Bill Murray

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q29250: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to What About Bob?, which An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens credits them on.

No film of theirs is counted: acting and studio count only when asked for, so what they drew on and who drew on them comes only from the lines with them at one end. Count them as actor (16 films) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says they, or a film of theirs, drew on anything.

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

No line says anything drew on them or a film of theirs.

What the speakers said they did

Acting (23) everyone in acting

Other (4) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (5)

  1. career (career): Mike Myers → Bill Murray. Myers may have fancied himself a Bill Murray who could do both quick-change and Stripes.
    “he probably fancied himself a little bit more of a Bill Murray.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me’ With Bill Simmons and Sean Fennessey · 0:16:10 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career phase): Bill Murray → Rushmore. Sean splits Murray's career into pre-Rushmore (1980-1995, star vehicles) and post-Rushmore (character actor).
    “So it's like pre-Rushmore post-Rushmore.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:03:51 · Sean Fennessey (0.90 sure it was them)
  3. career (career phase): Bill Murray → Groundhog Day. Bill's three-phase Murray: What About Bob?, Groundhog Day and Quick Change form the adult phase after Ghostbusters.
    “he has, what about Bob and Groundhog Day pretty close together? And quick change”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:04:59 · Bill Simmons (0.90 sure it was them)
  4. career (career parallel): Chevy Chase → Bill Murray. Chase and Murray were the 70s guys who navigated into the Letterman sarcasm era; Chase was neck and neck with Murray in the mid 80s.
    “I think him and Bo Murray specifically were able to navigate what came next with the Letterman era, the sarcasm era, basically.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Fletch’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:20:47 · Chris Ryan (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. career (career): Bill Murray → Ghostbusters. Murray refused a third Ghostbusters for 25 years and then came back for Afterlife.
    “Bill Murray for 25 years has declined to participate in a 3rd Ghostbusters film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife,’ ‘Tick, Tick ... Boom!,' and Our Top Five Feel-Good Movies · 0:16:00 · Sean Fennessey (0.60 sure it was them)

contrast (1)

  1. contrast (contrast): Eddie Murphy → Bill Murray. Murray is calculating about when to pull the rug out from scene partners; Eddie trusts his comedy and does not need to win every moment.
    “You can see Bill Murray calculating sometimes when he's gonna pull the rug out from under the people in the scene with him.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ With Bill Simmons, Wesley Morris, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan · 0:04:31 · Wesley Morris (0.80 sure it was them)

craft (1)

  1. craft (craft): Danny McBride → Bill Murray. McBride plays one blowhard type across roles like Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Ferrell.
    “he's also doing the thing that Bill Murray and Chevy Chase and Farrell do, which is like essentially playing the same guy.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘This Is the End’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Craig Horlbeck · 0:26:59 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)

people (3)

  1. people (feud): Bill Murray → Richard Dreyfuss. Murray's reported insult to Dreyfuss during What About Bob?.
    “you are not liked, you are tolerate it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. people (feud): Bill Murray → Chevy Chase. Compared to Murray calling Chase medium talent.
    “Wow. Which is up there with Bill Murray saying to Chevy Chase, calling him medium talent.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:26 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. people (people): Bill Murray → Harold Ramis. Murray and Ramis did not speak for years after disagreeing over Groundhog Day's tone.
    “Murray was like, I want Groundhog Day to be more dramatic.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Flesh+Blood · 0:38:15 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (1)

  1. theme (persona comparison): Vince Vaughn → Bill Murray. In his comedies Vaughn is basically playing himself as a smart-ass, like Bill Murray.
    “he's basically doing the Bill Murray thing.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Old School’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Sean Fennessey · 0:12:41 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (recurring bit): Bill Murray → Stripes. Murray's flirt-by-annoying persona goes back to SNL's Todd and Lisa Loopner sketches with Gilda Radner and Stripes, then becomes the whole premise of What About Bob?
    “He did it in stripes when he was trying, you know, his way of trying to like flirt with people would be to annoy them.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:10:13 · Bill Simmons (0.80 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (praise): Peter MacNicol → Bill Murray. Murray reportedly says MacNicol was the one good thing in Ghostbusters II.
    “Except for Peter McNichol.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien 3 · 1:19:37 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (underrated performance): Tootsie → Bill Murray. Murray is amazing in Tootsie though nobody thinks of it as a Murray film.
    “he's actually amazing in Tootsie”
    The Rewatchables · ‘What About Bob?’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan · 0:06:35 · Bill Simmons (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Bill Murray: Murray's reported insult to Dreyfuss on the set of What About Bob?.
    “you are not liked, you are tolerate it.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens · 1:35:15 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)