When Murphy hosted Saturday Night Live about five months after the film was released, he admitted in his opening monologue that he knew the film was awful and did it for the money: "After I did 48 Hours and Trading Places, all these scripts started comin’ from everywhere, and I picked up a script called Best Defense. There’s a movie that sucked real bad! At first, I wasn’t gonna do it because I read the script, and I felt like I was an actor at first.