Yahoo: John Belushi's Animal House Co-Star Said His Death Was A Wake Up Call (And Cocaine Was Involved)
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John Belushi
John Adam Belushi was an American actor, comedian, and musician. He was one of seven Saturday Night Live cast members of the first season. Belushi had a working partnership with Dan Aykroyd; they had first met while at Chicago's the Second City comedy club, remaining together as cast members on Saturday Night Live.
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entertainment · American actor (1949–1982) · comedian · television actor · film actor · screenwriter · writer · musician · voice actor · actor · singer · also John Belushi, John Adam Belushi, Belushi
Born 24 January 1949 · Died 5 March 1982 · Q23858
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2026· 3 entries
Yahoo: “Animal House”’s Tim Matheson explains how John Belushi’s death became a wake-up call for cocaine culture in Hollywood
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AOL: John Belushi's Death, 44 Years Later: Revisiting the Comedian's Tragic Final Days
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2025· 2 entries
Deadline.com: Bill Murray Defends John Belushi After Bob Woodward’s “Completely Inaccurate” Biography
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Angus Stone, also known as Dope Lemon, released a song called "John Belushi" in his honor
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2024· 4 entries
New York Post: ‘Animal House’ star John Belushi ‘didn’t have a prayer,’ couldn’t escape drugs: co-star
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American Songwriter: John Belushi Stands By His Band in Previously Unheard 1979 Interview Concerning ‘Blues Brothers’ Critics
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New York Post: Actor, producer Judy Belushi-Pisano, widow of comedic legend John Belushi, dead at 73: ‘No one like her’
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Rolling Stone: John Mulaney Shares What Lorne Michaels Told Him About John Belushi: ‘He Didn’t Want to Die’
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2021· 1 entry
That because she was writing a book with his wife at the time, Belushi was frustrated with them spending more time on the book than with him
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2020· 1 entry
That Belushi was a "Women's Libber" and did not hate women
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2015· 1 entry
Belushi was ranked by Rolling Stone as the greatest Saturday Night Live cast member of all time
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2011· 1 entry
That Belushi was a misogynist who would deliberately sabotage the work of female writers and comics working on the show: "So you'd go to a table read, and if a woman writer had written a piece for John, he would not read
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2006· 1 entry
Biography Channel aired an episode of Final 24, a documentary following Belushi during the last 24 hours leading to his death
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2005· 1 entry
Tanner Colby produced Belushi: A Biography, a collection of first-person interviews and photographs of Belushi's life, written in collaboration with Judith Belushi, his widow
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2004· 1 entry
Belushi was posthumously inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star located at 6355 Hollywood Boulevard
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1997· 1 entry
At age 33 due to a drug overdose, which has fueled many comparisons between Belushi and Farley
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1990· 1 entry
Michaels remembered him as a loyal trouper, to writers, a team player, yet he was fired and rehired at SNL
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1989· 1 entry
Which was denounced by Aykroyd and Judith and received poor reviews from critics
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1986· 1 entry
To involuntary manslaughter and three counts of furnishing and administering controlled substances to Belushi in the hours before he was found dead
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1982· 6 entries
Cast member Brian Doyle-Murray gave a tribute to him
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Died 1982-03-05.
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Belushi's fitness trainer, Bill Wallace, found Belushi dead at the Chateau Marmont bungalow
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“I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.”
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Rolling Stone magazine described the circumstances of her arrest: "On the afternoon of March 5th, Cathy Evelyn Smith had appeared driving the wrong way into the one-way exit of the Chateau Marmont Hotel on Sunset Strip b
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“I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?”
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1981· 1 entry
(doing so by agreeing to make a cameo in the episode for free; indeed, he makes a silent cameo in the cold opening of the episode, in what was ultimately his last appearance on the show during his lifetime); the telecast
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1980· 1 entry
The Blues Brothers received generally negative reviews
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1979· 1 entry
Belushi, along with Aykroyd, left SNL
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1978· 2 entries
The Blues Brothers released their debut album, Briefcase Full of Blues, with Atlantic Records
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Belushi performed 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)
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series for Saturday Night Live (1977).
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1975· 2 entries
Chevy Chase and Michael O'Donoghue recommended Belushi to Saturday Night Live creator and showrunner Lorne Michaels, who accepted him as a new cast member of the show after an audition
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Chase and writer Michael O'Donoghue recommended Belushi to Lorne Michaels as a potential member for a TV show Michaels was about to produce for NBC called NBC's Saturday Night, later Saturday Night Live
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1974· 1 entry
Belushi and Chevy Chase voice-acted on a Lampoon Record
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1972· 1 entry
Belushi was offered a role, together with Chevy Chase and Christopher Guest, in National Lampoon Lemmings, a parody of Woodstock, which played off-Broadway in 1972
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1965· 1 entry
Belushi formed a band, the Ravens, together with four fellow high-school students (Dick Blasucci, Michael Blasucci, Tony Pavilonis, and Phil Special)
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1949· 1 entry
Born 1949-01-24.
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