Not sure what happened here?
Lorne Michaels did not have a lot of sympathy during the late John Belushi’s drug-fueled escapades.
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“He’d been out with [Rolling Stones rocker] Ronnie Wood and he was a mess,” Michaels says in the documentary. “He was coughing, he looked terrible and the doctor says, ‘John can’t go on,’ and I was somewhere between rage and very little sympathy.”
“So I said, ‘What happens if he does it?’ He says, ‘Well, he could die?’ And I said, ‘What are the odds of that?’ And he said, ’50/50,’ and I said, ‘I can live with that,’” Michaels continues.
50 years down the road, so?
Wasn’t most the 70s cast blown on a variety of substances during those broadcasts?
I recently learned from an interview with Dana Carvey that he first imitated Lorne Michaels, and then his co-star Mike Meyers turned that into the Dr. Evil character for the Austen Powers series…..
I don’t think it was the drug use, everybody on that set was doing drugs. I think it was the drug use so extreme he couldn’t be counted on. Doing an hour and a half of live TV every week you really don’t want to be wondering if one of your stars is even going to be conscious.
If you didn’t say or do anything about it at the time, and looked away, then you basically condoned that behavior. You have no reason to be pissed at anyone, or anything except yourself.
Typical “compassionate” liberal. His stupid show is all he cared about. Did you try to help him Lorne?
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.
Sure. And Bill Parcells was furious at Lawrence Taylor’s drug use....
Ummmkday
SO WHAT!!!!
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.