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He crashed an engagement photo shoot - In 2014, Murray saw a couple, whom he’d never met, taking their engagement photos. He did the logical thing and lifted his shirt and started tapping his belly, trying to make them laugh. Then he just got in the photo.
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Bartending at the Shangri-La with Wu-Tang Clan - At the SXSW festival in Texas, US, Murray showed up at the bar with the hip-hop group and insisted on bartending, but only served shots of tequila. No matter what they ordered, he poured them tequila.
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That time he ate someone’s french fries - An unsuspecting tourist in Times Square was eating some fries when Murray walked up and just took one. Before he could say anything, Murray yelled over the crowd, “No one will ever believe you,” and walked away.
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3 / 31 Fotos
He read poetry to construction workers - In 2009, when they were building a library in Manhattan, Murray decided to stop by and perform. In the middle of reading, he said, "They get worse...If you want to take a sick day, do it now."
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4 / 31 Fotos
He crashed a bachelor party in South Carolina, USA - And gave a speech! He compared the way that funerals aren't for the dead but for the living, to the way that bachelor parties aren't for the groom, they're for the unmarried.
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And gave amazing advice - He told the bachelor's friends that if you have someone who you think is the one, travel all around the world with them, and if you’re still in love with them when you arrive back home, get married.
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His Washington briefing on the Chicago Cubs - While visiting the White House in 2016 to receive the Mark Twain Prize, Murray jumped into a press conference. The media played along and called him Mr. President, listening to him explain why the Cubs deserved to win the World Series more than an LA team.
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When he drove a golf cart through Stockholm, Sweden - And was notably intoxicated.
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He calls Kelly Lynch’s husband every time ‘Road House’ is on - He’ll wait for the scene where Lynch and Patrick Swayze get steamy, and call his friend Mitch Glazer, Lynch's husband, to say, “Kelly’s having sex with Patrick Swayze right now.”
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The slo-mo memento - Autographs are boring and impersonal to Murray, so instead of giving some guys his signature, he filmed a slow-motion walk down a hallway with them, and it looks epic.
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10 / 31 Fotos
When he rode around Walmart on a kid’s bike - Anyone in that Michigan Walmart on one inexplicable evening in 2006 was treated to a firefighter-uniform-clad Murray cycling around the store yelling, “You are on fire!”
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11 / 31 Fotos
When he entertained the crowd during a baseball game delay - As co-owner and “director of fun” for the minor league team Charleston RiverDogs, Murray took to the field during a rain delay in 2012, sliding across the tarp to keep the fans occupied.
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12 / 31 Fotos
When he did some karaoke in New York - Everyone knows Murray has quite a voice, but it was still surprising when, in 2011, he decided to join a group of amateur singers, even performing a duet of Elvis Presley’s ‘Marie’s the Name.’
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13 / 31 Fotos
When he crashed a house party in Scotland - One evening after a golf tournament in St. Andrews, Murray showed up to a college house party. The girl who invited him was worried that there were no clean glasses, so Murray proceeded to wash all the dishes.
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14 / 31 Fotos
How he accidentally starred in ‘Garfield’ - In one of the most hilarious mix-ups in Hollywood, Murray accepted the role after seeing that Joel Cohen wrote it, mistaking him for Joel Coen of the Coen Brothers. He was sorely disappointed when he started recording the script.
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15 / 31 Fotos
He napped on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ - Murray showed up not as a guest, but as an audience member, who was snoozing with his feet on the stage. Colbert asked him to leave, and he did, but not before inviting the woman next to him to come with him.
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He pulled a fur-clad fan into a pool - In 1988, Murray was swimming when a Beverly Hills housewife, dressed in fur and jewelry, asked him for his autograph. He agreed, but told her he’d throw her into the pool after he signed. She laughed, brushing it off. He gave her the autograph, and then he really did it.
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17 / 31 Fotos
When he accidentally broke a guy’s nose with a Coke bottle - At a 2007 celebrity golf tournament in Utah, Murray seemed deeply remorseful about the joke that went awry, but he still managed to make the bleeding man laugh.
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18 / 31 Fotos
He sent Christmas cards to wrestlers he’s never met - Roddy Piper received a Christmas card from Bill Murray in 2013, in which the actor is wearing only a red silk scarf, despite the fact that they’d never met.
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He answered the sweet call of ice cream - When the owner of an ice cream shop in LA realized in 2014 that Murray was shooting a movie nearby, he posted signs for a “Bill Murray Ice Cream Social” and, perhaps unsurprisingly now, the star showed up.
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20 / 31 Fotos
He was invited to a stranger’s party, and went - And danced! Marvin Larry Reynolds, of Jedburg, South Carolina, invited Murray to his 64th birthday party in 2014, and the actor not only showed up, he showed off.
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21 / 31 Fotos
When he conducted the Cornell band - During a Harvard-Cornell football game in 2011, the band started playing the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song, not realizing the star was in the crowd. He went up to the band after the game and conducted them using only a jacket.
