Bill Murray had ‘naked rage’ for Chris Farley and Adam Sandler when hosting ‘SNL,’ Rob Schneider claims

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Bill Murray despised the cast of “Saturday Night Live” when hosting the show, on which he was a cast member from 1976 to 1980, according to former cast mate Rob Schneider.

“You don’t know which Bill Murray you’re gonna get. The nice Bill Murray? Then you get the tough Bill Murray. He’s super nice to fans. He wasn’t very nice to us,” the “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” star, 58, told SiriusXM’s “The Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show” this week.

“He hated us on ‘Saturday Night Live’ when he hosted. ... Absolutely hated us. I mean seething.”

While the Oscar-nominated “Lost in Translation” star, 72, had apparent disdain for the cast at large, Schneider — whose time on the NBC sketch staple saw him nominated for three writing Emmys — said Murray had bones to pick with Adam Sandler and the late Chris Farley in particular.

“He hated Chris Farley with a passion. ... I don’t know exactly [why] but I want to believe that it’s because that Chris thought it was cool to be — that [John] Belushi, his friend, who he saw die, that he thought it was cool to be that out of control,” he said. “That’s my interpretation. But I don’t really know. I only believe it 50%. He just hated all of us pretty much. The least of the hate was to me. ... I took great pleasure in that he hated me less. Because he was my hero.”

Belushi, an original “SNL” player who also starred in “Animal House” and “The Blues Brothers,” was just 33 when he died of a drug overdose in 1982.

Schneider noted that there “was just an energy” which indicated Murray’s contempt for Farley. The “Tommy Boy” star died in 1997, also at the age of 33.

“You saw it. You saw the way he looked at him. It was just naked rage, you know? And nice to every common person,” said Schneider, noting comedians were a different story and that sometimes, “People come in and they’re just the persona that they have and then, you know, when they’re working is a little different. You know, Steve Martin’s never silly and I want him to be. But like on stage ... he just turns it on.”

Farley wasn’t the only comic with a target on his back when it came to Murray, who Schneider said “hated [Adam] Sandler, really hated Sandler too. ... Hated him.”

Asked whether Murray is just irked by “goofiness” or “silliness,” Schneider couldn’t be certain.

“I can’t say what exactly the thing it was. He just wasn’t into that groove of it. And Sandler was just committed to it, you know? As soon as he would get on, you see the audience just ate him up, which also really irritated Al Franken,” Schneider laughed.

Schneider’s are the latest in a series of accusations about Murray’s on-set behavior.

Murray this week was reported to have paid a $100,000 settlement to a female crew member on “Being Mortal,” which paused production in the spring after his alleged inappropriate behavior. Though the incident wasn’t previously detailed, Puck reports that Murray kissed and straddled the staffer while on set of the film.

That report came just before a newly published People interview in which Geena Davis — while promoting her “Dying of Politeness” memoir — recalled Murray “screaming” at her on the set of 1990′s “Quick Change.”

Murray has long incurred complaints from costars, though the most infamous remains a backstage fistfight between himself and former “SNL” star Chevy Chase in 1978.