Quote Originally Posted by nativeNY63 View Post
Ditto. Dan Akroyd/John Belushi basically had a whole other career w/BB! Didn't it start on SNL?
Yep. It was a joke that wound up being one of the few successful SNL off-tube franchises. Belushi returned to the show [[which Aykroyd was still on) to perform. I don't know if the movie was already in the works, but take a look at the band with Duck Dunn and Steve Cropper: