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♪ upbeat Irish music

- Hello! - Hello!

Hello!

See that woman there?

The one with the shiny silver tracksuit, who looks like

she has absolutely no business on a golf course?

- Hi, Bill. - I'm Bill.

Yeah, that's me, Joanne McNally.

Are we ready?

I am a comedian from Dublin.

And I met my new best friend Bill

when he taught me how to play golf

during his trip to Ireland.

Aah!

Oh, that's much better.

Isn't it?

Thank you, Bill.

Bill is a friend of a friend.

He'd come to Ireland to enjoy the scenery...

God, this touches my heart.

...enjoy the craic...

Oh!

...and enjoy the golf with his buddy Tom.

At this point in the trip, Bill's birthday

was just around the corner.

Seventy-five.

Oh, boy. I'm sorry.

Which I'm sure really is just a number

until it's your number.

Do you think you get funnier as you get older?

I don't know.

I feel funny.

Don't anyone jump overboard.

Maybe it was the milestone,

or maybe there really is something

about this place that gets you thinking.

Whatever the reason, it seems that even Bill knew

that this would not be any old birthday.

♪ "Temple Bar Party" by Antoine Rozé ♪

♪ I had a brand-new story ♪

♪ Brand-new story ♪

♪ When I was coming down to joy ♪

♪ Man, I felt the glory ♪

♪ Felt the glory ♪

♪ When I was ♪

♪ Coming down to joy ♪

♪ She was standing there ♪

- ♪ Before me ♪ - ♪ Standing there before me ♪

♪ When I was coming down... ♪

The man in the back, coughing

all over Tom's guitar solo, that's Joel Murray.

- We'll get to him. - ♪ Coming down to joy... ♪

The lads were winding their way

up the west coast around County Clare

and on up to County Sligo, somewhere around here.

I really need to get my nails done.

- ♪ Coming down... ♪ - Oh, my.

Oh, my, look at this.

♪ Coming down to joy ♪

Okay, we don't need... You have a putter?

- No one needs one, right? - Nope.

Right, back to Joel.

Ten days into the trip, the Murrays start multiplying.

Bill's youngest sibling came to Ireland to help celebrate

his big brother's birthday.

- Ah. All right, we did that. - Welcome to Enniscrone.

Joel is a famous actor in his own right.

Fans of Mad Men might recognize him as Fred Rumsen.

Hey, listen to this.

It's Mozart.

- How are you? - Joel Murray. Thanks.

Nice to see you. Happy to see you.

- Welcome. Happy birthday. - Thank you very much.

Joel was in

- for a treat. - ♪ upbeat music

Tom had arranged to play at Enniscrone Golf Course,

recently crowned Irish Golf Course of the Year.

Well done, Enniscrone. You must be thrilled.

It's covered in sand dunes,

including the famous Hill of the Dead.

Locals will tell you that it's an ancient Viking burial ground.

I've literally no way of verifying that.

This is sort of a windproof, right?

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm shouting.

- You're very welcome. - I didn't realize

there were people in here. How are you?

Bill bowled in...

But I think I might get a new... a hat for you.

...wrecked the gift shop...

There.

...ate a sausage sandwich...

This is a significant sandwich.

...and was presented with a beautiful picture

of himself.

What's that? Uh-huh.

Gosh dang.

Holy cow.

Well, that's really lovely.

- Thank you very much. - You're welcome.

Hey, would...? Is someone getting a picture of that?

"The possibility of being hit by a golf ball is extremely high"?

That's great.

Go ahead, Joel. I know you're ready.

Oh, that's thin.

Well, that's okay.

♪ soft, gentle music

- Boom. - Boom.

Perfect.

When Tom came here for his book

about Ireland's golf courses,

Enniscrone was a highlight,

a reminder of what made him first fall in love

with this country.

Solid, Bill. Really solid.

"This was the one I'd been waiting for,

my original Irish gem.

Enniscrone was the first course

my father and I played in Ireland.

I was 14.

Dad and I snuck away for an afternoon."

- Oh. - He's rushing.

That's trouble.

"Enniscrone rewarded those who pushed past its modest clubhouse

and meager beginnings, treating us

to a wild roller coaster in and out

of the dunes."

Oh, that's lost.

The dunes of Enniscrone are notoriously tricky.

Lovely.

But Bill was in fine form.

Maybe three-quarters of a century teaches you

to appreciate days like this.

Tip your waiter.

- Ah. - Oh.

Or maybe he just really wanted to beat his brother.

You want to hit it about 200, 220, Joel.

Uh-huh.

