The "Ghostbusters" on John Belushi (1984) 

Well, when he starts he never shuts up so you’ve got plenty to watch

Classy lady

Yes, she’s just lovely 🙂

We were just discussing an old quote on Facebook the other day. A New York magazine review of Ghostbusters described his voice as "lulling".

He’s a dream 💭

I am so obsessed 🤩 with Egon

Hes like the Spock of the group.

@@silverpslm The August 1983 draft of the original movie even described him as a "New Wave Mr. Spock" : INT. MAIN READING ROOM EGON SPENGLER is waiting for Venkman and Stantz when they arrive. Spengler is a real egghead, a New Wave Mr. Spock who single-handedly got Venkman through graduate school. Spengler is incredibly intelligent but amazingly dense at the same time.

I met Harold Ramis briefly at Second City. He was doing a reunion show around 2009. He was rehearsing with the cast in a small room. I was in a larger room with my sketch group. He would walk by the hall every so often and finally popped his head in to ask if we could switch, since he had a larger group. Didn’t have much of an interaction but the way he politely asked always stuck with me. Like he wasn’t above anyone. I’ve also met Aykroyd a few times, very nice and genuine guy. Talks to you like he’s known you forever.

Yea it breaks my heart to. Aw you lucky I wish I could meet them, their my favorite actors sadly I live in a small town of Missouri so there's no way I'll ever meet them

He got to see it as a ghost, and the 2016 movie made him rollover in his grave.

I know right! What a terrible remake should've sunk all those untalented hoes careers horrible casting, the director should be laughed out of existence lol

@@mikedavis8008 Tbf, Kristen Wiig is a pretty good actress/comedian. She's just unlucky enough to become a part of that movie.

I've got recuts of at least two more interviews she did with him in my playlist. This one was more about Razor's Edge, but she spoke to him again during the Ghostbusters press junket. And by the time she interviewed him again for GB2 five years later, she finally had a two-camera setup and no longer had to reshoot her own closeups at the end of the shoot. That one's got a much more spontaneous feel to it, at least as far as her side of it.

Playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLQ-zqMhV3keB822EawjWJUS1ffok1W_BH

She’s just lovely. Warm and thoughtful and such a considered gentle touch to her interview. How could you not answer in respect. Thank you for this. I do enjoy a good interviewer get the best out of folk. And much love to you mate

He's 40 in this!?

@@silverpslm Yes. He was 40 during Ghostbusters. 45 in GB2.

@@John231984 Ghostbusters was filmed in i believe (1983) my favorite comment i have The (1999) dvd release of the film & Ramis talks about how Murray always messes with him about his hair and tells why his hair was done that way in the film. i forget why i think it was just so it makes him look smart but i could be wrong. anyways, when Ramis got Married in (1989) Bill was there and he said in the church as loud as he could your hair is Perfect i can so see Murray doing that

@@rolandofgilead43 that's fit to the marriage

@@lexkanyima2195 why you say that honesty I dunno jack shit about Ramis marriage that story just makes me laugh

He has class

He is. But if you listen to Jane Curtin talk about Belushi, you get a different side of it. She talks about how she met him before SNL, they were auditioning for SNL and for another show, and spent time hanging out just being friends. But after SNL started, she said he disrespected her and all the women cast members, claiming that women can't be funny. She didn't seem bitter, she just said the guy she thought she was friends with wasn't that guy. She wonders if it was the drugs or the fame, or maybe both, that affected him. But he was a complicated guy, for sure.

@@Historian212 Id argue that in many interviews and even this clip, Dan also rebukes that John Belushi. He speaks about how at the end John wouldnt listen and wasnt much fun to be around. He also speaks in other interviews about his ego. I think it hurt Dan how much they drifted apart just before Johns death. Ill always respect the way Jane talks about it also. Her and Dan speak about it honestly, but also with respect. Jane had every reason to hate him after he basically told her that women shouldnt be on SNL. The fact she is willing to attribute that to drugs and not her ex friend speaks to her character

@@Frady180 but John had pressure

you realise there was a ghostbusters 2 before that, right? And it was shit, so his gut instinct was spot on.

