33 years ago today, was a very dark day for comedy. One of the brightest comedians of his time died at the extremely young age of 33 as a result of drug overdose. His name: John Belushi . He rose to fame because of his stand-up comedy abilities, that he had demonstrated so often and into perfection in the TV-show Saturday Night Live , a show that he was one of the co-founders of and that he starred in from 1975 to 1979. During these years Hollywood had noticed the comedian and between the recordings of the show, John had managed to (co)star in a few TV- and Hollywood films, of which Going South (opposite Jack Nicholson) and National lampoon's Animal House were the most successful ones. In 1979 he went on the road (and definitively to Hollywood) together with his partner in crime Dan Aykroyd and a band that had come out of the Saturday Night Live -show: The Blues Brothers Band . Originally this project started purely out of love for the blues music...
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