The 1970’s had been a time of great upheaval and nowhere was this more apparent than The United States of America the times were so turbulent that even a stuffy, censored, and money hungry industry such as television took a chance on group of irreverent actors and their Canadian leader and rode that rocket ship all the way to a Prime Time Emmy…

Well, the 1970’s were over and so was that group of irreverent actors and their leader - The 1980’s had arrived and by October 1980 everyone was gone and in their place were a group so misguided they didn’t even realize the talent that was right in front of them.

Saturday Night Live as we know it would have died a slow death at the hands of these individuals had it not been for one young man - a young man from New York, with a love for Peter Sellers, and a wit so quick and lethal that  the walls of Studio 8H could barely contain him

That young man was Eddie Murphy and by 1984 he had not only saved the show he was about to shoot the most successful film of any SNL actor…

From 48 hours to Beverly Hills, from Harlem to Zamunda, from racy standup to down home family films one man has done it all and had you been listening to Eddie Murphy had been telling you he was going to do it from the very beginning…

Let’s take a look at his remarkable story together because it’s time to sit back and relax Mom and Dad won’t be back for at least an hour and Welcome To The Latch Key Kids Present “Ready For Prime Time Players Part XI:  What Is That? Velvet?”