trading Places, Coming To America, and Beverly Hills Cop and its sequels.

As a consequence, the hit remake starring Eddie Murphy were released by Universal Pictures.

Parodies of Popeil's infomercials were done on the comedy show Saturday Night Live by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy and the " Veg-O-Matic " may have provided comedian Gallagher inspiration for the " Sledge-O-Matic " routine since the 1980s.

Toward the end of the 90's, Will Vinton launched the first prime-time stop motion television series called The PJs, with creator Eddie Murphy.

Spock was voiced by Charlie Murphy ( brother of Eddie Murphy ).

In 2010, Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment were talking of producing another comedy remake starring Eddie Murphy.

These films propelled the careers of modern celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Eddie Murphy, Mel Gibson and Sylvester Stallone to international recognition.

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* April 3 – Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian

In 1982, veteran actor Nick Nolte and rising comedian Eddie Murphy smashed box office records with the action-comedy 48 Hrs, which is credited as the first " buddy-cop " movie.

The sub-genre became a popular trend in the 1980s when actors who were known for their background in comedy such as Eddie Murphy, began to take roles in action films.

Comedian-actor Eddie Murphy often based his stand-up routines on a reversal of the dozens, the purpose of which was boasting about oneself rather than insulting someone else.

Examples of this can be found in his known comedy albums, Comedian, Delirious, and the soundtrack to the film Eddie Murphy Raw.

Edward Regan " Eddie " Murphy ( born April 3, 1961 ) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, singer, director, and musician.

The film stars Eddie Murphy, who plays an African prince who comes to the United States in hopes of finding a woman he can marry.

Akeem Joffer ( Eddie Murphy ), the prince and heir to the throne of a fictitious, wealthy African country called Zamunda, is discontented with being pampered all his life.

Coming to America reunited star Eddie Murphy with director John Landis.

Ming-Na, Eddie Murphy, Miguel Ferrer and BD Wong star in the English version, while Jackie Chan provided his voice for the Chinese dubs of the film.

* Eddie Murphy as Mushu

His recordings for soundtracks included Belly (" Devil's Pie "), and he frequently sang covers such as " Girl, You Need a Change of Mind " ( Eddie Kendricks, Get on the Bus ), " She's Always in My Hair " ( Prince, Scream 2 ) and " Heaven Must be Like This " ( the Ohio Players, Down in the Delta ), as well as appearing on Lauryn Hill's landmark The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill on the duet " Nothing Even Matters.

* Eddie Valentine ( Jordan Warkol ): The self-styled " Prince of the Netherworld ," he is an occasional participant in the Rockets ' activities and a frequent target of Lars ' bullying.

Prince Chawmin ' keeps frantically kissing So White ( his efforts underscored by a solo from Eddie Beale's trumpet player ), and the efforts literally take the life out of him as he first turns blue in the face, before turning into a withered old, pale-faced man, shrugging his shoulders in defeat.

Ex formula 1 team owner Eddie Jordan and boxer Prince Naseem Naseem Hamed also live on the Estate.

Recent victims include Fallon making parodies of Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam performing " Jeremy ( Lin )" in light of the hysteria surrounding New York Knicks shocking standout Jeremy Lin, the Doors singing the theme song to the PBS children's show " Reading Rainbow ", Neil Young's version of the " Fresh Prince of Bel Air " theme song, and David Bowie's " Space Oddity " with inspiration by Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow.

Trading Places, a Prince and the Pauper-style comedy starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy was filmed directly after the Twilight Zone accident.

Two of these artists have been Mr. Eddie Scott and Mr. Tenson Scott, whose works have won national contests, as well as being the official gift to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Andrew during the 1994 State Visit.

Eddie Izzard voiced Reepicheep in the 2008 movie The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Examples of # 4 hitters include Lou Gehrig, Eddie Matthews, Willie McCovey, Billy Williams, Tony Pérez, Eddie Murray, Alex Rodriguez, Prince Fielder, and David Ortiz

* Luke Mably as Edvard, Crown Prince / King of Denmark (" Eddie Williams ")

She is quick to recognize her debt to many of the tap legends that have given to her so generously throughout her career, such as Honi Coles, Cholly Atkins, Eddie Brown, Nicholas Brothers, Peg Leg Bates, Steve Condos, Henry LeTang, Prince Spencer, Gregory Hines, LaVaughn Robinson and many others.

