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Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy joined "Saturday Night Live" at just 19 years old in 1980 and is widely credited with helping save the show during a critically panned early-1980s period, before launching a stand-up career alongside his film work that produced two landmark concert films. His 1983 concert film "Delirious" and 1987 follow-up "Raw" are both frequently cited among the greatest stand-up specials ever recorded, showcasing the same high-energy, character-driven performance style that also defined his film comedy work throughout the decade. Murphy's subsequent decades-long film career, spanning broad studio comedies and later more dramatic and family-oriented roles, made him one of the most commercially successful actors to emerge from a stand-up comedy background. Murphy's combination of his history-making early "Saturday Night Live" run and his landmark "Delirious" and "Raw" concert films has made him one of the most influential comedians in American entertainment history.
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Chris Rock
Chris Rock built his reputation through a string of acclaimed HBO stand-up specials beginning with 1996's "Bring the Pain," which won two Emmy Awards and established him as one of the sharpest social and political comedians of his generation. His extended stand-up bit distinguishing between people who happened to be famous versus those who had genuinely earned wealth ("Champagne Room" and similar routines) became widely quoted and analyzed as some of the most incisive social commentary in modern stand-up comedy. Rock's 2022 Academy Awards on-stage incident with Will Smith became one of the most widely discussed live television moments in recent memory, and his subsequent live Netflix special addressing the incident directly, "Selective Outrage," drew a massive real-time audience. Rock's combination of his Emmy-winning HBO specials and his incisive social commentary throughout his stand-up career has made him one of the most influential comedians of his generation.
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