Where Have You Gone, Eddie Murphy?

What happened to this Eddie Murphy? You know, the funny one. The Eddie Murphy who looked like a comedy god, like Elvis in his prime, strutting, preening, wearing a leather suit. Not the Eddie Murphy who makes movies wearing fat suits or talking to computer animated squirrels.

The clip comes to us by way of an Esquire magazine article about entertainers, specifically comedians, even more specifically black comedians, and the handling of the first black president.