John Belushi, 25 years gone

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:53 pm

John Belushi, 25 years gone
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- When a force of nature like John Belushi is lost, 25 years isn't time enough to ease the grief or erase the laughter.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/03/0 ... index.html

Mark Hallburn · Post by **Mark Hallburn** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:48 am

I remember the day Belushi died.

I had a job interview with America's Top 40 TV show.... The guy interviewing me was crying... He said he knew Belushi personally... First thing he did was apologize & said he wouldn't hire me because he would connect me with Belushi every time he saw me...

Here's an irony... He was editing a Carpenters video into the show... stopped the editing to interview me... A couple of years later Karen Carpenter died young....

Hollywood is a strange town...

The People's DJ · Post by **The People's DJ** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:00 am

^^^^^^^^^^:roll:

I'll have four fried chickens and a coke today to remember him by.

And maybe some dry white toast.

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:02 am

sorry i had a nice long reply all typed out, but my finger got caught on the delete key and it all went poof........ probably a good thing.

SPIKE NESMITH! · Post by **SPIKE NESMITH!** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:09 am

I fed him the speedballs. I also shot John Lennon... but don't be too harsh on me; I turned the key that let Nelson Mandella out of his cell. This was before I won that Oscar, of course.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:43 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea9mV9EhPvE

They don't make 'em like they used to.

A comedy genius if there ever was one.

Dane Cook? Overrated!

Notice how skinny Dan Akroyd was in that clip...also...remember how FUNNY Dan Akroyd was?

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:02 am

I think this best describes (mun)Dane Cook: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/da ... urger_king

I'm surprised YouTube doesn't have the Schiller's Reel (SNL Digital Short for old people) of John Belushi dancing on the graves of the Not-Ready for Prime Time Players. Excellent, and eerie clip.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:24 am

Agreed. That skit was eerie.

I LOVED the "Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger" skits....

Lester · Post by **Lester** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 1:42 pm

The Olympia Diner. Excellent bit. My dad used to tell me of a Greek restaurant (near Marshall. perhaps) that was very similar. "Wasawanonitbuddy?"

Looks like I need to break out my old "Best Of" VHS and start doing some YouTube rips.

Arp2 · Post by **Arp2** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:07 pm

Lee wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea9mV9EhPvE

They don't make 'em like they used to.

A comedy genius if there ever was one.

That's a fact...and the subject of that video was pretty good, too. I had the Blues Brothers album, and somebody stole it. After getting a P2P thingy, one of the first things I did was go looking for "Soul Man," "Rubber Biscuit," and other songs. I have "Soul Man" on my MP3 player and recently played it with other people present, causing a really strange look from a younger person. "Hey, that's awesome stuff," I said, earning me an even stranger look.

Dane Cook? Overrated!

Indeed.

I didn't even know who he was until close to when he appeared on SNL. I then heard him on O&A, where O&A all but bowed before his presence on the phone and kiss his phone feet, and saw him on HBO. In four hours of exposure, I'm not sure I recall laughing once. He's kind of a "comedy mimbo."

I imagined a hypothetical meeting....

"Yeah, Dane, I just looked over this material, and none of it seemed funny to me."

"Oh, wait, wait, dude...check this out! That's just the rough draft. The ROUGH....DRAFT. I'm going to add 'f---' to every sentence there and 'f---ing' in front of every noun. Then, see all those marked syllables? I'm going to scream all those syllables. And I'm going to insert 'like' about every third word. And, if half of them are still not laughing, I'll do this little 'stoner grunt and laugh' I do and pop that other half. Dude, it'll be awe...SOME!"

"Um, well, uh, yeah, I still don't think it'll be funny."

"DUDE! Just remember -- my target audience grew up watching MTV the LAST TEN YEARS!"

"Oh......well, in that case,....."

Notice how skinny Dan Akroyd was in that clip...also...remember how FUNNY Dan Akroyd was?

Absolutely.

The People's DJ · Post by **The People's DJ** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:24 pm

Arp2 wrote: That's a fact...and the subject of that video was pretty good, too. I had the Blues Brothers album, and somebody stole it. After getting a P2P thingy, one of the first things I did was go looking for "Soul Man," "Rubber Biscuit," and other songs. I have "Soul Man" on my MP3 player and recently played it with other people present, causing a really strange look from a younger person. "Hey, that's awesome stuff," I said, earning me an even stranger look.

Ahhhh...nothing like the classics. I've got The Definitive Collection running right now on the old tape player.