
Billionaires Intervene in Wisconsin Supreme Court Race | Bill Murray
Ronny Chieng covers the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election, including Elon Musk’s $20 million intervention in Republican Brad Schimel’s campaign, attack ads against the wrong Susan Crawford, and alternating pro-pedophilia smear campaigns. Plus, Grace Kuhlenschmidt sees how billionaires are turning elections into games.
Ronny Chieng on JD and Usha Vance’s big trip to Greenland, where native protestors are chanting "MAGA: Make America Go Away."
Bill Murray sits down to discuss his latest film, “The Friend,” as well as his legendary career in TV and film. Murray talks about his philosophy of trying to stay in the moment, why he moved to France with his family after starring in a string of comedy blockbusters like “Ghostbusters,” his pivot to working with independent filmmakers like Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, and Sofia Coppola, and what he gained from being a part of comedy institutions at The Second City and “Saturday Night Live.” He also praises Naomi Watts’s performance in “The Friend,” and the extraordinary Great Dane who is so good in the film, people speculate it’s AI.
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Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1.
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
I was becoming the bridge between Jeremy Scott and the son he'd never known.
At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.
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This is The Daily Show with your host, Ronnie Chang. Welcome to The Daily Show.
I'm Roy Chang. We got so much to talk about tonight.
The legendary Bill Murray is in the house. But first, we're still 19 months away from the 2026 midterms, but I know there's some absolute freaks out there who need an election sooner than that.
Right. 19 months is too long, man.
I need something right now.
I'll suck your for an exit poll. Well, meet me in the studio after the show.
Meet me behind the studio, because I got a quick fix for you. Let's get into it with Indecision 2025, locally sourced edition.
This Tuesday, there's an election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. And I know what you coastal elites are thinking.
So what? They'll rule on, what, whether it's legal to marry your cheese or whatever the f*** the issues are in Wisconsin? Well, yes, that is part of it. But also, it will determine whether abortion is legal in Wisconsin and how to redraw election districts, which could even determine which party controls Congress.
And that's why the weather report for Wisconsin is calling for rain! $100 million. That's how much money could be spent on a state Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, and that would make it the most expensive judicial election in U.S.
history. The race pairing Judge Susan Crawford from liberal hotbed Dane County against conservative Judge Brad Schimmel from Waukesha has big money outside donors like George Soros, J.B.
Pritzker, and Elon Musk opening their wallets. Trump's close ally and financial backer Musk has gone all in on Schimmel's campaign.
The tech billionaire and groups aligned with him have poured more than $20 million into the state. Now, I know $20 million sounds like a lot, but remember that Elon has over $300 billion.
$20 million is like one of his kids. It means nothing to him.
But, yes, this race has turned into a billionaire royal rumble. I mean, they're spending $100 million, which is obscene.
I mean, you know, for that kind of money, you could have bought tens of thousands of Wisconsin residents their first-ever salad. Instead, they're spending it on ads like this.
This street's like any other in Wisconsin, but the new neighbor is a pedophile, thanks to Judge Susan Crawford's sweetheart sentence. How corrupt is Brad Schimmel? Schimmel gave a plea deal to a man caught with child porn.
Crawford let the predator out in just four years. Brad Schimmel let a sex predator loose on our kids.
Letting the rapist walk free. While rapists walk free.
Called Crawford's negligence utterly disgusting. That's disgusting.
Criminals are praying Susan Crawford gets elected. If you want them to be safe, don't vote for him.
Wow. Why is SVU wasting his time in New York? I mean, you got at least 20 seasons down there in Wisconsin.
I mean, if you got this many pedophiles in Wisconsin, maybe the problem is Wisconsin. Because for me watching this on the outside, I'm like, should the rest of us put a wall up around Wisconsin to keep all the pedophiles in there? I mean, I know it will trap the kids in there too, but the kids are probably also pedophiles, so it should be fine.
I mean, there's so many pedophiles that if you want to win, you should probably be making pro-pedophile ads because it seems like it's a big constituency over there. Like, why don't you do some outreach? But, uh, hey, I guess, uh, this is the story of American elections.
Way too much money paying for way too many negative ads. In fact, Elon Musk is spending so much money on attack ads, he's not even paying attention to who the ads are attacking.
An attack ad against Supreme Court justice candidate Susan Crawford is using a picture of a different Susan Crawford. An ad launched by a group backed by Elon Musk instead used a picture of Susan P.
