Bill Murray's five best awards show moments
Bill Murray is being honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in Washington D.C. Sunday night, following in the footsteps of fellow Saturday Night Live alums Tina Fey, Will Ferrell and 2015's winner, Eddie Murphy. The presenter line-up is pretty solid, with David Letterman, Dan Aykroyd, Jimmy Kimmel, Emma Stone and Sigourney Weaver among those confirmed to roast toast the comedy legend. Now that the Kennedy Center managed to track the notoriously hard-to-find Murray down and confirm him for the event, here's a look back at some of Murray's best awards show moments over the years.
2004 The time he won a best actor Golden Globe for 'Lost in Translation'
"You can all relax, I fired my agents a couple of months ago," he began.
2014: The time he revealed his Oscar speech to Charlie Rose
Murray had a solid speech prepared for a best-actor win for Lost in Translation, the actor revealed a decade later. "I had some funny things to say. I was ready to go. I was going to say, 'When I heard I was nominated with (fellow nominees Ben Kingsley, Sean Penn, Jude Law and Johnny Depp), I thought I had a pretty good chance,' " he told Rose, cracking the journalist up. "I just thought, no one had ever given that speech." The moment was foiled when Penn won for Mystic River.
2010: The time he won best horror movie for 'Zombieland' at the Scream Awards
He showed up, naturally, as a Ghostbuster. "I'm sorry, I don't mean anything by this, it's just all that was left that was clean," he said.
2015: When he popped up at the Laureus World Sports Awards
Murray claimed to moonlight as a legendary sports coach. "I said, 'Hey, why don't you try to bend it this time," he recalled telling David Beckham. (Extra points for referring to Benedict Cumberbatch as "Benny.")
2016: When he crashed a White House briefing
OK, this is not an awards show moment per se, but this surprise appearance last week still counts as a glorious Murray memory. (A meeting with President Obama followed.)