But the ending was painfully familiar. On December 18, 1997, just two months after hosting SNL, Chris Farley died of an ...

During a recent appearance on Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, biographer Susan Morrison looked back at how the head of ...

Farley starred on “SNL” from 1990 to 1995. He died of a drug overdose (cocaine and morphine) in 1997, just like Belushi. In her book that came out in Feb., Morrison claimed that Farley was once ...

But by the time the 18-years-later sequel rolls around, Jake has died - a result of John Belushi's own 1982 passing - with ...

Lorne would call him into his office and give him these talks about the drinking or the drugs," biographer Susan Morrison ...

The role that Murray played, Peter Venkman, was first written with John Belushi in mind. Sadly, Belushi’s death in 1982 meant that he couldn’t be a member of the team. They still found a way ...

The Blues Brothers account wrote on Instagram. Dan Aykroyd, who was in the Blues Brothers with John Belushi, is overseeing the writing of the book and penned its foreword, and it seems to be the ...

But his struggles with addiction are a sobering reminder of another SNL legend, John Belushi. Lorne Michaels , the show's creator, aimed to ensure that history wouldn’t repeat itself.