The Best of John Belushi (1985) (V)

Directors:

Dave Wilson
Tom Schiller
(more)

Writers:

Dan Aykroyd (writer)
Anne Beatts (writer)
(more)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

Compilation of SNL sketches including Samurai Deli, Star Trek - The Final Mission, The Luck of the Irish and Don Vito Corleone in group therapy. |

Plot Keywords:

Compilation | William Shatner Spoof | Saturday Night Live | Actor Name In Title | Edited From TV Series

Cast

John Belushi	...	Himself / Joliet Jake Blues / Various Characters (archive footage)
Dan Aykroyd	...	Himself / Elwood Blues / Various Characters (archive footage)
Chevy Chase	...	Himself / Various Characters (archive footage)
Jane Curtin	...	Herself / Various Characters (archive footage)
Elliott Gould	...	Himself / Various Characters (archive footage)
Buck Henry	...	Himself (archive footage)
Robert Klein	...	Himself (archive footage)
Garrett Morris	...	Himself / Various Characters (archive footage)
Bill Murray	...	Himself / Various Characters (archive footage)
Laraine Newman	...	Herself / Various Characters (archive footage)
Gilda Radner	...	Herself / Various Characters (archive footage)
Rob Reiner	...	Himself (archive footage)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Steve Cropper	...	Himself (Blues Brothers) (archive footage)
Donald Dunn	...	Himself (Blues Brothers) (archive footage)
Steve Jordan	...	Himself (Blues Brothers) (archive footage)
Tom Malone	...	Himself (Blues Brothers) (archive footage)
Lou Marini	...	Himself (Blues Brothers) (archive footage)
Matt Murphy	...	Himself (Blues Brothers) (archive footage)
Alan Rubin	...	Himself (Blues Brothers) (archive footage)
Tom Scott	...	Himself (Blues Brothers) (archive footage)
Paul Shaffer	...	Himself (Blues Brothers) (archive footage)
Don Novello	...	Mike Dionasopolis (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michael O'Donoghue	...	Man in therapy group (uncredited) (archive footage)
Doris Powell	...	Lt. Uhura (archive footage) (uncredited)
Akira Yoshimura	...	Mr. Sulu (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Dave Wilson
Tom Schiller		(segment "Don't Look Back In Anger")
James Signorelli		(director: Little Chocolate Donuts)

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Dan Aykroyd		writer
Anne Beatts		writer
John Belushi		writer
Chevy Chase		writer
Tom Davis		writer
James Downey		writer
Brian Doyle-Murray		writer
Al Franken		writer
Neil Levy		writer
Brian McConnachie		writer
Lorne Michaels		writer
Marilyn Suzanne Miller		writer
Don Novello		writer
Michael O'Donoghue		writer
Herbert Sargent		writer (as Herb Sargent)
Tom Schiller		writer
Rosie Shuster		writer
Walter Williams		writer
Alan Zweibel		writer

Produced by
Judith Belushi-Pisano	....	producer (as Judith Jacklin Belushi)
Audrey Peart Dickman	....	associate producer
Jean Doumanian	....	associate producer
Joe Forristal	....	associate producer
Barbara Gallagher	....	associate producer
Craig Kellem	....	associate producer
Lorne Michaels	....	executive producer
Lorne Michaels	....	producer
Nils Nichols	....	supervising producer
Patricia O'Keefe	....	associate producer

Production Design by
Eugene Lee
Franne Lee

Art Direction by
Akira Yoshimura

Makeup Department
Alan Demkowicz	....	hair stylist
Frances A. Kolar	....	makeup artist
Ted Long	....	hair stylist
Werner Sherer	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Lisbeth Anderson	....	unit manager
Sandra Carnegie	....	unit manager
Jim Fox	....	unit manager
Kenneth Lupano	....	unit manager
Stewart Macgregory	....	unit manager
Iris March	....	executive in charge of production
Judith Murray	....	unit manager
Nick O'Gorman	....	unit manager
Tom Rutledge	....	unit manager
Jack Sheehan	....	unit manager

Art Department
Bill Groom	....	associate scenic designer
Lee Maymen	....	associate scenic designer
Tripp Ulrich	....	property master

