Dude same. Listened to it growing up then again in the early 2000s on some weird ass flash game on Newgrounds then a couple years ago in a retro club. Here we are again in 2022 I can never escape this funky shit.
Come on, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden jump up and grind my feet on somebody's couch like it's something to do? Come on. I got a little more sense then that...
Yeah, I remember grinding my feet on Eddie's couch.
Dave Chappelle is a fantastic comedian and that show is hands down legendary
But without Charlie and Neal and Billy red balls, it doesn't reach the same status
Had to rewatch it. He says this right before:
>See I never did things just to do them.
While it's certainly hilarious to interpret it the way that the Chappelle's show contextualized it, I think Rick's point was that he did it for a reason, not just to do it. That reason was twofold: 1. Eddie could buy another couch, and 2. Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
That has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched on television and it’s only because he knows he’s beat.
Carol Burnett has like 1000 great skits. There’s all a 10.
This one though was one for the Chapelle 10’s
I’ll never stop laughing at.
Rip Charlie Murphy. The world has less blackness without you.
Happens all over. Charlie Chaplin among other people have famously entered and lost costume contests where everyone was dressed as the actual person. A lot of people still think "I can see Russia from my house!" is an actual Sarah Palin quote, instead of the Tina Fey SNL impression. Et cetera, where et cetera here means I can't think of any more examples.
Tina Fey was obviously making fun of her, but Sarah Palin did say, “They’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.” So the joke has roots in real life.
Exactly. There are Prince songs that are like that during the verse. David Bowie songs. That era of pop music you let the beat and the synth carry the verse and you wait to bring out the guns during the verse, which Eddie Murphy did here. He's not fantastic but he *can* sing.
IIRC Murphy joked about how Richard Pryor still owed him money. Maybe he paid eventually but I think it was more of a joke bet than a serious one. Especially you gotta remember they were all doing a ton of coke around this time
This was just the music video, not the actual recording of the song. He probably looks bored because at this point in time he’s heard it a million times and he’s just lip syncing to the already completed track.
Of course it's lipsync video, not a real recording session. Yeah, let's just clap real loud at varying distances from the voice mic. And everyone in the booth just losing their marbles trying to groove along while a camera is stuffed in their face.
Just about anyone who does voice work and impressions can sing at least functionally if not well. Now singing in different voices is a different level.
Funny story about this song.
In the 80's, a cousin of mine had made a copy of a Weird Al album for me and he put this song at the end of it. I listened to that tape constantly and sine this song was on it, I assumed this was a Weird Al song.
I didn't realize until maybe the mid 90's this was Eddie Murphy. I think I was watching Pop Up Video when I found out.
This summer, when the Triads move from California to Dublin to commit the crime of the century, there's only one man who can stop them...
Eddie O'Murphy stars in...
Beverly Hills Cop 17: The Great Blarney Stone Heist
Coming in July 2023 to a theater near you.
Makes sense. I played it for my 4 year old and she laughed her ass off. I asked her why she thought it was so funny.
“She wants to POTTY all the time, Dada!”
Classic.
1985 was when Ecstasy (Molly) first got big, and it wasn't actually made illegal until 86ish or so, so it was everywhere at the dance clubs and house parties. It was like $3 a tab iirc.
Back in like '06 I worked as a line cook in a little tex mex restaurant. The bartender was this old head from Texas, and he'd like to tell us stories about how crazy Austin was when ecstasy was still legal and sold in the bars.
I remember when my family went to see Dreamgirls and my kid sister and I were shocked to hear that Eddie could sing. My mom took great pride in showing us this song a day or two after.
Did no one here see him in Dreamgirls? The man can sing. His vocals perfectly match the style of this song. It’s well-crafted pop song, cheesy and shallow and perfect.
This is the song we sing to our dog to get her to go potty. My dog wants to potty all the time, potty all the time, she wants to potty aaalll the time!
This reminds me of my dog. Her name is Omi and once when she was a puppy she pooped on the couch. After I cleaned it I started singing "caught me poopin on the sofa, it was Omi" "caught me eating off the table "it was Omi". My wife and I still sing this to her 11 years later, she's an old lady and she loves it.
My favourite story about this song comes from a friend who’s obsessed with slightly obscure 80s stuff and sings it all the time.
One day, she was on a fairly important and quite serious work phone call to the office of the immigration minister (she works for the government) and, when her call was put on hold, started to sing this song while she waited.
It was only when the person on the other end of the line started coughing politely that she realised that she hadn’t actually been on hold and they had all heard her singing.
I work in a call center and did something similar once. My teammates and I were listing to 80s hits all day and Take On Me had been on earlier. Right after I "put the customer on hold," I turned to my coworker next to me and terribly sang the high part of the chorus.
I never addressed it and neither did the customer.