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22 / 31 Fotos
He dressed as himself at a stranger’s Halloween party - At a 2008 party in Brooklyn, Murray walked in quite late, danced a little, drank some beer, and reportedly talked to the host at length about sweet potato casserole.
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23 / 31 Fotos
When he threw several cell phones off a roof - At a California rooftop restaurant in 2016, fans somehow annoyed the laid-back man enough to lob their phones into the distance. He paid for the damages, of course.
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24 / 31 Fotos
When he jammed at the Crossroads Guitar Festival - Murray introduced Eric Clapton at the guitar god's own festival, trying to hold his own while they both strummed away.
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25 / 31 Fotos
His many Crossroads looks in 2007 - Somehow real-life Bill Murray is more inventive than his fictional characters.
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26 / 31 Fotos
When he drove a cab so the driver could practice saxophone - In 2014, Murray was talking to his taxi driver and found out he was a saxophonist, but one who couldn’t practice because of his schedule. The instrument was in the trunk, so Murray got in the driver’s seat, and he drove for the next hour to the sound of sax.
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27 / 31 Fotos
He joined a kickball game - Bill Murray loves sports, so when he saw some New Yorkers playing recreationally in 2012, he didn't hesitate to jump in.
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28 / 31 Fotos
He gave a random person a World Series ticket - An Indiana woman showed up without a ticket to one of the games in the historic World Series between Cleveland and Chicago in 2016, and Murray gave her a ticket for the seat right next to him, a few rows behind home plate.
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29 / 31 Fotos
When he convinced a barista to spike his eggnog -
While Christmas shopping in New York City in 2010, Murray held up a Starbucks line trying to persuade a hesitant barista to slip whiskey into his Eggnog Latte. It worked, and he left a generous tip.
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30 / 31 Fotos
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0 / 31 Fotos
He crashed an engagement photo shoot - In 2014, Murray saw a couple, whom he’d never met, taking their engagement photos. He did the logical thing and lifted his shirt and started tapping his belly, trying to make them laugh. Then he just got in the photo.
© Getty Images
1 / 31 Fotos
Bartending at the Shangri-La with Wu-Tang Clan - At the SXSW festival in Texas, US, Murray showed up at the bar with the hip-hop group and insisted on bartending, but only served shots of tequila. No matter what they ordered, he poured them tequila.
© BrunoPress
2 / 31 Fotos
That time he ate someone’s french fries - An unsuspecting tourist in Times Square was eating some fries when Murray walked up and just took one. Before he could say anything, Murray yelled over the crowd, “No one will ever believe you,” and walked away.
© Getty Images
3 / 31 Fotos
He read poetry to construction workers - In 2009, when they were building a library in Manhattan, Murray decided to stop by and perform. In the middle of reading, he said, "They get worse...If you want to take a sick day, do it now."
© Getty Images
4 / 31 Fotos
He crashed a bachelor party in South Carolina, USA - And gave a speech! He compared the way that funerals aren't for the dead but for the living, to the way that bachelor parties aren't for the groom, they're for the unmarried.
© Getty Images
5 / 31 Fotos
And gave amazing advice - He told the bachelor's friends that if you have someone who you think is the one, travel all around the world with them, and if you’re still in love with them when you arrive back home, get married.
© Getty Images
6 / 31 Fotos
His Washington briefing on the Chicago Cubs - While visiting the White House in 2016 to receive the Mark Twain Prize, Murray jumped into a press conference. The media played along and called him Mr. President, listening to him explain why the Cubs deserved to win the World Series more than an LA team.
© Getty Images
7 / 31 Fotos
When he drove a golf cart through Stockholm, Sweden - And was notably intoxicated.
© Getty Images
8 / 31 Fotos
He calls Kelly Lynch’s husband every time ‘Road House’ is on - He’ll wait for the scene where Lynch and Patrick Swayze get steamy, and call his friend Mitch Glazer, Lynch's husband, to say, “Kelly’s having sex with Patrick Swayze right now.”
© Getty Images
9 / 31 Fotos
The slo-mo memento - Autographs are boring and impersonal to Murray, so instead of giving some guys his signature, he filmed a slow-motion walk down a hallway with them, and it looks epic.
© Getty Images
10 / 31 Fotos
When he rode around Walmart on a kid’s bike - Anyone in that Michigan Walmart on one inexplicable evening in 2006 was treated to a firefighter-uniform-clad Murray cycling around the store yelling, “You are on fire!”
© Getty Images
11 / 31 Fotos
When he entertained the crowd during a baseball game delay - As co-owner and “director of fun” for the minor league team Charleston RiverDogs, Murray took to the field during a rain delay in 2012, sliding across the tarp to keep the fans occupied.
© Getty Images
12 / 31 Fotos
When he did some karaoke in New York - Everyone knows Murray has quite a voice, but it was still surprising when, in 2011, he decided to join a group of amateur singers, even performing a duet of Elvis Presley’s ‘Marie’s the Name.’
