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Speaker 1: I'm Roy Shang.
Speaker 5: We got so much to talk about tonight. The legendary
Speaker 5: Bill Murray is in the House. But first, we're still
Speaker 5: nineteen months away from the twenty twenty six MiG turns.
Speaker 5: But I know there's some absolute freaks out there who
Speaker 5: need an election sooner than that.
Speaker 6: Right, nineteen months is too long, man, I need something
Speaker 6: right now. I'll suck it for an exit poll. Well,
Speaker 6: me me in the studio after the show, Me.
Speaker 5: Me behind the studio because I got a quick.
Speaker 1: Fix for you.
Speaker 5: Let's get into it with Indecision twenty twenty five, locally sourced. Addition,
Speaker 5: this Tuesday, there's an election for a seat on the
Speaker 5: Wisconsin Supreme Court, and I know what you coastly leagues
Speaker 5: are thinking. So what they'll rule on, what whether it's
Speaker 5: legal to marry or cheese or whether issues on Wisconsin. Well, yes,
Speaker 5: that is part of it. But also it will determine
Speaker 5: whether abortion is legal in Wisconsin and how to redraw
Speaker 5: election districts which could even determine which party controls Congress.
Speaker 5: And that's why the weather report for Wisconsin is calling
Speaker 5: for rain.
Speaker 1: One hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5: That's how much money could be spent on a state Supreme.
Speaker 3: Court race in Wisconsin, and that would make it the
Speaker 3: most expensive judicial election in US history.
Speaker 7: The race, pairing Judge Susan Crawford from liberal hotbed Dane
Speaker 7: County against conservative Judge Brad Schimmel from Walkershaw, has big
Speaker 7: money outside donors like George Soros, JB. Pritzker, and Elon
Speaker 7: Musk opening their wallets.
Speaker 3: Trump's close ally and financial backer. Musk has gone all
Speaker 3: in on Shimmel's campaign. The tech billionaire and groups aligned
Speaker 3: with him have poured more than twenty million dollars into
Speaker 3: the state.
Speaker 5: Now, I know, twenty million dollars sounds like a lot,
Speaker 5: but remember that Elon has over three hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 5: Twenty million dollars is like one of his kids. It
Speaker 5: means nothing to him. But yes, this race has turned
Speaker 5: into a billionaire royal rumble. I mean, thus spending one
Speaker 5: hundred million dollars, which is obscene. I mean, you know,
Speaker 5: for that kind of money, you could have bought tens
Speaker 5: of thousands of Wisconsin residents the first ever salad. Instead,
Speaker 5: that's spending it on ads like this.
Speaker 1: The streets like any other in Wisconsin.
Speaker 8: But the new neighbor is a pedophile thanks to Judge
Speaker 8: Susan Crawford's sweetheart sentence.
Speaker 1: How corrupt is Brad Shimmel.
Speaker 6: Shimmel gave a plea deal to a man caught with
Speaker 6: child porn.
Speaker 4: Crawford let the predator out in just four years.
Speaker 9: Brad Shimmel let a sex predator loose on our.
Speaker 5: Kids, creating the rapist walk free.
Speaker 6: Well, rapist walk free called Crawford's negligence utterly disgusting.
Speaker 1: That's disgusting.
Speaker 2: Criminals are praying Susan Crawford gets elected.
Speaker 1: If you want them to be safe, don't vote for him.
Speaker 5: Wow, why is SVU wasting his time in New York?
Speaker 5: I mean, you got at least twenty seasons down then Wisconsin.
Speaker 5: I mean, if you got this many pedophiles in Wisconsin,
Speaker 5: maybe the problem is Wisconsin. Because for me watching this
Speaker 5: on the outside, I'm like, should the rest of us
Speaker 5: put a wall up around Wisconsin to keep all the
Speaker 5: pedophiles in there? I mean I know it'll trap the
Speaker 5: kids in there too, but the kids are probably also pedophile,
Speaker 5: so it should be fine. I mean, there's so many
Speaker 5: pedophiles that if you want to win, you should probably
Speaker 5: be making pro pedophile ads because it seems like it's
Speaker 5: a big constituency over there, Like why don't you do
Speaker 5: some outreach? But hey, I guess this is the story
Speaker 5: of American elections. Way too much money paying for way
Speaker 5: too many negative ads. In fact, Elon Musk is spending
Speaker 5: so much money on attack ads he's not even paying
Speaker 5: attention to who the ads are attacking.