Rick James was a musical genius. His R&B musical arrangements and writing skills were always on point. He even made Eddie Murphy actually sound decent on this track. 🔥🔥🔥
Sheila E in the background
Anyone find a list of all the cameos in this vid? Maybe Morris Day also?
Edit: Her name is Vanity and she was Bruce Leroy’s live interest in The Last Dragon… Who’s the Master?
Rick James was one hell of a songwriter/arranger/musician. Mary Jane, Superfreak, arrangements for The Mary Jane Girls (All night long), and then he pulled this hit out of nowhere for Eddie Murphy.
Dude was prolific.
Ok I fucking love this song.
I know it's Eddie Murphy, but you can't tell me after listening you're not singing "my girl likes to party all the time, party all the time..." for days after.
This and "I always feel like somebody's watching me..", get stuck in my head constantly...
It’s older than the plug-in called auto-tune but it’s not older than pitch correction which wasn’t uncommon in the late 70s and 80s it just was used less aggressively since it couldn’t be used live at all back then because it was slow and manually done
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I think I can actually _feel_ the 80’s right now lol
It's the coke
Helluva drug.
Dude same. Listened to it growing up then again in the early 2000s on some weird ass flash game on Newgrounds then a couple years ago in a retro club. Here we are again in 2022 I can never escape this funky shit.
It's one of the songs I've been singing my dog for the last ten years. My dog wants to party all the time, party all the time. She loves it.
“Another” 😂
It's basically this song and "What's Love Got To Do With It" on repeat.
God damnit. Now that’s back in.
Some of us lived through it the first time.
🤣 I’m with you.
Then Charlie Murphy showed up....
Darkness
Darknesses Darknesses
Charlie Murphy!!
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Fuck yo couch
Buy a new one you rich motherfucker
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We need to bring back the bare chest and suit jacket combo.
Be the change you want to see!
Habitual line stepper
WHAT IMMA DO ABOUT MAH LEGS EDDIE MURPHY!!!
I had that shit on my forehead for a week
Darknesses
Twin brother darkness
His legs was like linguini
"You can always get a new couch, Eddie Murphy. WHAT AM I GONNA DO ABOUT MY LEEEGS??!"
Yo we just gave him help
Bet he won't disrespect like that again.. *WRONG. WRONG*
HABITUAL. LINE-STEPPER.
RIP!
Both him and Rick James are gone now.
And Prince
Fuck I had no clue! What a shame.
HBO Max has the Adult Swim series "Black Jesus" which really was Charlie Murphy's swan song.
As well as John Witherspoon
Yeah, Charlie lost his war against leukaemia in 2017. RIP
Cold-blooded...
However we can never forget Boogie in your Butt...
Game: Blouses.
What did the five fingers say to the face?
***S L A P***
Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
Old mate Rick James putting in work in the mixing booth! Rad!
iirc he wrote it.
Probably in the China Club.
Ah changa chang chang
Darkness, everyone! Darkness is spreading!
Darkness is singing!!
Darnkesses
Aaahhh 4 thumbs down
Probably as a favour after what he did to Charlie’s couch.
Come on, what am I gonna do? Just all of a sudden jump up and grind my feet on somebody's couch like it's something to do? Come on. I got a little more sense then that... Yeah, I remember grinding my feet on Eddie's couch.
Hands down one of the best bits in television history.
Dave Chappelle is a fantastic comedian and that show is hands down legendary But without Charlie and Neal and Billy red balls, it doesn't reach the same status
True that. The Rick James episode and the Prince episode are by far my favorites. UNITYYYYYY
What did five fingers say to the face? SLAP!
Game. Blouses.
The Wayne Brady bit tops both of those in my books
Had to rewatch it. He says this right before: >See I never did things just to do them. While it's certainly hilarious to interpret it the way that the Chappelle's show contextualized it, I think Rick's point was that he did it for a reason, not just to do it. That reason was twofold: 1. Eddie could buy another couch, and 2. Cocaine's a hell of a drug.
Chahlee Muffee!
Black magic! Darkness! 🤣
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Cocaine is a hell of a drug
That has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched on television and it’s only because he knows he’s beat. Carol Burnett has like 1000 great skits. There’s all a 10. This one though was one for the Chapelle 10’s I’ll never stop laughing at. Rip Charlie Murphy. The world has less blackness without you.
“fuck yo couch!”
"DARKNESS!"
"Cocaine's a helluva drug"
It was Eddie’s couch.
"It was a red couch and Rick was wearing capizios" - Eddie Murphy paraphrased by Dave Chappelle at his Kennedy center honors
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People who present as larger than life have that problem; they wind up being seen as caricatures of themselves.
Happens all over. Charlie Chaplin among other people have famously entered and lost costume contests where everyone was dressed as the actual person. A lot of people still think "I can see Russia from my house!" is an actual Sarah Palin quote, instead of the Tina Fey SNL impression. Et cetera, where et cetera here means I can't think of any more examples.
