January 4th, 2021. Happy New Year, Dell razors. Thank you for tuning in and I hope you had a safe and healthy New Year's weekend.

Here we are. We are here on a Monday and the holidays are over. It's a New Year and we keep pushing forward.

Thanks for joining me like always. I can't do it without you. That's the honest truth and I love doing the show for all of you.

We have a fantastic guest today. When I say we, it's just me. This is a one-man show. And I know you're going to enjoy this.

My guest today is the director of the brand new John Belushi documentary called Belushi on Showtime and it was directed by RJ Cutler.

Fantastic guest and he has made an amazing film.

I haven't really talked about it much. I talk about it once in a while when people are asking me about why you got into comedy, how you got into comedy, what made you want to do comedy.

And when I think back to it, there's so much comedy in my life growing up. All in the family, Chico and the man, Sanford and Sun, Caddy Shack.

It's just, it's non-stop. Johnny Carson show, Jonathan Winters, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, Roda, Threes Company.

Just a fucking gamut of comedy growing up. And of course, the major comedians that I've talked about over and over.

I actually kind of thought about it over the last couple nights. I've consumed massive amounts of comedy growing up.

But nobody really had an impact on me early on like John Belushi. And there was a time, and this is the honest truth.

I did not know how to go about it, but there was a time where I thought, man, I want to be on Saturday night live. I'm talking about sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade.

I am just obsessed with the not ready for prime time players. Garrett Morris, who I did a film with 11 years, 12, 13 years ago.

John Belushi, Dan Acroid, Bill Murray, Big Time, Bill Murray, and Guilda Radner. Guilda Radner was just unbelievable to me.

I mean, I think people were outlaws. They seemed like they were just, I don't know, they were just the ultimate artist to me. I was like, what is this?

And it really opened my mind early on in life of like, wow, this is kind of cool. I don't know anybody that does anything like this.

Where do you do this? How do you do this? And of course, you know, you want to do something, but you're afraid you have no idea how to do it.

Yeah, I'm in the sixth grade. I don't know, I don't know how to do sketch. Nowadays you just YouTube find out, go to a sketch summer camp, get an iPhone, shoot some sketches, put them on your YouTube channel.

But back then, New York City was 3,000 miles away from the Bay Area, but it might as well have been a million. I'd never been to New York.

I didn't know anything about New York, except for the sweat hogs and Saturday night fever and SNL. And those three things made me want to be in New York City forever.

Even the film taxi driver later on, Belushi is monumental to me. Every time I drive by the chat to Marmont on the way to the comedy store every night, I would think of Belushi.

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