Eddie Murphy Calls You People a Modern Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Eddie Murphy's gag astir Will Smith's infamous Oscars slap astatine the 2023 Golden Globes got rather a reaction.

But arsenic for whether helium got a absorption retired of Will—or the slap's recipient Chris Rock? Well, arsenic Eddie exclusively revealed connected the Jan. 23 occurrence of E! News, "No, I haven't heard from anybody."

"But I don't deliberation it's thing that you would adjacent telephone about," the 61-year-old continued. "It was a bully joke, a comic joke. And I emotion him, I emotion Chris, and it's each love." (Catch his afloat interrogation connected tonight's show, airing astatine 11 p.m.)

At the Jan. 10 grant show, wherever helium was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille award, Eddie ended his speech by sharing his champion vocation advice: "Pay your taxes, caput your concern and support Will Smith's wife's sanction retired of your f---king mouth." (ICYMI, that punchline piggybacked disconnected of Chris' joke astir Jada Pinkett Smith at the 2022 Oscars.)

In summation to 1 of the Globes' apical honors, Eddie is besides kicking off 2023 with a new Netflix film, You People.

Not lone did Eddie archer E! News radical volition bask the movie "because it's funny," but besides due to the fact that of its timeliness.

"We person this contention happening that's going connected successful the state close now," helium stated. "Racial tension it astatine a fever pitch, and you person a romanticist drama that has contention arsenic portion of it."

And it's the movie's blend of light-hearted topics with a superior taxable substance that sets You People isolated from different films successful the genre. "Most romanticist comedies are comic and saccharine and charming," Eddie continued, "and they don't person a small borderline to it."

Hear much from Eddie connected E! News contiguous astatine 11 p.m. connected E!.

You People premieres Friday, Jan. 27, connected Netflix.