Eddie Murphy recently told his side of the iconic story involving Prince and a basketball game that his late brother, Charlie Murphy, once hilariously told and reenacted on “Chappelle’s Show”.
The comedian confirmed during an appearance on “The Tonight Show” on Thursday that his brother’s account of his iconic match against the late “Purple Rain” legend was “totally and absolutely accurate”.
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.
“A vest, I think,” Eddie Murphy added with a laugh. (Watch the entire clip below).
Prince’s revolutionary and iconic style was at the center of the memorable skit “Chappelle’s Show”, in which Dave Chappelle portrayed the late singer while wearing a purple ensemble, complete with a ruffled shirt.
In the mid-2000s skit, Charlie Murphy recounts the night Prince and his team defeated him, his brother and his team in a basketball game.
“I challenge you to 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 did not play as well as he normally would because he was wearing a pair of Prince sneakers that was too small.
The “Coming 2 America” actor said his friend, Larry, wore the shoes the legendary singer lent him, despite his size, because he was “very excited to have Prince’s sneakers”.
In 2017, guitarist Micki Free, who played on Prince’s team that night, told Esquire that everything that happened in the “Chappelle’s Show” draft “was for real”.
The iconic sketch is one of Charlie Murphy’s memorable and legendary comic moments. He died in 2017. Prince, who supposedly loved the drawing, died in 2016.
Murphy is expected to star in the upcoming sequel “Coming 2 America” on Amazon Prime on March 5.
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