The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A new book about West Hollywood’s notorious Sunset Strip hotel for superstars goes into deep details about the night comedy star John Belushi died from drugs. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy describes Belushi’s final week at the hotel, …
Emile Hirsch has been tapped to star as the late John Belushi in a planned biopic on the comedian who became a star as an original cast member on Saturday Night Live, the breakout supporting character of National Lampoon’s Animal House, and one-half of The Blues Brothers. Belushi died of …
In interviews over the years, members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre often have referred to their organization as “the Fugazi of comedy.” It was no accident, then, that Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye was chosen to deliver the monologues for a planned special reunion of the UCB’s founding four to …
