OT: RIP Charlie Murphy - Dead at 57 from Leukemia

By: Alum07
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on April 12, 2017, 2:47 PM | 11 comments

From The Root

Murphy was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. His childhood and his parents, Lillian and Charles Murphy, became fodder for his brother's stand-up routines. Before Charlie Murphy's own rise to fame, he served in the U.S. Navy from 1978 to 1983.

In addition to Chappelle's Show, Murphy appeared in The Boondocks, CB4, Harlem Nights and The Players Club and was a voice actor for Budweiser commercials, "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," Black Jesus and G4TV's Star Trek 2.0.

Don't really have much to say other than his skits on The Chappelle Show were some of the funniest shit I've ever seen on TV. He will be missed. Though, now he's gone to play some epic games with Prince in the afterlife...

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BetaEta576's picture BetaEta576 | 9 years 2 months #

Damn... RIP

I have some True Hollywood Stories needing a rewatch tonight

SCHokie2011's picture SCHokie2011 | 9 years 2 months #

Game... blouses.

Using /s is for cowards.

VbVt2009's picture VbVt2009
| 9 years 2 months #

Dang. Comedy gold on chapelle show. Saw him do some standup at Radford a few years ago too, was pretty good stuff.

Reach for Excellence!

VT Football: It'll get after ya!

Proud Hokie since 2004.

VTFootballGrad's picture VTFootballGrad | 9 years 2 months #

Best Charlie Murphy moment! RIP.

What's
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reesejenks520's picture reesejenks520 | 9 years 2 months #

Ain't that a bitch. R.I.P Charlie

flynhokies's picture flynhokies | 9 years 2 months #

Fuck cancer.

hokie07ME's picture hokie07ME | 9 years 2 months # ^

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AZHokie22's picture AZHokie22 | 9 years 2 months #

Darkness!!!

foresthokie's picture foresthokie | 9 years 2 months #

Exit light. RIP

foresthokie
US Navy Vet

Jander75's picture Jander75 | 9 years 2 months #

Hopefully the Player Haters Club throws him a proper memorial

I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
“I served in the United States Navy"

coldblood4vt's picture coldblood4vt
| 9 years 2 months # ^

Somebody remember to put water in Buck Nasty's mom's dish.

"Nope, launch him into the sun and fart on him on the way up"
-gobble gobble chumps

"11-0, bro"
-Hunter Carpenter (probably)