Wednesday, March 04, 2009

CHARLIE MURPHY TRIES HIS HAND AT SKETCH COMEDY


Seemingly attempting to pick up where "Chappelle's Show" left off, Charlie Murphy is launching a new sketch-comedy series on Sony's Crackle.com video network.

The comedian will debut "Charlie Murphy's Crash Comedy" on the site starting March 20. The show will consist of sketches, parodies and infomercials, according to THR. Murphy is best known from his hillarious sketches on Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show," where his "Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories" gave us a all an inside look at what it was like to hang out with the likes of Rick James and Prince.

The series is part of the Sony site's lineup of shows targeting men 18-34 with action, sci-fi, horror, music and reality projects. The site is run a bit like a network, rolling out a new cluster of programs every 13 weeks.

Charlie Murphy, Richard Murphy and Lance Rivera serve as executive producers.