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John Mulaney Shares What Lorne Michaels Told Him About John Belushi: ‘He Didn’t Want to Die’

John Mulaney shared Lorne Michaels' words to him about late 'SNL' great John Belushi on 'My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman.'

The comedian's own dad, Chip, also revealed his side of his son's famous McDonald's joke on David Letterman's My Next Guest Needs No Introduction A few moments later, Letterman asked Mulaney if, in light of his own stint on Saturday Night Liv e, he’d ever found himself thinking about John Belushi, the early SNL great who died from an overdose in 1982. Mulaney quipped that Michaels mostly “went on about how Peacock wasn’t launching well on Samsung devices,” but at one point, the SNL creator said: “I knew John Belushi for seven years.

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