The event raised money to support clinical care and research for multiple system atrophy. Simon smiled, laughed and accepted well wishes from hundreds of people who swarmed him all night, not unlike a groom in a receiving line. It was a run-all-the-red-lights performance by an unparalleled entertainer (my favorite living actor), doing anything and everything to help a friend in need. He sat on Simon’s lap and graciously posed for photos with anyone who asked. “We were trying to write a screenplay during a very difficult time in both of our lives because there was a topless volleyball tournament going on at the (Miami) hotel at the time,” Murray said. Murray and Simon didn’t see each other again until a few decades ago, during a period when Murray was in a hotel room writing a script with a mutual friend, Mitch Glazer. But those are the early days, when we went through some stuff, didn’t we all? Huh? So. “It has active yeast inside of it, so when you’re full of the raw dough, the yeast continues to expand until your body begins to explode. How many of you here have eaten raw dough? Raise your hands. “We both were starving and making pizza,” Murray said in a wonderfully silly routine. Murray told rock stars and 450 wealthy donors at the Keep Memory Alive event center that he and Simon met while working at a Little Caesars in Evanston, Ill., when they were struggling entertainers. I felt like I was watching Bill Murray resurrect his funny “SNL” character, Nick the lounge singer, on Thursday when he helped raise $544,000 to fight the illness that put his dear friend, Vegas chef Kerry Simon, in a wheelchair. Kerry Simon (2nd from L) and Bill Murray (R)'Simon Says Fight MSA' benefit concert at The Keep Memory Alive Center in Las Vegas on Februin Las Vegas, Nevada.

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