Lorne Michaels Was Furious About John Belushi’s Drug Use on ‘SNL’

New York Post ^ | November 16, 2020 | Nicki Gostin

[discostu]

In the late 70s, try not. Remember he pretty much stole his cast from Second City, they were probably already doing plenty of drugs. That was the creative culture then.

[1Old Pro]

Mental illness

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Looks like Don Knotts with a drug problem.

[EEGator]

Mental illness and “self medication” are heavily linked.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Then why did he keep Tracy Morgan around so long? That guy was the definition of unfunny and the rumor is that the only reason he stayed was that he was the conduit for cocaine for the talent.

[Psalm 73]

Sure. And Bill Parcells was furious at Lawrence Taylor’s drug use....

[Carriage Hill]

He was doing frequent “speedballs”, made-up of coke and smack, and a woman named Kathy Smith was doing the injecting. She OD’’d him, eventually.

[VeniVidiVici]

Ummmkday

SO WHAT!!!!

[nickcarraway]

She was the woman Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song Sundown about, and she died earlier this year.

[Carriage Hill]

Thanks much for that update.
Belushi’s death was a terrible waste of talent.

[W.]

Bet he’s thinking “Buncha lightweights!”

[Bikkuri]

Looks like boxes attacking letters, and possibly taking over letters and winning....

[Bikkuri]

BTW, we had this same issue here about a decade or so ago.. best to get all of this on notepad (I use notepad++), then copy/paste from there (puts it back into ASCII).

[minnesota_bound]

I do not believe him. I have read over the years about how drugs were in the writers room at NBC. He had to approve.

[Borges]

Second City, the Groundings and the National Lampoon Radio Hour!