Joe Rogan Pays Tribute to Charlie Murphy

Hello freak bitches. I didn't smoke blunts until I hung out with Charlie Murphy. Really? Charlie used to smoke legit blunts. Like his cousin Rich who would roll these legit blunts out of like swisher sweets. They would take out the tobacco, leave like a little bit in and then roll it up with weed and then lick it down and we would get high. Yeah, sure. Yeah, I'm sure they had tobacco leaf. Nervous high. Terrifying high. He was one of the hardest deaths that I ever had to deal with. Really? Yeah. Because I wish I contacted him more. I wish we got together more. We were always on the road. You know, like that guy's a man. Like he was a he was a real man. Like like like he never had any like weird shit yet to work through. He was he always held his mud like Charlie. Charlie was different man. He was like a guy who didn't come in to celebrity at all until his 40s. So he was developed. He was a real man. I love that guy. So it's one of those guys like sometimes you get you just get tired. You're just doing too many things and you forget to concentrate on people that you've run into in your life. Like, God damn, that guy was a good dude. Like Charlie Murphy was a good motherfucker. Like he had a joke on stage that talked about it wasn't trying to. But he was like, he goes, people say to me, you know, people yell out Charlie Murphy, Charlie Murphy. He goes, hey, man, does it ever bother you? It's someone just yells out Charlie Murphy every time you see him. He goes, no. He goes, because for the first time in my life, it was like, hey, you Eddie Murphy's brother. Right. And he would laugh about on stage like slap his knee and like that was real for him. Sure. We got to experience a guy who like went through a whole life as a grown man and was approaching middle age before fame kicked in. Wild man. And he only had like a 10, 15 year ride before he died. Yeah, he was a good dude, man. The magnitude of like, you know, that show, but like particularly like two sketches, like that's how big an impact those two sketches. Yeah, he was anywhere. They would just play that. I remember when he started a tour, you know, when you go to the clubs, they play it before. Oh, just that. That like the teaser that he's coming. Coming next week or two weeks would be just like a little bit of like the Rick James sketch or the print sketch and fucking all the shows be sold out. Like it's so wild, man. You know what, man, he didn't. Man, I really feel like there's a developmental process that you could apply to like UFC fighters and even stand up comedians. If you take a guy who's got some potential, then you make him fight Anderson Sylvan as prime when he's 20 years old and he gets knocked unconscious. Yeah. He's never going to be the same again. Yeah. And I almost feel like this is the same thing with comedians. I don't care if you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 20. Yeah. To go on stage and eat dick is horrific. Yeah. And what Charlie did was he went from being a guy who was on the Chappelle show to hosting a show with other comedians like Donnell. Yeah. And Dave and whoever was on the show and just talking a little like, hey, what's up? And instead of just continuing to do that, he started headlining because that was the money. That's where the money was. No open mic. No open mic. Famous. No bringer shows. No TV famous. No MCing. And dude, we did 22 dates together, 22 days together, and we swapped. We went back and forth. Like he had line one. I had line one. He had line one. I had line one. And he just fucking dug his seat. Who had line one you were on? Well, I swapped. I did three. I did Irvine, San Diego, and Phoenix. And so different people on different nights. But I saw him struggle one night. That must have been rough. Oh my God. And then I saw him actually do really well the next night. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Well, if he can get on the middle spot, he could do pretty good. Like he was a funny dude, but it's just not a good, it's not the right place to put some money. His Mega Millions joke. Do you remember if he was doing that? He had a bunch of great jokes. Yeah, that was really funny. He had a bunch of great jokes, man. He was a funny and off stage, maybe one of the funniest guys of all time. He took me to dinner on that thing, which I didn't expect. And I don't think Rich wanted me to come. And like we went out to dinner and he was, yeah, no, no, no, his cousin, but he was as he was like, what, like that show was fresh. That was, you know, and like he, he was telling stories. He was, he told the story that I texted you to ask him when you had him on. I asked him if he could, if Johnny Gil, Johnny Gil, a good story. Yeah. How about the fucking Mike Tyson tiger story? Yeah. Oh, that was a good story. Mike Tyson's house. Yeah. Pet tiger. No one want to get out of the limousine. Yeah. So crazy. The, do you ever hear the, uh, boss boy story? Which one's that Charlie Murphy? When is Eddie, let him borrow clothes. No. Oh my God. That's so funny. That's so funny. Just I'll never do it justice and it's so good when he tells it. No, you got to tell it. You got to tell it. Do you, is it available online? So you got to find it. So see if you can find it. No, you're never going to be able to find it cause it's in Snoop Dogg's podcast. Oh, all right. I bet someone's put it on YouTube. I know Burke Reisher did. I fucking grabbed it the day he died. And I was like, this is one of the best stories I've ever seen. That's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where I saw it. Yeah. But I don't know how I put it online, but anyway, to make, uh, yeah, he