I wouldn't call myself an Eddie Murphy "fan", but I've enjoyed enough of his movies and I don't have a lick of trouble with comedians who work seriously blue. Having heard the Bill Cosby bit from this standup special I made a point of (finally) watching it, because that piece - and particularly the Richard Pryor punch line - kills. But honestly, the rest of the performance just isn't funny. It's Eddie complaining about women for about an hour. Obviously he was working through some things, but for that he really needn't have involved an audience - except for the part about how by doing so he could make a ridiculous amount of money from people who have pretty low standards for comedy. I should also add that, though it's unfair to judge these things in retrospect (that is, more than 30 years out of context), the gay stuff comes off as embarrassingly dated.
Personally, I think it would have been 90 minutes better spent watching Pryor.
Personally, I think it would have been 90 minutes better spent watching Pryor.