Back in 2012, Thunderhouse Media debuted “Sons of Comedy.” The show included Mason Pryor — Richard Pryor’s son — and Brando Murphy. As was pointed out by Shadow And Act at the time, it wasn’t clear how Brando fit into Eddie Murphy’s family. As it turns out, he didn’t — and Eddie was furious Brando had insinuated anything to the contrary.
In January 2014, TMZ revealed that Eddie’s legal team sent Brando a cease-and-desist, calling him out for changing his last name, seemingly to insinuate that they were father and son. Brando’s real last name? Robinson-Poitier. The misleading name change coupled with his stint on “The Sons of Comedy” weren’t the only things he’d been accused of, though. He was also said to have shown up at Eddie’s favorite coffee shop to lament, “My father won’t talk to me!” Speaking to TMZ of an interaction they’d had in the same coffee shop, Brando said Eddie had seemed tense. We find it hard to imagine why.
In another interview about the situation with HipHollywood, Brando confirmed that he had no links to the “Shrek” voice actor. “No, Eddie is not my father. I know I look like him, but no,” he said animatedly. Granted, he immediately followed up with an ambiguous statement. “He said he ain’t my daddy, and we gon’ keep it like that,” he quipped. He also used several of Eddie’s facial expressions throughout the interview — a solid approach to denying everything.
