Thursday, April 13, 2017

Ed Ranks the Top 5 Charlie Murphy Sketches that AREN'T True Hollywood Stories

Charlie Murphy died. He was a comedy legend. Well, that fucking sucks.

Everyone will make jokes about "fuck your couch," "Darkness," "pancakes," and "game, blouses."  As everyone should. The Charlie Murphy True Hollywood Stories about Rick James and Prince are unequivocally some of the finest masterpieces of television that have ever existed in all media. Nobody can ever take that away. But let's remember some of the other sketches of Chappelle's Show, featuring Eddie Murphy's more talented and hilarious brother.

5. The World Series of Dice (Charlie Murphy as Rodney "Quills" Dinkins) - This was a hilarious sketch. It's probably funnier than some of the others on this list. But Charlie Murphy's role in the sketch wasn't that huge.

4. The Time Haters (Charlie Murphy as Buc Nasty) - Revisiting the Buc Nasty character (see below), the "Time Haters" sketch featured the Player Haters traveling back in time and killing a slave owner. Even when setting up the premise of the sketch... the episode fully admitted that it was "missing" and off base. It was featured in a "greatest misses" compendium of sketches. It's not a miss though. It is hilarious.

3. Kneehigh Park  (Charlie Murphy as Stinky) - I still occasionally sing the line "I'll beat my dick like it owes me money" in casual conversation because of this sketch. This was an amazing Sesame Street parody about STDs that also features Snoop Dogg. It's got to be hard to steal the spotlight away from Snoop Dogg if you're paired up with him. But you know who could do just that? Charlie Murphy.

2. Player Haters Ball  (Charlie Murphy as Buc Nasty) - A compelling documentary not about pimps, hos, players, johns, tricks, marks, mark-ass tricks, trick-ass marks, skeezers, skanks, skig-scags, and scallywhops... no, this was about Haters. This one had a little bit of everything. Ice Tea, Patrice O'Neal (also RIP), that old Japanese guy that was oddly inserted into a bunch of sketches, and riffs on everyone from the Osbournes to Bin Laden.

1. Mad Real World  (Charlie Murphy as Tyree) - In my head, I can still perfectly see Tyree's glowing eyes in nightvision as he masturbated in the dark. I will never be able to unsee it. It will haunt me for the rest of my life.

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