So I'm watching the Season 2 DVD of Chappelle's Show. And the third disc is entirely extra material. Really funny stuff.
The entire unedited Rick James interview session, complete with the interviewers' questions, in included. Nearly twenty minutes in length, its at times funnier than the sketch itself. Rick has an absolutely god-awful impression of Charlie Murphy that he busts out every time he's telling his side of the story. What had me laughing the hardest was when Rick tells a story about Charlie being, in his words, "a gigantic pussy", and getting schooled in basketball by an "androgenous midget human being whose name I won't tell. Actually he doesn't even have a name anyway, so it doesn't matter. Just a symbol or some shit...Charlie and his boys get beat and then the androgenous person made them pancakes." This of course would be Prince, and apparently this confirms the validity of the basketball game story shown later in the season. Even the pancakes part. I lost it at that point. Rick James is just hilarious. The DVD is worth $25 just for that.
Also included are two new Charlie Murphy stories. These are 15-20 minute one-man show vignettes, just Charlie in front of a green screen, telling stories. But he's got an amazing gift of impersonation and voice inflection that you would never guess he would have. So while he's telling the stories, he's doing a great impression of his brother Eddie and everyone else. The really funny thing is his Rick James -- it sounds more like Rick than Chappelle's impression.
Amazing to me that the stories from the Rick James episode appear to be true. In the director's commentary we learn that his catch phrase "I'm Rick James, bitch" was something Rick James actually used to say. Best of all: one of his other favorite sayings was "Its a celebration, bitches!". Apparently the program cover at Rick's funeral was titled "A Celebration". Hilarious.
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