🔊🥳Today, April 3, 1961, Eddie Murphy was born Edward Regan Murphy in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. Murphy has a comedy album, his second album, called “Eddie Murphy: Comedian (Live),” and it earned him a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards. Arriving through Columbia Records, the comedy album peaked in the top 40 on the Billboard 200, and has since been certified double platinum by the RIAA.