--- title: Watch Bill Murray Serenade a Grandmother on her Birthday description: The comedian rounded up a crowd to sing the 94-year-old grandmother "Happy Birthday" when he encountered her at a college basketball game. canonical: https://time.com/4594137/bill-murray-sings-grandma/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-07T19:03:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:39:15.880Z og:title: Watch Bill Murray Serenade a Grandmother on her Birthday og:description: The comedian insisted on rounding up a crowd to celebrate her 94th birthday. og:url: https://time.com/4594137/bill-murray-sings-grandma/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Bill Murray Serenade a Grandmother on her Birthday twitter:description: The comedian insisted on rounding up a crowd to celebrate her 94th birthday. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Bill Murray Serenade a 94-Year-Old Grandmother for Her Birthday  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 7, 2016 7:03 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 7, 2016 7:03 PM UTC You just never know where [folk hero](http://time.com/4461233/bill-murray-french-fries-photo/?iid=sr-link2) and [avid sports fan](http://time.com/4541417/bill-murray-crashes-white-house/?iid=sr-link3) Bill Murray will show up next. Case in point: he recently dropped by a Xavier vs. Baylor college basketball game in Texas—and ended up serenading one lucky Maryellen Hook Wible for her birthday. She was turning 94. In a video posted to Facebook, grandson Noah Wible explains how it all happened: “Mr. Murray, you sir, are a legend,” Wible wrote in the caption for the video. “He was bombarded with people asking for pictures all game, his team (Xavier) he came to support lost, and he not only was willing to take a picture with my grandmother but was the one to ask if we could sing Happy Birthday to her. He didn’t have to do that,” Wible continued. “He genuinely wanted to make my Grandmother feel special. He is truly a class act.” Murray rounded up about 100 people to join in the singing, Wible [told ABC News.](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/94-year-surprise-birthday-serenade-bill-murray/story?id=44008493) Although it would be a big deal for anyone to get this kind of birthday treatment from a celebrity, it’s especially poignant that Wible was the lucky recipient of Murray’s attention as her husband of 73 years passed away about this time last year, according to her grandson, and she “doesn’t get out much anymore.” Murray was cheering on Xavier as his [son is an assistant coach](http://goxavier.com/coaches.aspx?rc=124) for the team. This isn’t the first time he’s gone all-in to support his kids; he recently bartended [at his son Homer’s bar, too.](http://time.com/4495363/bill-murray-bartending-brooklyn/?iid=sr-link4) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4594137/bill-murray-sings-grandma/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4594137/bill-murray-sings-grandma/"},"headline":"Watch Bill Murray Serenade a 94-Year-Old Grandmother for Her Birthday","datePublished":"2016-12-07T19:03:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:39:15.880Z","description":"\"Mr. Murray, you sir, are a legend.\"","url":"https://time.com/4594137/bill-murray-sings-grandma/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4594137/bill-murray-sings-grandma/","name":"Watch Bill Murray Serenade a 94-Year-Old Grandmother for Her Birthday"}}]}] ```