Of all the celebrities that I can’t bring myself to lay into, Bill Murray pretty much tops the list. His career has been as prolific and distinguished as any comic actor in movie history, with a phenominal level of consistent greatness (mostly) to the point where any attempts for my dumbass nerdy blogging self to make fun of the man would be a thousand times more laughable than anything he actually did. Fortunately, the story about Murray receiving a DUI charge is pretty much an enormous joke in itself:
Outta nowhere … Bill Murray could face a drunk driving charge … in Sweden! Skal! Police spotted Murray cruising around downtown Stockholm in a — wait for it — golf cart!
Even when Murray breaks the law, he does it in his own uniquely goofy, impossibly likeable demeanor. Could you imagine how much would we would have ripped on Nicole Richie if she got arrested for drunkenly driving a golf cart around downtown Sweden?? (I can already picture what Michelle’s Celeb Math would have looked like… Swedish chef, plus Bagger Vance…) But when Murray does something like this, it’s almost too esoteric and funny to even bother considering it a crime.
Obviously, I’m not pro drunk driving in any of its forms, but can we all agree that Murray gets a free pass for life? He could strangle a baby to death with another baby and I’d probably be like, “what a goofball! I can’t stay mad at youuuuuu….”
