Actor and comedian David Spade recently spoke about his decades-long feud with Eddie Murphy, revealing that a joke he made on Saturday Night Live nearly 25 years ago sparked the tension, according to E! News. On a recent episode of the Fly on the Wall podcast with Dana Carvey, Spade recalled poking fun at Murphy’s 1995 film Vampire in Brooklyn during the Weekend Update segment. He said the joke unexpectedly upset Murphy. “It was weird going from being a super fan to having him hate me overnight,” Spade explained. “I was new on Weekend Update, making fun of celebrities, and I made fun of him—and it didn’t go well.”

Spade added that Murphy later confronted him, and while he felt a bit guilty, he didn’t push back. “He did make some sense. I just didn’t like it because he was a hero,” Spade said. The joke referred to Vampire in Brooklyn as “a falling star,” with the line, “Make a wish.” Murphy later clarified that his frustration was less about Spade personally and more about the show itself. In the Netflix documentary Being Eddie, Murphy reflected on the incident, describing it as deeply hurtful. “It’s like your alma mater taking a shot at you,” he said, noting that the joke had gone through multiple levels of approval. “That’s why I didn’t go back for years.”

Despite the long-standing tension, the two have since made amends. Murphy returned to host SNL in 2019, commenting that the issue was behind them: “I don’t have no smoke with no David Spade.” Spade confirmed their reconciliation, mentioning that they recently spoke during the SNL 50th anniversary celebration. “Everything’s fine. We’re all good,” he said. Reflecting further, Spade noted, “I’ve seen him once or twice, and then I saw him at the 50th. We talked a little, and everything’s fine. When they asked him about it, he said, ‘Yeah, we’re all good.’ So yeah, we’re all good.”