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In the early years of the 1970s comedy TV show Saturday Night Live, John Belushi portrayed an archetypal samurai — he had a dedicated concept of honor, spoke only (mock) Japanese, and wielded a katana.
Oct 3, 2013 · Subscribe to SaturdayNightLive: http://j.mp/1bjU39d Samurai Futaba: http://j.mp/1dX1qkT SEASON 3: http://j.mp/1dX179y Classic Characters: http://j.mp/1dWXmRN John Belushi takes a stab at Saturday...
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This video edit of a collection of various clips of the late great John Belushi as Samurai Futaba, a character he played on Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1979.
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john belushi and buck henry on saturday night live, 1976.
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A cigarette-smoking, visibly obese decathlon winner attributes his athletic abilities and swift-footed agility to the sugar rush he derives from little chocolate doughnuts, which also have the tagline ‘Donuts for Champions’. John Belushi’s eponymous character is clad in a blue USA vest as he runs and jumps, defeating other well-toned athletes. Unhe...
On daily weather updates, John Belushi appears as a chief meteorologist who talks about the departure of the month of March and how it differs from country to country. As he always does in his weekend update skits, he gets extremely agitated, strikes his co-host and inadvertently falls out of his chair. The lines used in the skit were extremely fun...
John Belushi had based his recurring character of Samurai Futaba on a character from Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimboplayed by Toshiro Mifune. An archetypal samurai, speaking mock Japanese gibberish and clad in a white kimono and carrying a katana, Belushi’s Futaba grooves away to glory to BeeGees’ “Stayin’ Alive” which is not only hilarious but also gives...
Dressed in yellow and black, overweight killer bees hold people hostage to get extra bags of pollen. With John Belushi and Elliott Gould as the main bees, the killer bees have been a recurring character in the show. There was a technical difficulty on set which let the producer get mad at the director. It was all a part of the act and John Belushi ...
A busy restaurant named the Olympia Restaurant serves only cheeseburgers, chips and coke. They stock nothing except these which annoys a nameless patron who just wants his breakfast eggs and gets into a slight verbal scuffle with the restaurant headliner staff Pete. John Belushi with his heavily accented dapper smile is extremely annoying yet adora...
Ludwig Van Beethoven is stoic and deaf and refuses to eat. He ignores his female servants and continues to embark on a neverending quest for the perfect sonata. As soon as the maids leave, our homie snorts some cocaine, puts on sunglasses and transforms into a mystic cross between the two distinct personalities. A product of Belushi’s wild imaginat...
In the very first season of SNL, the cast came up with a hilarious representation of The Godfather, right out of Mario Puzo’s book and Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of the same. The Godfather, Vito Corleone, is troubled and attends a therapy session where he is asked to elucidate his feelings. What follows is ridiculously funny and left the aud...
There was indeed a time when two legends John Belushi and Joe Cocker coexisted in this world. In compliance with Rob Reiner’s introduction, Belushi put forward his best impression of Cocker which was not only heartfelt and eerily accurate but also caught Cocker’s attention. The episode has Belushi imitating Cocker’s facial expressions, twisted move...
Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s camaraderie led to some brilliant on-screen productions which also included their band Blues Brothers. They made an appearance in SNLin the fourth season to perform ‘Soul Man’. Dressed in crisp suits and sunglasses, they exude pure swagger as they chew gum and Belushi cartwheels into the sage before breaking out into ...
In a rather poignant episode peppered with humorous anecdotes about his fellow castmates, an elderly John Belushi visits their graves while dubbing that “the Not Ready For Prime Time Cemetery”. With bushy white eyebrows and a moustache, the elderly Belushi talks about how he misses them before breaking out into a wonderful catchy dance. The episode...
Saturday Night Live: The Best of John Belushi (1993) Rewatch Classic TV. 3.67K subscribers.
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Samurai Night Fever Saturday Night Live - Feb, 1978
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