Eddie Murphy was reputation at the Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday night.

Murphy, 58, received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the opening ceremony, which aired live from Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, with Taye Diggs as host.

“To make your live attaining beings laugh is the highest blessing on Earth, ” Murphy said during his speech , noting that he’s been impelling movies for roughly 40 years.

“I’ve represented everything: a cop, a raider, medical doctors, different ethnicities, animals, ” he said with a laugh. “I’ve been a donkey. I’ve even dallied a spaceship formerly. When young actors come up to me on the streets and say,’ Do you have any advice? ’, I say,’ never represent a spaceship.’”

Murphy hotshots in Dolemite Is My Name for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award earlier this month. The comedian and actor also made a highly seen return to Saturday Night Live in December which he announced “nostalgic and surreal” while speaking to PEOPLE on the Globes’ red carpet.

“I’m so glad that I went back, ” Murphy said. “It was just a great feeling.”

Murphy — who hosted SNL’s Christmas episode, distinguishing his first time preceding the show in 35 years — had such a good time that he predicted he’d be back again soon.

“Maybe next year, let’s investigate. But definitely not 35 times. I’m not waiting 35 years, ” he tantalized, joking, “When I’m 97, I’ll host! ”

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Alongside Murphy at the Beverly Hills Hotel at the Globes was his fiancee Paige Butcher.

Murphy and Butcher, 40, share two children together — son Max Charles, 1, and daughter Izzy Oona, 3.

The actor is also dad to his oldest son, Eric, 30, with Paulette McNeely. His other children, including daughters Bella Zahra, 17, Zola Ivy, 19, Shayne Audra, 24, and Bria, 29, plus 26 -year-old son Miles Mitchell, are with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell Murphy.

2020 is also slated to be a busy year for Murphy, as he is gearing to go on a stand-up comedy tour and ace in the apprehended sequel to Coming to America.

Explaining his return to the spotlight, Murphy previously told PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly in September, “I was on the couch for maybe five, six years old and now it’s time to get off the couch.”

“I was on the couch because I was rested, I necessitate I was tired, ” he continued. “I’d been establishing movies and doing this stuff for so long I only needed time to be on the couch. Now, I’m off and kind of lit a trigger because it turned out so well and it got the artistic juices flowing.”

Directed by Hustle& Flow’s Craig Brewer, Dolemite Is My Name virtuosoes Murphy as comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who worked the specific characteristics of Dolemite to become a Blaxploitation icon in the ’7 0s.

“You know that expression’ turn lemons into lemonade’ ?, ” Murphy described of his person. “Rudy turned s– into lemonade.”

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