The role that Murray played, Peter Venkman, was first written with John Belushi in mind. Sadly, Belushi’s death in 1982 meant that he couldn’t be a member of the team. They still found a way to pay ...

Ever after, to be on nickname-terms with someone implies a family-like bond—even when the name walks the line between demeaning and affectionate, as with the nicknames that John Belushi’s ...

Their lives have gone in different directions ... Elwood (Dan Akroyd) and his recently incarcerated brother Jake (John Belushi) aim to raise money to save the orphanage where they grew up by ...

The initial group on the show included Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and others. Michaels said, "Everybody that I had chose had gone through some screw up in adolescence, in ...

But the ending was painfully familiar. On December 18, 1997, just two months after hosting SNL, Chris Farley died of an ...

The man dubbed by the press as “coroner to the stars” would go on to perform autopsies on famous names like Natalie Wood, John Belushi and Sharon Tate (murdered by the Manson Family).

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live author explained that Michaels changed his laissez-faire approach to the cast’s drinking and drug usage after original cast member John Belushi died of a ...

A handful of different stars have been attached to the project or talked about to play Ignatius over the past five decades, including John Belushi, John Candy, Josh Mostel (son of Zero Mostel ...

The cast for Saturday Night Live season 1 included Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, and Gilda Radner. These seven core cast members appeared ...

Elton John is blaming politics for the failure of his musical “Tammy Faye.” The EGOT winner, 78, spoke about the pricey show that he produced having a short-lived run on Broadway in an ...