Eddie Murphy’s Uncle Ray Murphy on Low-Paid Shows and Family Fame

So how many shows you did for $1,500 follow theater 29 shows

$1,500 split five ways 75 for the Union paid the hotel bill. I came over $50

Take a job on ice truck make a living who was your manager a guy named Oscar Walser from Nostradamo in Brooklyn

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Grocery store on the side or something. Oh, that's how I met him. I was packing groceries on Nostradamo

Yeah, I went from 1,500 to $40 a week

I'm back with this guy. I get no money again

My whole life not making money trying to be a star and here you are

I don't even have no name no more used to be Ray Murphy. Now. I'm Eddie Murphy's uncle

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Eddie Murphy's uncle

You could get monogrammed shirts EUM Eddie Murphy's uncle I got to get some shirts period

Told me this morning we came down you don't overdress

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Be had I get it on like he's throwing away all my colors. I had to wait brown today

So you wouldn't clash with your nephew don't clash with the underwear

Wearing tuxedos, yeah. Yeah. Well, you know, he makes a couple of dollars more than I do, but he's nice to you still isn't he?

I mean

Equal sometimes I ride in a limo sometimes I run behind

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