Speaker 9: An attack ad against Supreme Court Justice candidate Susan Crawford
Speaker 9: is using a picture of a different Susan Crawford. An
Speaker 9: ad launched by a group backed by Elon Musk instead
Speaker 9: used a picture of Susan P. Crawford, who's a Harvard
Speaker 9: University law professor.
Speaker 5: Okay, to be fair, if I'm ever talking to a
Speaker 5: white woman over fifty and I forget her name, I
Speaker 5: just call it Susan Crawford, and I'm usually right like
Speaker 5: eighty percent of the time. But hey, maybe Elon just
Speaker 5: needs glasses. I mean, it could change everything. He'd be like,
Speaker 5: oh my God, that cybertruck looks like shit. But but
Speaker 5: Elon isn't just spending all that money on attack ads.
Speaker 5: He's also dusting off a tactic from the twenty twenty
Speaker 5: four election. Voter self checkout.
Speaker 3: The Elon Must backed America Political Action Committee asking Wisconsin
Speaker 3: voters to sign a quote petition in opposition to activist judges.
Speaker 3: The reward for each signature one hundred dollars.
Speaker 1: Yo, one hundred dollars.
Speaker 5: Come on, Elon is going to take more than that
Speaker 5: for Americans to sell their souls to you?
Speaker 9: Elon Loves Political Action Committee has handed out one million
Speaker 9: dollars to a voter in Wisconsin just for signing a
Speaker 9: petition A million dollars.
Speaker 5: Come on, Elon, who have taken way less for Americans
Speaker 5: to sell their souls to you?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 5: I would have done it for two fifty for more
Speaker 5: on the flood of billionaire money. Let's go live to
Speaker 5: Wisconsin with our very own Grace Cooling Smith. Grace, Grace, Grace, Wait,
Speaker 5: why why are you dressed like the monopoly.
Speaker 2: Man monopoly woman, Ronnie. It's twenty twenty five. Women can
Speaker 2: do anything men can do, including beating up an old
Speaker 2: man and stealing his monocle and top hats.
Speaker 5: When you beat up an old man, is he?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: This race is really heating up, Ronnie. There's so much
Speaker 2: money pouring in right now. They're not even being subtle
Speaker 2: about it. Elon Musk is shooting gold bars out of
Speaker 2: a T shirt cannon.
Speaker 5: That sounds kind of dangerous.
Speaker 2: It is, But the people that didn't kill are filthy rich.
Speaker 5: Okay, Grace, this is awful a right. Billionaires should not
Speaker 5: have this level of influence in local elections.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding?
Speaker 2: This is the best thing to happen to Wisconsin since
Speaker 2: brettfs Penis. Look at all this. They painted the whole
Speaker 2: city in gold. The street lamps are crystal chandeliers. The
Speaker 2: birds are diamond encrusted. Sure they're dead, but they're beautiful.
Speaker 5: Okay, Well, so Wisconsin doesn't mind the billionaires meddling in
Speaker 5: the elections.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 2: In fact, they're trying to get billionaire money in all
Speaker 2: their elections, no matter how small. This morning, I saw
Speaker 2: an attack ad that said Mary Beth Kowalski should not
Speaker 2: be senior class president at shaboykan I because she failed
Speaker 2: her driver's test. Oh this is disgusting, I know her
Speaker 2: mom still drops her off at school.
Speaker 5: No, no, no, I mean it's outrageous for Wisconsin to
Speaker 5: shift its entire economy to depend on billionaire election money.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, if you can think of a better way
Speaker 2: to transfer billionaire money back to society, I'm all ears.
Speaker 1: What about taxes?
Speaker 5: Huh, taxes, taxes, speaker taxes, taxes, more time, Texas taxes.
Speaker 2: Taxes, Johnny, I don't know what language you just slipped into,
Speaker 2: but I gotta go. That old man is making up
Speaker 2: and I got to finish the job.
Speaker 5: Sorry, don't hurt him, Grace Coolan Smith, Everyone all right,
Speaker 5: when we come back to America.
