Bill Murray Terrorizing Celebrities Stories Are Spreading Like Wildfire

Bill Murray is an undeniable comedy legend. According to a bunch of disturbing stories emerging about him in recent days, weeks and months, he might also be an all-time terrible co-worker.

The floodgates seemed to have opened following new revelations about what went down on the set of Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut Being Mortal, which had its production shut down earlier this year after Murray allegedly sexually harassed a member of the production staff. The “much younger” woman reportedly received north of $100,000 in a settlement from Murray, who sources say got on top of her and started kissing her through their masks in what he considered to be a funny joke and she obviously did not.

“What I always thought was funny as a little kid isn’t necessarily the same as what’s funny now,” Murray said in an interview at the time. “Things change and the times change so it’s important for me to figure it out.”

But if the below stories from his co-stars and other celebrities who he interacted with over the years backstage at Saturday Night Live and elsewhere are to be believed, he has been making people uncomfortable for quite a long time. Dan Aykroyd didn’t nickname him “The Murricane” for no good reason.

Geena Davis: ‘I Should Have Walked Out’

In her new memoir Dying of Politeness, Geena Davis recalls the traumatizing experience of working with Murray on 1990’s Quick Change, including his insistence on using an electric massager called the “Thumper” on her during their very first meeting in a hotel suite for what was ostensibly her audition and later screamed at her for supposedly being late in front of the entire cast and crew.

“That was bad,” Davis told The Times (London). “The way he behaved at the first meeting… I should have walked out of that or profoundly defended myself, in which case I wouldn’t have got the part. I could have avoided that treatment if I’d known how to react or what to do during the audition. But, you know, I was so non-confrontational that I just didn’t…”

Rob Schneider: ‘He Hated Us’

“You don’t know who you’re gonna get, which Bill Murray you’re gonna get,” SNL alum Rob Schneider said this week on SiriusXM’s Jim Norton & Sam Roberts. “The nice Bill Murray? Or you’re gonna get the tough Bill Murray?” He recalled the awful experience of being in the cast when Murray hosted around the release of Groundhog Day in 1993. “He’s super nice to fans. He wasn’t very nice to us,” Schneider said. “He hated us on Saturday Night Live when he hosted. Absolutely hated us. I mean, seething.”

“He hated Chris Farley with a passion,” Schneider continued. “Like he was just seething looking at him. I don’t know exactly [why], but I want to believe that it’s because Chris thought it was cool to be [John] Belushi—who [was] his friend who he saw die—that he thought it was cool to be that out of control. That’s my interpretation, but I don’t really know.”

“You just saw the way he looked at [Farley], and it was just naked rage, you know?” he said later. “I mean, he hated [Adam] Sandler. Really hated Sandler, too.” Schneider also said that the…