The original run ofSaturday Night Livealso coincided with the heyday of cocaine use in America.
“Back then, the big drug was cocaine,” Chase said onClub Random With Bill Maher.
Anyway, I had it on the piano of the stage.
Chevy Chase and John Belushi were on the original cast of ‘Saturday Night Live’ together.NBC/NBCU Photo Bank; Everett Collection
After I played just a little bit, it’s gone.
I had no idea how.
Obviously I was looking at my hands at the moment that John swooped in and took it.
So I immediately said, ‘Belushi, did you take my coke?’
‘No, what are you talking about?'"
Belushi died from a drug overdose on March 5, 1982.
Later in the podcast, Chase recalled how the tragic news was broken to him by paparazzi.
“‘How do you feel about the death of John?’
I didn’t know yet that John Belushi died.
It just shocked me.
There I was stuck with these people…. What a horrible thing.”
