Eddie Murphy: Delirious (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #4 extract: Eddie Murphy: Delirious (1983)

Re-watching Delirious reminded me how good it feels to laugh your absolute hardest. Pure comedic genius and one of the best stand-up specials ever produced, there's little you can say about this. The impressions are spectacular, the exploration of Eddie's past is insanely funny and need I say more than Gooney Gough-hough? 

This is probably not the kind of comedy for the more politically correct, especially considering the opening (which almost has me in tears) but also the fact that this special has been a symbol or crutch of sorts for protest and social critique. But, if you're not too interested or bothered by that stuff and haven't seen Delirious, do yourself a favour and fix that.