Episode #216 |01.14.25

Bill Murray: Airport Drug Busts, Backstage Brawls, and Crashing Elvis’s Burial

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In this episode

Before Bill Murray was busting ghosts and living in a loop of deja vu, he was a drug-dealing pre-med student with a knack for comedy. When he was caught with five bricks of pot at the airport, his career in medicine came crashing down, forcing him to make a living with his smart mouth. His obsession to rise above “medium talent” brought him to volatile blows with musicians, fellow actors, and even himself. Yetin his cockiest moments and most despairing lows, the universe always found a way to show Bill Murray he still had a lot to learn.

Sources

The Tao of Bill Murray by Gavin Edwards and R. Sikoryak

The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray by Robert Schnakenberg

Live from New York by Tom Shale

Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story by Chris Nashawaty

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead National Lampoon documentary 

‘Bomb’ Comment Misfires (The Chicago Tribune)

The Rumpled Anarchy of Bill Murray (New York Times)

Stage: A New ‘Lamnoon’ Audiences Hurrying to Be Insulted (New York Times)

Art gave Bill Murray ‘another chance’ (The Irish Independent)

About That Time Bill Murray Tried to Kill Martin Mull For Talking During a Live Performance (UPROXX)

Bill Murray Crashed Elvis Presley’s Funeral (1200 WOAI)

Bill Murray Remembers Punching Chevy Chase in the Face and Other Tales from ‘Wild and Crazy Guys’ (People)

Why Chevy Chase Fought Bill Murray When He Returned to Host ‘Saturday Night Live’ (Howard Stern Show)

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DISGRACELAND is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.