Eddie Murphy recently recounted his side of the iconic story involving Prince and a basketball game that his late brother, Charlie Murphy, told and performed on the “Chappelle’s Show.”
The comic confirmed Thursday in an appearance on “The Tonight Show” that his brother’s account of his iconic match against the legend of “Purple Rain” was “totally and absolutely accurate.”
Eddie Murphy described what everyone was wearing at the time to welcome Jimmy Fallon, saying Prince proposed the idea of playing basketball while wearing a leather jacket and a gold chain around his waist.
“I think a belt,” Eddie Murphy added laughing. (Watch the full clip below.)
Prince’s revolutionary and iconic style was at the center of the memorable “Chappelle’s Show,” in which Dave Chappelle portrayed the late singer while wearing a purple ensemble, with a flying shirt.
In the scene of the mid-2000s, Charlie Murphy recounts the night Prince and his team defeated him, his brother, and his team in a basketball game.
“I dare challenge Prince to a one-on-one ball game,” Charlie Murphy says at one point in the segment.
During Eddie Murphy’s appearance on “The Tonight Show,” he shared that one of his teammates that night didn’t play as well as he normally would because he was wearing too small Prince sneakers.
The “Coming 2 America” actor said his friend, named Larry, wore the shoes the legendary singer lent him despite the size because he was “very excited to have Prince’s shoes.”
In 2017, guitarist Micki Free, who played on Prince’s team that night, told Esquire that everything that happened on the “Chappelle’s Show” sketch “was real.”
The iconic sketch is one of Charlie Murphy’s memorable and legendary comic moments. He died in 2017. Prince, who apparently loved the sketch, died in 2016.
Murphy will star in the highly anticipated “Coming 2 America” sequel on Amazon Prime on March 5th.
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