John Belushi

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John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor, and singer, and one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL).

Belushi enjoyed a close personal and artistic relationship with his fellow SNL comedian Dan Aykroyd, who he encountered while both working at Chicago's The West Compass Trio.

After Bernard Sahlins discovered Belushi, he appeared with The Second City.

There was Brian Doyle-Murray and Harold Ramis, as well as Aykroyd, who would later become one of his close friends. Belushi was introduced by Chevy Chase and Michael O'Donoghue to SNL creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels in 1975, who accepted Belushi as a new cast member of the show following an audition.

He created a series of characters on the show that attracted a lot of attention, including Henry Kissinger and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Belushi appeared in films including 1941, The Blues Brothers, and Neighbors after his breakout film role as John "Bluto" Blutarsky in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978).

He pursued musical interests, including Aykroyd, Lou Marini, Tom Malone, Steve Crocker, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and Paul Shaffer, the Blues Brothers, from which the film's name was taken. Belushi struggled with heavy drug use that harmed his comedy career; he was fired and rehired by Michaels on several occasions due to his behavior.

Belushi died of mixed drug intoxication caused by a woman who injected him with a mixture of heroin and cocaine that was not identified as a speedball in 1982.

In 2004, he was inducted as a celebrity on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Early life

In Humboldt Park, Illinois, John Adam Belushi was born to Agnes Demetri (née Samaras) Belushi and Adam Anastos Belushi. Agnes, a pharmacy employee, was born in Ohio to Albanian immigrants from Korç, when Adam was an Albanian immigrant from Qytez, who owned the Fair Oaks restaurant on North Avenue in Chicago and later opened a restaurant in Wheaton, Illinois.

Belushi and his three children, Billy and Jim, and sister Marian were born in Wheaton: Billy and Jim were among his three siblings' younger brothers. He was an Eastern Orthodox Christian and attended the Albanian Orthodox Church. He was educated at Wheaton Central High School, where he met his future wife, Judith Jacklin.

Belushi formed the Ravens in 1965, along with four other high school students (Dick Blasucci, Michael Blasucci, Tony Pavilonis, and Phil Special). "Listen to Me Now/Jolly Green Giant" was their first single. Belushi performed drums and sang vocals. The album was not a success, and the band broke up when he enrolled at the College of DuPage. He went to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater for a year, which inspired the famous Animal House scene of D-Day riding a motorcycle up the stairs. When visiting his brother Jim, who attended Southern Illinois University, Belushi acquired the iconic "College" crewneck, worn by his character in Animal House.

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Career

Belushi founded the West Compass Trio in Chicago (named after the improvisational cabaret revue Compass Players, which performed in Chicago from 1955 to 1958), with Tino Insana and Steve Beshekas. Bernard Sahlins, the entrepreneur of The Second City, improvised comedy, who went to see them perform in 1971, begged to join the cast. Belushi met and started working with Harold Ramis, Joe Flaherty, and Brian Doyle-Murray at Second City.

Belushi was invited to appear in National Lampoon Lemmings, a parody of Woodstock that appeared Off-Broadway in 1972, alongside Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest. Belushi and Jacklin have migrated to New York City. Belushi began working for The National Lampoon Radio Hour, a comedy radio show that was developed, produced, and written by staff from National Lampoon magazine, where he appeared, directed, produced, and written by staff from National Lampoon. Ramis, Flaherty, Guests, Brian Doyle Murray, Bill Murray, Gilda Radner, and Richard Belzer were among the Belushi's cast members. Dan Aykroyd met him while in Toronto to check out the local Second City cast in 1974. Jacklin became an associate producer on the show, and Belushi and Jacklin were married on December 31, 1976. In 1974, "The National Lampoon Exhibition" toured the country; Ivan Reitman created it. Matty Simmons, the owner of Lampoon, was offered a TV show on NBC but it was turned down.

Belushi was recommended by Chase and writer Michael O'Donoghue in 1975 as a potential participant in a television show Michaels was about to produce for NBC's Saturday Night Live, later Saturday Night Live (SNL). Michaels was initially undecided because he was not sure if Belushi's physical appearance would match what he was envisioning, but after giving Belushi an audition, he changed his mind.

Belushi created a string of popular characters during his four-year tenure at SNL, including belligerent Samurai Futaba; Henry Kissinger; Ludwig van Beethoven; the Olympia Café's Greek owner (Pete Dionisopoulos); and a critic of tense opinion pieces on Weekend Update, where he coined his phrase, "But N-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-Ooooo hetedoooooooooooooooo O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O The Blues Brothers, who were born in Aykroyd, Belushi, were created Jake and Elwood. The Blues Brothers were first supposed to warm up the studio audience before SNL's broadcasts, eventually becoming musical guests. Belushi's Lemmings impersonation of Joe Cocker was also reprised. "Feelin' Alright" was written by Cocker himself in 1976 and performed "Feelin' Alright." Together.

Belushi, like many other SNL cast members and writers, beganexperimenting heavily with drugs and attended concerts with many of the era's most popular artists, including Fleetwood Mac, Meat Loaf, KISS, The Dead Boys, Warren Zevon, The Grateful Dead, and The Allman Brothers. Michaels may have recalled him as both a writer and a team player in 1990, but he was fired and re-hired at SNL more than once for his drug use.

