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Last week at VidCon, Mark Malkoff announced his newest project: The Bill Murray Show Starring Mark Malkoff.

Starting in August, Mark will host a weekly show featuring friends, fans and acquaintances of Bill Murray, as part of a quest to get Bill Murray himself to visit Mark and his wife for dinner at their Queens apartment.

Mark kicked off the project by having the VidCon audience call Bill Murray's phone number to say "Hi Bill!"

Read more about The Bill Murray Show Starring Mark Malkoff here, and look for it on My Damn Channel next month!

(Original image above via Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

Today is Bill Murray's birthday.  The man, the legend - the person with whom Mark Malkoff wants to have dinner more than anyone else. He's one of the funniest people ever to walk the earth and his resume proves it: SNL, Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, Lost In Translation...the list goes on and on.

In honor of his birthday, I've compiled a Spotify playlist of songs from Bill Murray movies.  Luckily, Bill has worked with some directors who really know their music, like Wes Anderson, Jim Jarmusch, and Sofia Coppola, just to name a few.  So sit back and crank the tunes in celebration of one of our greatest national treasures, Bill Murray.

Here are the tunes broken down by film, chronologically:

1) "I'm Alright (Theme from Caddyshack)" - Kenny Loggins - from Caddyshack - The only movie theme a gopher dances to.  Carl Spackler is one of Murray's most iconic characters.

2) "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" - Manfred Mann - from Stripes - This all-time classic scene features an oldie from Manfredd Mann, a pop powerhouse of the 1960s.  A feel good tune!

3) "Ghostbusters" - Ray Parker, Jr. - from Ghostbusters - It doesn't matter that Huey Lewis & the News sued Parker because the song was too similar in structure to one of their songs.  I mean, who you gonna call?  Huey?  No.  Ghostbusters.

4) "I Got You Babe" - Sonny & Cher - from Groundhog Day - The song Murray wakes up to everyday-- the same day-- for an eternity.  But if you ask me, waking up to this song every day would be heaven: "I Got You Babe" is one of the greatest pop songs ever written.  It spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts in 1965, selling more than a million copies.  That was when singles actually meant something.

5) "Showdown" - Electric Light Orchestra - from Kingpin - Two words: "comb over."

6) "Here Comes My Baby" - Cat Stevens/"Oh Yoko" - John Lennon - from Rushmore - Wes Anderson's breakthrough film garnered much buzz for Murray's performance as the rich Herman Blume.  "Oh Yoko" plays during a great bonding montage between Murray and Jason Schwarzman's character, Max Fischer.

7) "Police & Thieves" - The Clash/"Judy Is Punk" - The Ramones - from The Royal Tenenbaums - In Wes Anderson's New York city, punk is still king-- though "Police & Thieves" is a cover of a classic reggae anthem by Junior Marvin.

8) "(What's So Funny About) Peace, Love, & Understanding?" - Elvis Costello & the Attractions/"Just Like Honey" - Jesus & Mary Chain - from Lost In Translation - Bill Murray was nominated from a Best Actor Oscar based exclusively on his exuberant karaoke performance of the Nick Lowe penned "Peace, Love, & Understanding" in Sofia Coppola's minimalist masterpiece.

9) "Gut Feeling" - Devo/"Queen Bitch" - David Bowie - from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - Murray stars as Zissou in my favorite Wes Anderson movie.  And Seu Jorge does these awesome Bowie covers, too.  In Portugese, even!

10) "Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth" - The Brian Jonestown Massacre - from Broken Flowers - Psychedelic.  

11) "Where Do You (Go To My Lovely)" - Peter Sarstedt/"Les Champs-Elysees" - Joe Dassin - from The Darjeeling Limited - I can't help feeling amazing during "Les Champs-Elysees" -- even though I can't understand a word of it.

I hope you enjoyed this playlist.  It's guaranteed to be a hit at any party!  But don't thank me, thank Bill Murray and the great taste of his amazing directors.  Now, watch this.

There are few things that men seem to enjoy more than coming together during the football season to compile fake rosters of real athletes whom they will never know or meet and pretend that they are head coaches of fake teams made up of said players that they will compulsively monitor on computers and smart phones while competing against one another for the right to call themselves King of a pretend world that's based on the real-life doings of millionaires. 

It's what being a football fan is all about for half a year: playing pretend NFL.

And you know who's awesome at playing pretend NFL?  Me.  4-1 in my league right now-- first place in my division, cheech.  But you know who's really good at playing pretend pretend NFL?  The cast of The League, which has its season premiere tonight at 10:30 on FX.  

Now in it's fourth season, The League has been consistently funny since it kicked-off its first season in 2009.  But no one's surprised that it's a hilarious show since the cast includes Mark Duplass, Nick Kroll, Jon Lajoie, Paul Scheer, Katie Aselton and My Damn Channel's own bad daddy, Steve Rannazzisi.

Steve has been lighting it up in our original web series Daddy Knows Best, playing an absent-minded father who, among other things, gets tased, eats weed brownies, and takes his young son to a strip club.  Steve infuses Daddy Knows Best with the same zany, improvisational humor that has made The League such a hit.   So sit back and watch the ENTIRE SEASON OF DADDY KNOWS BEST before enjoying The League's premiere tonight.

@DannyMoney

So, you want to meet Mark Malkoff, huh?  Well, you're in luck.  Just follow these four easy steps and voilà!  You've met Mark Malkoff. 

Step 1.  Create a Mark Malkoff hotline for people to call incase they have met him or know him.

Step 2.  Create a web show that focuses around Mark Malkoff. 

Step 3.  ????

Step 4.  Profit!!! 

Oh, you're talking about Bill Murray?  You've got me beat there...

Until tomorrow's comment,
Brandon
@ReasonToWrite

If you follow Mark Malkoff's example, the best way to get people to notice you is to stay at home and watch Netflix movies all day, every day for at least a month. That's what Mark did and then Netflix invited him to visit their Los Gatos headquarters, introduced them to their CEO Reed Hastings, had a special screening of the video documenting his movie marathon and then declared the day "Mark Malkoff Day!"

Other people are noticing, too:

There's Mashable.

And The Consumerist.

And The Huffington Post.

And Hypervocal!

So if you thought you had to go out into the world to make a name for yourself, don't! Stay at home! Turn on your TV! Watch it constantly for at least a month! People will love you for it!