Eddie Murphy recently told his part of the iconic story involving Prince and a high school basketball game that his brother, Charlie Murphy, once told him and returned to the “Chappelle’s Show.”
The comedian confirmed on Thursday, in an appearance on “The Tonight Show”, that his brother’s account of their iconic match against the legend “Purple Rain” was “totally and absolutely correct”.
Eddie Murphy described what everyone was wearing at the time to host Jimmy Fallon, saying that 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 with a laugh. (Watch the full video below.)
Prince’s revolutionary and iconic style was the focus of the memorable “Chappelle’s Show” script, in which Dave Chappelle played the late singer as she wore a purple ensemble, complete with a ruffled shirt.
In the script of the show in the mid-2000s, Charlie Murphy tells the story of the night when Prince and his team beat him, his brother and their team in a basketball game.
“I dare challenge Prince to a one-on-one ball game,” says Charlie Murphy at one point in the segment.
During Eddie Murphy’s appearance on “The Tonight Show,” he said one of his teammates that night didn’t play as well as he normally would because he was wearing a pair of Prince sneakers that were too small.
The “Coming 2 America” actor said that his friend, named Larry, wore the shoes that the legendary singer lent him, despite his size, because he was “so excited to have sneakers on Prince”.
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 allegedly loved sketching, died in 2016.
Murphy will play the anticipated sequel “Coming 2 America” on Amazon Prime on March 5th.
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