Speaker 4: Go down to fifty first state, So don't go away.
Speaker 5: Welcome back to the Daily Show. Look, I know there's
Speaker 5: a lot of Trump haters out there who are like,
Speaker 5: this guy can't focus. He's got the attention span of
Speaker 5: a golden retrieve on cocaine, which sounds like a great
Speaker 5: idea for a movie. But this not And I called Dibbs, Well,
Speaker 5: you couldn't be more wrong.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 5: Three months into his term, President Trump is still laser
Speaker 5: focused on the single most important issue affecting most Americans,
Speaker 5: invading Greenland.
Speaker 10: After weeks of speculation that he wants to take over Greenland,
Speaker 10: President Trump is doubling down on his suggestion that the
Speaker 10: US will play a larger role in the island's future.
Speaker 4: We need Greenland for national security and international security. So well,
Speaker 4: I think we'll go as far as we have to go.
Speaker 4: We need Greyland, and the world needs us to have Greenland,
Speaker 4: including Denmark.
Speaker 5: Denmark has to have us have Greenland. You heard that right,
Speaker 5: Denmark has to have Us. Need to have Denmark have
Speaker 5: us have Greenland.
Speaker 1: It's very clear.
Speaker 5: So last week President Trump announced that he would be
Speaker 5: sending a special delegation to the future of fifty second State,
Speaker 5: led by a very special woman who Trump is definitely
Speaker 5: vaguely aware of.
Speaker 3: This morning, second Lady, Usha Vance, We'll go to Greenland
Speaker 3: this week, the White House announced National Security Advisor Mike
Speaker 3: Waltz will join missus Vance as part of the American delegation.
Speaker 1: She's a brilliant woman.
Speaker 8: She's a very nice woman, and she loves the concept
Speaker 8: of Greenland.
Speaker 5: She loves the concept of greenland, I mean green she
Speaker 5: loves green and land. Don't even get her started. Now.
Speaker 5: In some ways, Usha Vance is a great person for
Speaker 5: this trip. I mean Greenland is pretty cold and lifeless,
Speaker 5: so being married to Jadie Vance has left her very prepared,
Speaker 5: and she was hoping a trip to Greenland would at
Speaker 5: least be a few days away from her boring husband. Well,
Speaker 5: he had some bad news for her.
Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's Shady Vance, the Vice President.
Speaker 10: And you know, there was so much excitement around Usha's
Speaker 10: visit to Greenland this Friday that I decided that I
Speaker 10: didn't want her to have all that fun by herself,
Speaker 10: and so I'm going to join her.
Speaker 5: JD give us some space. Okay, if you want to
Speaker 5: know what she's up to, don't worry. She's going with
Speaker 5: Mike Waltz, so the whole world is going to know
Speaker 5: every move she makes. But with this all star delegation,
Speaker 5: I'm sure Greenland is going to roll out the red
Speaker 5: copet for American imperialism.
Speaker 2: When the Vice President at a high level US delegation
Speaker 2: flies in tomorrow, there will be no big grand welcome,
Speaker 2: no American flags flying in the streets, and no photo
Speaker 2: ops with locals.
Speaker 3: Eighty five percent of Greenlanders do not want to be
Speaker 3: part of the United States.
Speaker 5: According to a recent poem, would you like to be American?
Speaker 1: Oh? No?
Speaker 7: The leaders here have been clear Greenland is not up
Speaker 7: for grabs and the American delegation is not invited.
Speaker 5: Well, they're holding out signs that say Greenland belongs to
Speaker 5: indigenous people. America is like, oh, you have no idea,
Speaker 5: how much we don't don't care about that. Here's some
Speaker 5: measles now, I mean, Greenland does not want to make
Speaker 5: America great again. In fact, they want the opposite.
Speaker 10: The idea, prompting protests along with a different kind of
Speaker 10: mega hat, this one reading make America go away?
Speaker 5: Right, make America go away. I do love the tone.
Speaker 5: It's very bitchy. I mean, they should make one that's
Speaker 5: seriously America, just don't kill yourself already. So basically, the
Speaker 5: people of Greenland really hey jd Vance in particular, which means,
Speaker 5: as always Donald Trump is right, they really are ready
Speaker 5: to be Americans. When we come back, some guy called
Speaker 5: Bill Murray will be joining me on the show, So
Speaker 5: don't go away.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'll have you show.