Crawford, who's a Harvard University law professor. Okay, uh, to be fair, if I'm ever talking to a white woman over 50 and I forget her name, I just call her Susan Crawford.
And I'm usually right like 80% of the time. But, hey, maybe Elon just needs glasses.
I mean, it could change everything. He'd be like, oh my God, that Cybertruck looks like shit.
But... Elon isn't just spending all that money on attack ads.
He's also dusting off a tactic from the 2024 election. Voter self-checkout.
The Elon Musk-backed America Political Action Committee asking Wisconsin voters to sign a, quote, petition in opposition to activist judges. The reward for each signature, $100.
Yo, $100? Come on, Elon.
It's going to take more than that for Americans to sell their souls to you.
Elon Musk's political action committee has handed out $1 million to a voter in Wisconsin
just for signing a petition.
A million dollars? Come on, Elon.
It would have taken way less
for Americans to sell their souls to you, all right?
I would have done it for 250.
For more on the flood of billionaire money,
let's go live to Wisconsin
with our very own Grace Koolensmith.
Grace, Grace, Grace.
Wait, why are you dressed like the Monopoly man?
But I'm not going to do that. Grace.
Grace, Grace. Wait, why are you dressed like the Monopoly man? Monopoly woman, Ronnie.
It's 2025. Women can do anything men can do, including beating up an old man and stealing his monocle and top hat.
Wait, you beat up an old man? Is he okay? This race is really heating up, Ronnie. There's so much money pouring in right now, they're not even being subtle about it.
Elon Musk is shooting gold bars out of a T-shirt cannon. That sounds kind of dangerous.
It is, but the people it didn't kill are filthy rich. Okay, Grace, this is awful, all right? Billionaires should not have this level of influence in local elections.
Are you kidding? This is the best thing to happen to Wisconsin since Brett Favre's penis. Look at all this.
They painted the whole city in gold. The street lamps are crystal chandeliers.
The birds are diamond encrusted. Sure, they're dead, but they're beautiful.
Okay, what, so Wisconsin doesn't mind the billionaires meddling in their elections? No, in fact, they're trying to get billionaire money in all their elections, no matter how small. This morning, I saw an attack ad that said Mary Beth Kowalski should not be senior class president at Sheboygan High because she failed her driver's test.
This is disgusting. I know.
Her mom still drops her off at school. No.
No. I mean, it's outrageous for Wisconsin
to shift its entire economy
to depend on billionaire election money.
Uh, okay.
If you can think of a better way to transfer
billionaire money back to society,
I'm all ears.
What about taxes? Huh? Taxes. What? Taxes.
Speak up. Taxes.
One more time. Taxes.
Two more times. Taxes, taxes.
Taxes? What? Ronnie, I don't know what language you just slipped into,
but I gotta go.
That old man is waking up, and I gotta finish the job.
All right.
Don't hurt him.
Grace Koolensmith, everyone.
All right?
When we come back, America goes after its 51st state,
so don't go away. Thank you.
Long, silent voices from his past came forward. And he was just staring at me.
And they had secrets of their own to share. Gilbert King, I'm the son of Jeremy Lin Scott.
I was no longer just telling the story. I was part of it.
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer. He's just straight evil.
I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known. If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail.
I would have never existed. I never expected to find myself in this place.
Now, I need to tell you how I got here. At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer.
Bone Valley, Season 2.
Jeremy.
Jeremy, I want to tell you something.
Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley, Season 2,
starting April 9th on the iHeartRadio app,
Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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subscribe to Lava for Good plus on apple podcasts welcome back to the daily show look i know there's a lot of trump haters out there who are like, this guy can't focus. He's got the attention span of a golden retriever on cocaine, which sounds like a great idea for a movie, but it's not.
And I call dibs. Well, you couldn't be more wrong, okay? Three months into his term, President Trump is still laser-focused on the single most important issue affecting most Americans.
Invading Greenland. After weeks of speculation that he wants to take over Greenland, President Trump is doubling down on his suggestion that the U.S.
will play a larger role in the island's future. We need Greenland for national security and international security.
So, uh, we'll, I think we'll, uh, go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland.
And the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark. Denmark has to have us have Greenland.
You heard that right. Denmark has to have us need to have Denmark have us have Greenland.
It's very clear. So last week, President Trump announced that he would be sending a special delegation to the future
52nd state, led by a very special
woman who Trump is definitely
vaguely aware of. New this morning,
Second Lady Usha Vance will go
to Greenland this week, the White House announced.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz
will join Mrs. Vance as part
of the American delegation. She's a brilliant
woman. She's a very
nice woman. And she loves the concept of Greenland.
