John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd - 1982 | KATU In The Archives

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  • Shortly before John Belushi's death, KATU's Stuart Rosenthal interviewed Belushi and Dan Aykroyd about the Blues Brothers, Animal House, and filming in Oregon.
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  • @dadaevan
    @dadaevan ปีที่แล้ว +34

    He's been gone 41 years... what a tragedy to die so young and not continue to share his comedic gifts into middle age.

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This was January 1984, so nobody knows if Belushi didn't die

  • @stormbringercoming8105
    @stormbringercoming8105 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I remember coming home from high school track practice and found out about John’s death. It completely devastated me. He was my hero. Of course, I had no idea about his demons. Relatively naive about drugs, but it was a cautionary tale.

    • @UndeadNerdT800
      @UndeadNerdT800 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How old are you?

    • @stormbringercoming8105
      @stormbringercoming8105 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@UndeadNerdT800
      Owww. That hurts. I’m a tender 57 years of age.

    • @UndeadNerdT800
      @UndeadNerdT800 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@stormbringercoming8105 cool I’m you’re age at heart.

    • @nevamore1984
      @nevamore1984 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@UndeadNerdT800"at heart"? You're an idiot at heart, mate! 🤣

  • @frais5310
    @frais5310 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    "I'm gonna die at a very young age" he literally predicted it. Tragedy, rest in peace.

  • @noahbawdy3395
    @noahbawdy3395 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I loved Continental Divide. It showed a side of John we had never seen b4.

    • @srldwg
      @srldwg ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Me too!
      I loved seeing that side of him!

  • @usjets08
    @usjets08 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Right around this time Dan was starting to write Ghostbusters and he had John playing the role of Peter Venkman.

  • @scottmessenger8639
    @scottmessenger8639 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I miss those days with Belushi and Ackroyd in SNL. They were hilarious together most of the time! Erie to hear him say he would die young! He was a great talent! John and Gilda were my favorites from the original SNL! Sad they both passed too soon.

    • @hectorlopez1069
      @hectorlopez1069 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and chevy chase as well.

  • @maximusprime3459
    @maximusprime3459 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Thanks for putting this up. I barely ever see Belushi interviews. I was a young child when he passed but he had a very big impact on my short life at the time. I loved SNL then and always begged my mom to stay up later when they played The Best of Saturday Night during the week.

  • @Bbmangood
    @Bbmangood ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I had no idea that John Belushi was originally into heavy metal, and only after hearing the Robert Cray band who I have heard many times did he become a lover of the blues? I’ll be honest if it wasn’t for the movie, the blues Brothers I probably wouldn’t care about the blues either. That’s what started me on the journey.

    • @bikebudha01
      @bikebudha01 ปีที่แล้ว

      Let me blow your mind... Robert Cray was in Animal House. (He plays guitar for the band at the toga party...)

    • @cgh7337
      @cgh7337 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was really into punk rock as well. Notably a punk band called Fear.

    • @maximusprime3459
      @maximusprime3459 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He was responsible for Fear appearing on SNL.
      The only time he and Eddie Murphy shared the screen together was in his brief cameo on the episode Fear was the musical guest in.

    • @maximesteinebrunner9941
      @maximesteinebrunner9941 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      same man. since the blues brothers movie, Blues is my favorite music genre by far

  • @trumpsdailytruthsmakelibsc6952
    @trumpsdailytruthsmakelibsc6952 2 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    He still would have been great as a Ghostbuster

    • @jamescarter3196
      @jamescarter3196 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If Belushi had been in it, Eddie Murphy might have made himself available for the Winston role as was orignally intended. Wouldn't THAT have been something.

    • @hectorlopez1069
      @hectorlopez1069 ปีที่แล้ว

      But, he died before Ghostbusters came out.

    • @stephencatchdudeknight4623
      @stephencatchdudeknight4623 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He’d been a good fit

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    He was so hilarious on SNL. Always makes me laugh whenever I see SNL in the 70s.

  • @MCO18
    @MCO18 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Most intriguing - I wish we could see the whole interview

  • @bikebudha01
    @bikebudha01 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    As a Robert Cray fan, I find it very cool Cray turned Belushi onto Blues. (Note, Robert Cray is in the movie Animal house. He plays guitar in the band at the toga party)....

    • @brianwall8674
      @brianwall8674 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Robert cray is terrible, terrible I tell you.

    • @bikebudha01
      @bikebudha01 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brianwall8674 When did your ears fall of?

    • @brianwall8674
      @brianwall8674 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What has he ever done that is good. If you can tell me something, I will gladly listen and see what I think, but as of yet nah.

    • @stormbringercoming8105
      @stormbringercoming8105 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was the BASS player for Otis Day & The Knights.