Belushi came out in the top rank in Rolling Stone's review of all 141 SNL cast members to that date in February 2015. "Belushi was the one who made the show happen on the edge," they wrote, "no one embodied the highs and lows of SNL like Belushi."

Belushi appeared in the films Old Boyfriends (directed by Joan Tewkesbury), Goin' South (directed by Jack Nicholson), and National Lampoon's Animal House (directed by John Landis) in 1978. Initial reviews from critics were mixed, but Time magazine and Roger Ebert proclaimed Animal House as one of the year's best movies on the year. It's one of the most profitable films of all time, with an estimated gross of more than $141 million in the form of theatrical rentals and home video, not including merchandising. Animal House, written by Doug Kenney, Harold Ramis, and Chris Miller, was released in the style of Marx Brothers films that were based on subordinate and satirical plots that were not available in traditional institutions. Hollywood studios will attempt to imitate the film's popularity without the satire, resulting in a series of "nerds vs. jocks" films in the 1980s that included nudity and gross-out humor. Stripes and Meatballs, starring Bill Murray, followed the formula as well as included a motivational speech in the last act, a la Belushi's character Bluto. Both Ivan Reitman and Animal House were manufactured as well as Animal House.

Following the success of the Blues Brothers on SNL, Belushi and Aykroyd, with the support of pianist-arranger Paul Shaffer, we began to form a proper band. They included SNL saxophonist "Blue" Lou Marini and trombonist-saxophonist Tom Malone, who had previously appeared in Blood, Sweat & Tears. The powerhouse combination from Booker T and the M.G. is suggested by Shaffer, guitarist Steve Cropper and bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn. The's, who appeared on hundreds of hits from Memphis's Stax Records in the 1960s, were signed as well.' The Blues Brothers' debut album, Briefcase Full of Blues, was released in 1978 by Atlantic Records. The album debuted at No. 1 on the charts. 1 on the Billboard 200 and went double platinum. "Rubber Biscuit" was the first single to be announced; "Rubber Biscuit" debuted at No. 2; "Rubber Biscuit" debuted at No. 1. "Soul Man," which debuted at No. 37 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Soul Man" reached No. 1, which earned No. 1 in the U.S. 14.

Belushi left SNL with Aykroyd in 1979 to film The Blues Brothers, which was in conflict with the show's shooting schedule. Michaels has also decided to leave at the end of his term. NBC's inability to use recurring characters was also a factor in their decision. After leaving: Belushi and Aykroyd made two films together: Neighbors (directed by John Avildsen), and more specifically The Blues Brothers (directed by John Landis). The Blues Brothers, who were released in the United States on June 20, 1980, received mainly favorable feedback. It earned less than $5 million in its first weekend but then went on to gross $115.2 million in theaters around the world before its introduction of home video. The Blues Brothers band toured in America to promote the film, which resulted in a new album (and second live album), Made in America, which was released at the Universal Amphitheatre in 1980. At No. 39, the album "Who's Making Love" reached its high point.

Following Aykroyd's departure from SNL, Belushi's only film after his departure from SNL was the romantic comedy Continental Divide (directed by Michael Apted). It was published in September 1981 and it starred Belushi as Chicago hometown hero Ernie Souchack (loosely based on newspaper columnist and long-time family friend Mike Royko), who received an assignment researching a scientist who studies birds of prey in the remote Rocky Mountains, portrayed by Blair Brown.

Belushi had become a fan and promoter of the punk rock band Fear after seeing them perform in several after-hours New York City bars and bringing them to Cherokee Studios to record songs for Neighbors' soundtrack. Initial support for the session was provided by Blues Brother Brother Jim Scott, along with producer and Cherokee owner Bruce Robb, but later decided against Belushi due to differences with Belushi. Cropper eventually produced the session. The song was not used in the film by the artists of "Neighbors." Belushi, alongside O'Donoghue and Nelson Lyon, and SNL writer Nelson Lyon, have contracted Fear to appear on SNL's Halloween broadcast on October 31, 1981; the performance was cut short by NBC due to the band's profanity. The following day, the New York Post published an account of the case along with other surprising facts.

Belushi was working on several film projects at the time of his death, including an ABSCAM-related caper named Moon Over Miami directed by Louis Malle; and a diamond smuggling caper named Noble Rot with Jay Sandrich based on a script he adapted and rewrote with former SNL writer Don Novello. However, Paramount Studios said they would only produce Noble Rot if Belushi appeared in The Joy of Sex, which would have included him in a diaper. Aykroyd advised him not to read The Joy of Sex and then return to the East Coast, where Aykroyd was writing Ghostbusters. In a High Times tribute article from 1982, Belushi also talked about making a drug trafficking film: "Belushi wanted to give these daring captains courageous of consciousness the credit they deserved." He wanted to be branded Kingpin in a big marijuana film, so he wanted to be involved in a big marijuana film. He wanted to play the title role.

On an episode of the television show Police Squad, Belushi shot a "Guest Star Appearance" on an episode of the television series "Coproach Squad." Airplane's founders (1982) were able to make it (1982). The show's beginning featured a running gag with the guest star dying straight away. Belushi died shortly before the episode was scheduled to air, so the scene was cut and replaced by a William Conrad segment.

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