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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

Bill Murray

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

News, Celebrity, Society & Culture, Pop Culture, Movies, Technology, Tv, Interview, Broadway, Music, Politics, Tv & Film

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

When the one and only Bill Murray comes calling for interview, you drop everything to make it happen. In the first episode of "Sunday Sitdown," Willie Geist meets up with the legendary actor on a moment’s notice to talk about his days on Saturday Night Live, his epic movie career, and everything in between, including the infamous 1-800 phone number he uses to connect with Hollywood. Even Wes Anderson, who directed Murray’s latest film “Isle of Dogs,” has to leave a message for him there, and they’ve worked on eight movies together. Murray opens up to Willie about his decision to live outside the spotlight, besides crashing a party every now and then.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, it's Willie Geist and you have just clicked on a piece of podcast history.

0:07.8

That's right.

0:08.8

This is the very first episode, first ever of our podcast Sunday Sit Down, where we bring

0:14.3

you the full length interview from our Sunday Sit Down interviews on my show Sunday

0:18.7

today on NBC.

0:22.2

We take the full deal on TV.

0:24.8

We get to give you about seven or eight minutes of an hour long conversation on this podcast.

0:29.2

You're going to get every last word of what we said sitting down with some of the biggest

0:32.4

stars, the biggest CEOs, presidents of the United States on the planet.

0:38.4

So our first episode, and I can't even believe I'm saying this out loud, but it's the truth

0:43.0

comes from our two year anniversary, which we just celebrated.

0:47.7

It is Bill Murray, Bill Murray, the great Bill Murray, the legendary actor, the elusive

0:53.3

actor, the myth, the legend, the man who turns up at people's weddings and batch their

0:58.0

parties and slides into their wedding pictures and throws out random first pitches at ball

1:02.4

games and throws old ladies into sand traps at golf tournaments.

1:06.7

Bill Murray, Caddy Shack, Ghost Busters, Groundhog Day.

1:11.3

I could go on and on and on.

1:13.4

So the way this worked is, Bill doesn't have a publicist.

1:17.9

So you call this number.

1:19.4

He's got a pager.

1:21.2

And if he wants to call you back, whoever you are, by the way, he will call you back if

1:25.6

he doesn't.

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