Right-hand side of the fairway.

- There you go. - Go.

Oh, as a kid?

Well, he was always older, you know.

He's got 12 years on me.

Um, he was always, uh, a little goofy.

A little goofy, I'm going to go with. He was a funny guy.

- Nice. Hit the ball. - Ball.

What kind of club is that? Is that a 7-wood?

It's a 3-wood.

He's trying to get in your head.

The Murrays of Chicago

are your typical large Irish family.

I grew up in a... what you would call a small house,

for nine children.

And, uh, their names are Ed, Brian,

Nancy, Peggy, Bill, Laura, Andy, John and Joel.

Ed, Brian, Nancy, Peggy, Bill, Laura, Andy, John and Joel.

Ed, Brian, Nancy, Peggy, Bill,

Laura, Andy, John and Joel.

Nine children. Mother of God!

I mean, I think

you learn a lot about social skills when you got to deal

with a whole community in your own home.

A lot of characters that ended up on SNL and stuff,

he, uh, created in the kitchen and at the dining room table.

He's become a deity.

I mean,

they make, uh, gold coins as ball marks

with Bill Murray on 'em, you know.

♪ slow, gentle guitar music

Nice touch. Nice touch.

Close. Nice read.

- Bill? - Huh?

- Does fame bring you happiness? - Ah, no.

In a word, no.

It's not easy. I go through, like,

new revelations all the time about how I handle it

and how to deal with it.

- Oh, Bill. Bill. - Oh, beautiful hit.

- There you go. - Could be a greenie.

It's not for everyone, but it has

also brought me to this place, you know.

For me, the one big positive is

there's a lot of goodwill out there from people who think,

"Hi. Hey, you know what?

Your movie made me laugh when I was having a really lousy time."

I've heard that a lot of times.

And it feels great. It feels great.

♪ upbeat guitar music

- Ah, good ball, Bill. - Good ball.

But it's not for everyone,

I'll tell you. And it's not what you expect, either.

Oh, get right.

♪ upbeat Irish music

You know, I think sort of famous people,

they can decide that there's a certain way to play

being famous, you know?

- Yeah, there you go. - Oh! Come on, go in.

Well, I'm not very pleasant. You can see that.

But I... I... I don't...

You know, I think just being like, nice, nice-nice.

I-I don't go for nice-nice.

- Birdie? - Eagle.

- Eagle. - Gentlemen, that's a wrap.

- Yeah, baby! - Wow!

Ha-ha! Redemption!

If I were, like, an ordinary citizen acting the way I do,

you know, I'd probably have a lot more cuts and bruises.

Oh.

All right, let's make one putt today.

There you go. Almost got it.

Bill had a lovely day.

Thank you very much. Well done.

He beat his little brother at sports

and took a walk around one of the most

stunning courses in the country.

- Well done. - Good playing.

Good playing today.

Some people celebrate turning 75 by taking it easy.

Bill's version looked a little different.

And halfway through the adventure,

Tom had arranged a trip on a boat

to see one of Ireland's most stunning landmarks.

Ah, it's quite a... quite a vessel.

Yes, it is.

Oh, she's rocking.

- Oh, you don't like this? - I don't like this.

Look at the horizon.

♪ mysterious, intriguing music

The Cliffs of Moher are a spectacular

14-kilometer stretch of sheer sea cliffs.

They are vast and dramatic, like myself,

and exactly the sort of place that gets Americans

like Bill and Tom all misty-eyed about their heritage.

But the Atlantic, it's like my first boyfriend--

beautiful to look at, but once you're on it, it's not so great.

- They're really all down? - Yeah.

You're talking about a soft Irish day. Here it is.

A soft Irish crew. Ay-ay-ay.

Are you feeling all right, Tom?

Feeling great.

Holding on to my breakfast.

Well, look at

how white his face is. Oh, my God.

Mike! He looks like he's dead.

Look at that. That is crazy.

Wow.

New respect for the ancestors

that came over on a boat.

I wouldn't have made it out of the harbor.

I would have been like, "You know, it's not that bad here.

Fuck it. I'm sticking around."

Did you see this slanted headland here?

There's actually an old trail all the way down.

- Down that hill right there? - Down that hill, yeah.

I was wondering about that hill.

Looked like you'd want to climb it.

- What's your name? - Liam is my name.

How are you doing?

- Are you dating? - No, I'm single now. Yeah.

Are you beyond hope?

No, you look like

- you could use a little help. - Ah, yeah.

- You could make it. - If you was my wingman,

then I-I tell you, I'm getting them everyone then, like, so.

Those ladies could be good, right?

