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Al Franken’s rule for using cocaine on ‘Saturday Night Live’
He then he says that in his book, he writes “pretty frankly” about the fact that drugs were a regular part of life on the show, at least in those early years. Franken reveals how he did acid at Grateful Dead concerts and smoked dope and snorted cocaine.
But with regard to his own drug use, including of cocaine, Franken explained that he was careful to never abuse it, unlike castmates such as Belushi, who died in 1982 of a drug overdose.
With more than 40 years between those events on SNL and the present, Franken explains his basic rule for using cocaine while working on the show.
“On those Tuesday night/Wedneday morning things, I only snorted enough cocaine so that I could stay awake to make sure no one did too much cocaine,” he said.
He then says with irony, “I was being responsible.”