{"id":618007,"date":"2026-04-19T23:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618007\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:08:15","slug":"mike-myers-crashes-eddie-murphys-afi-ceremony-dressed-as-shrek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/618007\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Myers Crashes Eddie Murphy’s AFI Ceremony Dressed As Shrek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Myers
\n Storms Eddie Murphy’s Ceremony In Full Shrek Getup<\/p>\n

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\n April 19, 2026
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Forget a black tie … Mike Myers<\/a> rolled up in full ogre glam to pay tribute to Eddie Murphy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Murphy got his big moment on Saturday night at the AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony in L.A. \u2026 but things took a hilarious left turn when Myers hit the stage looking like he just walked straight out of \u201cShrek\u201d … green face, ogre ears, the whole deal.<\/p>\n

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There was half-stepping here \u2026 Myers committed to going all in to praising his friend, saying to the crowd that Murphy is “lovable, hilarious, joyous, vulnerable, and loyal.”<\/p>\n

“Eddie combines all of those in a tour de force, and plainly put, Eddie is one of the greatest,” he said.<\/p>\n

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The crowd lost it as the longtime collaborators — who voiced Shrek and Donkey in the massively successful franchise — shared a full-circle moment more than two decades after the first film dropped. It wasn\u2019t just a bit, either.<\/p>\n

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Myers praised Murphy\u2019s Donkey character as a comedic masterpiece \u2026 basically saying the franchise wouldn\u2019t have been the same — or nearly as successful — without him stealing scenes left and right.<\/p>\n

The room was stacked with comedy royalty, including Dave Chappelle<\/a>, Chris Rock<\/a> and Martin Lawrence<\/a> — all there to celebrate Murphy\u2019s decades-long dominance in the game. Jennifer Hudson<\/a> even took things up a notch with a musical tribute to \u201cDreamgirls.\u201d<\/p>\n

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When Murphy finally grabbed the mic, he admitted how close he was to tearing up seeing his family and peers show up for him before doing what he does best … cracking jokes.<\/p>\n

“If you made me wait until I was 92, I would\u2019ve came out here and said f*** everybody \u2026 and then I\u2019d get down and s*** on the floor,” the comedian said. “We staved off that happening by getting this award tonight.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was Murphy\u2019s night, but Myers turning into Shrek? That\u2019s the moment everyone\u2019s talking about \u2026 ogre ears and all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Myers Storms Eddie Murphy’s Ceremony In Full Shrek Getup Published April 19, 2026 2:30 PM PDT Forget…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-618007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}