The Saturday Night Live family has lost many cast members over the years. Former show regular Bill Murray remembered one of them, his friend Gilda Radner, in probably the best way that a comedian can.

“Everybody liked making her laugh,” Murray said of Radner during an interview Tuesday on The Howard Stern Show. “She was a really good laugher.”

The reason was simple.

“She would wet her pants, that’s what Gilda would do,” Murray said. “You could get her going, and she’d have to run out of the room. But there was sort of no limit to how much she could laugh until her bodily functions broke down.”

The comedians worked together on the show in its early years. Radner was one of the original seven ensemble players starting in 1975, and she stood out for her characters such as Baba Wawa, her parody on Barbara Walters, and “Weekend Update” consumer affairs reporter Roseanne Roseannadanna. She was on the show until 1980, which overlapped with Murray’s tenure from 1977 to 1980.

Then Radner died of ovarian cancer in 1989, when she was 42.

“To know her for as long as I knew her was, really, sort of a training camp,” Murray said. “It was like a real discipline, like, I’ve got a possibility here to make someone laugh a lot. And she’d see it and go like, ‘Uh-oh, here it comes.’ And you do, and it’s fun.”

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Murray has acknowledged that he cried at last month’s star-studded SNL50 special, celebrating a half-century of the sketch comedy. Stern asked if Murray was so emotional because he was thinking of all the colleagues he had lost over the years.

“Just now. I could have cried just now. Just when they came up on screen, and they showed, you know, footage of the dance number that she did…with Steve Martin, and it was a beautiful thing,” Murray said of a moment in which Radner and the Only Murders in the Building actor elegantly performed together. “And I was there watching it, and they rehearsed for hours. And they rehearsed until it was, you know, really, really great. And Steve’s meticulous, and it had to be really, really great. And it was. She worked like crazy, ’cause he was gonna make it perfect. It was beautiful.”

Listen to the full episode above.