John Belushi’s Samurai Delicatessen with Buck Henry | SNL Classic One of the sketches that defined early Saturday Night Live: John Belushi’s “Samurai Delicatessen” (1975). Belushi’s over-the-top Samurai character slices through sandwiches, walls, and anything in sight—while Buck Henry plays the straight man, the unlucky customer just trying to order lunch. The contrast between Belushi’s wild physical comedy and Henry’s deadpan reactions made the sketch a timeless SNL moment. This was the birth o

Belushi providing some harmonic assistance to John Sebastian during his performance of “Welcome Back” on Saturday Night Live in ‘76. 🎶 | John Belushi

John Belushi died March 5, 1982 — only 33. Four days later, the people who loved him did something very un-Hollywood: they went quiet. They flew to Martha’s Vineyard and kept it private. No spectacle. Just grief. The service was held at the West Tisbury Congregational Church, then they headed to Abel’s Hill Cemetery in Chilmark. About 100 friends and family. And on the day they buried him, snow was falling — the kind of detail that makes the whole thing feel unreal. And then came the image you c