    • @bikebudha01
      @bikebudha01 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@stormbringercoming8105 close enough... still cool he was in the movie!

  • @Ludacris104
    @Ludacris104 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    a rare find! thanks

  • @PaulRubino
    @PaulRubino ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'd love to see more of this interview. There HAS to be unaired footage. Please share.

  • @junecleugh8507
    @junecleugh8507 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    A very good actor who went too soon like every thing he is in .

    • @methus57
      @methus57 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Drugs will do that

  • @scottlucidi6476
    @scottlucidi6476 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    And that's why Little Chocolate donuts have been on my breakfast table since I was a kid.

    • @myearsloveit
      @myearsloveit ปีที่แล้ว +2

      fkyes😊

    • @MisfitsFiendClub138
      @MisfitsFiendClub138 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Breakfast of Champions!

    • @steffenrosmus9177
      @steffenrosmus9177 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Very healthy indeed, how many hart attacks till today? 😂😂😂😂

    • @steffenrosmus9177
      @steffenrosmus9177 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@MisfitsFiendClub138no, breakfeast of diabetics.

  • @davidkopec9442
    @davidkopec9442 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love his shoutout to Robert Cray. Who also plays bass in Otis Day and the Nights

  • @adyg5402
    @adyg5402 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Love both these guys and also John Candy,Steve Martin and Bill Murray.The Blues Brothers movie was outstanding.

  • @spjfrat
    @spjfrat ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was sad then immediately mad when I heard. Still miss him.

  • @kcinks
    @kcinks ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow, I have never seen this clip....makes me happy and sad.

  • @kevinhealey6540
    @kevinhealey6540 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The director limited John Belushi scenes in Animal House. He probably did not want the film to become the "John Belushi" movie.

    • @jamescarter3196
      @jamescarter3196 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And knew John had enough of a drug problem that he was unreliable, and was still working on SNL so he really didn't have time to be the star.

  • @johnbarroll1120
    @johnbarroll1120 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The guy was just so completely natural; a beautiful human being with no trusting family or friends to shield him from EVIL.

  • @myearsloveit
    @myearsloveit ปีที่แล้ว +12

    neighbors was a masterpiece

    • @Johndoe345-k2d
      @Johndoe345-k2d 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It was shit

    • @MightyMike565
      @MightyMike565 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      it was garbage

    • @myearsloveit
      @myearsloveit 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@MightyMike565 you are in error

    • @MightyMike565
      @MightyMike565 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@myearsloveit nope. it's crap.

    • @myearsloveit
      @myearsloveit วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@MightyMike565 nope. masterpiece.

  • @angie2017
    @angie2017 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All that talent. Such an eerie calm about him when he made that prediction, too. What a waste. 💔

  • @PlymouthVT
    @PlymouthVT ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Gonna die young in NY I hate that comment. But I bet he knew how bad his heart was probably never went to the doctor and smoking. So sad he could of got help. They missed his most funny movie 1941. So many iconic actors and the dance scenes were incredible. I love that movie.

    • @scottpeterson4946
      @scottpeterson4946 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Smoking was probably the least of his worries.

  • @Sbaunz
    @Sbaunz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I like the way Belushi smoked

  • @myearsloveit
    @myearsloveit ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "...'cause I'm a dancer!"🕊

  • @DG-ez4bo
    @DG-ez4bo ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Interesting that Robert Cray got him hooked on blues in late 70s.

    • @yournamehere6002
      @yournamehere6002 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Robert Cray is in ANIMAL HOUSE as part of Otis Day and The Knights

  • @nathanforester5993
    @nathanforester5993 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I definitely enjoyed his serious performance in Contiential Divide, just like John Candy's turn in Only the Lonely.

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    He also worked with another great comedian, Andy Kaufman. We lost John belushi in 1982, 2 years later, we lost Andy Kaufman.

    • @GHC3
      @GHC3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There were such close friends and big influences on Robin Williams. I wish they lived alot longer and got to see Robin in Hook and Flubber, not to mention their own creative pieces they would of created themselves. The world would be a better place with them still here

    • @maximosalazar9985
      @maximosalazar9985 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wonder what were their thoughts on each other.

    • @GHC3
      @GHC3 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I would be interested in hearing that too. I do know know that according to Andy Kaufman's brother Micheal, when John died, he stated he could no longer fake his death.

  • @user-gc8ge6jr5z
    @user-gc8ge6jr5z 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I can hear John now as he realized he was dead. "Oh come on I can't be dead yet I gotta get the rest of that blow from my top drawer before the feds find it"

  • @tomh1593
    @tomh1593 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    If john had not died of drugs he would have had trouble with his weight and smoking, drinking etc. He looks rough here.