Prince and Novotny are both murdered to silence them ; things get worse when the President of the United States ( Eddie Albert ) is admitted as a patient and Alex ’ s colleague Tommy Ray Glatman ( David Patrick Kelly ), a psychopath who ( as Alex discovers ) shot and killed his own father, is sent into the President's nightmare by Blair in an attempt to assassinate the President.

The original Broadway cast featured Sierra Boggess as Ariel, Norm Lewis as King Triton, Sherie Rene Scott as Ursula, Eddie Korbich as Scuttle, Sean Palmer as Prince Eric, Brian D ' Addario and Major Curda as Flounder, and Tituss Burgess as Sebastian.

Joe also made the satirical series What's Wrong With, the music video parody Viral Superstar, and interviewed celebrities at Elton John's Oscars Afterparty, including George Lucas, Eddie Van Halen, Prince, Carmen Electra, Carson Daly, John Waters, Salma Hayek and Rick Fox.

In the 1988 comedy film Coming to America, Eddie Murphy's character, Akeem, tries to persuade his love interest to marry him and go to Zamunda, a fictional kingdom in Africa.

" In 1988, Sinclair played Queen Aoleon opposite James Earl Jones ' King Jaffe Joffer in the Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America.

* Eddie Murphy starred in a 1983 Saturday Night Live sketch, playing the role of Clarence Walker, a man who claimed to be the fifth Beatle.

* In the 1988 movie Coming to America, Eddie Murphy's character Clarence states that Frank Sinatra once told him that Joe Louis was 137 years old, supposedly his age when he lost to Rocky Marciano.

Burke performed as part of a financially unsuccessful all-star bill organized by Sid Bernstein at the Medinah Temple in Chicago from 26 – 31 December 1961, with Dion, Frank Gari, Johnny Tillotson, Eddie Hodges, Freddie Cannon, Brenda Lee, Vicki Spencer, The Marvelettes, Clay Cole, Ral Donner, and Clarence " Frogman " Henry.

Eddie Clearwater, Mighty Joe Young, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Carey Bell

Eddie Clarence Murray ( born February 24, 1956 ), nicknamed " Steady Eddie ", is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and designated hitter.

He played the villainous Clarence Beeks, the Duke brothers ' inside trader, in the 1983 comedy Trading Places starring Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.

His role as the Beaver was reprised in 1983, when Mathers, along with original cast members Barbara Billingsley ( as " June Cleaver "), Tony Dow ( as " Wally Cleaver "), Ken Osmond ( as " Eddie Haskell "), and Frank Bank ( as " Clarence ' Lumpy ' Rutherford "), appeared in the CBS T. V.

King, Bill Doggett, Golden " Big " Wheeler, Billy Branch, Bo Diddley, Bobby " Blue " Bland, Bobby Rush, Buckwheat Zydeco, Buddy Guy, Calvin Jones, Carey Bell, Carl Perkins, Chicago Blues Museum All Stars, Barrelhouse Chuck, Chuck Berry, Clarence " Gatemouth " Brown, Dave Myers, Dion Payton, Dr. John, Eddie Boyd, Eddie C. Campbell, Eddie Vinson, Eddy Clearwater, Etta James, Fenton Robinson, Floyd Jones, Fontella Bass, Hank Ballard, Henry Townsend, Homesick James, Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Jerry Portnoy, Jimmy Johnson, Jimmy Rogers, Jimmie Lee Robinson, Jody Williams, John Lee Hooker, Johnnie Taylor, John Brim, Johnny Shines, Johnny Winter, Junior Wells, Keith Richards, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Little Willie Littlefield, Lonnie Brooks, Lowell Fulson, Louisiana Red, Luther Allison, Lurrie Bell, Magic Slim, Matt Murphy, Memphis Slim, Mick Taylor, The Neville Brothers, The Ice Cream Men, Otis Rush, Pee Wee Crayton, Pinetop Perkins, Ray Charles, Robert Cray Band, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Sam Lay, Otis " Big Smokey " Smothers, Snooky Pryor, Son Seals, Lacy Gibson, Staple Singers, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Sugar Blue, Sunnyland Slim, Taildragger, Taj Mahal, Willie Buck, Willie Dixon, Yank Rachell, Lil ' Ed Williams and the Blues Imperials, and Johnny B. Moore.

