ENTREPRENEURS: Two lessons:
1. NEVER GIVE UP
2. YOU NEVER KNOW WHERE SUCCESS WILL FINALLY COME FROM
Eddie Murphy brought a surge in Gumby’s popularity in the 1980s with his send-up of the character on “Saturday Night Live” as a cigar-smoking show business primadonna.
Clokey said he enjoyed Murphy’s profane Gumby.
“Gumby can laugh at himself,” Clokey told the Tribune.
Murphy’s Gumby brought new toy sales and eventually led to a new syndicated series starting in 1988.
It was only then that Clokey started seeing serious financial returns on his creation.
“It took 40 years,” he said.
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