She loves the concept of Greenland. I mean, green, she loves green.
And land, don't even get her started. Now, in some ways, Usha Vance is a great person
for this trip. I mean, Greenland is pretty
cold and lifeless, so being married to J.D.
Vance has left her
very prepared. And
if she was hoping
a trip to Greenland would at least
be a few days away from her boring husband,
well, he had some bad news
for her. Hey, guys, it's J.D.
Vance,
the vice president, and you know there was so much
excitement around Usha's visit to Greenland
this Friday that I decided
Thank you. Well, he had some bad news for her.
Hey, guys, it's Shady Vance, the vice president. And you know, there was so much excitement around Usha's visit to Greenland this Friday that I decided that I didn't want her to have all that fun by herself.
And so I'm going to join her. Yo, JD, give her some space, OK? If you want to know what she's up to, don't worry.
She's going with Mike Waltz. So the whole world is going to know every move she makes.
But with this all-star delegation, I'm sure Greenland is going to roll out the red carpet for American imperialism. When the vice president and a high-level U.S.
delegation flies in tomorrow, there will be no big grand welcome. No American flags flying in the streets and no photo ops with locals.
85% of Greenlanders do not want to be part of the United States,
according to a recent poll.
Would you like to be American?
Oh, no, not really.
The leaders here have been clear.
Greenland is not up for grabs, and the American delegation is not invited.
Wow, they're holding out signs that say
Greenland belongs to indigenous people. America is like, oh, you have no idea how much we don't care about that.
Here's some measles. Now, I mean, Greenland does not want to make America great again.
In fact, they want the opposite. The idea of prompting protests along with a different kind of MAGA hat, this one reading, Make America Go Away.
That's right. Make America Go Away.
I do love the tone. It's very bitchy.
I mean, they should make one that says, oh, seriously, America,
just f***ing kill yourself already.
So, basically, the people of Greenland
really f***ing hate J.D. Vance in particular,
which means, as always,
Donald Trump is right.
They really are ready to be Americans.
When we come back,
some guy called Bill Murray will be joining me
on the show, so don't go away.
Something unexpected happened after Jeremy Scott confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in Bone Valley Season 1.
I just knew him as a kid.
Long, silent voices from his past came forward.
And he was just staring at me.
And they had secrets of their own to share.
Gilbert King, I'm the son of Jeremy Lynn Scott.
I was no longer just telling the story.
I was part of it.
Every time I hear about my dad, it's, oh, he's a killer.
He's just straight evil. I was becoming the bridge between a killer and the son he'd never known.
If the cops and everything would have done their job properly, my dad would have been in jail. I would have never existed.
I never expected to find myself in this place. Now, I need to tell you how I got here.
At the end of the day, I'm literally a son of a killer. Bone Valley, Season 2.
Jeremy.
Jeremy, I want to tell you something.
Listen to new episodes of Bone Valley, Season 2,
starting April 9th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
And to hear the entire new season ad-free
with exclusive content starting April 9th,
subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Welcome back to The Daily Show.
My guest tonight is a comedy icon and an Academy Award-nominated actor whose new film is called The Friend.
I can't believe I get to say this,
but please welcome the legend Bill Murray. I love you.
I love you.
Abe Lincoln, everybody. Abraham Lincoln.
Thank you. Bill Murray.
Wow, thank you so much for being the only guest who put the merch on. Yeah, well, I don't know.
They told me it was business casual, so business casual, you know, it's good. I know, we give it to everybody.
You know, whenever it does what they're told and wears it on stage. I also have to thank you for something else.
I've never told this story on air, but I was lucky a couple years ago. I was doing shows with Dave Chappelle in Ohio.
And they said, hey, Ronnie, we have a plane for you back to New York. But do you mind dropping off Bill Murray along the way? And I was like, are you kidding me? I get to go on a plane with Bill Murray? Does he want me on? And like, no, no, he's great.
Yeah, totally, he wants you on. And you let me get on your plane so I could get out of Ohio.
So I really appreciate it. Thanks so much.
Thank you. Hey, that goes for all of you.
And the whole time I was on the plane with you, you were so generous, you were so kind, you were very considerate, you were trying to time the flight so I wouldn't hit traffic in New York, and I couldn't believe you were talking to me. And the whole time I was like,, my God, I'm living one of these legendary Bill Murray stories right now.
Like, I'm in the story that I keep hearing about.
