Seth Green claims Bill Murray threw him in a trash can on ‘SNL’ set as a child: ‘I was horrified’

While appearing on Thursday’s Good Mythical Morning YouTube show, Green wasfaced with revealing his rudest celebrity encounter or eat gross chickendishes. the Robot Chicken creator opted to talk, rather than taste, andrecounted a long ago run-in with Murray as a young child on the SaturdayNight Live set that left him in tears.

Green, now 48, was a child actor doing a spot on the NBC sketch comedy show inDecember 1981. For it, cast member Mary Gross interviewed kids about what theythought of Christmas. Murray, now 72, had been part of the cast from 1977 to1980 before breaking out into movies and was back hosting.

“I’ve never actually told this story,” Green prefaced. “When I came to do thatbit, I’m hanging out in the green room … sitting on the arm of a sofa… There’sa TV on.” Green, who recalled being 9 but was actually 7 if our math is right,asked to change the channel and cast member Eddie Murphy gave him the OK.

“I come [back] and sit down, we’re watching Potato chips ” when Murray> entered the room. “He saw me sitting on the arm of this chair and made a big> fuss about me being in his seat. And I was like, ‘That’s absurd. I am> sitting on the arm of this couch. There are several lengths of this sofa.> Kindly, ef off.’ And he was like, ‘That’s my chair.'”

Green admitted he didn’t know who Murray was until another kid from hissegment noted it.

“My mom goes, ‘You know, since he’s the Bill Murray you should maybe givehim his seat,'” he said. “And I go, ‘Are you this much of a jerk? You’re thisrude to tell a [child] to get out of your [seat] … what is this power play?'”

Green claims Murray “picked me up by my ankles, held me upside-down… I wasprobably less than [4 feet tall] … He dangled me over a trash can and he waslike, ‘The trash goes in the trash can.'”

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the Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum recalled “screaming, and I swung my armswildly, [making] full contact with his balls. He dropped me in the trash canand the trash can falls over. I was horrified. I ran away, hid under the tablein my dressing room and just cried and cried. ‘I don’t want to do this show. Ican’t believe this happened. I’ve never been so embarrassed in my life.'”

There was a silver lining. Murphy and Tim Kazurinsky went in to talk to him.

“They were like, ‘Hey, everybody knows Bill’s a dick,” Green said. “He’shosting the show. He’s probably really nervous about it. You be a pro. Theshow must go on… So I went and did it. I went and did the bit and we’ve neverseen each other since.”

A rep for Murray, who is notoriously difficult to get in touch with, did notreply to Yahoo Entertainment’s request for comment.

Green’s recollection followed comedian and SNL alum Rob Schneider’s newcomments about how Murray “hated” the cast of the show when he returned tohost in February 1993.

“He’s super nice to fans,” Schneider said. “He wasn’t very nice to us. Hehated us on Saturday Night Live when he hosted. Absolutely hated us. I mean,seething.” He recalled Murray being especially hateful toward Chris Farley —”like he was just seething looking at him.”

Earlier this week, a report from Puck revealed that Murray paid a $100,000settlement to an unidentified female member of the production for hisallegedly inappropriate behavior on the set of the Aziz Ansari-directed movie_Being Mortal_. Murray allegedly straddled the woman and kissed her on themouth while they both had on masks, amid COVID protocols. Murray has said thathe meant it as a joke, but the woman, who was allegedly pinned down, couldn’tmove and “interpreted his actions as entirely sexual.”

Last week, Geena Davis, who co-starred with Murray in 1990’s Quick Change ,detailed a bad experience with him as well. She claimed Murray had insisted onusing a massager on her during their first meeting, then later screamed at herin front of everyone when she was late for set because her wardrobe hadn’tarrived.

Last year, Lucy Liu detailed a hostile exchange with Murray while making2000’s Charlie ‘s Angels. She said a scene had been reworked, but Murraydidn’t attend the rehearsal, and he was angry when they were set and thescript had been changed. She claimed he singled her out and hurled insults at