The_BDC I'm no angel...and I love a good stand-up routine with plenty of profanity...but "Eddie Murphy Raw" was just over the top nasty! My wife and I were at the drive-in theater when this came out back in 87...I was all set for some killer comedy, since "Delirious" was funny as hell and "Eddie Murphy" was one of my favorite acts during those years. Then "RAW" started playing on the big screen...it was so downright filthy...that even me...an ex-sailor...started to shrink back in his seat! I was embarrassed...no kinda mortified...that my wife was seated next to me watching this garbage too! Within 10 minutes...and for the first time in my life...I left a movie early! TWO thumbs down folks!

fatollahzadeh_armen550 What you're saying is partially arguable because apart from the filming and body language he did quite well on this one. I wouldn't necessarily say it's better than Delirious because the focus on both episodes are on different things. Delirious was very diverse and he kept talking about singers, actors and what not. In Raw however he's more focused on relationship and sex, while that may come of as redundant at times is not a big deal here.Nevertheless, whether he has grown a little more in Raw is obviously a natural course by nature and shouldn't be counted against his performance. Take it from me you should really be thinking about two things when deciding on which one you should watch first! The first one is what kind of subject you're interested in, actors and singers or sex and relationships? The second deals with your own personality as the vocabulary is more vulgar in Raw.Last thing to note here is that both are extremely offensive at times and sensitive people should really be thinking twice before watching either...

larzek Raw is one of the best, in fact, The best stand up comedy show I have ever seen in my life. His humor is just brilliant, his way of relating his jokes to contemporary topics is like Picasso painting a masterpiece. Delirious was good, but Raw is 10 times better. Eddie Murphy always manages to make people laugh to an extreme where we are just astonished. For me, Raw is a masterpiece. I can watch it again and again, and I still laugh like never before. I would recommend for everyone to watch Raw because it will really match the standards everyone expect if he or she watches a comedy show. So you know what you have to do, watch it!!!!

jan-wiberg For years, I had wanted to see this film (not badly, but anyway), but not once had I located a copy of it in any shop or rental store, or even read about a theater or TV screening I could catch. After all, I'm a fan of everything Eddie Murphy did in the 80's, and RAW was one of the few holes still left unfilled. Then, lo and behold, yesterday it turned up on Finnish TV, and I sat down to watch it.I wasn't expecting too much, so I didn't feel disappointed. Eddie doesn't talk about as many subjects as you'd expect from a 90 minute film, so mostly he just drones on and on about something that wasn't too funny in the first place. I concentrated more on his mimicry and timing than the actual jokes, and they were really spot-on. A comedian without those assets pulling off the same stories Eddie did would just have bored his or her audience to death, but with Eddie, the time rushed on surprisingly quickly. And he sure loves to entertain - you can tell that from the sudden ending, which almost seemed like Eddie was interrupting himself.On the downside, the flashback scene at the beginning was a little unnecessary, during the actual stand-up performance the camera was too close - we missed out on Eddie's attempts to do the Moonwalk - and I felt no particular urge to watch RAW a second time. But as a one-time experience, it was memorable. Best bits: Eddie's impersonation of Bill Cosby and his idol, Richard Pryor, and the story about the wife alone in the Bahamas (Man, I loved that microphone-swinging!).Now, how about screening Delirious as well?