David Spade On Making Eddie Murphy “Hate Me” After ‘SNL’ Joke

After 30 years, Eddie Murphy has moved on from his beef with Saturday Night Live and David Spade over the flop of 1995’s Vampire in Brooklyn.

Spade recently clarified that he and Murphy are “all good” after reuniting at last year’s SNL50: The 50th Anniversary Special, noting that he previously made the Oscar nominee “hate me overnight” after a joke at his movie’s expense.

“It was weird going from being a super fan to having him hate me overnight, and to try to win him back for the last 25 years,” he explained on his and Dana Carvey’s Fly on the Wall podcast.

“We had some bumps in the road along the way, early on. I was on ‘Weekend Update’, on SNL, new to the show, making fun of all the celebrities and I made fun of him and it didn’t go well. And he called me and we had it out.”

Spade added, “Actually, he had it out. I didn’t really fight back. Because I did feel a little guilty about it. And he did make some sense, I just didn’t like that because he was a hero.”

During his ‘Spade in America’ segment on the Dec. 9, 1995 episode of SNL, Spade went after several celebs of the time, including Murphy and Vampire in Brooklyn. “Look, children, it’s a falling star. Make a wish. Yes, that’s right. You make a Hollywood Minute omelet, you break some eggs,” he said at the time.

Noting he’s seen Murphy “once or twice” since the joke, having been on good terms at the NBC sketch comedy show’s 25th anniversary special in February.

Last year, Murphy called the joke “a cheap shot” and “racist,” adding that “it was personal.”

“In the long run, it’s all good. Worked out great,” he added. “I’m cool with David Spade. Cool with Lorne Michaels. I went back to SNL. I’m cool with everybody. It’s all love.”

Following his own legendary 1980-’84 stint as an SNL cast member, Murphy officially buried the hatchet with his alma mater when he returned to host in 2019, earning him his first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.