It is a performances centric movie

How sad is this?

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Before Eddie Murphy Raw, we had a more raw concert movie, Eddie sporting a ruddy suit, spouting obscenities and jokes, ones that come off much cheaper, than the latter movie. This one not really suited for cinema, especially when watching the opening with the bus boys to the theme "The Boys Are Back In Town". Some of the humor is in bad taste too, like the ones set around feces and furniture, where it had me visualizing the scene, and being put off, though laughing hard. Eddie also makes a honest point with Elvis Presly's acting, before ending this topic, by feigning a fart. Like Raw, the magic is here too, but like I said, the humor comes off more cheaply, where may'be too, Eddie wasn't as polished here as in later years, if to develop more in standup. Taking pokes at many other celebrities, and doing great impressions, Eddie makes Delirious, still a very funny show, the title kind of giving emphasis to his state, when flapping his lips with all this raw material. Watch for the shot of a d..khead in the audience jumping up, raising his shirt, of course, wanting exposure, but there's only one star of this show and that's Eddie.

Eddie Murphy's raunchy, raucous stand-up comedy routine is captured for posterity on this tape. Not for folks who dislike foul language.The opening part of the set is littered with derogatory jokes on homosexuality, leaving some to wonder: is Murphy homophobic? From the material, it is hard to say. We could say this was normal in the early 1980s, or even point out he is never being spiteful, and just found an easy target.Interestingly, his comments about getting women because of show business, much like Richard Pryor joked a year earlier. Coincidence? What separates Murphy from Pryor (among other things) is his great Elvis impression, as well as impressions in general. One can easily see why much later (such as in "Shrek") he was sought out for voice work.

Filmed in the Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., Eddie Murphy Delirious delivers raunchy, and no limits comedy as it spits jokes at you rapid fire not even stopping for a moment so you can laugh. While a bit inferior to its successor Eddie Murphy Raw, it still manages to etch itself into the fabric of stand up comedy classics and makes you wish Eddie Murphy's lovable sense of wit and humor was incorporated more into his current films.Now, Murphy keeps a G to PG friendly persona. Where in Delirious and Raw, he is almost sporting an NC-17 persona. He states perfectly in the special "I don't give a f*** who the f*** you are I'll make fun of you," and he does.I love it when Murphy impersonates a typical white person. Being a Caucasian male, I laugh when he does his "white man voice" because he is honest and correct. Instead of saying "hey, just because we do that doesn't make it funny," I say "hell, that's true!" He did the same in Raw and it was just as funny.Murphy breezes through topics like "What if Mr. T was gay?," the ice-cream man, discovering humor and the science of farts, and even attacks, at that time, President Ronald Reagan. All with good humor, and his cheesy smile to add to the nonstop comedy.People can accuse Eddie Murphy for being too raunchy, racy, racist, hateful, discriminating, off color, dirty, arrogant, ignorant, unaware, unethical, disgusting, disturbing, foul, vulgar, etc. But what did you expect? Eddie Murphy giving a family-themed performance? That didn't start happening till Shrek came out in 2001. Also, what did you expect going into a stand up comedy special? That's like accusing George Carlin for being too obscure, or a President for being too bossy, or even water for being wet.With two strong specials, a great smile, and a great attitude, I'm hoping we see a return to the stage in Eddie Murphy's future. Why we haven't is beyond me.Starring: Eddie Murphy and The Bus Boys. Directed by: Bruce Gowers.

This is the best stand up act I have ever seen committed to film. I had the VHS tape of this and have only recently got the perfect DVD of it. This guy is truly gifted, even at the age of 22 he was a master of impersonations! His renditions of Mr T, Elvis Presley and even Michael Jackson amongst many others are all side splittingly funny and accurate. The research he must have done, and even rehearsing to get this act so so perfect must have been tremendous. Have seen the majority of and even the best of Eddie Murphy's films, but none come even close to this for just genuine hilarity. Comedy fans will love this from second one to the end