So stop saying you are, Eddie Murphy tells comic Brando

Eddie Murphy has reportedly launched a legal action against a stand-up comic he claims is passing himself off as his son.

Celebrity website TMZ reports that lawyers for the 52-year-old have threatened to sue Brando Murphy for millions if he he doesn't stop.

In return, the younger comic claims he has never presented himself as Eddie's son and threading to counter-sue for defamation over the 'vile, base, contemptible, miserable, wretched and loathsome' claims.

Brando has performed a show with Richard Pryor's son Mason called Sons Of Comedy – although billed with their surnames, the show website, now taken down, did not explicitly claim Brando was Eddie's offspring. It did however claim he was being 'shopped around Hollywood to star in a biopic' of Eddie.

It seems that the supposed movie was being made by Thunderhouse Media, who also produced the tour. On the company's website Brando is dressed up in Eddie's iconic red leather suit from his Delirious show for a photo plugging the 'extraordinary story of a comedy icon'.

The Sons Of Comedy tour angered Eddie's lawyers, who also claim Brando changed his last name to Murphy and has shown up at one of Eddie's favourite coffee shop and screamed: 'My father won't talk to me!'

In an online video of his stand-up, Brando – whose Facebook timeline is peppered with Christian messages – spends time saying he looks like Eddie, and impersonating him:

Published: 22 Jan 2014