Watch 1982 Bill Murray Trash-Talk Technology

Tonight Bill Murray will appear on David Letterman's show, on the eve of Dave's 30th anniversary as a late night host. Murray's been known to go all out on Letterman's show, and to get warmed up, please to enjoy this vintage video of Bill Murray riffing on the foolishness of all this "high tech stuff" way back in 1982:

The segment, which was unearthed a couple of years ago by Boing Boing, was filmed for a TV series called "Wired In," which never aired. Fortunately, this little time capsule of raw footage survived, featuring Murray ranting about digital watches ("People have hands, watches should have hands,"), robots assembling cars ("R2D2 was a fine, fine actor, but that's science fiction."), and talking dashboards ("I would put my foot right through that dashboard and that dashboard would shut up that moment."). Now, would anyone care to guess where this was shot?

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By John Del Signore in Arts & Entertainment on January 31, 2012 5:45 PM

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jisnotused

High tech stuff made that sunglasses he's wearing and the stripes on his ugly shirt.

jibbly

That large building in the background to his right with the archway is the rear entrance/loading dock to the Bank street theater. I played a show there in 2006ish - nice auditorium, modern and large compared to the usual crappy rock clubs. Courtyard in front on the other side is nice.

Dock that Bill is standing on is right across the street so it doesn't exist anymore. Google maps shows that it's now the site of the AIDS Memorial...aka the grassy knoll where people sunbathe and smoke up across from the weird metal grate bridge that confuses joggers.

Now what's my prize?