Sound Department
Kurt Heydle	....	post-production sound
Robert Liftin	....	sound (as Bob Lifton)
Scott Schachter	....	sound
Jennie Ng Zletz	....	sound effects (as Jennie Ng)

Visual Effects by
Frank Aloise	....	graphics
Ed Bail	....	graphics
Nicholas Bruno	....	video
Authur Dahm	....	video
Tony Nelle	....	video
Bob Pook	....	graphics

Camera and Electrical Department
Phil Hyms	....	lighting technician
Gene Martin	....	lighting technician
Howard Strawbridge	....	lighting technician
Cheryl Thacker	....	assistant lighting director
Maury Verschoore	....	lighting technician

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Karen Roston	....	associate costume designer

Editorial Department
John Fortenberry	....	editor: video tape
Will Lashley	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Janine Dreyer Nichols	....	music coordinator
Paul Shaffer	....	musical stylist
Howard Shore	....	musical director

Other crew
Larraine Bennett	....	production staff
Robin Blankman	....	production staff
Barbara Burns	....	talent coordinator
Joe Dicso	....	stage manager
Peter 'Pete' Fatovich	....	associate director
Cherie Fortis	....	production staff
Julia Fraser	....	production staff
Jan Gosar	....	production staff
John Head	....	talent scout
Eileen Walsh McCollum	....	production staff
Kathy Minkowsky	....	production staff
Hazel Morley	....	production staff
Nils Nichols	....	researcher (as Nils Eric Nichols III)
Doris Powell	....	production staff
Ed Prendergast	....	stage manager
Heino Ripp	....	technical director
Eileen Roaman	....	production coordinator
Robert Van Ry	....	stage manager (as Bob Van Ry)
Liz Welch	....	production staff
Laurie Zaks	....	production staff

Production Companies

• Above Average Productions Inc.
• Broadway Video
• NBC Productions
• Phantom Enterprises

Distributors

• Warner Home Video

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Certification:

Iceland:L

Company:

Above Average Productions Inc.

Trivia:

Original air dates/live performances: - "Soul man": 18 November 1978 - Samurai Delicatessen: 17 January 1976 - Beethoven part I: 22 November 1975 - Bill Murray's Celebrity Corner: 11 November 1978 - "I'm a King Bee": 17 January 1976 - The Godfather group therapy: 10 January 1976 - Beethoven part II: 22 November 1975 - Little Chocolat donuts: 19 November 1977 - "B Movie Boxcar Blues": 18 November 1978 - Olympia Restaurant: 28 January 1978 - The Thing that wouldn't leave: 25 March 1978 - Weekend Update rant: 19 March 1977 - Beethoven part III: 22 November 1975 - "With a little help from my friends": 25 October 1975 - The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise: 29 May 1976 - Shiller's reel: Don't look back in anger: 11 March 1978

Movie Connections:

Edited from "Saturday Night Live: Christopher Lee/Meat Loaf (#3.15)" (1978)

Soundtrack:

Oriental Playon

I've got Soon-Shine, unt a Klow-dy day...

...Pardon my Ludwig van Beethoven cover of The Temps.

So I'm looking for something play on VHS, as I'm going to be watching in a room with only a VCR. The local ma and pa video store's last VHS new release available is over two years old ("The Passion of the Christ"), so I'm stuck looking at old stuff to rent. The owner points me to some tapes he's looking to dump @ $1.99/ea. (the cost of a rental), and I don't even have to return it. What a deal! This is how I happened to rediscover THE BEST OF JOHN BELUSHI, a tape I originally enjoyed when it came out over 20 years ago. And I want to tell you, even though I've seen all these bits before (and several of them multiple times through the years), the laughs still come. Nearly a quarter of a century after Bluto checked out, he's still one of the funniest guys ever to grace us with comedy.

So sit back and just enjoy Joliet Jake, Vito (along with Laraine Newman's hilarious take on "Valley Speak", which pre-dates Moon Zappa's by 5 YEARS!) , Miss Liz Taylor (and her lodged chicken), Samurai Delicatessen, The Thing That Wouldn't Leave, Joe Cocker, and Belushi's Shatner impersonation, perhaps the first real satirical take on Captain Kirk's crappy acting from STAR TREK. It'll have you in stitches. Promise!