Speaker 5: I guess tonight. It's a comedy icon and Academy aw
Speaker 5: nominated actor whose new film is called The Friend. I
Speaker 5: can't believe I get to say this, but please welcome
Speaker 5: the legend. Bill Murray.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 10: He's looking everybody as ahem melcom that's good Bill Murray.
Speaker 5: Wow, thank you so much for being the only guests
Speaker 5: who put the merch on.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 8: They told me it was business casual. So business casual.
Speaker 1: You know it's good.
Speaker 5: I know we give it to everybody. No one never
Speaker 5: does what they're told him. Where's it on stage? Thanks?
Speaker 5: So I also have to thank you for something else.
Speaker 5: I've never told this story on air, but I was lucky.
Speaker 5: A couple of years ago, I was doing shows with
Speaker 5: Dave Chappelle in Ohio and they said, Hey, Ronnie, we
Speaker 5: have a plane for you back to New York, but
Speaker 5: do you mind dropping off Bill Murray along the way.
Speaker 5: And I was like, are you kidding me? I get
Speaker 5: to go on a playing with Bill Murray? Does he
Speaker 5: want me on? And like no, no, he's yeah, totally
Speaker 5: he wants you on. And you let me get on
Speaker 5: your plane so I could get out of Ohio. So
Speaker 5: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks. Hey, that goes followed you.
Speaker 5: And the whole time I was on the plane with you.
Speaker 5: You're very so generous, You're so kind, You're very considerate.
Speaker 5: You're trying to you're time, trying to time the flight
Speaker 5: so I wouldn't hit traffic in New York. And I
Speaker 5: couldn't believe that you are You're talking to me, And
Speaker 5: the whole time I was like, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 5: living one of these legendary Bill Murray stories right now.
Speaker 5: Like I'm in the story that I keep hearing about.
Speaker 5: And so there's all these stories about you kind of
Speaker 5: popping up around America, and I just want to ask, like,
Speaker 5: is this kind of philosophy of life, of this live
Speaker 5: in the moment randomness, Is that something you kind of
Speaker 5: carry into your self expression.
Speaker 8: Well, I think most of our lives are accidental. As
Speaker 8: much as we think we're in charge, most of it's accidental.
Speaker 8: And it's just how you are able to live with
Speaker 8: the accidents that you.
Speaker 1: That you create, that you're part of.
Speaker 8: Right, But like I kind of like the excitement of
Speaker 8: the unknown and figuring, oh well now look what I've done.
Speaker 8: So that's it's been fun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But it's a conscious choice right to be present
Speaker 5: because not many people do it. I mean you've said yourself,
Speaker 5: you try to make yourself more available.
Speaker 1: Well, the conscious choices come and go. They come and go.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, sometimes they are.
Speaker 8: So that's what why they're sometimes a through lineer that
Speaker 8: looks like there's a plan.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but so I guess just in terms of Hollywood,
Speaker 5: applying that philosophy to you know, this crazy thing we
Speaker 5: call show business Hollywood, and you know, you you your
Speaker 5: approach to it has always really intrigued me because you
Speaker 5: you're someone who I feel is even though you're one
Speaker 5: of an icon in the Hollywood system, you still feel
Speaker 5: like you're you purposely take yourself outside the system. I mean,
Speaker 5: is that a conscious choice for you to be?
Speaker 8: Well, I don't think I'm any good to anyone if
Speaker 8: I'm just in the system all the time. You know,
Speaker 8: if you know, if you're not going out in the
Speaker 8: world and coming back with something, you're not doing any
Speaker 8: good to your family or your world.
Speaker 1: You got to go out there and you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree, right, but but you acknowledge that's not
Speaker 5: a common thing for most of these guys in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: I despise the rest of them.
