{"id":1474,"date":"2017-04-13T05:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T05:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2021-01-17T06:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T06:21:32","slug":"famous-comedian-charlie-murphy-dies-at-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"Famous Comedian Charlie Murphy Dies at 57"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie died at a hospital in New York City where\u00a0he had been going through chemotherapy treatments. Charlie Murphy&#8217;s publicist, Domenick Nati, confirmed to NBC News tha<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1477 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/nintchdbpict000316274216-200x300.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/>t the comedian passed away after battling leukemia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"oas_FC1\" class=\"adInContent\" data-google-query-id=\"CPWL4NPVoNMCFcgVgQod-QgHdg\"><\/div>\n<p>Some of Murphy&#8217;s film\u00a0credits include <em>Are We There Yet<\/em>, <em>The Boondocks<\/em>, and <em>Black Jesus<\/em>. Most recently, Charlie toured with comedians including Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, George Lopez, and D.L. Hughley. His most famous skits was a segment on <em>Charlie Murphy&#8217;s True Hollywood Stories <\/em>on Comedy Central\u00a0in which he and Dave Chappelle\u00a0detailed the night he partied with late &#8220;Purple Rain&#8221; singer Prince.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Comedy Get Down World Tour,&#8221; alongside Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley and George Lopez\u00a0had been delayed due to his illness.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/&lt;iframe width=\" width=\"640\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie died at a hospital in New York City where\u00a0he had been going through chemotherapy treatments. Charlie Murphy&#8217;s publicist, Domenick Nati, confirmed to NBC News that the comedian passed away after battling leukemia. Some of Murphy&#8217;s film\u00a0credits include Are We There Yet, The Boondocks, and Black Jesus. Most recently, Charlie toured with comedians including Cedric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[62,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-1474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-charlie-murphy","9":"tag-comedian"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ampsmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/rs-charlie-murphy-ab117aad-78d3-47ed-984c-456b62d838a1.jpg?fit=551%2C310&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampsmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}