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Over the past 50 years Bob Hope employed 88 joke writers who supplied him with more than one million gags, and he still couldn't make me laugh.

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Eddie Murphy
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 3
Comedian
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Brooklyn
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Edward Murphy
Edward Regan Murphy
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