Speaker 8: No, it's no, you get it's you know, you get excited,
Speaker 8: you know, you get excited making a career and you
Speaker 8: start getting busy, and you know it's hard to every
Speaker 8: everything is an distraction, so everything can take you away
Speaker 8: from you know, trying to like try to remember yourself
Speaker 8: and try to you know, keep it together.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and I mean, sorry to hop on a butt,
Speaker 5: but I just want to emphasize how strongly I feel
Speaker 5: this embodies of philosophy. And I feel like because I
Speaker 5: think it was after Ghostbusters, I read that biggest movie
Speaker 5: in the world at the time, and you immediately kind
Speaker 5: of moved to France with your whole family and started
Speaker 5: studying at the bone just to get yourself out of it.
Speaker 1: I guess like, yeah, I.
Speaker 8: Knew I was a little too weak to to I mean,
Speaker 8: it was going to be a whole lot of fame,
Speaker 8: like walking down the streets of New York when you've
Speaker 8: already saved New York.
Speaker 1: You know, it's uh.
Speaker 8: So you know that's I mean, Aaron Judge doesn't have that.
Speaker 1: Problem, you know.
Speaker 5: And the other thing, because you've been you had such
Speaker 5: longevity in the business, you've been around, I feel like
Speaker 5: you're one of the few guys who is actually qualified
Speaker 5: to talk about this. So right now I feel like
Speaker 5: we keep looking at the past with these rose tinted glasses,
Speaker 5: just with culture. I mean, forget politics, was just culturally
Speaker 5: when we talk about movies, and you were part of
Speaker 5: this incredible run of American comedy films like it was
Speaker 5: you know, Caddy Shack, Ghostbuster, Scrooge. You had this run
Speaker 5: of just stripes of hits. And we look back on
Speaker 5: that now as like this Golden age and American comedy film.
Speaker 5: When you were in that era, were you looking back
Speaker 5: at previous eras and going that.
Speaker 1: Was the Golden age?
Speaker 5: Or were you like, nah, I'm the king rin.
Speaker 4: This is the best.
Speaker 8: I wasn't really. I mean I look back now more
Speaker 8: than I did then. Back then, we were just excited
Speaker 8: to be having a good time.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: People didn't take it so darn seriously. We would we would,
Speaker 8: you know, we changed the script every day. We just
Speaker 8: go out there and have fun. We knock ourselves out.
Speaker 8: And as long as you're tired at the end of
Speaker 8: the day, it means you worked hard. You know, you
Speaker 8: try to be exhausted at the end of every day,
Speaker 8: and like always trying to find new things to do
Speaker 8: and just a way to work, you know. And and
Speaker 8: also it's a funny kind of living making movies. You're
Speaker 8: in a kind of a Gypsy world with like one
Speaker 8: hundred and fifty people for about three months, and you
Speaker 8: live very intimately and then you never see each other again,
Speaker 8: maybe you know. So it's very you have to be
Speaker 8: very devoted to the whole process.
Speaker 1: Everybody's a part of the solution.
Speaker 8: Anyone can fix any any can find the answer to
Speaker 8: the problem. So you're all really connected. So it's that
Speaker 8: kind of living is very demanding. I love it. I
Speaker 8: really do like movies. I like making I realized just recently. God,
Speaker 8: I really like making movies.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, good news for you.
Speaker 1: Everyone wanting that movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Somebody's good.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this this movie is good. I made another movie
Speaker 8: that's good called riff Raff that just came out. That's
Speaker 8: really weird, not like anything I've ever seen. Me with
Speaker 8: pet Davit, with Pete Davidson and uh Ed Harrison, Gabby Union,
Speaker 8: a lot of good people.
Speaker 1: Jennifer Klutch is insanely funny in that movie too. But
Speaker 1: this is a good movie.
Speaker 8: This has got Naomi watch this, uh Naomi Watts in
Speaker 8: this movie The Friend. It's the best performance I've seen
Speaker 8: my an actress in so long I can't even remember.
Speaker 8: It's unbelievable what she does in this movie.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, well that is of the rubble blot.
Speaker 5: I mean I mean lots of killing.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I love.
Speaker 5: I love how you started promoting this movie and then
Speaker 5: you had to quickly promote these other movie.
Speaker 8: That I was promoting that movie and I was promoting
Speaker 8: this movie while I was promoting that movie. I really like,
Speaker 8: you know, I want people to go to movie theaters
Speaker 8: and see movies in movie theaters because I look at this.
Speaker 1: You're in a group of people. You know, we had
Speaker 1: a couple of years where you couldn't be in a.
