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“I ended up in the bus, in front of the cortege, and it was an amazing thing to see, an extraordinary thing to see – hundreds of thousands of people standing (beside the road) on a really hot day, waiting (to get a glimpse of the coffin)…,” Murray shared.

However, the actor feared he was going to be kicked out after a run-in with the funeral procession’s police escort.

“We got to the cemetery and we were there early, there was sort of a riot, people trying to get in, and I said, ‘I gotta go see that,’ and I started running across the cemetery, and as I ran.., all of a sudden the (police) motorcycles came in, and the motorcycle cops look at me like, ‘If you move, we will kill ya,’ and I just froze,” Murray said.

“All the cars rolled by and they (mourners) were all staring and pointing at me. I thought, ‘Oh God, I’m busted’, but I realized they were pointing at Elvis’ mother’s grave – I was standing right at her grave site; it was a very interesting moment.”

Murray recounted the story as Elvis’ ex-wife, Priscilla Presley, listened from across the Today show studios, where she was due to be interviewed to promote her new documentary, Elvis Presley: The Searcher.

The comedy star admitted he had met Priscilla properly since attending Elvis’ memorial service uninvited, but when asked how they knew each other, he quipped, “Well, we were on Tinder (dating app) together… no! We get along pretty (well), she’s pretty easy to talk to.”

Meanwhile, Priscilla also shared her memories of the rock and roll icon’s funeral, admitting it was very much a blur: “I was still shocked (about his death), it was just too hard to believe, and you know, going out the gates in the limo and seeing (people on) the streets lined up, on both sides, all the way to the cemetery… You’d see people crying, hysterical, fainting, and that’s how impactful it was.”