@@gelfie2208 No it isnt its great, classic imo and just as good as the first

Glad you enjoyed them. Hours of raw footage from Bobbie Wygant interviews showed up on various websites. The majority of them were single-camera shoots where she would film her questions separately at the end to be intercut, although by 1989 she was using a two-camera setup, such as when she interviewed Bill Murray for GBII. I tried my best to cut them the way I thought they'd have looked for broadcast, though I'm sure most airings would've trimmed them down to the bare minimum of catchy soundbytes. Which in my opinion is a huge disservice to her true interview style. Here's some of the others I've uploaded, enjoy. ru-vid.com/group/PLQ-zqMhV3keB822EawjWJUS1ffok1W_BH

Venkman was written for Belushi

Here's my full playlist of recut Bobbie Wygant interviews. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, I added two new Bill Murray ones (84 and 89). Plus there's more of Bobbie's interviews with Aykroyd and Ramis in my longer recuts, instead of just the Belushi relevant portions. And then there's her Ghostbusters press junket interviews with Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, and Ernie Hudson. Plus I just added a John Candy one from 1980 as well, where he talks about starting out with Dan Aykroyd. ru-vid.com/group/PLQ-zqMhV3keB822EawjWJUS1ffok1W_BH

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Thought I was the only one.Lol

Stephanie you are very gorgeous

I prefer Bill Murray over John Belushi

if i recall even John Candy was going to do it as well Originally i can't remember if he was even asked though

@@rolandofgilead43 He would have been good too. Any of those old SNL guys would have fit. Winston could have been Eddie Murphy if they wanted to.

@@heidi5044 It depends on perspective. If Murray was dead and Belushi played the character, we wouldn't know anything of what Murray would have done as the character. For all we know, he could have been great.

@@dbsti3006 if i recall Ernie Hudson had signed on Originally he was going to have a bigger role than he did, than if my memory is right and it could be wrong Moranis was given the bigger part since he was writing his own material and it was good but i could be wrong, the bigger part that i know i'm right on why it was than a smaller part i don't really remember it was an interview Hudson gave like 2 years ago that i read him give that's my source

I'm guilty of my own addiction issues, but thankfully I managed to avoid drugs and alcohol. That stance cost me a relationship once, when the girl decided drinking and smoking pot was more important to her than my friendship. I had the rare gift of hearing from her later, when she was embracing sobriety after getting arrested. She told me I'd been right about everything-- including my prediction that the friends who just wanted to party didn't actually care about her. That was years ago now, though. I don't really know if she managed to put those issues fully behind her. I'd like to believe she did, though.

Harold Ramis was a smart man. Sequels run the risk of being inferior to the original movie. Nobody wanted to return to do another Ghostbusters movie but Columbia Pictures executives felt like they were sitting on a gold mine and they wanted to catch lightning in a bottle again. It goes to show that if you throw enough money at someone you can get them to change their beliefs about anything. Anyway I was 10 in 1989 and I loved Ghostbusters 2. If I had my way they would have churned out sequels every summer. I’m glad that we now have a trilogy of sorts.

Thanks. There's one moment where I muted the interviewer's next topic-shifting question just to see the rest of the raw emotions play across Bill Murray's face. If you'd asked me who of the three of them would be the most shaken by Belushi's death, I'd have predicted Aykroyd but comparing these three specific interviews, you can see it had a wide range of effects on them all.

@@LextheRobot It really did. The interviewer was remarkable as well. Just seemed to know what to say and how to say it.

Yes, I really enjoyed Bobbie Wygant's style with them. I found several unedited clips of her talking to the cast of Ghostbusters, and I recut them into a playlist. Oddly enough, the hardest one to find was her actual Ghostbusters interview with Bill from 1984. (The clip in this vid was actually promoting Razor's Edge that same year.) Here's the full playlist, see if you like any of the others. ru-vid.com/group/PLQ-zqMhV3keB822EawjWJUS1ffok1W_BH

Read his daughter's book, he most likely was 😂 but he was generally a pretty chill dude anyway

I've known this for a long time. But yes, that's why Slimer eats so much.

