I was most fortunate this weekend to see Charlie Murphy, brother of Eddie and originator of the True Hollywood Stories (”I”m Rick James, bitch!”), at the improv in Dallas.

Charlie had 2 opening acts. Peter Barerra was very funny. Freeze Luv, who is a regular on Charlie’s tour, was hilarious. He set the perfect mood for Charlie to come out, look over the crowd and say “look at all these white people, just waiting to scream Darkness!” Charlie killed the room. At this point I don’t think you could pay me to see Eddie — he was my favorite comedian growing up.

Charlie was so good I am going to pretend he didn’t co-write Norbit.

This was the perfect warm up for Chris Rock in April.