so somehow this discussion started up at work and then devolved into a pretty heated argument. basically it was a "who's funnier, chevy chase or bill murray" conversation to begin with and then turned into a "young people don't know anything" kind of thing. the argument being that the only reason a young person might say bill murray is funnier is because of their familiarity with his new love affair with wes anderson. some people wanted to get technical and say "so and so is funnier but the other one had better scripts to work with and therefore seemed funnier." anyway, thought i'd bring it to the forum and see what you guys had to say.

i still haven't made up my mind. fletch vs. groundhogs day.....that's tough to call. both of them were amazing in caddyshack....and i have to say that i love the wes anderson stuff bill murray has done. but can you beat national lampoons european vacation??? ghostbusters???

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Hmm. For me the tough one is What About Bob v Spies Like Us
Modern Problems was pretty good too.

I think Spies Like Us nudges it in Chase's favor


Chase is not funny at all now though

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I think Murray is a much better actor, and both of them are more silly than funny.

That's a tough call. I like both of them.

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Although I like both of them I have never really thought either one is a very good actor and not very funny either.

Although Chase used to be really great as Jerry Ford. He had the falling thing down pat!

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I think they are pretty equal. Both of them were much funnier back in the day though. I mean "Stripes" is still hilarious "Modern Problems" is great. You can go on and on...

They are probably the last of the pre Chris Rock guys who don't have to curse in every line to be funny.

Of course out of the two of them John Belushi is funnier... All he needed to do was lift that eyebrow and you KNEW what he was thinking

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Back on topic: I think Bill Murray has had FAR better scripts lately, so career-wise, overall, Bill gets it. Not only are the Wes Anderson movies amazing, he also has the benefit of Broken Flowers, Lost in Translation, etc... all working in his benefit.

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I just remembered that horrible talk show Chevy tried to do...

Man that was baaaaadddddd...

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Painfully bad.

Chevy Chase also got into a feud with Howard Stern over something, although I don't remember what it was. Chase tried to be funny in his attacks on Stern, but it was a mismatch. Stern made him look really bad. Chase has done some funny stuff, though.

Murray is a much better actor, IMHO.