Eddie Murphy 1982. Nolte was scheduled to host the December 11, 1982, Christmas episode of "Saturday Night Live", but became too ill to host, so Murphy took over. He became the only cast member to host while still a regular. Murphy opened the show with the phrase, "Live from New York, It's the Eddie Murphy Show!" The following year, Murphy starred in "Trading Places" with fellow "SNL" alumnus Dan Aykroyd. The movie marked the first of Murphy's collaborations with director John Landis (who also directed Murphy in "Coming to America" and "Beverly Hills Cop III") and proved to be an even greater
Trading Places by a recognition of their faults and no revolutionary desire to see the world formed on a new basis." David Budd, in his 2002 book "Culture Meets Culture in the Movies", writes about the experiences of characters when the expected roles of races in society are sometimes reversed. The 1995 fiction film "White Man's Burden" and John Howard Griffin's factual book "Black Like Me" are used as a foundation to show how different the experience of white people can be when subjected to the prejudices faced by black people. In that respect, Budd proclaims "Trading Places" as "uncannily illustrative if