And so there's all these stories about you kind of popping up around America.
And I just want to ask, like, is this kind of philosophy of life,
of this live-in-the-moment randomness, is that something you kind of carry into your self-expression?
Well, I think most of our lives are accidental,
as much as we think we're in charge. Most of most of its accidental and it's just how you are are able to live with the accidents that you that you create that you're part of right but like I kind of like the excitement of the of the unknown and figuring oh well now look what I've done you know so that's it's been fun yeah but it's a conscious, to be present.
Because not many people can do it. I mean, you've said yourself you try to make yourself more available.
Well, the conscious choices come and go. They come and go.
But, yeah, sometimes they are. So that's why there's sometimes a through line that looks like there's a plan.
Yeah, but so I guess just in terms of Hollywood, applying that philosophy to, you know, this crazy thing we call show business Hollywood. And, you know, you you your approach to it has always really intrigued me because you you're someone who I feel is even though you're one of an icon in the Hollywood system, you still feel like you're you purposely take yourself outside the system.
I mean, is that a conscious choice for you to be? Well, I don't think I'm any good to anyone if I'm just in the system all the time. You know, if you're not going out in the world and coming back with something, you're not doing any good to your family or your world.
You've got to go out there and live. I agree with.
No, I agree with that. But you
acknowledge that's not a common thing for most
of these guys in Hollywood. I despise the
rest of them.
No, it's, no, you get, it's, you know,
you get excited, you know, you get excited making
a career and you start getting busy
and, you know, it's hard, everything
is a distraction. So
everything can take you away from,
you know, trying to, like, try to remember
yourself and try to, you know,
keep it together. Yeah.
And, and
I'm going to emphasize how strongly I feel this embodies your philosophy. And I feel like, because I think it was after Ghostbusters, I read that biggest movie in the world at the time, and you immediately kind of moved to France with your whole family and started studying at the Sorbonne.
Just to get yourself out of it,
I guess. Yeah, I knew I was a little too weak to...
I mean, it was going to be a whole lot of
fame. Like, walking down the streets of New York
when you've already saved New York.
You know?
It's, uh...
You know, that's cool.
So,
you know, that's... I mean, Aaron Judge doesn't have that problem.
And the other thing, because you've been, you had such longevity in the business, you've been around. I feel like you're one of the few guys who is actually qualified to talk about this.
So right now, I feel like we keep looking at the past with these rose-tinted glasses, just with culture. I mean, forget politics or whatever, just culturally when we talk about movies.
And you were part of this incredible run of American comedy films. Like it was, you know, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Scrooge.
You had this run of just stripes of hits. And we look back on that now as like this golden age in American comedy film.
When you were in that era, were you looking back at previous eras and going, that was the golden age? Or were you like, no, I'm the king right now. This is the best.
I wasn't really. I mean, I look back now more than I did then.
Back then, we were just excited to be having a good time. You know, people didn't take it so darn seriously.
We would, you know, we'd change the script every day. We'd just go out there and have fun.
We'd knock ourselves out. And as long as you're tired at the end of the day, it means you worked hard.
You know, you try to be exhausted at the end of every day and, like, always trying to find new things to do and just a way to work, you know. And also, it's a funny kind of living-making movies.
You're in a kind of a gypsy world with like 150 people for about three months, and you live very intimately, and then you never see each other again, maybe, you know. So it's very, you have to be very devoted to the whole process.
Everybody's a part of the solution. Anyone can fix any, can find the answer to the problem.
So you're all really connected. So it's, that kind of living is very demanding.
I love it. I really do like movies.
I like making, I realized just recently, God, I really like making movies. Yeah.
Well, good news for you. People, everyone wants you in that movie.
Yeah. Yeah.
This movie's good. Yeah.
This movie's good, And I made another movie that's good called Riff Raff that just came out. That's really weird.
Not like anything I've ever seen before. With Pete Davidson? With Pete Davidson and Ed Harris and Gabby Union.
A lot of good people. Jennifer Kluge is insanely funny in that movie, too.
But this is a good movie. This has got Naomi Watts.
Naomi Watts in this movie, The Friend, it's the best performance I've seen by an actress in so long I can't even remember. It's unbelievable what she does in this movie.
Right. Yeah, well, that deserves a round of applause.
I mean, Naomi Watts is killer. I love how you started promoting this movie and then you had to quickly promote this other movie.
Well, I was promoting that movie and I was promoting this movie while I was promoting that movie. I really like, you know, I want people to go to movie theaters and see movies in movie theaters because look at this.
