Reply #9: I bet this is BS

[DemPopulist]

I doubt anyone at the show actually said this, much less to Drudge.

"Would we have done this to Belushi? Farley?" the source said on Sunday from New York.

The source asked not to be identified fearing retribution from SNL's executive producer Lorne Michaels.

"We've had more fu**ing drug addicts on this show through the years... more tragedy. I have lost count. Did we ever have some laughs about Robert Downey Jr.'s serious drug addiction?"

Not only does this "source" not sound like an SNL insider, it sounds like someone who's never watched the show! When Downey hosted in '96 or '97 (sometime after he served time for drug use), half the show contained jokes and sketches about his drug and legal problems. When Farley hosted a few months before his death, there were allusions to his stint in rehab. And anybody that remembers the old show or has watched it in reruns knows that there were a ton of jokes about Belushi's drug use. Yeah, not many Farley/Belushi jokes after they OD'ed. But then, the deceased are a little more off-limits for parody than a (hypocritical) junkie that's still alive and bloviating.

This sounds like Freeper logic to me, so I'm guessing Drudge either made this up or it comes from someone whose connection to the show is very tenuous.