I was giggling for a week afterward.

OK I'm not insecure in my masculinity, so I'll freely admit that my best buddy has seen me cry out of sadness quite a few times. But what really amazed him was when he first saw me cry from laughing too hard. Now that I think back, I really do think he was scared I might laugh myself to death. I just remember him sitting there asking repeatedly, 'Dude, are you OK?" And that was when he first played Eddie Murphy Delirious for me.

For an hour and a half of raw, hilarious, gut-busting comedy, you simply can't beat it. For material Eddie taps into social and political commentary as well as personal childhood experiences. His impressions are some of the funniest I've ever heard. He does everyone from Ricky Ricardo to Stevie Wonder, as well as various Star Trek characters and relatives from his childhood who he makes fun of.

Without a doubt my favorite part was his account of the summer barbecues of his childhood, when we are introduced to funny characters such as his Aunt Bunny with the scary mustache and his drunk father, who likes to remind everyone whose house it is and make fun of other family members when drunk. Other funny parts include his impressions of the unintelligible James Brown and of Stevie Wonder.

His child hood material is also dead on target, as he brings up aspects of our childhood we all thought no one else ever thought about, such as the great excitement surrounding the arrival of the ice cream man and the fear of kissing those scary aunts. Thought fart jokes out-lived their usefulness? You have yet to hear Murphy talk about the fart game.

Why do I find this routine hilarious to listen to again and again? Because first of all, Murphy doesn't try to be 'politically correct'. His humor targets Italians, Blacks, whites, Asians... no one is safe from it so everyone can laugh at it. I think in his equal opportunity roasting he reminds us all of the importance of not taking ourselves or others too seriously and being able to laugh at life. He even makes fun of black men, recounting his paranoid expedition to Texas in search of racism and deriding black men who act like they would have played the tough guy in times of slavery.

Even more interestingly, listening to his routine bought me back in time to the political climate of the era, reminding me of how much things have changed even in my short 20 year life time from the Era of Reaganomics and Jesse Jackson's run for president to the Bush/Gore debacle. If you're in the college age group, it'll be sure to make you wonder where the time has gone and amaze you at how much change can occur in such a short time-span.

What didn't I like so much? I could have done without seeing him expose himself. I also usually take at least a few points off for excess profanity, as the routine is laced with it, but in this case I'll be lenient because I know the routine is still hilarious without it. He uses it a lot, but unlike some other comedians the frequency of the f and s-words does not make or break the whole thing.

If you can handle raunchy humor and can get the kids out of the house for a few hours, by all means do so and prepare to laugh so hard you think you'll explode.