The tension between Eddie Murphy and David Spade was once a subject far from humor. Indeed, after David made a joke on Saturday Night Live about Eddie's movie Vampire in Brooklyn's box office failure, the Grown Ups star revealed that the two had hit a major roadblock over it. "It was weird going from being a super fan to having him hate me overnight, and trying to win him back for the last 25 years," David shared during a recent episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast with Dana Carvey. "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."
The Tommy Boy alum then clarified that it was Eddie who really spoke his mind during their conversation. "I didn't really fight back," David explained. "Because I did feel a little guilty about it. And he did make some sense; I just didn't like it because he was a hero."
In 1995, David made a quip about Vampire in Brooklyn during the show's Weekend Update segment, noting in part of his fellow alum, "It's a falling star. Make a wish." But as Eddie noted in his documentary Being Eddie, released on Netflix earlier this year, his problem was more with the show overall and not David himself. "I was hurt," Eddie shared in the documentary, per USA Today. "It's like your alma mater taking a shot at you."
"The joke had gone through all those channels that the joke has to go through," he added. "That's what you all think of me?...And that's why I didn't go back for years." However, that's now all water under the bridge. "That little friction I had with SNL was 35 years ago," Eddie noted of returning as host for the show in 2019. "I don't have any issues with David Spade. It was like, 'Hey, let me go to SNL and smooth that all out.' And I did."
As for David, he confirmed that the two were indeed on good terms after seeing each other at the SNL50 celebration earlier this year. "I've seen him once or twice," David shared on the Fly on the Wall podcast. "And then I saw him at the 50th and we talked a little bit and everything's fine. And then they asked him about it and he said, 'Yeah, we're all good.' So yeah, we're all good."
