NEWSArsenio Hall Was About to Have His First Threesome When Interrupted to Come to Pal Eddie Murphy's Rescue: 'They Had Fun Without Me'
On 'Today,' Arsenio Hall explained how his first t-------- was interrupted because he needed to come to pal Eddie Murphy's rescue.
April 3 2026, Updated 3:34 p.m. ET
Arsenio Hall was anticipating a good time in the bedroom before he got interrupted.
During the Friday, April 3, episode of TODAY With Jenna & Sheinelle, the comedian, 70, revealed he was about to have a t--------- before he needed to rush to Eddie Murphy’s house.
Arsenio Hall guest-starred on 'TODAY With Jenna & Sheinelle.'
Host Jenna Bush Hager started off by praising Hall about Coming to America, a film he revealed almost didn’t happen.
“We had a bump in the road where Paramount called me and they said, ‘We’re worried, because we think [director] John Landis just quit.’ And I’m like, ‘Ouch.’ But they worked it out, as they always do,” he explained.
Hall insisted he didn’t have anything to do with Landis changing his mind, but he “did go to Eddie’s house with a joint, and was like, ‘Relax.’”
Arsenio Hall rushed to Eddie Murphy's house after getting a call from the president of Paramount.
Guest co-host Willie Geist asked Hall to elaborate on a “rude interruption” he suffered before going to Murphy’s home.
“I was about to have my first ménage à trois when Paramount called me. And I had to leave. But the ladies had fun without me!” the comedian dished.
“They were patient,” Bush Hager joked.
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Arsenio Hall was fooling around with women when Paramount called him.
In Arsenio: A Memoir, the 70-year-old elaborated on the situation, which occurred when he was gifted “outrageous New York weed” and partied with two women after dinner in his suite at the Waldorf Astoria.
“I have long dreamed of having a ménage-à-trois,” he wrote in his book. “Call it high on my bucket list, maybe in the top three, and tonight’s the night. I am about to fulfill my dream.”
Arsenio Hall recently released a memoir.
The ladies were “making out on the couch” and “turn[ing him] on” when Paramount Pictures president Ned Tanen phoned him. He told Hall that Murphy “choked” Landis “on Queens Boulevard, in front of an entire crowd,” prompting him to “f------ quit.”
Arsenio Hall starred in 'Coming to America.'
In an attempt to mend the “uncomfortable vibe” between Murphy and Landis, Hall abandoned the girls and rode his limo to Murphy’s home in Englewood, NJ. He taught his friend the importance of breathing and staying calm amid conflict.
“We drink and smoke and get high as mother------,” he wrote. “[The next day,] Landis has returned to work, he and Eddie have met, agreed to a truce, or made up, or — I never do find out exactly what happened that afternoon on Queens Boulevard.”
Coming to America was released in 1988 and went on to become a massive box-office hit, grossing $288 million worldwide.
