Eddie Murphy’s hostility towards Saturday Night Live was so strong that he swore he’d never return to the show he said was run by “dirty motherf---ers.”

Murphy first revealed last June that he was “hurt” by the “racist” joke David Spade made about his career on SNL in 1995. But in the new Netflix documentary Being Eddie, out Wednesday, Murphy said the intensity of his aversion to the show was much more severe. The SNL alum rose to fame during his tenure there from 1980 to 1984, before he became a worldwide movie star. By the time Spade made a crack about a recent critical flop at the time, Murphy was one of the biggest movie stars in the world, and the first Black one.

That bit made Spade’s joke feel all the more pointed, Murphy says in the doc.

Being Eddie spans Murphy’s career from h

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