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Eddie Murphy has hinted Beverly Hills Cop 4 film will be his last, because he wants to get back to stage work.  The funnyman was an acclaimed stand-up comedian before he became a movie star, and now he’s keen to return to comedy clubs and theatres.

He says, “Thirty years and I have close to 50 movies and it is like, `Why am I in the movies? I’ve done that part now.’

“I’ll go back to the stage and do stand-up.”

But he’s still keen to get a fourth Beverly Hills Cop film made after years of looking at bad scripts for the project: “The third one was horrible, so I didn’t want to do another one.”

He adds, “The (third) movie wasn’t ready to be done and they (producers) wrote some s**t down on paper and I said, `Is this your phone number?’ and they said, `This is how much we’re going to pay you.’

“I said, `Let’s go shoot it! I don’t care if the script ain’t right.’”

It’ll be interesting to see how Eddie can do back on the stand-up circuit.  I can still remember sneaking to watch Delirious and Raw as a kid and not understanding some of the jokes in Delirious because I was too young at the time.  But going back and watching them as an adult they are still hilarious to me years later.  Be honest…we’ve all had those 4 or 5 nights in the past 10 years or so when we get home late from the club and flip through the cable guide.  As you sit there eating your late night bag of grease you stumble upon Raw.  What do you do?  You watch it!  He could be on the last joke or the first joke, but you watch until you either laugh yourself to sleep on the couch or muster up enough energy to stumble to your bed.  Then you wake up the next morning singing that slinky song.