Hilarious real-life Bill Murray encounters that beat any of his roles

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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His many Crossroads looks in 2007 - Somehow real-life Bill Murray is more inventive than his fictional characters.

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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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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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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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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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