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As one of the first Saturday Night Live cast members to seamlessly transition from sketch comedy to the silver screen,\u00a0Bill Murray<\/a>\u00a0wouldn\u2019t have known that he was among the pioneers who helped establish one of Hollywood\u2019s most productive pipelines.<\/p>\n John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy, Mike Myers, Robert Downey Jr, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ben Stiller, Billy Crystal, Tina Fey, Will Ferrell, and Kristen Wiig are just some of the names who\u2019ve been fixtures of the show that went on to conquer the box office and win awards as actors, writers, and directors, even if the erstwhile Iron Man is the only one to claim an Academy Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n For a lot of people, Murray deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Hollywood\u2019s greatest-ever comedy stars, and it\u2019s not without merit. His signature style of dry, deadpan, and acerbic sarcasm, not to mention his obvious eccentricities, has made him an icon to millions, but not everyone agrees.<\/p>\n History is littered with co-stars and colleagues who\u2019ve endured a horrid time working with Murray, placing him in the position where one person can call him a beloved legend and be correct, but the same can be said of the next one who comes along and says he\u2019s a spiteful prick<\/a>.<\/p>\n Regardless of where he does \u2013 or doesn\u2019t rank \u2013 among the most gifted comic performers in cinema history, Murray knows who his favourites are. Despite the litany of esteemed performers he\u2019s shared the screen with over the last half a century, his preferred picks hail from much further in the past.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a Buster Keaton guy; he\u2019s really physical,\u201d the Oscar nominee shared in a Reddit AMA<\/a>. \u201cChaplin is really beautiful and he\u2019s really wonderful. But the stuff that Buster did? It\u2019s ungodly how dangerous it was. The physical stuff he could do? Charlie could do the romantic, scamp thing. But Buster, his heart just flamed out through his eyes. He was something.\u201d<\/p>\n While it sounds like he preferred Keaton\u2019s daredevil and death-defying physicality to Chaplin\u2019s broader, more slapsticky but pathos-laden stylings, he struggled to separate them. \u201cTo say that Charlie Chaplin isn\u2019t physical is also absurd,\u201d he pondered. \u201cThat\u2019s god. The dinner roll dance? But Buster should get the same attention.\u201d<\/p>\n