  • @jasonking6892
    @jasonking6892 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Still love Dan Akyroid 🇬🇧👍

  • @jameswagner5348
    @jameswagner5348 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Blues Brothers asked a band, from the Midwest but name will not be mentioned, to tour w/ them. They declined. But, one member was in New York, strolling down the sidewalk w/Belushi. Belushi kept asking him if he knew where he could score coke.

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 ปีที่แล้ว

      Was the band from the Rockford, Illinois area?

    • @jameswagner5348
      @jameswagner5348 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seththomas9105 Twin Cities.

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jameswagner5348 OK.

    • @jameswagner5348
      @jameswagner5348 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@seththomas9105 Just a hint..."only the shadow knows!"

  • @guyfaux900
    @guyfaux900 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Everytime I see Belushi I think about the Olympic Training using little chocolate donuts.

    • @misteral1083
      @misteral1083 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Little Chocolate Donuts. The Donuts of Champions.

  • @richardsiciliano7117
    @richardsiciliano7117 18 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Neighbors was pretty bad, but Continental Divide was a very good film. Wonder what kind of direction his career would have headed?

  • @kenhobbs9251
    @kenhobbs9251 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    He looks like he’s high as a kite here

  • @felixthelmocevallosmorales41
    @felixthelmocevallosmorales41 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    John Belushi (Chicago, Illinois, 24 de enero de 1949-Los Ángeles, California, 5 de marzo de 1982)

  • @stuartwax1633
    @stuartwax1633 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Prophetic...."Don't worry. I'm gonna stay here in New York and die at a young age...." and everybody laughs....Sheesh.

  • @TDC5
    @TDC5 ปีที่แล้ว

    to be fair, robert cray lived in washington not oregon but i get it, the pnw tends to blend together for some.

  • @chrisskalski7292
    @chrisskalski7292 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wonder how Bill Murray’s career would of panned out it Belushi had lived to do ghostbusters?

    • @lexkanyima2195
      @lexkanyima2195 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Murray would have the same path of success.

  • @r3b3lvegan89
    @r3b3lvegan89 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “I’m gonna die at a very young age” but it was LA not NYC. 2pac said the very same thing many times. The prophets and the saints die young….

  • @patrickc3419
    @patrickc3419 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Waaaaaaaay more talented than Chris Farley ever was.

    • @babarazamsucks
      @babarazamsucks 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No. Both are talented. You’re shitting on a comedian dying young either way.

  • @bobabooey285
    @bobabooey285 ปีที่แล้ว

    We all missed out on what could have been

  • @christopherwelch136
    @christopherwelch136 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Troubled, semi talented actor. RIP.

  • @terminalogicalinexactitude4561
    @terminalogicalinexactitude4561 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Why can't you spell Akroyd correctly ?

  • @kingdoc3262
    @kingdoc3262 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Yes prophetic on his early death as he smokes

  • @danielevans9379
    @danielevans9379 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What a tragic waste.
    What could have been. 😔

  • @krisscanlon4051
    @krisscanlon4051 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thats an old 33 yr old compared to Ackroyd...wow...Robert Cray mentioned

  • @Greg_Chase
    @Greg_Chase ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Drugs and alcohol. Very unfortunate his survival instincts couldn't save the guy.

  • @TELEVISIONARCHIVES
    @TELEVISIONARCHIVES ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Both of these men thought they could do the drugs and handle it. Belushi died from it and Aykroyd was lucky

    • @NovaFeedback1979
      @NovaFeedback1979 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dan was not into drugs like John. He was totally sober after his friend died.

  • @anthonyhope2924
    @anthonyhope2924 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Belushi looks hung over.

  • @nickcupkovic5721
    @nickcupkovic5721 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Met him @ MTV 1st nyrs eve party 1982 the diplomat hotel Right b4 he was gone a loving moment We all partied too much back then Not his fault at all

    • @jamescarter3196
      @jamescarter3196 ปีที่แล้ว

      Everybody didn't die of drug overdoses back then. Everybody wasn't continually so coked up that they couldn't work without constantly being monitored.

    • @seththomas9105
      @seththomas9105 ปีที่แล้ว

      I loved his talent and remember coming home from school and hearing about his death on the TV in the living room.
      But it was his fault. The drug culture of the 1970's was their own fault. Millions of people were partying in 1982 and most weren't doing Speed Balls.

  • @hectorlopez1069
    @hectorlopez1069 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    John loved to smoke cigarettes. Look at him smoking.

    • @JoshMaxPower
      @JoshMaxPower ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I like the part of your post where you mention smoking

    • @dathorndike4908
      @dathorndike4908 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I know. If drugs hadn't killed him the lung cancer would have eventually

    • @cornfilledscreamer614
      @cornfilledscreamer614 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Everybody smoked back then. You don't hear about the billions of people who smoked and lived from it.

    • @Johndoe345-k2d
      @Johndoe345-k2d ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He liked to puff peters too.