- It would, absolutely. - Well,

- I'll ask for both. - Ah. Oh, yeah.

Our fallback position will be one or the other.

- Yeah. - Okay.

- Pardon me. - Hello.

- See that guy over there, Liam? - Yeah.

He's the boat hand here.

What do you think? There he is. He's joyous.

- Single and ready to mingle. - Ah, gee.

- Yeah. - I'm sorry. I'm Bill.

- Amanda. - Amanda, how are you?

- Karen. - All right, Karen.

Liam, come here. Come on, get to work.

Get in there, Liam. Get in there.

In fairness, we have the best man ever

trying to set us up, I suppose. Like...

Well, you can't say no to Bill Murray.

- No, no. Cannot, no. - You cannot say no

to Bill Murray.

♪ upbeat fiddle music

By now, Bill had already

fixed up complete strangers and made friends

with half the boat.

I want to throw you over.

Maybe age has taught Bill

that the odd detour often turns out

to be the most interesting bit.

Karen, Amanda, we're going to drive the boat.

Is that a twitch, or are you actually driving this thing?

No. So as you can see, there's no wheel, and so--

Have you got a course that you're following here?

Uh, no, the cameraman is blocking the charts.

I'm just hoping there's plenty

- of water where we're going. - That's all right. Hey.

Now we're going to rock the boat 'cause

we're going to do a little turnaround here,

because if we keep going this way, we'll be in Galway.

Sorry to announce that, uh, one of the passengers

has relatives in Galway.

So we're just going to pop over there

for, uh, maybe 45 minutes or so.

Hang on.

That's good, that's good. I like that.

So back to the right, right, right, right.

- We're coming. - Do you see the two triangles?

- No! - Orange triangles.

- Orange triangles. - So, when you...

- Oh, now I do. - Back to this side.

I'm going for the orange triangles.

So got to try and aim to this way again.

Trying.

I mean, you can trust me, but that doesn't mean

you should let me operate the boat.

- Wait. Where's the horn? - This is it.

We're almost there.

Don't anyone jump

overboard.

Well, maybe

a couple of you can jump over.

♪ upbeat, playful music

They all got off the boat.

Some people were sick.

One member of the crew actually fainted.

Was it the waves, or was it working with Bill?

We'll never, ever know.

We may have to stop for ice cream now, Tom.

Oh, boy. I'm sorry. Thank you.

- Oh, yeah? - Yeah.

Well, that might be worth trying.

Really?

- Knock, knock. - Hello.

Our lovely mystic decided

she'd rather not appear on television,

so her voice has been altered very subtly.

Hi. What are the prices?

For the tarot cards, my friend,

it is 50 euros, my friend, and a wish on the crystal ball.

A wish on it?

Yes, you can pull one card.

I got this one.

Yes, you can give it to me, my friend.

I can read here, my friend,

you have made decisions.

You're going to come to a set of crossroads.

There is a dark tunnel in front of you.

- You're going to go through it. - Mm-hmm.

Things is going to turn bad.

- Oh. - You go through the tunnel.

There is light at the end of the tunnel.

Yes, there is.

It'll take time. Yes, it will.

- All right. - That's the wish, my friend.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

So long.

Thank you.

Well?

- Not easy breezy in there. - No?

I got a tough road ahead.

- Do you? - Yeah.

I could have told you that.

Yeah, but it's going to turn out okay.

- Is it? - Yeah.

All right.

♪ upbeat, whimsical music

Finally, it's my turn.

Hello!

- Hello! - Would have never spotted you

- without your reflector. - Hi, Bill. I'm Joanne.

How's it going? Nice to meet you.

- Okay, nice to meet you, too. - You, too.

- I didn't get the fashion memo. - Pleasure.

- Joel. Yeah. - Joel.

- This looks serious. - Well, you look, uh...

Now, you remember at the start, I said I was

a comedian, and I'd been hooked up with Bill by a mutual friend?

Good. Well remembered.

- That. What's that? - That's a putter.

Wow.

So, Tom and Bill had said they would show me the ropes

and introduce me to the beautiful game of golf.

- All right, here we are. - Okay.

You're gonna have to teach me how to do it.

All right, first thing, so for your stance,

bend your knees a little so you feel good and balanced, okay?

- Yeah. - Bend at your hips.

- Straight back. - Yeah.

- You're there. Feel that? - Yeah.

Okay. Now we get to hit the balls.

Okay.

Almost. I like the enthusiasm.

Nice and easy.

This is not a performance

for comedic purposes, by the way.

This is genuinely the first time I've ever held a golf club.

