5. Bill Murray Has Perfect Timing
It's hardly a surprise. After 40 years of fine-tuning his comedic craft, Big Bad Bill is still as sharp as a tack on and off stage. After the release of Sofia Coppola's 2003 slick and subtle exploration of existentialism, Lost In Translation, a furore fermented regarding the subject of the whispers he sent into the smouldering Scarlett Johansson's lughole. Before all had been revealed, Murray was once boarding a ferry at Martha's Vineyard when a fella spotted him from land and shouted, "Bill what'd you say to her?". With the crowd around gazing in his direction, Murray went to speak but as he did, the vessel's foghorn blasted, leaving Murray with 25 seconds to mime something of a sincere-looking explanation, stopping the charade when the horn did so. Fortunate you might say, but nevertheless a sharp bit of improv. Murray is capable of that. On a scale of zero to Bill Murray, I'd be the guy saying something inappropriate/embarassing to an unwilling recipient in a nightclub when the music cuts out. Damn you Bill Murray.