Speaker 8: Group of people, and it's like that. It's the shared experience.
Speaker 8: It goes back to the Greeks, you know, it's the
Speaker 8: theater and you all get together and we share our
Speaker 8: humanity together.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's the best. It's for the best, like to
Speaker 5: move together. Yeah, which brings me to this this other
Speaker 5: question I had, Like you were talking about the movies
Speaker 5: doing now the Friend and Riff Raff, I mean, these
Speaker 5: are these are indie movies, and I guess just talking
Speaker 5: about your career again, there was a moment when after
Speaker 5: all these blockbusters and you wore the biggest name on
Speaker 5: the planet you kind of like you went awayful bit
Speaker 5: and you shifted into this like you basically ushered in
Speaker 5: this new golden age of American independent film with loss
Speaker 5: and translation, and you know, all these in Wes Anderson movies.
Speaker 5: And I guess was that.
Speaker 1: Was that plan? Rannie. I swear you there's no plan.
Speaker 1: There is no plan. There's no plan. It's just I
Speaker 1: just like to do what I like, you know.
Speaker 8: And it happened that those great people like Sophia and
Speaker 8: Wes Anderson and Jim Jarmish, these are people who have
Speaker 8: a real integrity, a real powerful integrity, and a real
Speaker 8: love and history of film culture. They wanted to make movies.
Speaker 8: And because you know, I always say, like I didn't
Speaker 8: embarrass myself too badly, so that's why they hired me,
Speaker 8: you know.
Speaker 5: And I know you're living in a moment and it's
Speaker 5: very Buddhist and I appreciate that and I try to
Speaker 5: live that philosophy. But I'm just saying you have to
Speaker 5: acknowledge at the time when you did these indie movies,
Speaker 5: you had a lot of cloud and you would risking it.
Speaker 5: Whether you cared about it or not, you were risking
Speaker 5: it on these kind of unproven talented directors a lot.
Speaker 5: And was that a conscious choice to like, I want
Speaker 5: to give people a chance or were you just attracted
Speaker 5: on material?
Speaker 8: Well, you know when you see the script, you know
Speaker 8: they like, I got the script for Rushmore, which is
Speaker 8: Wes Anderson's movie, or Sophia's movie Lost in Translation, or
Speaker 8: especially Rushmore. They said you want to meet the guys
Speaker 8: said know, yes, you don't want to meet. The guys said, no,
Speaker 8: he knows exactly what he wants to do.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 8: I didn't need to meet him, as like I'll see
Speaker 8: at work. You know, I don't need to talk. He
Speaker 8: knows exactly what he wants to do. In Sophia's same
Speaker 8: way and Jim Jarmers Sam, they know exactly what they
Speaker 8: want to do. Their script is so clear, like what
Speaker 8: what their intention is? That you have great confidence, you
Speaker 8: know when you watch in a good movie, you know
Speaker 8: it in a minute because you just feel so confident
Speaker 8: with the way the camera moves, the way everything goes.
Speaker 1: And that's how their scripts read. They read like this.
Speaker 8: It reads like this is storytelling, This is real storytelling.
Speaker 5: And you were you know, okay, someone's again a plot.
Speaker 5: Well it's it's fine to plot every wood, this guy says,
Speaker 5: because okay, I'm.
Speaker 1: Doing it too.
Speaker 8: But yeah, oh I should say, but so these guys
Speaker 8: wrote a good movie.
Speaker 1: I should mention the reason we're here started. But uh,
Speaker 1: David Siegel and Scott McGhee.
Speaker 8: They took this book written by a New York girl,
Speaker 8: a lady named Cigarette Nunez and who's really fun. You
Speaker 8: should have her on the show sometimes.
Speaker 1: She's really cool.
Speaker 8: They took her book, which is a great book, and
Speaker 8: it won the National Book Award whatever, and made a
Speaker 8: great screenplay out of it. Well whatever they give those writers,
Speaker 8: you know, but they made a great script and they
Speaker 8: directed the script together, and it's really good.
Speaker 5: No, it's a good movie. I watched it. It's very touching.
Speaker 5: It deals with some pretty sad topics. A very dramatic
Speaker 5: role for you, I would say, there's a I don't know,
Speaker 5: I check with the director. It's not a spoiler alert.