You're in a group of people, you know. We had a couple of years where you couldn't be in a group of people.
And it's like, it's the shared experience. It goes back to the Greeks, you know? It's a theater, and you all get together, and we share our humanity together.
Yeah, it's the best. It's really the best.
It's like being together. Yeah, which brings me to this other question I had.
Like, you were talking about the movies you're doing now, The Friend and Riff Raff. I mean, these are indie movies.
And I guess, just talking about your career again, there was a moment when, after all these blockbusters and you were the biggest name on the planet, you kind of, like, you went away for a bit and you shifted into this like you basically ushered in this new golden
age of american independent film with lost in translation and you know all these in like wes anderson movies and i guess was that was that planned ronnie i swear you there's no plan there is no plan there's no plan it's just i just like to do what i like you know and it happened that those great people like Sophia and Wes Anderson and Jim Jarmusch, these are people who have a real integrity, a real powerful integrity and a real love and history of film culture. They wanted to make movies.
And because, you know, I always say like, I didn't embarrass myself too badly. So that's why they hired me, you know.
And I know you're living in a moment and it's very Buddhist and I appreciate that. And I try to live that philosophy.
But but I'm just saying you have to acknowledge at the time when you did these indie movies, you had a lot of clout and you were risking it. Whether you cared about that or not, you were risking it on these kind of unproven, talented directors a lot.
And was that a conscious choice to like, I I want to give people a chance, or were you just attracted to the material? Well, you know, Ryan, when you see the script, you know, like, I got the script for Rushmore, which is Wes Anderson's movie, or Sophia's movie, Lost in Translation, or especially Rushmore. They said, you want to meet the guy? I said, no.
You don't want to meet the guy? I said, no. He knows exactly what he wants to do.
Let's go. I didn't need to meet him.
I was like, I'll see you at work. I don't need to talk.
He knows exactly what he wants to do. And Sophia's same way and Jim Jarmer's same way.
They know exactly what they want to do. Their script is so clear, like what their intention is, that you have great confidence.
You know, when you're watching a good movie,
you know it in a minute
because you just feel so confident
with the way the camera moves,
the way everything goes.
And that's how their scripts read.
They read like this.
It reads like this is storytelling.
This is real storytelling.
Right.
And you were, you know,
oh, okay.
Someone's, we can't applaud.
Look, it's,
Thank you. And you were, you know, oh, okay.
Someone's, we can't applaud. Look, it's fine to applaud every word this guy says, because I'm doing it too, but.
Oh, I should say, but sorry, these guys wrote a good movie. I should mention the reason we're here, sorry, but David Siegel and Scott McGee, they took this book written by a New York girl, a lady named Sigrid Nunez, who's really fun.
You should have her on the show sometime. She's really cool.
They took her book, which is a great book, and it won the National Book Award, whatever, and made a great screenplay out of it. Well, whatever they give those writers, you know.
But they made a great script, and they directed this script together, and it's really good. No, it's a good movie.
I watched it. It's very touching.
It deals with some pretty sad topics. A very dramatic role for you, I would say.
There's a, I don't know, I checked with the director. It's not a spoiler alert.
You're essentially dead most of the movie. Yeah.
Yeah. That's how they wanted it.
Yeah, that's how they wanted it. You play a dead guy the whole movie, basically.
Well, yeah, I'm alive some of the time. I'm alive some of the time.
It's very touching. It's very dramatic.
It's a very well-written story. It's really great.
Naomi Watts is great and there's an amazing dog in the movie that dog is and it is the most one of the most responsive animals I've ever seen in my life when I first saw the the first cut of the movie you would see something would happen in a scene and there'd be this sort of emotional moment and you would see the dog react to it and I kept going and someone who saw the movie said that's AI that's not a real dog i said that's the dog the dog heard it and felt it and expressed it it's extraordinary thing so it's a it's a great dane and it's a it's amazing animal okay wow okay that's sorry all right yeah and how do you stop them how do you control love you. Don't stop the love.
Let the love come in. And I know you're gonna...
I know you didn't plan this, but one of the themes I noticed in your career is that you have this kind of... There's these animals that pop up in a lot of your films.
A lot. In a cool way, you know? Like Groundhog Day, and the friend, the dog, there's an elephant, there's gophers.
Gopher problems, yeah. So I don't know, do you think there's something, I know you're not thinking about that, but is there something, what is it about these animals? It has something to do with, there's a lot of actors that just don't want to work with them.
