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Bill Murray Reads Poems to Construction Workers

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (15)

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Sometimes, the world aligns in just such a way that there’s nothing at all you could say to appropriately introduce a video. This is one of those times.

If there was any doubt that Bill Murray was the coolest man on the planet, let that doubt be extinguished.



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Once upon a workday dreary,
While I welded weak and weary
Over a many quaint and cautious girder of the fourteenth floor
While I nodded, nearly napping
Suddenly there came a yapping
As if someone gently rapping, rapping on the fourteenth floor
'Tis Bill Murray, Ralphie Muttered, rapping on the fourteenth floor
Only this, and nothing more.

Posted by: superasente at May 3, 2010 8:12 PM

Could this guy get any cooler?

Posted by: John Blaine at May 3, 2010 8:14 PM

Too cool for an Oscar

Posted by: peanut at May 3, 2010 8:26 PM

Way cool. I saw Bill on a recent episode of No Reservations as well, and Tony actually just shut up and listened.

Posted by: Cindy at May 3, 2010 8:29 PM

Maybe I'm just in a sensitive place, but...

"I know sometimes I'm careless when I'm in town, but never let 'em say I'm mean or small"

Posted by: Jay at May 3, 2010 8:32 PM

between this and the video of him bartending during sxsw, the man is on a roll

Posted by: phaedawg at May 3, 2010 11:12 PM

Does anyone remember that story way back when, when Bill Murray and his wife were in the throes of divorce, and his wife accused him of domestic/verbal abuse (memory is fuzzy)?

The guy is one bad mofo, but I can't help but to think about that whenever I catch an appearance by him.

Unless that issue has been resolved or debunked already. Anyone know of anything? Am I even correct in thinking it was Bill Murray?

Posted by: Amanda at May 4, 2010 1:23 AM

I've read Murray can be a total asshole, who doesn't have time for people less talented, less motivated or who otherwise lack enough spark to show him something he hasn't seen yet. He doesn't like to waste his time professionally. But he obviously does like people with no facades.

It all makes me like him even more.


He broke a heckler's arm once, in Canada.

Posted by: replica at May 4, 2010 2:55 AM

I've heard the same thing replica, although in less specific terms about who he unleashes it on. I've also heard that Dan Akroyd is a terribly nice person who does not put on airs, and the same about Harold Ramis.

Murray always has always seemed to me like he has an edge of meanness about him, like he is really just mocking everyone around him and considers us all beneath him. I don't like that about him, or anyone with a nasty streak in them, but I do his work.

Posted by: Viking at May 4, 2010 5:56 AM

Murray strikes me as a meticulous, demanding performer when he's on location, but he seems to enjoy interacting with the common working person. I disagree with Viking, though I see where one might misconstrue his actions as mocking. I've only seen him mock other entertainers (talk shows, interviews, etc.). I haven't seen him condescend to anyone not in "the business" before, and he seems to feel pride in bringing happiness to so many people, blue collar workers especially (recent examples being bartenders and construction workers).

But I love the guy, so my bias is absolute.

Posted by: Kballs at May 4, 2010 8:45 AM

Posted by: superasente at May 3, 2010 8:12 PM
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More of this, please. Evermore of this.

Posted by: , at May 4, 2010 9:21 AM

i thought this was going to be stupid, but i'm sitting here with a big smile on my face right now. thanks for linking this.

Posted by: lerbage at May 4, 2010 12:30 PM

superasente,
that was....sublime, truley.

Posted by: Jack Random at May 4, 2010 7:50 PM

I agree with Kballs. While I've never seen Bill Murray in person, I can't imagine him being condescending to us average joes. Which isn't to say he never is, just that I can't imagine it.

Either way, I see him as an actor who truly loves cinema, and nearly all his performances reflect this. I'm also sure he knows just how awesome he is, but he's never a dick about it.

Posted by: lucy at May 4, 2010 8:45 PM

To answer some of the above comments:

I worked a couple days on the set of his new movie GET LOW as an extra. I think the key to his aforementioned "mood" is probably that you have to play by his rules. He is the biggest presence in the room and people are pretty aware of it (and in this case Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek where there too). He is kind of intimidating. However, he also offered several extras a swig from his whiskey flask and I saw him a couple of times I saw him carrying electrical cords for the crew...how many stars do that? Some of my pictures from that day:

http://www.whaun.com/2009/03/filming-get-low/

Posted by: James at May 5, 2010 12:58 PM