Question about Charlie Murphy/Rick James/Prince Skits

i have no idea, but if you're talking about the "prince basketball game" i thought i'd add that the picks the prince team were setting were hilarious.

 

IMO, they're true stories, probably embellished a bit, but true. I mean, there's no reason to think Charlie could get away with making up crazy stories like that, call them true, and not get sued by the people he's talking about. Hell, Rick James even commented on his story. Plus, none of the tales seem too outrageous or unbelievable.

 

i think the rick james stuff is true, but there is now way in hell that prince plays basketball, let alone does crossovers and dunks.

i like how prince taunts charlies team. "nice hustle" and the guy says real frustrated, "man, im not even on your team!"

or after a monster jam, still hanging on the rim prince says "game...blouses".

chappelle is too tall to play prince, who is about 5'2''.

 

It was hilarious for sure.

 

I wouldn't be so sure about Prince. I'm not to wise on his basketball skills, but IIRC, he's a huge basketball fan. I wanna say he used to have season tickets to the T-Wolves.

"Shoot the J!!!"

 

I'm Rick James b!tch!

 

I'm a pretty big Prince fan. I used to be a real big Prince fan. Prince played on his high school team and was really good for being so small. I saw him play at the Summit during the "Lovesexy" tour back in 1989. He had a basketball goal as part of his stage set and he shot baskets during the show. He never missed.

 

As Charlie Murphy himself says at the end of the Prince sketch, "Man, there are some great story-tellers in the world. But who could that THAT $**** up?"

Rick James straight up admitted that his stories were true, too.

 

Man, I hope they're true. Prince would be the man. Rick James is just crazy. But he can be the man too, just because Chappelle did a skit on him.

 

i think they're ture, afterall they're called, "charley murpheys true hollywood stories" but sometimes they seem to funny to be true, like the basketball game where the "revolution" came out to play with the same clothes, man that's funny.

 

Pancakes?!?!!

 

well it was charles murphy himself who said "never judge a book by his cover." wow!

 

I think they are true. Of course, the Prince thing was embellished a bit for the sake of comedy (ie. the dunking and floating back to earth). Prince has a Basketball court at his Paisley Park Studios. I saw some MTV feature that had the Beastie Boys (pretty decent ballers in their own right) playing on it when they were laying some tracks there.

 

Jimmy Jam raved about Prince's skills on the court in an interview a few years back, and I think Chris Rock commented on it in a VH1 interview he did with Prince in the late 90's.

JJ had no real reason to bring up Prince's game, I don't think they're particularly friendly or if they've worked together (wouldn't mind a little light on that subject from anyone here).

I was watching the Prince skit with my brother the first time it aired, and I got some points for telling him, "watch it, Prince is going to bust him ..."