gets, he comes out of the Navy and he comes out to LA and then they all want to go out to a party, but all he's got Navy clothes. He's just out and Eddie's the biggest fucking movie star on earth. Right. So his brother is like prime time. Eddie's younger brother. Yeah. Yeah. And his bro. Is this it? Oh, give me some volume. Give me some volume. Days when shit was hot, when Eddie had to fly outfits. Did you ever like take that nigga out? Oh man, you know what? Nigga, take my shit off. Yeah. So I had one of the most brutal night, brutal experiences with outfits. I first got out the Navy. I came out to LA. My brother was huge, right? So we hanging out. He had different type of, you know, show business clothing. He was supposed to have it on. He was a showman. Everybody knew he was. So he happened to own a glitter busboy jacket. From the boys are back in town. Yeah. You niggas. Glitter busboy jacket. And we was going out to, it was a century, 21 over there. Then there was a club over there. He said, yo, man, you want to wear this jacket today. So the jacket was a green glitter busboy jacket. I'm trying to get my staff coming out the Navy. All I had was uniforms. I put the busboy jacket on and had my chains and all that. And then we went to the club and I thought I was clean and we walked through the club and I hear everybody go, yeah, miss Eddie Murphy. Yeah, Eddie Murphy. Hey, who's that behind nigga? Busters bro. What that nigga do? I don't know. He looked like his magician. I was like, yo, man, the jacket started burning. That guy said that I want to just, like, smell this poor kerosene on the jacket and lit that shit up. Oh, dude. When he died, I used to enjoy and I knew this via Tom because you guys are told them, he's like, you don't know how funny it is. He thought he could fight Billy Gil. No, no, no. He said that Johnny Gil, Johnny Gil. He goes, we're looking at the screen and it's Oscar de la Hoya. He's like, you think Oscar de la Hoya could fuck you up? I was like, yeah, of course. He's like, I know, right? And I was like, yeah, man, he's a professional bot. He would ruin your life. He was like, Johnny Gil thinks he could fuck him up. I was like, what? And then he started to tell the story about how he was hanging out with Johnny Gil and Johnny Gil just looked at the TV and was like, I could fuck up Oscar de la Hoya. And he was like, what are you talking about, man? And the way that Charlie's like, Oscar de la Hoya rearranged the whole way he shit looks, man. And Johnny Gil was like, no, he's pretty. He's like, that don't mean shit. Like he could punch a hole in your face. Charlie Murphy was at dinner with Morrie Smith, who was a former UFC heavyweight champion of the world. Ivan Salivary was a former UFC fighter who actually had a move that we started calling the Salivary. Remember Ivan from Seattle? Yeah. Ivan had a move where it was, wasn't really his move, but it was a move that he was one of the first guys to tap somebody with it, where he got the triangle from the back and elevated his hips to like press down in your back. Guys were tapping out from like getting triangle from behind. We started realizing like how dangerous that movie. So Ivan Salivary is like a time tested warrior, right? So Morrie Smith, former UFC heavyweight champion, Ivan Salivary, Charlie Murphy is explaining why y'all niggas don't know about the Chicago Ridge Hand and he's explaining some particular like martial arts move. What it's called a Ridge Hand and it's a strike. And I don't know what the Chicago Ridge Hand was, but Charlie was insistent that no one was trying out the Chicago Ridge Hand in the MMA and that people could do it and like they were laughing and Charlie was like, nah, fuck you. He goes, you tell me I don't, I don't hit you in the head with a Ridge Hand and Red Band took a picture and I put it up on my Instagram. So you find it is Charlie Murphy standing up, Morrie Smith and Ivan Salivary and then I like this like, Charlie's got his hand up with his body, chopping someone on the bridge in their nose. I'll hit you on the bridge of your nose. So funny, dude, we were like fancy fucking Ruth Chris, steakhouse somewhere. Yeah. Crying, crying. He was crushing like that's natural thing. I mean, like I look at him and I go just him. How much fun would it have been the first time you were sitting on the ship house that and he showed and he told that? That's it. That's it. That's the photo. That guy in the right hand corner is my is Marvin. That's Ivan Salivary and right to his left to Charlie Murphy's right. Go for the black guy. That's Morrie Smith. That's Morrie's for that is the former UFC Heavyweight Champion of the world. That's Charlie talking about the Ridge Hand. He's standing up. Look how wide his eyes are. And look at the smile underneath his left arm. Look at that guy laughing. Everybody's like, yes, look at the teeth. Yeah, I wish I was in this photo, but I was crying, too. But I was probably under the table at this point. She kind of like like when you and I did that podcast with Joey. It was like the same sort of situation. I was like under the table crying at that point. I love you guys, but I got to head out. Look, we're all going to go. This is the point like Ralphie, like Charlie, like everybody. We're all going to go. You know, the quicker you realize that, the quicker you get that in your head, the more you'll enjoy this weird time. We're in the sunshine right after the rain. Yeah, it doesn't last. It's a good time to be a comic. It's a good time to be alive. But as the human race, as a person, all of us, there's no one gets out alive. No one quicker we remember that, the better we'll all be. Did it not work?