    • @1955canuck
      @1955canuck ปีที่แล้ว

      @@cornfilledscreamer614 Yeah, all the tar and nicotine was good for them. Gave them "husky" voices.

  • @DiceyJJ
    @DiceyJJ 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    West LA Fadeaway

  • @noahbawdy3395
    @noahbawdy3395 ปีที่แล้ว

    Welcome to the end of the road... I guess.

  • @beavercleaver7848
    @beavercleaver7848 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you can smoke twenty or forty full-size, full-strength tobackho cigarettes in a day without vomiting and/or passing out, heroin, coke, or speed are like baby food.

  • @notanotherjamesmurphy5574
    @notanotherjamesmurphy5574 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    what a lazy report

  • @kevinlakeman5043
    @kevinlakeman5043 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Never really found either of them that funny, esp. Aykroyd. That samurai skit was mildly funny once, but they wore it out. If you're truly a funny, talented person, you stay funny and talented. You don't just lose it. Aykroyd seemed to lose his funny after he got too full of himself.

    • @dathorndike4908
      @dathorndike4908 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Belushi's death really changed Akroyd. He was never the same dude after that. Belushi could be hilarious when he wanted to be. But he could do great dramatic acting, too. He was never just a "comedian"

    • @jamesanthony5681
      @jamesanthony5681 ปีที่แล้ว

      How about Aykroyd's, 'Fred Garvin -Male Prostitute'?

    • @safffff1000
      @safffff1000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jamesanthony5681 Loved him in My Stepmother the Alien

    • @KenLedbetter
      @KenLedbetter ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I’m pretty sure your opinion here is lame.

    • @cgh7337
      @cgh7337 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dathorndike4908 Aykroyd was terrific in Trading Places.

  • @JC-ty6xy
    @JC-ty6xy ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Too bad he was so insecure he felt he had to sabotage the female comedians on SNL. I have no respect for him now.

    • @MongoLloyd-px7jt
      @MongoLloyd-px7jt ปีที่แล้ว +14

      It gave me more respect for him.

    • @JC-ty6xy
      @JC-ty6xy ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@MongoLloyd-px7jt yep those ignorant ideas don't die out easy like they should 😂 thanks for the proof

    • @UMAMIMAMU
      @UMAMIMAMU ปีที่แล้ว +8

      How devastating. Thank god he's dead and doesn't have to live with such the reality of your loss of respect for him.

    • @JC-ty6xy
      @JC-ty6xy ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@UMAMIMAMU yep he would be so crushed. What a dumb reply

    • @BMG19FUNNYDIE
      @BMG19FUNNYDIE ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Meh

  • @RogerPeet
    @RogerPeet ปีที่แล้ว

    A comedian who doesn't smile is not funny, to me.
    Find a still of him smiling or laughing. You can't find one.
    Maybe, he thought he was too cool to smile.

    • @jamescarter3196
      @jamescarter3196 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's pretty sad that you need comedy spoon-fed to you so badly that you require a comedian to smile at all times or 'they're not funny ever'. Really a stupid opinion, and doubling down with the idea that there's no pictures of him smiling, you're so clueless it's hard to believe you can form a sentence. Your ignorance is not information.

  • @jred5153
    @jred5153 ปีที่แล้ว

    He was a gifted comedian and actor but he was a chauvinist toward other women comedians and actors.

  • @user-em1dw3ft6m
    @user-em1dw3ft6m 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Neighbors is a film I enjoy every once in a while.
    It doesn’t really even have one hysterical moment, but I somehow always found it constantly entertaining and amusing.
    Blues Brothers I thought was awful.

  • @user-cs6up8eq7s
    @user-cs6up8eq7s ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Belushi was so great that Saturday night live had to bring in a fat dude to try to imitate him in the 90s

    • @KenLedbetter
      @KenLedbetter ปีที่แล้ว

      Right. Cuz Chris Farley wasn’t hilarious on his own merits. Lame take, dude.🤥

    • @user-cs6up8eq7s
      @user-cs6up8eq7s ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KenLedbetter no he wasn't he was lame and a Belushi want to be and that's a fact

    • @user-cs6up8eq7s
      @user-cs6up8eq7s ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KenLedbetter and the sad thing about it was all his fat ass done was embarrass his self trying to be Belushi there was nothing funny about him just a Belushi wannabe

    • @user-cs6up8eq7s
      @user-cs6up8eq7s ปีที่แล้ว

      @@KenLedbetter and I know many many people who agree with me !!

    • @user-cs6up8eq7s
      @user-cs6up8eq7s ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@KenLedbetter that dude wasn't even the beginning of a little blackhead on Belushi's butt cheek

  • @mikeodonnell6799
    @mikeodonnell6799 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    he sure blew it