© Getty Images
13 / 31 Fotos
When he crashed a house party in Scotland - One evening after a golf tournament in St. Andrews, Murray showed up to a college house party. The girl who invited him was worried that there were no clean glasses, so Murray proceeded to wash all the dishes.
© BrunoPress
14 / 31 Fotos
How he accidentally starred in ‘Garfield’ - In one of the most hilarious mix-ups in Hollywood, Murray accepted the role after seeing that Joel Cohen wrote it, mistaking him for Joel Coen of the Coen Brothers. He was sorely disappointed when he started recording the script.
© BrunoPress
15 / 31 Fotos
He napped on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ - Murray showed up not as a guest, but as an audience member, who was snoozing with his feet on the stage. Colbert asked him to leave, and he did, but not before inviting the woman next to him to come with him.
© Getty Images
16 / 31 Fotos
He pulled a fur-clad fan into a pool - In 1988, Murray was swimming when a Beverly Hills housewife, dressed in fur and jewelry, asked him for his autograph. He agreed, but told her he’d throw her into the pool after he signed. She laughed, brushing it off. He gave her the autograph, and then he really did it.
© Getty Images
17 / 31 Fotos
When he accidentally broke a guy’s nose with a Coke bottle - At a 2007 celebrity golf tournament in Utah, Murray seemed deeply remorseful about the joke that went awry, but he still managed to make the bleeding man laugh.
© Getty Images
18 / 31 Fotos
He sent Christmas cards to wrestlers he’s never met - Roddy Piper received a Christmas card from Bill Murray in 2013, in which the actor is wearing only a red silk scarf, despite the fact that they’d never met.
© Getty Images
19 / 31 Fotos
He answered the sweet call of ice cream - When the owner of an ice cream shop in LA realized in 2014 that Murray was shooting a movie nearby, he posted signs for a “Bill Murray Ice Cream Social” and, perhaps unsurprisingly now, the star showed up.
© BrunoPress
20 / 31 Fotos
He was invited to a stranger’s party, and went - And danced! Marvin Larry Reynolds, of Jedburg, South Carolina, invited Murray to his 64th birthday party in 2014, and the actor not only showed up, he showed off.
© Getty Images
21 / 31 Fotos
When he conducted the Cornell band - During a Harvard-Cornell football game in 2011, the band started playing the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song, not realizing the star was in the crowd. He went up to the band after the game and conducted them using only a jacket.
© BrunoPress
22 / 31 Fotos
He dressed as himself at a stranger’s Halloween party - At a 2008 party in Brooklyn, Murray walked in quite late, danced a little, drank some beer, and reportedly talked to the host at length about sweet potato casserole.
© Getty Images
23 / 31 Fotos
When he threw several cell phones off a roof - At a California rooftop restaurant in 2016, fans somehow annoyed the laid-back man enough to lob their phones into the distance. He paid for the damages, of course.
© Getty Images
24 / 31 Fotos
When he jammed at the Crossroads Guitar Festival - Murray introduced Eric Clapton at the guitar god's own festival, trying to hold his own while they both strummed away.
© Getty Images
25 / 31 Fotos
His many Crossroads looks in 2007 - Somehow real-life Bill Murray is more inventive than his fictional characters.
© Getty Images
26 / 31 Fotos
When he drove a cab so the driver could practice saxophone - In 2014, Murray was talking to his taxi driver and found out he was a saxophonist, but one who couldn’t practice because of his schedule. The instrument was in the trunk, so Murray got in the driver’s seat, and he drove for the next hour to the sound of sax.
© Getty Images
27 / 31 Fotos
He joined a kickball game - Bill Murray loves sports, so when he saw some New Yorkers playing recreationally in 2012, he didn't hesitate to jump in.
© Getty Images
28 / 31 Fotos
He gave a random person a World Series ticket - An Indiana woman showed up without a ticket to one of the games in the historic World Series between Cleveland and Chicago in 2016, and Murray gave her a ticket for the seat right next to him, a few rows behind home plate.
© Getty Images
29 / 31 Fotos
When he convinced a barista to spike his eggnog -
While Christmas shopping in New York City in 2010, Murray held up a Starbucks line trying to persuade a hesitant barista to slip whiskey into his Eggnog Latte. It worked, and he left a generous tip.
© Getty Images
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Hilarious real-life Bill Murray encounters that beat any of his roles
The legendary actor, famous for crashing parties, turns 74 on September 21
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For a while now, Bill Murray has been recognized as an icon in cinema, his deadpan humor drawing hearty chuckles from around the globe. But perhaps on par with his famous film roles is his real, eccentric personality, whose approach to life is unlike anything you've ever seen.
Known for showing up when you least expect him, and doing whatever weird thing he feels in the moment, check out Murray’s most entertaining off-screen moments.
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