Eddie Murphy recently shared his side of the iconic Prince story with a pickup basketball game that his late brother, Charlie Murphy, once hilariously narrated and reenacted on “Chappelle’s Show.”
The comedian confirmed during a performance on “The Tonight Show” on Thursday that his brother’s account of their iconic match against the late “Purple Rain” legend was “absolutely and absolutely accurate”.
Eddie Murphy described what everyone wore at the time to host Jimmy Fallon, saying that Prince proposed the idea of playing basketball while wearing a leather jacket and gold chain around his waist.
“A waistband, I guess,” Eddie Murphy added with a laugh. (Watch the entire clip below.)
Prince’s revolutionary and iconic style was the focus of the memorable ‘Chappelle’s Show’ sketch, in which Dave Chappelle portrayed the late singer wearing a purple ensemble, complete with a ruffled shirt.
In the mid-2000s sketch of the show, Charlie Murphy recounts the night Prince and his team defeated him, his brother, and their team on their own in a game of pick-up basketball.
“I dare you to challenge Prince to a one-on-one ball game,” said Charlie Murphy at one point in the segment.
During Eddie Murphy’s performance on “The Tonight Show” he mentioned that one of his teammates was not playing as well as normal that night because he was wearing a pair of Prince’s sneakers that were too small.
The “Coming 2 America” actor said his friend, named Larry, wore the shoes that the legendary singer lent him despite the size because he was “so excited to be wearing Prince’s sneakers.”
In 2017, guitarist Micki Free, who played on Prince’s team that night, told Esquire that everything that happened in the sketch “Chappelle’s Show” was “real.”
The iconic sketch is one of Charlie Murphy’s memorable and storied comedic moments. He died in 2017. Prince, who reportedly loved the sketch, died in 2016.
Murphy will star in the upcoming sequel “Coming 2 America” on Amazon Prime on March 5.
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