'He was a radical': John Belushi remembered by his wife and fellow comics

[North Shore Chicago]

1. From 2011

Jane Curtin appeared on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Tuesday as part of a panel on women in comedy, sitting alongside Tina Fey and Chevy Chase, among others. Known for her Coneheads sketches and Weekend Update anchoring, Curtin said that the women writers on the show were often unable to contribute their work thanks to sabotage by the show’s men. Especially breakout star John Belushi.

“Their battles were constant. They were working against John, who said women are just fundamentally not funny,” Curtin said. “So you’d go to a table read, and if a woman writer had written a piece for John, he would not read it in his full voice. He felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces written by women.”

Fey said that she was indebted to Curtin, and thanks to her, things had changed at “SNL” by the time she got there.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/john-belushi-sexist-jane-curtain_n_848646