Name: Charlie Murphy tells Comedy Store and Richard Pryor Stories (from Joe Rogan Experience #133)
Uploaded: 2013-03-29T03:38:29.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Charlie Murphy tells Comedy Store and Richard Pryor Stories (from Joe Rogan Experience #133)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-03-29. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Charlie Murphy tells Comedy Store and Richard Pryor Stories (from Joe Rogan Experience #133)' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2013-03-29. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- Just like there's a lot of dummies
that will look at a guy like Mike Tyson
and really think that they can kick his ass.
There are people that look at a guy like you,
like on stage, and they get upset at you for some reason.
They get upset at you for getting that attention.
They get upset at you. - Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- But they feel like they should be getting what you have.
- I thank God that every time one of them have stepped up,
I had a baseball bat of jokes, you know?
My reaction was always right on time, laser sharp.
And they was burnt out of the audience like a cigarette.
But, you know, and he's been there to witness it.
And I've been there to witness you doing it.
I think you're one of the best I've ever seen do it.
You inspired me when I seen how deep you took it.
I was like, well, I could go much harder than I've been going on.
Mr. Joe is telling this person, man, wow.
You know what I'm saying?
I see you evaporate people.
So that made, that told me that it's something
that you definitely gotta have as part of your game.
If you're gonna be standing up on the stage talking to people,
you have to have the ability to, you know, to do that.
- Yeah. - 'Cause if it comes up,
you gotta shoot 'em down and keep it moving.
You can't be haggling with them and, you know,
'cause that's gonna break the whole continuity of the show up.
The guys that can just hit 'em with the hammer
and keep it moving are the best, man.
- It's an unfortunate side effect of comedy,
but we started out,
Freeze and I were fuckin' comedy store veterans, man.
And that was a place that nobody patrolled.
There was no manager shushin' the room.
The comedy store was run by the guy on stage
and occasionally dudes got kicked out
because the comic would go,
"Just get these fuckin' people outta here, god damn."
It would get to the point where it was just,
you had to kick 'em out before the show couldn't go on.
But there was always something there.
That place was always drama.
I've had glasses thrown at me on stage there.
I've seen-- - It was wild.
- Remember when Holtzman got knocked out
by Martin Lawrence's bodyguard?
- We were just talkin' about that, yes.
- God damn, that place was chaos.
- I remember Eddie Griffin, we were in the main room,
we had a show, it was Martin Luther King's birthday.
And after the show, this was when a DJ came on.
This was the first time I heard the song "No Vaseline" by Ice.
You remember that?
And the DJ played it and Dr. Dre and all of the dog pounded.
- And it was about Dr. Dre.
- Yeah, they were all there and Dre went up on stage
and snatched the record off the turntable
and snapped it in half.
And that kicked off a riot.
Tretch was in there, Tupac was in there.
Tretch had that big chain with the padlock on it.
He was swingin' that over his head.
- Oh my God.
- All of this went on in the main room
on Martin Luther King's birthday.
- Wow.
- I remember that.
- Holy shit, that place is fuckin' crazy, man.
- His last wife, Flynn?
Richard Pryde's last wife, Flynn?
- Oh yeah, yeah.
- Seen that wettest woman out there, boy.
- At the county store?
- County store, I was in the parking lot,
Richard Pryde was performin' that night,
and she was standin' by the back door,
and this other chick came around and was gettin' ready
to come up and they knew each other.
And obviously, she said to that other chick,
"Didn't I tell you not to come to no more
than Richard's show?"
Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
Every time she hit it, another piece of jewelry came off.
So when she got finished, all of this woman's rings
and necklaces and everything and her wig
was layin' on the floor.
- Wow.
- And they was draggin' her way, man.
And then Richard Pryde went on stage
and did 20 minutes on "What Just Happened."
Classics, man.
Took it straight to the stage.
- He went right on the stage with it?
- Took it straight to the stage.
- Oh man, what year was this?
- That had to be in the '80s, man.
You know, '89, '80s, somethin' like that.
- Could you imagine if you fuckin' videotaped that?
- It was a long time ago, yeah.
- Could you imagine if you had a videotaped of that?
- No one was expecting that.
That was like on the moment.
She said, "Didn't I tell you not to come
to one of the bitches' shows?"
Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
Pop just started firing on it, man.
- How beautiful would that video be?
To watch that, watch the ass-kicking,
to Pryde walking on stage,
to Pryde talking about the ass-kicking.
- The pre-show, you don't wanna miss it.
- Yeah.
- I performed with--
- 20 minutes on "What Just Happened" outside.
- I performed with Richard Pryde for a few weeks,
right at the end, right when he stopped performing.
When he was in a wheelchair.
Remember when they used to carry him on stage?
- Yeah, we used to come onto the OR room.
- I had to go on after him for weeks.
For weeks when he did that.
I always, that was the only spot Mitzi always gave me,
right after Richard Pryde.
- When you go on after Richard, Joe.
- You would eat dick like no other time.
- Yeah, 'cause it wasn't, it was sad.
It was sad watching Richard, you know.
I mean, it was cool because once Richard
would open his mouth, it was him.
I mean, you know, you could tell that he's--
and then it was a weird effect because you'd be like,
"Oh, yo, he's still there.
He's still in there."
- Right.
- But then you would be like, "Wait a minute.
He's in there.
That's his body now."
And that's what he's kind of, it seemed like he was
more in prison after you heard him do stand-up.
'Cause it was a realization, like, this is a man who has his wits,
but does not have his motor skills and his functions,
his bodily functions to match up with his wit.
- Right, right, right.
- And that was, that just was, even though he was funny,
even though he was sharp, that just, it was sad.
It was kind of sad.
- Yeah, it seemed to me like there was a disconnect, too,
towards the end.
I don't think he was completely lucid.
So when he would go on stage and talk about things,
like, they didn't always make sense.
And, you know, it was, it was, he was dying, you know?
And he would get this huge round of applause
when he got off stage where people just would say, you know,
"Hey, man, will you look at him right now, man?
There's not much time left.
And this is one of the greatest comedians,
maybe the greatest comedian to ever walk the face of the planet."
- Right.
- The most influential, I think, of all time.
And you'd be watching him as they're carrying him away.
And then they introduce you.
Jeff Richard gets on the piano.
Ladies and gentlemen.
- Joe Rogan!
- From Hardball.
- On Fox TV, please welcome Joe Rogan.
And you go on stage and you have to do stand-up after Richard.
And it takes at least four or five minutes
to get him out of the room.
'Cause they're walking with him out of the room.
They have to, 'cause he can't really walk.
So they have to carry him and walk with him really slowly.
And everybody's clapping and standing.
You know, like a war veteran just got off stage, you know?
- That's who did just get off stage.
- Yeah, yeah, it's a good one, yeah.
- Definitely, man.
We'll see you next time.