So I've got to find, I've got to go into the animal kingdom to get a co-star. But it's, it's works out okay for me.
I don't know.
It's, it is funny that it keeps coming up like that.
I should be worried.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But the animals are the real ones.
I mean, I got bit by the gopher in Groundhog Day.
You know, the other, the gopher in Caddyshack blew the place up.
This dog is really great. I wrote an elephant in a movie that was fantastic.
I, you know, I've, you know, I'm not, I'm not one of those guys, but I mean, this dog is smarter than many people that I've ever met. And the, and the elephant I worked with was smarter than virtually everyone I've ever met, you know.
So their intelligence is, you know, it's a mystery to us. And it's, you know, probably sort of for me, it's entry level dealing.
They say, you know, before you try to have children, you should have a pet. See if you can care for someone, take care of something, another creature.
So, probably. Okay, I'll try to look for a pet.
I'm getting to it a little backwards, but. I'll look for a pet elephant before I have kids here, but let me try to find one.
A starter, yeah. And, I mean, you are, you're such a, you came up, not only are you an American icon, but you came up through these iconic American institutions like SNL and, you know, create Ghostbusters and Second City.
Second City, yeah. Second City, all these institutions.
And my question to you is, you know, it feels like these institutions kind of don't have the kind of sheen that they used to have before
in terms of attracting all the talent?
Because now people are going to, like, TikTok
and making a video on their toilet seat.
And I guess my question to you,
do you like that?
Is that a good thing,
that people are on their toilet making videos?
You know, there shouldn't be any limits
about what can be funny, you know? I've been watching a lot of South Park lately. I never really got to watch a lot of South Park.
It's brilliant. It really is.
South Park is brilliant. It really is brilliant.
And they, you know, they can be scatological, they can be anything, but they do it in such an intelligent way that it's constantly amusing to me. But in terms of the sheen of the great institutions like Second City or Saturday Night Live, well, I go back with them.
Like Saturday Night Live, when I was there, there were seven of us in the cast. Now there's a couple dozen.
So there's a lot of people. And Second City used to have two casts.
Now they have a university. They've got a seven-story building or something with people taking the classes.
So it's not necessarily watered down. And you can't say Saturday night is sort of watered down, but there's a lot more people.
And it's a little harder to get traction if you're one of the actors. But Saturday Night Live, any week, there can be a sketch that's absolutely brilliant, just like in the early days.
Any week, they can make one that's absolutely perfect. But, you know, it's just the group, it's a little harder to wrangle because there's you know, it's a herd.
They've got a herd of people. Yeah.
But I guess my question because i revered american institutions american comedy institutions specifically that's why i'm here in america and i came here because my my dream was always to be take part in it yeah no i'm lucky and you know i'm lucky that these guys gave me a shot but i guess i always saw the value of these institutions there's a huge value if you can go through through those things, if you can go from one, I always say, if you can go through Second City and Saturday Night Live, you can do anything. Right.
You can do anything because the intent, the, not the, I shouldn't say pressure because I believe pressure is sort of imaginary, but the demand to be attentive to what you're doing and every professional on Saturday Night Live, like every guy on a camera every prop man every single person is the top guy the top woman in their field so everybody's excellent so if i screw up he's looking at me like nice yeah nice you know so and that's that's what it was you were in this environment of real uh of real, like just a transformative spot where you had to perform. It was an elite pressure cooker.
It was an elite pressure cooker. Well, it wasn't exactly.
I wanted to say pressure cooker, but I want people to get off of pressure. I don't sort of believe in pressure.
I think it's sort of imaginary. I think it's just, it's emotion that you can't control.
And that's why it sort of gets up, and it feels like the top of your head's coming off. But it's really just a, there's a demand to show up, you know, and you have to relax, otherwise that pressure comes up to your brain, and then you don't work so well.
Well, speaking of American institutions, Mr. Bill Murray, your institution.
Thank you. Thank you so much for the movies you did.
Thank you, Bill Murray.
You're one of the people
that my mom is excited that I'm interviewing.
Oh, great.
When we were kids in
Manchester, New Hampshire, we would watch our movies.
It brought my family together.
If my dad was still
around, he would have loved this. He would have loved
that I got to meet you. I'm sorry.
if my dad were around, he'd love it too.
Thanks so much, Mr. Bill Murray, everybody.
The Friend opens in New York March 28th
and nationwide April 4th.
Mr. Bill Murray, we're going to take a quick break,
but we'll be right back after this. Thank you.
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