The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Charlie Murphy (“Charlie Murphy!”) may have died in April, but his comic legacy lives on, not only in the fourth season of Power on Starz, which began airing this summer — but also the forthcoming first season of The Comedy Get Down, coming to BET. BET had announced the semi-scripted …
Comedians who worked with Charlie Murphy on tour and on Chappelle’s Show gathered in New Jersey yesterday to remember him at a memorial, and Dave Chappelle held court for several hours late into the previous night in Manhattan at The Comedy Cellar. Among those who gathered at the memorial: Chappelle, Donnell Rawlings, …
Charlie Murphy, a Navy vet and comedian who broke out from his younger brother’s shadow by telling outrageously true stories on Comedy Central’s Chappelle’s Show, died today from leukemia. He was 57. The last time I saw Charlie Murphy performing live was in October 2015, while he toured with The …
Comedy Get Down, the all-star comedy tour that has been hitting up cities near you for the past year, is poised to join BET, The Comic’s Comic has learned. The comedians are set to present their new TV exploits today at the BET Upfronts in New York City. Comedy Get …
Back in November, George Lopez got Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Eddie Griffin and D.L. Hughley together for a fund-raiser in Peoria, Ill., to erect a statue in the hometown of the late, great Richard Pryor. Charlie Murphy was there, too. The six stand-up comedians had so much fun performing …
Move over, Real Househusbands of Hollywood. Rob Stapleton and Charlie Murphy want to pitch you, BET or other TV channels out there, an actual reality series following the lives of stand-up comedians. Here’s their presentation video for Comics Turnt Up, with footage from Caroline’s, The Laugh Factory and elsewhere as comedians …
Norm Macdonald and Jim Rash will voice a cartoon series this fall solving mysteries with boxing great Mike Tyson — and that’s not the only odd buddy-buddy series coming this fall and winter to Adult Swim. The late-night bastion of the Cartoon Network unveiled its upcoming programming today (it’ll make …
Charlie Murphy and Arsenio Hall go way back — of course, Arsenio co-starred in multiple movies with Charlie’s brother, Eddie, during the 1980s — so when Charlie performed stand-up on Wednesday night’s episode of The Arsenio Hall Show, he also spent some time on the sofa doing panel with the …
Fantasy football leagues have become so widespread and commonly accepted as a hobby that it’s the focus of a long-running sitcom on FX, The League. Why not spin the concept out, and have a fantasy comedy league? That’s what the comedians at SiriusXM decided. Last Friday on “Fridays with Breuer,” …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Spike TV announced its all-star lineup to celebrate Eddie Murphy’s three decades as a comedy superstar. Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Tracy Morgan, Arsenio Hall, Brett Ratner, Charlie Murphy, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Martin Lawrence will participate in Eddie Murphy: One Night Only, which as …