Speaker 5: You're essentially dead most of the movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but that's how they wanted it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's how they wanted it. Yeah, you played that
Speaker 5: guide the whole movie basically.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I'm alive some of the time, I'm alive.
Speaker 5: So it's very touching. It's very dramatic, it's a.
Speaker 1: Very well written story.
Speaker 8: It's really great, and there's a there's an extraordinaiy Naomi.
Speaker 8: Watch is great and there's an amazing dog in the movie.
Speaker 8: That dog is and it is the most one of
Speaker 8: the most responsive animals I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 8: When I first saw the first cut of the movie,
Speaker 8: you would see something would happen in a scene and
Speaker 8: there'd be this sort of emotional moment and.
Speaker 1: You would see the dog react to it.
Speaker 8: And I kept going and someone who saw the movie said,
Speaker 8: that's Ai. That's not a real dog. I said, that's
Speaker 8: the dog. The dog heard it and felt it and
Speaker 8: expressed it. It's extraordinary thing. So it's a it's a
Speaker 8: great dan and it's a it's an amazing animal.
Speaker 1: Well that's all right, yeah, And how do you stop them?
Speaker 1: How do you control it? They love you, They don't
Speaker 1: stop the love.
Speaker 5: Let the love come in. And I know you're gonna
Speaker 5: I know you didn't plan this, but one of the
Speaker 5: themes I noticed in your career is that you have
Speaker 5: this kind of there these animals that pop up in
Speaker 5: a film a lot in a cool way, you know,
Speaker 5: like a grond Hall Day and the Friend the dog
Speaker 5: as an elephant that you know for problems. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: I don't know, is that Do you think there's something?
Speaker 5: I know you're not thinking about that, but is there something?
Speaker 5: What is it about these these animals?
Speaker 8: It has something to do that with Like, there's a
Speaker 8: lot of actors that just don't want to work with them.
Speaker 8: So I've got to find I've got to go into
Speaker 8: the animal kingdom to get.
Speaker 1: A co star. But it's it's works out okay for me.
Speaker 8: Uh, I don't know, It's it is funny that it
Speaker 8: keeps coming up like that.
Speaker 1: I should be worried. I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But the animals are the real ones.
Speaker 8: I mean I got bit by the gopher in Groundhog Day,
Speaker 8: you know the other the gopher in Caddyshack blew the
Speaker 8: place up. This dog is really great. I wrote an
Speaker 8: elephant in a movie that was fantastic. Uh I you know,
Speaker 8: I've you know, I'm not, I'm not one of those guys.
Speaker 8: But I mean, this dog is smarter than many people
Speaker 8: that I've ever met, and the and the elephant I
Speaker 8: worked with was smarter than virtually everyone I've ever met.
Speaker 8: You know, so there have there's their intelligences were is
Speaker 8: you know, it's a mystery to us, and and it's
Speaker 8: it's uh, you know, probably sort of for me.
Speaker 1: It's entry level dealing. You know.
Speaker 8: Actually they say, if you, you know, before you try
Speaker 8: to have children, you should have a pet. See if
Speaker 8: you can care for someone, take care of something, another creature.
Speaker 8: So probably I'm getting in to it a little backwards,
Speaker 8: but I look.
Speaker 5: For a pet elephant before.
Speaker 1: I haven't.
Speaker 5: I have kids all, but let me try to find
Speaker 5: one starter. And I mean, you you're such a you
Speaker 5: came up not only are you an American icon, but
Speaker 5: you came up through these iconic American institutions like SNL
Speaker 5: and uh, you know, create Ghostbusters and second say, all
Speaker 5: these institutions. And my question to you is, you know,
Speaker 5: it feels like these institutions uh kind of don't have
Speaker 5: the don't have the the kind of sheen that they
Speaker 5: used to have before in terms of attracting all the talent,
Speaker 5: because now people going to like TikTok and making a
Speaker 5: video on the toilet seat, and you know, and you know,
Speaker 5: and I guess my question to you is that a
Speaker 5: you like that? That that is that good thing that
Speaker 5: these people are on the toilet making videos.
