“This was so fun because I haven’t gotten to spend much time together with Eddie since we were in, well, I was going to say college,” says the "Seinfeld" legend. “But I meant ‘SNL,’ which in a weird way was like going to grad school,” she says. “So it was a school reunion of sorts. He’s such a charming human being and he knows funny, and we had a blast pinging off each other.”
Barris says writing lines that made Murphy laugh was “like scoring on Michael Jordan,” adding that Murphy’s decision to play Nation of Islam devotee Akbar Mohammed, in a tightly controlled way, “only makes his performance more powerful.”
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