Charlie Murphy (brother to How You Doin Eddie Murphy) launched a ten-part web series last Friday called Charlie Murphy’s Crash Comedy.
Before this series and his stand-up career, he was on the Comedy Central hit Chappelle's Show, until its creator Dave Chappelle quit the program. But in this interview with NY magazine, Charlie seems to not have forgiven Dave. In fact, he seems seems a bit bitter.
How many more seasons do you think you could have done of Chappelle's Show?
We probably could have done seven more, easy. We were given the Holy Grail, we were blessed. We could have done seven years.
Dave Chappelle has said he had issues with some of the racial humor of the show. Did that ever bother you?
Whatever Dave Chappelle was saying that he had problems with, that wasn’t really the problems he was having. Cause where is Dave Chappelle?
I don’t know.
You know what I’m saying? We don’t know what was wrong with Dave. I wish him all the best. Whatever his explanation, I think it’s obvious to everyone that’s not what happened. I still get asked about it today. People still say, so, you guys coming back? Which means there’s a market, but I don’t know if Dave can get a job with a network now.
Do you think he blew it a little bit?
A little bit? First of all, to be black, you a lightning rod in that respect already. And to be black and get the opportunity and then throw it away? I don’t know too many guys that did that and still had a career. You can’t name a guy in the history of the show business who thumbed his nose at the industry and still was supported by the industry. But whatever his reasons, Dave’s happy.
Crash Comedy can be seen here every Friday.
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1 comments:
Maybe Charlie can do a sketch comedy show since he feels so strongly about it. Dave did what was best for HIM at the time. I want Mr. Murphy to keep it moving. The undertone is similar to that of Lil Kim when discussing Notorious the movie. Jus sayin.
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