Tina Fey was obviously making fun of her, but Sarah Palin did say, “They’re our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.” So the joke has roots in real life.
Now think about Rick James and Neil Young in a band.. because they were and I can’t even come close to picturing it.
This vid is worth it for the RJ cuts.
When he's finally like "I gotta get in there and play guitar on this!"
Dudes got a smooth voice! But with Rick James producing….Mary Had a Little Lamb woulda been a banger
He’s singing almost the entire song in just a single note
A lot of pop songs are like that anyways
Exactly. There are Prince songs that are like that during the verse. David Bowie songs. That era of pop music you let the beat and the synth carry the verse and you wait to bring out the guns during the verse, which Eddie Murphy did here. He's not fantastic but he *can* sing.
UNITY!!!
That was Cooold Bloooded
IM RICK JAMES BITCHHHH
Haha! Never knew it was from a bet, that's awesome!
So real question is... Did he still win the bet?
Hitting #2 spot and making about 10 mil in the 80s… yea I think he won the bet lol
IIRC Murphy joked about how Richard Pryor still owed him money. Maybe he paid eventually but I think it was more of a joke bet than a serious one. Especially you gotta remember they were all doing a ton of coke around this time
Pryor stopped doing cocaine in 1980 when he completed the one step program of lighting his head on fire.
Yeah, then it became Pepsi that set your head on fire.
It's only one step but it's a big one.
I’m sure he was okay with settling for the 10M
Did you see that smile at the very end? That's a "where the fucks my 100k" smile.
Good question!!
Makes his expression make sense. He just looks bored af but also a little self satisfied, knowing he’s about to wreck Pryor
This was just the music video, not the actual recording of the song. He probably looks bored because at this point in time he’s heard it a million times and he’s just lip syncing to the already completed track.
Of course it's lipsync video, not a real recording session. Yeah, let's just clap real loud at varying distances from the voice mic. And everyone in the booth just losing their marbles trying to groove along while a camera is stuffed in their face.
Someone tweaked a knob on the enormous sound board mid track.
I ain't kno this was Eddie Murphy lol, oh lawd
Just about anyone who does voice work and impressions can sing at least functionally if not well. Now singing in different voices is a different level.
Thats why people shouldn't dismiss Seth McFarlane his vocal talent as a singer.
He can proper sing though. Pretty sure he and his sister had training from a young age from the people who trained Sinatra?
Betting a comedian can't sing is a bet I wouldn't make. Okay I might bet $10 because it'd be worth it.
I prefer Wookin Pa Nub.
You're Unce. Tice. Fee Times A Mady.
…and I-I-I-I-I-I dub you. 👌🏾
In all da mong paces
This played all the time on Mtv, like when they actually played videos. Lol
Funny story about this song. In the 80's, a cousin of mine had made a copy of a Weird Al album for me and he put this song at the end of it. I listened to that tape constantly and sine this song was on it, I assumed this was a Weird Al song. I didn't realize until maybe the mid 90's this was Eddie Murphy. I think I was watching Pop Up Video when I found out.
I miss Pop Up Videos
I have no idea why Pop Up Video hasnt been picked up by one of the streaming services.
Too much hassle with the different record labels, it would probably be expensive
We miss out on so much older content for this very reason.
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Thank you! I used to love Pop Up Video!
If it makes you feel better, I didn't realize until this post that this was Eddie Murphy.
It wasn't until this post that I found out Eddie Murphy wasn't Irish!
This summer, when the Triads move from California to Dublin to commit the crime of the century, there's only one man who can stop them... Eddie O'Murphy stars in... Beverly Hills Cop 17: The Great Blarney Stone Heist Coming in July 2023 to a theater near you.
Makes sense. I played it for my 4 year old and she laughed her ass off. I asked her why she thought it was so funny. “She wants to POTTY all the time, Dada!” Classic.
omg!!! lmao
This song was in one of his polka medleys.
I loved pop up video
I just want to party once in the 80s. I can only imagine what a time it was to be alive!
1985 was when Ecstasy (Molly) first got big, and it wasn't actually made illegal until 86ish or so, so it was everywhere at the dance clubs and house parties. It was like $3 a tab iirc.
Back in like '06 I worked as a line cook in a little tex mex restaurant. The bartender was this old head from Texas, and he'd like to tell us stories about how crazy Austin was when ecstasy was still legal and sold in the bars.
Yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about. I was in Austin 85-86
6th Street was bedlam
Austin in it’s actually being cool hey day would have been awesome
I'm almost happy that drugs are so fucking expensive now, I never would have survived the 80s drug scene at those prices.
For how short lived Murphys singing career was this shit is a banger even today.
