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The story of Murphy’s baskeball game loss to Prince is the perfect example as the photo above of the legendary loss has gone viral in honor of the fallen funnyman.
Some of the best comedic stories are often based on factual events and Charlie Murphy’s tale of playing basketball with Prince, which was a popular skit on the Dave Chappelle show, is one of them.
What’s even more intriguing is hearing both Prince and Murphy reminisce about the game… Continue Reading…
Sad news today. Comedian Charlie Murphy, older brother of Eddie Murphy has died after a battle with leukemia.
Details below… Continue Reading…
Rock was in town for his ‘Total Blackout’ comedy tour, his first full-scale world tour in over a decade when he surprised the audience with a very special guest.
The crowd went reportedly went wild at the Saenger Theatre when Rock’s good friend comedian Dave Chappelle walked onstage after intermission for a head to head ‘social experiment’ on comedy.
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The master comedian Chappelle took to the stage for his monologue and blew the crowd away with thought provoking jokes on things like the killing of Harambe and president-elect Donald Trump’s historic win.
I didn?t know Donald Trump was going to win the election. I did expect it. It seemed like Hillary Clinton was doing well in polls, and yet ? I know the whites.
You guys aren?t as full of surprises as you used to be.
He continued…
America?s done it. We?ve actually elected an internet troll as our president.
I haven?t seen white people this angry since the O.J. verdict.
Chappelle also took on ISIS, the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting, and delivered talked about police violence and the Black Lives Matter movement.
In case you missed it, watch video of Chappelle on SNL below… Continue Reading…
Antwan “Big Boi” Patton was spotted outside his trailer in San Francisco last weekend chillin with his buddy funny man Dave Chappelle.
Big was in Cali to perform at the Outsand Lands Festival but apparently had to cancel his set due to a few technical difficulties.
After an hour long delay, an anxious San Fran crowd began to boo my boo, and Big hit the stage (and twitter) to explain the situation.
Twan even noted that he’d been waiting backstage for two hours himself, having dinner with Chappelle.
To appease the disgruntled fans, Big brought Chappelle out on stage, and he graciously took the mic for a few minutes.
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Comedian Dave Chappelle was spotted chillin at the launch party for Prince’s “21 Nights” in New York Friday night. ?”21 Nights” is the coffee table book of photos from where Prince did 21 concerts in 21 nights. The tour was completed back in September and the book has now been released. (CLICK HERE if you missed the sneak peek of the photos.) The New York launch party was blessed by a performance by the elusive purple?mister?himself and party-goers included Chapelle, as well as Howard Stearn (with his new wife), Tom Green, Spike & Tonya Lee and Dennis Rodman (with his bag of onesies…).
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