Charlie Murphy facts
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Rick James didn't talk to Charlie Murphy for two years after Charlie lost to Prince in a basketball game. Also Rick James really didn't like Prince.
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Charlie Murphy served 6 years in the U.S. Navy
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Prince loved the Charlie Murphy skit on Chappelle show and confirmed it was true. Then hung out with Dave Chappelle after he attended a Prince show and offered him some pancakes.
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Shortly before he was discharged from the Navy, Charlie Murphy saw a mushroom cloud over Beirut. The mushroom cloud was from the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing which killed 307 people, including 247 US marines
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At the beginning of Amy Winehouse's version of Valerie she says "I'm sorry Charlie Murphy I was having too much fun" in reference to the Rick James/Dave Chappelle sketch
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Charlie Murphy's Real Hollywood Stories on Chappelle's Show were true
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Charlie Barnett, a comedian who in 1980 auditioned for the cast of SNL. SNL producer Jean Doumanian was ready to hire Barnett, but Barnett, who was self-conscious about his poor reading skills, skipped a follow-up reading, and the cast position was instead offered to Eddie Murphy.
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SNL hired Eddie Murphy over Charlie Barnett because Barnett was illiterate
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Street performer Charlie Barnett was cast on Saturday Night Live in 1980, only to be replaced by Eddie Murphy when he revealed that he was illiterate.
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Charlie Murphy got a reaction from Prince to the famous Dave Chapelle skit when Prince saw him at his concert in Vegas. In the middle of playing his guitar he stared right at Charlie and said "pssshhhhhh"
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Charlie Murphy (may he rest in peace) was not exaggerating about his Prince basketball story.
