Bill Murray deadpanned his way through the Wings of Death and three interruptions — two from his own phone’s alarms and one from fellow “Saturday Night Live” alum Pete Davidson — on Thursday’s edition of “Hot Ones.”
The saucy interview’s first interruption came while Murray was in the midst of answering a question about the difficulty of making audiences laugh versus making them cry when his phone started loudly blaring. “Is that your phone?” host Sean Evans asked, to which Murray dryly responded, “Yeah, I set an alarm for myself to remember to try to show up for the show.”
Silencing the noise, Murray added, “I’m not crazy about that alarm. It’s the best one they have. I had a BlackBerry that had a much nicer alarm; very beautiful, very elegant way to wake up in the morning. It almost felt like you were being lifted up.” Never afraid to make the same joke twice, Murray paused when his phone then went off again with a different alarm, much to Evans’ surprise.
“I set two alarms cause I knew I would forget right in the middle of it,” Murray explained with a chuckle. “See? That’s the, ‘You missed it the first time, knucklehead,’ alarm. That’s what that one is.”
You can watch Murray’s full “Hot Ones” interview below:
As he was preparing to take on his final “Hot Ones” wing, Murray turned and asked, “Is there anyone else that’s hungry who wants to come in and eat?” Davidson, who stars alongside Murray in the new comedy “Riff Raff,” responded offscreen, “Is that my cue?” One quick cut later, Murray was joined at his table by Davidson, who explained that his “Hot Ones” interview ended in disaster.
“Last time, I was doing so poorly, [Evans] excused me from the last wing,” Davidson explained. “Really?” Murray asked in surprise as he shook out a genuinely shocking amount of hot sauce. Unfortunately for Davidson, his one wing still caused him to start crying and wheezing. Murray fared much better, having apparently vowed to himself beforehand that he would shed “no tears.” The comedy legend made it through almost all of the Wings of Death without so much as flinching.
Elsewhere in the interview, Murray admitted that he thought he could never “do better” than the 2005 Jim Jarmusch-directed dramedy “Broken Flowers.” He also told the behind-the-scenes story of how he got bit twice by a groundhog while making “Groundhog Day” and revealed why the 1996 bowling comedy “Kingpin” has one of his “favorite scenes” he has ever been in.