Belushi was meant for Peter venkmen (spelling?). The role of Ernie Hudson was meant to be for Eddie Murphy but he declined due to bev. Hills cop

Yes. But even then he wasn't keen on it and wanted to try and do something differnt. There are inteviews with this.

@@John231984 Whether he wanted to or not, he has a full part in "Afterlife" without even being alive. He's in two sequels. He was honored properly in the right way. That's what matters to me. I loved this guy as a kid.

Well, then you may get a kick out of the rest of my Bobbie Wygant playlist! Enjoy! ru-vid.com/group/PLQ-zqMhV3keB822EawjWJUS1ffok1W_BH

Doubt he'll read that mate but well done anyways.

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They were supposed to work Ramis' "Club Paradise", but Murray wanted to spend time with his family.

@@Madbandit77 Ah right, interesting Id never heard of that film, I presume if Bill had agreed to do it then Ramis mightve been in it as well? Cos he doesnt appear in this one, I notice Rick Moranis does though as does Bill's brother again, thats a real shame they never got a third outing together then, it wouldve made a neat DVD 3 pack akin to the cornetto trilogy, same guys playing different characters. I know Ramis appeared in Groundhog Day but it was only a cameo which wasnt the same.

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I have some more recut Bobbie Wygant interviews with the cast of Ghostbusters. Which reminds me, I think I have a few of her raw files which I need to recut. Thanks for jogging my memory.

@@LextheRobot please post them. Would love to see it. I’ve don’t interviews on my channel with The Sopranos, Cobra Kai and Karate Kid Cast. It would be an honor to interview the Ghostbusters cast some time

@@moviejunkpodcast Ask and ye shall receive! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tOB3ZeFOHwc.html

Here's the whole playlist from 1984. I've also got a Murray interview she did for GB2 in 1989, I haven't cut that one together yet. ru-vid.com/group/PLQ-zqMhV3keB822EawjWJUS1ffok1W_BH

@@LextheRobot Sweet! Thanks!

Paul rudd sucks

The video's description specifies that she's interviewing him about Razor's Edge. But the timing on things is more like Razor's Edge was already in production when Columbia greenlit Ghostbusters to be released one year later, so the "let me make this other movie if you want me for the comedy" claim is a bit of an urban myth / exaggeration. I think it was more about a distribution deal, I'll try to find one of the older sources to see what it said back in the day. Internet versions tend to get distorted over time.

​@@LextheRobot so it is, but the title might add confusion. The timing of those two films doesn't actually dispell that myth at all, it would align with it in fact.

Thanks for fleshing out the Cathy Smith connection. She was responsible for her actions and needed to go to prison. Dan Akroyd is very eloquent here about how friends deal with friends' addictions.

I don't know where it is, but I used to have a VHS clip of Aykroyd on an interview while Wired was still in production where he said he had all of his "hell energies" out against that movie.

I used to know someone whose email address was Anna Banana and then some numbers. Thanks for the flashback.

And the videogame (which he also wrote). And Afterlife.

@@Rocket1377 so true.. lol

That was by deliberate design. I wanted to collect the Belushi-relevant segments from these three interviews with the actors who played the Ghostbusters. But for more of them discussing the movies, check out my full Bobbie Wygant playlist. She also interviewed Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, and Rick Moranis. Plus I've got two more interviews she did with Bill Murray.