There. Okay. Contact was made.

- Wow. - Nice and easy.

- Okay. - Good.

Look at that! Oh! Fully forward.

Bill, do you want to see my vast improvement?

- Please. - Okay.

- Oh, that's much better. - Isn't it?

This is where the script tells me

to explain to you that I am quite a celebrity.

It's incredibly humiliating,

but I am legally obliged to do it.

I sell out arenas...

I need to get put

on a pig spit in my...

...and I host the UK's

biggest comedy podcast.

I am single, independent and adventurous.

In short, I am a giant red flag in a tracksuit.

He's trolling me there behind me.

Which is all to say, I know absolutely nothing about golf.

Ah!

- Whoa! - How about that?

- I heard that. - I have a weird feeling

I'm going to be really good at this.

That is a weird feeling.

How's she doing, Tom?

I think she'll have fun. We'll just go out on, you know,

one of the longest, most difficult golf courses

in the world and, uh, and enjoy ourselves.

He's not wrong.

Sligo County Golf Course, or Rosses Point,

sits beneath Benbulben, one of the most famous landmarks

in the whole country, where ancient legend has it

there's a door to the fairy world.

It was closed the day we went,

because fairies are lazy.

♪ upbeat music

Let's have some fun!

- Ooh! - Oh, there.

Thanks, everybody.

Wow.

That's perfect, Tom.

- Yeah, we're off. - All right.

I'm off.

- Yeah. - All right.

We were off and away.

It's like a little Popemobile.

Bill, Tom and Joel trying

their very best to teach me the art of golfing.

- That's good. - Wow.

- No, you have to face-- - Oh, the other way.

Oh, that's funny.

You're using the wrong side of the putter.

That was an unexpected pleasure.

We just need

to accept that I don't know what I'm doing.

Sure. Yeah.

Oh, wow.

Is this me?

You know, I don't know where the hell you are.

I guess you're up there. I don't know. We're good.

We get chatting, and we forget about your ball.

As a comedian sitting next

to one of the all-time greats

on the eve of his 75th birthday,

I wondered what all these years

of being Bill Murray had taught him.

Do you, um, find it, like, if you're going around...

You know, like, obviously, you're super-duper famous.

Does it...? Does it...?

Are you just used to it now, or does it annoy you?

Oh, well, um, you go through--

You know, I've gone through various passages

of how to deal with it. One thing I--

Maybe this can be of some help to you, but I've tried to--

That's good. Tried to control it,

the way it comes to me, you know,

and that's a complete waste of time.

Bill has spent 50 years

living with celebrity, media attention

and public scrutiny.

- Oy. - Oh, what a lousy shot.

That's a lot of life to get your head around.

♪ slow, gentle piano music

I really believe something I read.

It was called the theory of cell irritability.

Aah, shooie. Which is if you poke a one-celled animal

with a stick, it will reform into its regular shape,

but the ten-thousandth time you do it,

the cell wall collapses,

and everything inside of it explodes.

So that's sort of how I went,

"Oh, okay, that's what I'm like."

It's easy to forget that beyond the public persona,

Bill's lived an entire life the rest of us rarely get to see.

Do you have kids?

I have six sons.

- Shut up. Six sons? - Yeah.

- Yeah. - Wow.

Is it all with the same woman?

Six different women.

Shut up.

Is it actually with six different women?

- No, two. Just two. - Two.

That's actually, as Hollywood goes, that's pretty good math.

He's got six sons.

Why is that surprising?

Six boys is a lot.

Isn't it? Genetically.

What are you learning that you didn't expect from him?

That he's fertile.

♪ upbeat Irish music

Oh, yes.

- Oh! - That's the one!

- Look at that! - That was a beautiful,

- beautiful hit. - It was.

Yes, it was.

Thrilled with myself there now.

Somewhere along the way,

I started to understand the draw of it all.

- Success. - Yeah.

- That's what it's all about. - Yeah.

- Golfing. - Ah!

I think I get it.

- Oh, my gosh. - My God.

Spend enough time on a golf course,

and eventually, even an amateur like myself...

Here we go.

...can be fooled into thinking

- I belong out there. - Hey,

very good. You're a gifted natural.

I've no idea what my score was.

I think it was a million.

One of the good things about golf is

that the ball always goes in the hole sooner or...

much, much, much, much later.

- Nice. - Whoa.

Thrilled.

Nice two-putt in there.

That was a really good two-putt.

That's really good. Yeah.

I had a feeling I was going

to be secretly really good at golf.

It's all about the short game.

You got it right on your first time.

