In line with Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller’s “Reside from New York: The Full, Uncensored Historical past of Saturday Evening Reside as Instructed by Its Stars, Writers, and Company,” John Belushi’s mates and colleagues have been lobbying Michaels to ignore Belushi’s distaste for tv and rent him anyway. He lastly relented and referred to as the actor in for an audition. In line with Chevy Chase, Michaels was impressed. “[L]orne stated, ‘Nicely, he is humorous, and we might use someone who seems like him.'”
Michaels took everybody’s enthusiasm for Belushi below advisement and leveled with the performer. “I instructed John, ‘I hear what you are doing is nice, however I do not need you to must do one thing that you do not wish to do.’ My intuition was that he was going to be hassle.”
Michaels additionally spied one other little bit of hassle on the horizon. As Aykroyd remembered:
“Lorne was involved Belushi and I might be a duo that might give him lots of hassle. He thought, ‘Oh, get these guys collectively and their energy will probably be my weak spot, as a result of they’re going to be rebels.’ And you understand, in a manner, he was proper. Definitely there was an vitality round us.”