American - Actor | June 12, 1959 - April 12, 2017
Every script I've read for 'Black Jesus' has been hilarious.
Charlie Murphy
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Aaron McGruder is a straight-up G. I call him Champ.
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Back when Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin were doing roasts, they were all friends. They knew each other's children, each other's wives, each other's families. It wasn't about being disrespectful. It was about being funny.
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It's easy to go on television and say horrible things about somebody. And it's cowardly.
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I used to irritate people. I'd give them a hard time, and when it drove them crazy, that was funny to me.
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A comic's like anybody else - he does what he does to support himself and feed his family. But if a comic says the wrong thing, there's a chance the audience will want to take you down.
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If I'm afraid of something, I'll deal with it and get past it.
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At the end of the day, when Charlie Murphy ain't here no more, I'll have a body of work that people can laugh and remember me by.
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Before I started doing standup, I knew that I had what it takes to develop an act. I went down to clubs with not many people there, and I just worked on it, man. A lot of my friends are comedians, so that part had a lot of encouragement, even though the shows were very caveman-like.
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There's no one on the road that I tried to pattern myself after. There's no one in history that I tried to pattern myself after. Because one thing I was told that in standup you want to develop your own voice.
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The audience is my hardest and best critic.
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Before stand-up, I didn't even have an agent. Once I started doing stand-up - boom. I got an agent. In fact, I got three agents. I got a lawyer. Now I get taken seriously.
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