8. The deaf assistant
During the production of  Groundhog Day, Murray was going through his first divorce, even crankier than usual, and prone to disappearing for hours at a time. To ease 'communication' between the star, director Harold Ramis and the studio, Murray was asked to hire a personal assistant. His solution was to employ an assistant who was profoundly deaf and spoke only in sign language, which nobody else on set - including Murray - could speak. As Ramis told  : "Bill said, 'Don't worry, I'm going to learn sign language.'

Ok, that's funny, but I hope the deaf guy was in on the joke from the beginning.

#9:  his niece was in my Homer / Iliad class in college.


/no, really
//same surname, she wrote for the school paper
///professor pointed it out one day in class.  "balh blah blah, but that's like 'ghostbusters'." (or maybe he said caddyshack).  and then he's like, "for those that dont' get my joke, Bill Murray is her uncle."  and she does that embarassed, roll your eyes, awkward smile, "was that necessary?" kind of body language but yeah, there was a resemblance.