Eddie Murphy told his “totally and absolutely accurate” side of his hilarious game of pick-up basketball with Prince –– and it’s still just as funny as when his brother Charlie Murphy explained it on Dave Chappelle’s sketch comedy show. However, he does admit that there are some inconsistencies in the original story.
Murphy appeared on Jimmy Fallon’s talk show while promoting his upcoming movie Comes 2 America prior to the film’s premiere on Amazon Prime, where it opened up about the crazy experience. While the original narration said that he and his brothers were offered some clothes by Prince to play in, Murphy says he and his friends actually “had stuff from the club.” Prince reportedly wore the same outfit from his “Kiss” video, including a blouse.
“My brother was like, ‘Okay, it’s gonna be shirts against blouses,'” he started. “The blouses won, they knocked the s – out of us,” he said, laughing along with the host. “We had a guy in our team Larry who could play and he had no shoes, so Prince gave him some sneakers. And Prince was wearing two, three sizes smaller than Larry, but Larry was so excited to have Prince’s sneakers on, he pulled those little sneakers on his feet and he couldn’t do his game properly, ”he said. So we lost. The only guy who could play, Prince’s shoes made him lock up. “
The comedian filled the rest of the interview with impressions of some of the legends he met in his career, as well as some of his favorite memories. Murphy discussed the time when he got bad advice from Rodney Dangerfield, laughed with Richard Pryor, and the legends he met that he immediately felt were geniuses: Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney.
Eddie Murphy’s latest project serves as a sequel to the first Coming to America in which Prince Akeem (Murphy) returns to America in search of his long-lost son and heir to the Zamunda throne. Arsenio Hall, Shari Headley, Vanessa Bell Calloway and James Earl Jones return along with Murphy for the new episode written by Blackish creator Kenya Barris. Wesley Snipes, Garcelle Beauvais and The old guard star Kiki Layne joins them among the cast. The film will hit the streaming service on March 5.