“It is sad that Mr Murphy would take this glorious moment of returning to SNL and make disparaging remarks against Mr Cosby.
Bill Cosby’s publicist has called Eddie Murphy a “Hollywood slave” who has yet to “leave the plantation”, after he made a joke about the disgraced star in a Saturday Night Live monologue.
While the joke received a rapturous response from the SNL audience, Cosby’s publicist Andrew Wyatt condemned Murphy in a statement, claiming that the star was “cooning” and participating in “the destruction of black men in Hollywood”.
Murphy then did a Cosby impression, asking: “Who is America’s Dad now?”