Bobbie Wygant, of NBC 5 out of the Dallas/Fort Worth market. I did a playlist of her interviewing the cast of Ghostbusters: Sigourney, Moranis, Ernie Hudson, these three, plus Bill again for GB2, and even John Candy talking about how he and Dan started out together. That one's from 1980, as they only discuss Blues Brothers and Spielberg's 1941. ru-vid.com/group/PLQ-zqMhV3keB822EawjWJUS1ffok1W_BH

This was recorded in '84, so GB2 was still five years on the horizon at the time. In a lot of the press for GB2, Murray and Aykroyd and Ramis all talk about their hesitance to make a sequel, for fear of being accused of doing it just as a cash grab. It was like they all had to justify it to themselves. In Ramis' case it's actually a wonder he even agreed to make GB2, having a bad experience the previous year where he was more or less coerced by studio execs into Caddyshack 2. He even tried to have his name taken off of the picture, but they told him it could hurt the film's chances if word of that got around.

There's another irony about them discussing European Vacation. Ramis says he "doesn't believe in sequels" but apparently he had no qualms about having an extramarital affair with the director of European Vacation (Amy Heckerling) and getting her pregnant. Heckerling would later make 1989's Look Who's Talking, and according to Violet Ramis Stiel's book, when Harold revealed to her that she had a secret half-sister, even he acknowledged that the character in Look Who's Talking of the 'creep boss who gets Kirstie Alley pregnant and then won't leave his wife' was based on him.

Thanks. I also have a video about Harold and Belushi working together on stage at Second City and in the National Lampoon. There's a little bit of overlap with this video, but it also includes similar soundbytes from an interview he gave Bob Costas five years later, plus archival clips of Ramis and Belushi working together. And if you enjoyed Bobbie Wygant talking to these three, you may also enjoy my playlist where she talks to Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, and Sigourney Weaver. It's also got her actual Ghostbusters press junket chat with Murray (the one in this video was for Razor's Edge), a 1980 chat she did with John Candy, her GB2 interview with Murray, and even a bonus second interview with Dan Aykroyd by a different interviewer from the same press junket.

@@LextheRobot Thank you so much

Yes. At the time of this interview he was best known for co-writing (with Carl Bernstein) the Watergate expose', All the President's Men. In the 1974 movie version, the two then-Washington Post reporters were played respectively by Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.

Apples to oranges friend. John Belushi was on top of the world when he passed and was there was literally only one person who John ever listened to in order to get clean, and that was his wife Judith. He had a good run during the filming of Animal House, where he managed to actual lay off the booze and drugs the entire time(since she was on set as a chaperone) and pretty much all the way up to '81, until he set off to L.A, where all hell broke loose. Even his closest friends knew the impending doom, the moment Judy stayed in NYC. They just knew they'd never see him again, and there wasn't a thing they could do! You cannot blame his closest friends, who were really just a bunch of nobodies(like Carrey and Davidson at the time), compared to John's star power. Not only would John not listen to them, the powers that be in Hollywood would've prevented them from taking him anywhere, since he was being shopped with multiple scripts each day! He was trapped in that God forsaken shithole, with only one person in the world who could've saved him, and she may as well been on the moon. If anyone should take the brunt of the blame, its his stupid manager handing him over a thousand in cash, knowing he'd blow it on dope after a meeting with Paramount Pictures Michael Eisner, who wanted him to star in some low brow comedy film, in which he'd wear an effing adult diaper for 3/4 of it. He told his manager he'd seriously consider it(which was a bunch of bs, since Akroyd already told him of Ghostbusters) if he'd give him a large amount of cash on the spot. His manager knew damn well John didn't have that kind of money of him, since his finances were taken care of by his wife, for that EXACT reason! He, of all people knew giving a bachelor John Belushi that kind of money in Hollywood, is like handing a monkey a loaded AK 47. But like Dan said in this interview, John had a certain aura and magnetic personality about him, in which he could convince a stranger off the street to rob a bank with him, just as a prank. Maybe the manager fell under that same hypnotism, just like the drug dealer Cathy Smith did, by injecting him over 9 times in one night!!! Not many drug dealers out there, who want to actively kill their best clients? I'm betting he convinced her in some way to keep the party going, which ultimately killed him in the end, combined with his poor health? Even Jim Carrey in his prime, couldn't have saved Belushi.