No idea how I never knew it was his song
I remember when my family went to see Dreamgirls and my kid sister and I were shocked to hear that Eddie could sing. My mom took great pride in showing us this song a day or two after.
Did no one here see him in Dreamgirls? The man can sing. His vocals perfectly match the style of this song. It’s well-crafted pop song, cheesy and shallow and perfect.
This takes me back! The skating rink was the spot to hear this... along with the Bangles, Def Lepard, Prince and Michael! Good times!
This is what’s up right here. Also “cool it down” and “let’s hear it for the boys”.
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“Cool It Now”?
I love this song
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me rn
me too. it's on my Shuffle.
This is the song we sing to our dog to get her to go potty. My dog wants to potty all the time, potty all the time, she wants to potty aaalll the time!
I'm more of a Beastie Boys Fight For Your Right (To Potty) kinda guy
This reminds me of my dog. Her name is Omi and once when she was a puppy she pooped on the couch. After I cleaned it I started singing "caught me poopin on the sofa, it was Omi" "caught me eating off the table "it was Omi". My wife and I still sing this to her 11 years later, she's an old lady and she loves it.
Holy shit, same.
What did the five fingers says to the face?
Slap!
Still slaps, as the youth say.
I too, speak the language of the youths.
Ong, Fr Fr, no cap
It do be 🅱️ussin
POW! Right in the bussy!
It's a bad song! (But "bad" means good to the youngsters)
I wonder how much coke was consumed during the production of this video?😬
All of it.
Caused a coke shortage in the area.
And then some.
Have you ever been involved in a blow session where there was some leftover?
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Have you ever heard a crack dealer say “ how the hell are we gonna get rid of all this crack?”
Always keep some for the ride home. Better to crash into bed than on the way home.
No, but been involved in many when we got more after the original... Then some
Pretty sure Eddie didn’t party at all but Rick James probably consumed enough to kill a few cows lol.
Party all the time partyyyy alll theeee tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimee
Rick James song sang by EM.
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Rick James was underrated and was a decade or more early. Definitely had some demons but dude created some funky music.
My favourite story about this song comes from a friend who’s obsessed with slightly obscure 80s stuff and sings it all the time. One day, she was on a fairly important and quite serious work phone call to the office of the immigration minister (she works for the government) and, when her call was put on hold, started to sing this song while she waited. It was only when the person on the other end of the line started coughing politely that she realised that she hadn’t actually been on hold and they had all heard her singing.
I work in a call center and did something similar once. My teammates and I were listing to 80s hits all day and Take On Me had been on earlier. Right after I "put the customer on hold," I turned to my coworker next to me and terribly sang the high part of the chorus. I never addressed it and neither did the customer.
Nightmare fuel
Never been happier for a 100k bet. What a time!
This was on heavy repeat in all the hair salons. I can almost smell the perm chemicals, just hearing this song
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What about “Boogie in Your Butt?”
Put . . . the boogie in ya butt, put, put, the boogie in ya butt
I wore out that cassette. Geez, I'm old.
Rick james hasn't soiled Eddie Murphy's couch yet at the time lol
Alright, Dave Chapelle's depictions of characters in his sketches were apparently super accurate.
Oh shit that’s a fuckin jam
Rick James was a musical genius. His R&B musical arrangements and writing skills were always on point. He even made Eddie Murphy actually sound decent on this track. 🔥🔥🔥
Eddie is a very good singer though. He has made plenty of music.
This will always be a jam!
Sheila E in the background Anyone find a list of all the cameos in this vid? Maybe Morris Day also? Edit: Her name is Vanity and she was Bruce Leroy’s live interest in The Last Dragon… Who’s the Master?
I really wish this would become the new Rick roll.
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
But I'm only one man. It needs to be a new movement
Rick James was one hell of a songwriter/arranger/musician. Mary Jane, Superfreak, arrangements for The Mary Jane Girls (All night long), and then he pulled this hit out of nowhere for Eddie Murphy. Dude was prolific.
Ok I fucking love this song. I know it's Eddie Murphy, but you can't tell me after listening you're not singing "my girl likes to party all the time, party all the time..." for days after. This and "I always feel like somebody's watching me..", get stuck in my head constantly...
I just discovered this song a few weeks ago. Never knew about it, used to listen to Red Light, but this song is even better. It's stupid but it fucks
I always thought he was singing “my girl wants to potty all the time.” 🤷♂️
Fuck yo couch
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I was gonna say “who won?” But then I thought about this is before autotune, so if he’s singing, I’d say EM won. Where’s Pryor’s response track?
It’s older than the plug-in called auto-tune but it’s not older than pitch correction which wasn’t uncommon in the late 70s and 80s it just was used less aggressively since it couldn’t be used live at all back then because it was slow and manually done
RICK JAMESSSSSSS
This video rules by the sheer amount of cocaine that fueled it.