- I did. Yeah. - It's all about the short game.

I got it in.

Thank you for educating me.

♪ lively, upbeat music

Afterwards, we all headed over to the estuary

to a local spot where they catch the oysters,

or farm them, breed them,

raise them. I don't know. There were a lot of oysters.

So these are

getting rinsed. They're getting

hosed down in there, yeah?

They need a cleaning.

What'll happen to them is they'll go

into this machine next, which is a circular grader,

and it'll weigh them by weight.

Do you like oysters?

I do not like oysters. Who...?

They're a very... they're a very particular taste.

Are you gonna-- are you gonna do it for TV?

Yeah, of course I'm gonna try it.

- Oh, I'll do anything. Yeah. - Okay.

All right, Joanne. - Okay.

- Is this your first oyster? - Really?

I've-I've dabbled previously. It didn't go well.

Isn't there a strategy to this? Or is it just down--

Cheers. Just down the gullet.

Just straight down the gullet.

- You just chew it. - Chew it and then--

- Oh, you chew it? - Mm-hmm.

And taste the Atlantic.

- Mmm. - Oh, man.

- Ah, goodness-- - Taste the Atlantic.

Really good.

- Wow. - They're grand.

But if you look at the environment, you see,

that's why they're so good. Because the mountains,

the minerals from the mountains-- Knocknarea.

You've Benbulben behind you.

And they're flowing into the bay. And you know,

Sligo, the Gaelic name is Sligeach,

which means "abounding in shells" or "shelly place."

Whoo!

Gin with your oyster?

So you put a drop of gin on the oyster?

- Yeah. - Oh, wow.

I'm basically just using the oyster as a mixer.

- All right. I appreciate that. - Yeah--

Mm.

That was not ideal at all.

I'm fucking disgusting. Sorry.

I think I overdid it on the gin on the second one.

Can we get you a whiskey?

No, I actually do

have to go back to Dublin now.

And with that, I bowed out of the Bill and Tom golf tour.

But the next day wasn't just any day on the itinerary.

It was Bill's birthday.

He requested that everyone

be given the day off to celebrate with him.

So the crew put down the cameras...

and filmed on their phones instead.

♪ lively, upbeat Irish music

We're here in the greatest country in existence.

A salute to all of us that are working together.

This is a-- a wonderful time.

I think we'll all remember this

as one of the great jobs,

one of the great assignments we ever had.

Absolutely.

He's my brother Joel!

The next morning, and everyone was absolutely hanging.

Luckily, it wasn't a... punishing schedule.

Just a spot of fishing on the lake

with their friend Alan.

- Good morning. - Hi.

- How are you? - Oh, great. What a night.

It was a great night.

What was the best part of it?

Uh, I don't know.

When the guy got up on the shoulders singing the song.

That was pretty silly.

The sax solo was...

That was pretty strong, too.

Whoo!

There he is. That's the one.

That's the catch and cast.

It's kind of like golf, Bill, isn't it?

Uh, well, in golf,

you know that there's a cup out there somewhere.

Yeah, yeah.

So happy birthday again. I hope you enjoyed last night.

It was fun. That was really good.

- Great. - Yeah, that was a good time.

So what is it now, this stage in life?

Like, what makes you happy?

Yeah, my son said to me,

"You know, you've had a good third quarter."

Yeah. Yeah.

I said, "Okay, that sounds good.

I feel like I've had a good third quarter."

- So now it's fourth quarter. - Right.

So... we'll see.

I think... I think I probably learned some things

- in the third quarter. - ♪ slow, gentle music

Yeah, courage. A little...

I had a little more courage.

Right.

You know, I decided

just in the last year or so that I was gonna open my arms

wider, like, just have more life.

You know, I've been trying

just things that ordinarily I go like, "Well, I'm not...

you know, I'm not great at that, I'm not perfect at that.

- Why would I do that?" - Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I find that, uh,

- the doing of it is... - Right.

...especially if you don't know what you're doing,

and you're learning,

- it's just a lot more fun. - Yeah.

I think I wear this face

that says, "I can't believe I got here." You know?

I think I see-- I feel it on my face.

Like, "How the hell did I end up here?" You know?

- Yeah. Yeah. - How did I end up here?

You know, in this beautiful spot?

You know, not getting all emotional

about not catching a fish?

- Yeah. No. - You know, I'm okay.

Trust me, I've been at it all my life.

You know, just completely secure in the knowledge

that I very well may not catch a fish today,

but it's not changing me, you know?

- Watch out. - Oh.

Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh. Invariably.

Alan, where's the closest fish market?

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