-We're here with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson.
You were saying, you think Danny maybe has
a little too much energy.
-Just on behalf of the audience, which is a great
New York audience and everything, you have this --
[ Cheers and applause ] Eh, cut that crap.
[ Laughter ]
New Yorkers don't do that.
We cheer about, like --
"Oh, I'm from --" We don't do that.
But we have this great Nate Smith,
who is a fantastic drummer.
And I think you would be robbed and cheated
if you didn't get a little bit of a just a short drum solo
from Nate Smith with Dan Aykroyd
dancing in front of Nate Smith.
Wouldn't you want to hear that? [ Cheers and applause ]
Go ahead, Dan.
[ Drum solo ]
-Alright. [ Cheers and applause ]
-Yes, sir.
-Now, we need -- Just so the audi--
Now, Nate, you've never met this man, correct?
-No. -Not a planned situation.
When did you -- -Nate, you're very good, too.
[ Laughter ]
-That is -- I mean, that's one of the secret --
many secret hidden talents of Dan Aykroyd.
When did you know that Danny
was the funniest comedy dancer of all time?
-Well, when he started going out with this girl Rosie Shuster.
The two of them were the two worst dancers I'd ever
seen in my life.
They're both Canadians and really dangerous,
and they wore big shoes and boots.
And they got a lot of speed up,
a lot of centrifugal force that they could not control.
And so you'd have to go like, "Okay, where are they?
Okay, good.
Let's just keep moving this way."
You'd have to sort of counterclockwise from them
in order to not get hurt.
-Yeah, well, you could see there was a
sense of danger there as we watched that.
-Yeah.
-You know, I think, based on knowing your work
from other things when I saw "Ghostbusters,"
I was at the age where I was happy
that it was a film that I could go see as a kid.
Was the plan from the beginning, when you were working on it,
Dan, to make it a kid-friendly movie?
-Oh, I think it was to be a comedy for everybody.
And, obviously, you know, we watched the profanity in it.
I don't think there -- There might be one bad word in it.
But, no, we were conscious of that
and knew that we would have a young audience.
And, today, we have an audience of, like,
grandchildren and even great-grandchildren
of the original viewers that are watching it.
-Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]
You all have kids.
Were your kids fans of this film?
-Oh, yeah. Yeah. Absolutely, sure.
-And I'd assume that matters, right?
Like, I would assume it's a huge bummer
when your kids don't like the movie,
especially when you make it for kids.
-Well, they didn't buy the merch.
[ Laughter ]
-Yeah. -But they liked the movie.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
It was economical Halloween costumes.
You know, "Well, I got this. You want to wear this?
"Okay."
Yeah, they really did like it.
But it was nice to have a movie that kids could see.
You know, we're not really --
You know, we just don't -- We're like you, Seth.
We don't work blue. We don't work blue.
-Thank you.
Thank you for acknowledging that in my work.
We were talking backstage that you have, over the years,
met people who have tattoos of you both from
the "Ghostbusters" and other work.
And do we want to check.
Anybody here have a "Ghostbusters" tattoo?
Okay, well, it's not your night.
-"Blues Brothers"?
"Blues Brothers" is another one. -Yeah.
-And the Conehead. I've seen him.
-You've seen a Conehead?
-Is there anyone that has a tattoo
that looks like any one of us?
-Tom Selleck? Any celebrity tattoos at all?
-Nobody has Tom Selleck? He thought Tom Selleck -- No?
No one?
-This is a thing.
People do tattoo, you know, famous people on their --
-You -- I heard a friend from a story -- sorry --
a story from a friend of ours that you were
on a golf course in Spain,
and a man from town heard you were there
and ran to the golf course to show you what?
-To show me a tattoo of myself on his leg.
Yeah. And, you know, when a man in another language
starts running at good speed at you, you know, I'm like,
"I don't know.
How far away is he?
Do I hit him with a 4-iron or do I hit him with a wedge?"
So -- And then I didn't know what to say except,
"Mucho gusto."
It was -- it was -- I was happy.
-I'm sure that meant the world to him.
-But, you know, it turns out not everybody
in the town of Chinchón is wearing a tattoo of myself.
-He was the Bill Murray guy. I'm sure the word got to him.
Like, "You got to show up to the golf course now."
What was it like -- Do you remember
your first experience meeting each other?
Did you meet at Second City or did you meet at "SNL"?
-Well, I had a partner, Valri Bromfield,
and we had a comedy act that we were working on,
like, kind of a Nichols and May kind of improv thing.
We got hired by Second City.
And we swapped companies with the Chicago company.
The Toronto company went down to Chicago,
and Chicago went to Toronto.
And our guide when we arrived in Chicago was Bill Murray,
who met us, took us around, got us settled in apartments,
and showed us the grocery stores and the local bars.
And at that time, I think you were in the touring company.
But he was -- You know, he welcomed me to America,
where I got my first H-1 and my work permit.
And Billy was there as my sponsor, so...
-Well, that's fantastic.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Do you -- Ernie, do you remember the moment
after making this film that you realized it was a giant hit?
Was it immediate?
-No. I think, you know, it came out, it was a hit,
and that was -- You know, that was what it was.
But I think it was 5, 10 years later that fans kept coming up,
kept, you know, putting on the jumpsuits,
turning the cars into Ectomobiles,
showing up at my house that I realized
that this was something really, really different.
-Yeah. -Yeah.
-Well, it's incredibly special.
And I really want to say again, you know, I --
Not just a film that I enjoyed, but a film --
You know, the first one.
I just really remember the experience
of going to see it in a movie theater
and how exciting that was.
And it's really cool that this new movie is coming out
at a time where people can do that again.
-I'm telling you, I believe, truly,
that people are gonna go to "Afterlife,"
they're going to walk in, they're gonna see it,
and they're go right outside and line up again,
just like the old days.
That's how good it is. [ Applause ]
-Does it -- I know you've been back in the building,
but is it -- Do you have old flashbacks
coming back to 30 Rock?
-Yeah, I remember sneaking in and out
of this building all the time.
You know, you'd try to avoid someone
that would make you go to work
or someone that was trying to grab you after work.
I knew all the secret exits out of this place.
And now when I walk down the halls, I think,
"There's no one following you, Bill.
You're okay. You're safe."
-We made it clear -- And I want to stress this.
We made it clear with all security,
"Mr. Murray is not to be followed.
By his request."
I can't tell the three of you how much
it means that you spent time with us today.
Thank you so much for being here.