Narcotics Detective Taft ( Clarence Williams III ) and his corrupt partner Hernández ( Julio Oscar Mechoso ) when he buys a kilogram in a set up by Gallegos ' low-level street supplier Eddie Dudley ( Roger Guenveur Smith ).

His friends, Clarence " Lumpy " Rutherford and Eddie Haskell, have a knack for getting into trouble and taking Wally along for the ride.

Guest stars included Eddie Albert, Richard Anderson, Delta Burke, Darlene Carr, Michael Constantine, Olivia d ' Abo, Patti Davis, Gene Evans, Fionnula Flanagan, Kathy Garver, Clarence Gilyard, Don Gordon, Don Grady, Kevin Hagen, Alan Hale, Jr., Robert Lansing, Kay Lenz, Anne Lockhart, Gary Lockwood, Joe Mantegna, Eve McVeagh, Kip Niven, John M. Pickard ( his last two acting appearances ), Tom Simcox, Olan Soule, Guy Stockwell, Linnea Quigley, Robert Totten, Harry Townes, Ray Walston, Vanna White, Stuart Whitman and James Whitmore, Jr. John Vivyan made his last screen appearance on Simon and Simon before his death in 1983.

Eventually, Van Zandt, Baker and Schechter would gather a wide array of artists, including Kool DJ Herc, Grandmaster Melle Mel, Ruben Blades, Bob Dylan, Pat Benatar, Herbie Hancock, Ringo Starr and his son Zak Starkey, Lou Reed, Run – D. M. C., Peter Gabriel, Bob Geldof, Clarence Clemons, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, Darlene Love, Bobby Womack, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, The Fat Boys, Jackson Browne and then-girlfriend Darryl Hannah, Peter Wolf, U2, George Clinton, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Bonnie Raitt, Hall & Oates, Jimmy Cliff, Big Youth, Michael Monroe, Stiv Bators, Peter Garrett, Ron Carter, Ray Barretto, Gil-Scott Heron, Nona Hendryx, Lotti Golden, Lakshminarayana Shankar and Joey Ramone.

The films are highly typical of Columbia's B product of the 1940s, with an assortment of veteran character actors ( including Clarence Muse, Marvin Miller, George Lloyd, Byron Foulger ), new faces on the way up ( Larry Parks, Dorothy Malone, Nina Foch, Forrest Tucker, Lloyd Bridges ) and stock-company players familiar from Columbia's features, serials, and short subjects ( Kenneth MacDonald, George McKay, Eddie Laughton, John Tyrrell ).

Artists and groups that were important to the formative years of this genre include: Clifford Curry, Artie Shaw, Wynonie Harris, Ruth Brown, Little Willie John, Earl Bostic, The Drifters, Jimmy Cavallo, Wilbert Harrison, Clyde McPhatter, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, Hank Ballard, James & Bobby Purify, Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, The Tams, Bob and Earl, The Tymes, The 5 Royales, The Coasters, Fats Domino, Jimmy McCracklin, Brenton Wood, Solomon Burke, Sam Cooke, Jimmy James, The Platters, The Four Tops, Louis Prima, Arthur Alexander, Stick McGhee, Jackie Brenston, Wilbert Harrison, Tyrone Davis, Big Joe Turner, Bruce Channel, Wilson Pickett, Clarence Carter, Dinah Washington, Billy Stewart, The Temptations, The Impressions, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Marvin Gaye, The O ' Jays, The Spinners, Eddie Floyd, Otis Redding, Jackie Wilson, Etta James, The Checkers, The Clovers, Barbara Lewis, Don Covay, Mary Wells, Garnet Mimms and The Enchanters, Ben E. King, Major Lance, Willie Tee and Ernie K-Doe.

Twenty of his former assistant coaches became head coaches in their own right: Paul Amen, George Blackburn, Clarence Boston, Eddie Crowder, Paul Dietzel, Bobby Dobbs, Sid Gillman, Jack Green, Andy Gustafson, Dale Hall, Tom Harp, Herman Hickman, Stu Holcomb, Frank Lauterbur, Vince Lombardi, John Sauer, Richard Voris, Murray Warmath, Bob Woodruff, and Bill Yeoman.

On February 11, 2012, Springsteen announced that Jake Clemons, the nephew of Clarence Clemons, would join the E Street Band as the group's new saxophonist, splitting time with Eddie Manion.