According to jim mandy

I first noticed John Belushi when I was about 15 years old. I was watching Saturday Night Live and the Star Trek parody with John as Captain Kirk came on, and Belushi nailed the impersonation and it was so funny it made me choke on the ham sandwich I was eating.

After that Saturday Night Live (it wasn’t SNL yet) became something to watch and John’s performances were stand out from the killer bees, the samurai, the diner cheeezborger cook, all were skits I wanted to see. When John went onto movies I went to see Animal House, , The Blues Brothers, Neighbors.

And one spring day in as I was leaving work I turned on my car radio and the first thing that came out of the speakers that afternoon was that John Belushi had died in L.A. and I said to myself ‘I hope it wasn’t drugs.’ It’s stories like these that give oral biographies like Belushi: A Biography their power, the first hand accounts of the participants that give the account it’s flesh and blood and if