Lorne Michaels was none too pleased with the late John Belushi’s drug-induced charades on “Saturday Night Live.” The “SNL” creator said as much in an upcoming documentary titled “Belushi” and recalled the funnyman often being in debilitated states ahead of performances. “He’d been out with [Rolling Stones rocker] Ronnie Wood and he was a mess,” Michaels said in the piece of a Belushi’s state right before a show airing on Feb.
24, 1979. “He was coughing, he looked terrible and the doctor says, ‘John can’t go on,’ and I was somewhere between rage and very little sympathy.” Michaels said he weighed his options of throwing Jake Blues, who was one-half of the Blues Brothers, on stage that night.
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