SATURDAY NIGHT: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live
by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad
Vintage Books, a division of Random House
1st Edition: March 1987
Chapter 22: Billy
Page 250
(i'll give you the last two paragraphs of the page, to give you the set up, hehe)
Billy's fashion sense, like John's and Danny's, bordered on the anarchistic. He favored outlandishly baggy pants and wrinkled shirts that looked as if they'd been picked out of a pile in his closet, which they probably had been. He was a drinker, not a drugger. He could toss down a half-dozen beers before the first-quarter buzzer sounded at a Knicks game, and he sometimes swigged from a fifth of Irish whiseky as he wasked arouns (studio) 8H during blocking, a practice NBC tried to discourage.
He had a physical exuberance that always threatened to cross over into violence, even when he was being friendly. Soon after he arrived on the 17th floor he got into the habit of throwing the women down on a couch or the floor, and tickling them unmercifully into hysterics. Other times he'd simply pick up a passing woman and bite her on her rear end. Another favorite trick was to stand up in the green room during dinner break and squeeze sandwiches through his fingers.
I've seen this asked for many times, so....perhaps we should nominate Bill Murray as some kind of TMF Saint or something, as he is by far the most visible and notorious celebrity TICKLER, haha. I mean, it pops up in interviews with actresses (Geena Davis, Sigourney Weaver, someone else I forget), as an extra on a DVD (Murray is seen in a still photograph tickling Gwenyth Paltrow's bare foot in the Criterion DVD of The Royal Tannebaums extras) and multiple mainstream scenes (Stripes, 2 different scenes, Groundhog Day, Scrooged, I think there's others that I'm forgetting) and finally, the cherry on the cake, documentary reportage, haha, in the "official" biography of Saturday Night Live.....
which, I might add, is a great book, if you want to learn about the history of television between the late 60's and mid 80's. That and "The Late Show" are great trashy reads, heheh