After maybe 30 seconds too long, I blurted out my personal favorite: DavidAlanGrier, an African-American funnyman on the weekly Fox TV show In Living Color.
Murphy has a couple of peppy scenes with DavidAlanGrier and Martin Lawrence, who play his best buddies, but a lot of the time he acts unconvincingly modest.
Three actors of "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" -- Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis and DavidAlanGrier -- earned nominations, though only McDonald (who also is on ABC's "Private Practice") grabbed an award for best performance by a leading actress in a play.