Speaker 8: And you know, there shouldn't be any limits about what
Speaker 8: can be funny. You know, I've been watching a lot
Speaker 8: of South Park lately. I never really got to watch
Speaker 8: a lot of south Park. It's brilliant, Yes, it really
Speaker 8: is brilliant.
Speaker 1: It really is brilliant.
Speaker 8: And they you know, they can be scatological, they can
Speaker 8: be anything, but they're but they do it in such
Speaker 8: an intelligent way that it's constantly amusic to me. But
Speaker 8: like in terms of like the machine of the great
Speaker 8: institutions like Second City or or Saturday Live, well, I
Speaker 8: you know, I go back with them, Like Saturday Live.
Speaker 8: When I was there, there were seven of us in
Speaker 8: the cast. Now there's you know, a couple of dozens,
Speaker 8: so there's a lot of people. And Second City used
Speaker 8: to have like two casts, you know. Now they have
Speaker 8: like a university, you know, they've they've got like a
Speaker 8: seven story building or something with like people taking the classes.
Speaker 8: So it's it's sort of it's not necessarily watered down,
Speaker 8: and like you can't say Saturday Night is sort of
Speaker 8: water down, but there's a lot more people. It's a
Speaker 8: little harder to get traction if you're one of the actors.
Speaker 8: But Saturday Live, any week there can be a sketch
Speaker 8: that's absolutely brilliant, just like in the early days. Any
Speaker 8: week they can make one that's absolutely perfect.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's just the group. It's a little
Speaker 1: harder to wrangle because there's you know, it's a herd.
Speaker 1: They've got a herd of people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess my question because I reviewed American institutions,
Speaker 5: American comedy institutions specifically. That's why I'm here in America.
Speaker 5: And I came here because my dream was always to
Speaker 5: be I'm lucky, and you know, I'm lucky that these
Speaker 5: guys give me a shot. But I guess I always
Speaker 5: saw the value of these institutions.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a huge.
Speaker 8: Value if you can go through those things. If you
Speaker 8: can go from one I always save, if you can
Speaker 8: go through Second City and Saturday Live, you can do anything.
Speaker 1: You can do anything because the intent the not that.
Speaker 8: They shouldn't say pressure, because I believe pressure is sort
Speaker 8: of imaginary, but the demand to be attentive to what
Speaker 8: you're doing. And every professional on Saturday Life, like every
Speaker 8: guy on a camera, every prop man, every single person
Speaker 8: is the.
Speaker 1: Top guy, the top woman in their field. So everybody's excellent.
Speaker 8: So if I screw up, he's looking at me like nice, nice,
Speaker 8: you know so, And that's that's what it was. You
Speaker 8: were in this environment of real uh like a like
Speaker 8: a just a transformative spot where you.
Speaker 1: Had to pressure cooker.
Speaker 8: Well it wasn't exactly I wanted to say pressure cooker.
Speaker 8: But I want people to get off of pressure. I
Speaker 8: don't sort of believe in pressure. I think it's sort
Speaker 8: of imaginary. I think it's just it's emotion that you
Speaker 8: can't control, and that's why it sort of gets up
Speaker 8: in you and it feels like the top of your
Speaker 8: head's coming off. But it's it's really just a there's
Speaker 8: a demand to show up, you know, and you have
Speaker 8: to relax otherwise that pressure comes up to your brain
Speaker 8: and then you don't work.
Speaker 5: So well, we'll speak of American institutions, mister Bill Murray,
Speaker 5: your institution.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you so much for the movies you did.
Speaker 1: You love the people that my mom is excited.
Speaker 5: I'm interviewing the words if when we were kids in Manchester,
Speaker 5: New Hands Show, we will watch our movies. You brought
Speaker 5: my family together. If my dad was still around. He
Speaker 5: would have loved this. You have loved that I got
Speaker 5: to meet you.
Speaker 1: Sorry, if my dad were around, yeah, he'd love it.
Speaker 5: Thanks so much, mister mister Bill Murray.
Speaker 1: Everybody.
Speaker 5: The Friend opens in New York March twenty eight and
Speaker 5: nationwide April fourth.
Speaker 4: Mister Bill Murray, we'll go to tell your quick great will.
Speaker 1: Be right back after this. Hey, that's us over tonight
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