That Time Bill Murray Was An 'Irish Drunken Bully'

For a comedian as beloved as Murray, the guy sure has a long history of bad behavior. #shorts #billmurray #comedy #movies #cracked #youtubeshorts

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00:00Is Bill Murray kind of a nightmare?

00:02For a comedian as beloved as Bill Murray,

00:04the guy sure has a long history of bad behavior.

00:06He spent six figures paying off that much younger crew member

00:09he straddled on the set of Aziz Ansari's directorial debut.

00:13He yelled at Gina Davis on the set of Quick Change

00:15when he wasn't trying to use a vibrating massager on her off-camera.

00:18He told Lucy Liu she couldn't act during Charlie's Angels,

00:21but he saved some of his worst behavior for What About Bob,

00:24his hit 90s comedy with Richard Dreyfuss.

00:26Far Out recently rounded up a series of troubling stories about Murray

00:30on that film set, including throwing producer Laura Ziskin in a lake.

00:34Things were just as bad between the comedian

00:36and his What About Bob co-star Richard Dreyfuss.

00:38Dreyfuss told the A.V. Club,

00:40it was a terribly unpleasant experience and said,

00:43we didn't get along, me and Bill Murray.

00:44Bill just got drunk at dinner.

00:46He came back from dinner one night and I said,

00:48read this script tweak, I think it's really funny.

00:50Apparently Murray didn't like the rewrite.

00:52He put his face next to mine, Dreyfuss said,

00:54and he screamed at the top of his lungs.

00:56Everyone hates you, you are tolerated.

00:58He then apparently threw a glass-blown ashtray at Richard's head,

01:02but luckily missed him.

01:03Dreyfuss called him an Irish drunken bully.

01:05Things got so bad that filming actually halted at one point,

01:09and it only resumed after Disney hired some bodyguards

01:12to physically separate Richard Dreyfuss from Bill Murray in between takes.

01:15The stories continued to leak out years after the film's production,

01:19and Murray later justified his actions to Entertainment Weekly.

01:22He said,

01:22It worked for the movie.

01:23I mean, I drove him nuts and he encouraged me to drive him nuts.

01:26So hey,

01:27abusing Dreyfuss was just a form of method acting.