BILL MURRAY ON GILDA RADNER

Bill Murray says “SNL” costar Gilda Radner used to 'wet her pants' laughing: 'She'd have to run out of the room' Radner, who died in 1989, was one of the original "Not Ready for Prime Time Players."

The Saturday Night Live family has lost many cast members over the years. Former show regular Bill Murray remembered one of them, his friend Gilda Radner, in probably the best way that a comedian can.

"Everybody liked making her laugh," Murray said of Radner.

The reason was simple.

"She would wet her pants, that's what Gilda would do," Murray said. "You could get her going, and she'd have to run out of the room. But there was sort of no limit to how much she could laugh until her bodily functions broke down."

The comedians worked together on the show in its early years. Radner was one of the original seven ensemble players starting in 1975, and she stood out for her characters such as Baba Wawa, her parody on Barbara Walters, and "Weekend Update" consumer affairs reporter Roseanne Roseannadanna. She was on the show until 1980, which overlapped with Murray's tenure from 1977 to 1980.

"To know her for as long as I knew her was, really, sort of a training camp," Murray said. "It was like a real discipline, like, I've got a possibility here to make someone laugh a lot. And she'd see it and go like, 'Uh-oh, here it comes.' And you do, and it's fun."

Murray has acknowledged that he cried at last month's star-studded SNL50 special, celebrating a half-century of the sketch comedy remembering Gilda Radner...