Entertainment Weekly
"Murphy's tone is generous, his detail work impeccable, and his beguiling smile an unguarded joy..." -- Grade: B 02/09/2007 p.58Total Film
4 stars out of 5 -- "[With Murphy] delivering his greatest material in a tour de force of livid, strutting energy." 05/01/2007 p.125 Reel.com 7 of 10
Strutting across the Constitution Hall stage in form-fitting red leather like the proverbial "cock of the walk," Eddie Murphy alternately regales and repels with his raunchy, unapologetically offensive brand of stand-up comedy in Eddie Murphy: Delirious, his 1983 HBO special, finally available on DVD. Then just 22 years old, Murphy spares nothing and no one, including himself, in a foul-mouthed 70-minute set that includes such classic bits as "the ice cream song" and his dead-on impersonations of Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. Light years removed from his current, family-friendly persona, Murphy drops the F-bomb throughout his act, but his constant use of profanity is the least objectionable element in Delirious, which is regrettably marred by the stand-up's blatant homophobia and callous AIDS-related jokes. - Tim Knight
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