"Hokusai & Ukiyo-e" Invites Visitors to Journey Back in Time Through an Art Collection Making Its U.S. Debut and Interactive Experiences Including an Immersive Manga & Anime Exhibit, Silk & Samurai Se ...

Belushi hopped into the band, started a call-and-response routine, threatened a member of the horn section with his samurai sword, then tried to play a saxophone in various unusual ways.

But Farley plays it like the second coming of Belushi’s diner or samurai characters. Matt’s also one of Farley’s signature characters.

When SNL premiered in 1975, one of its breakout stars was John Belushi. Not only did he delight TV audiences with madcap sketches like “Samurai Night Fever,” but Belushi was on his way to becoming a ...

However, John Belushi was not simply playing a samurai who was white in all his various sketches about a samurai who runs whatever business. No, in the samurai SNL sketches, Belushi is playing a ...

Her first book, “Samurai Widow” — the title is a reference to one of Mr. Belushi’s best-known characters on “Saturday Night Live” — was published in 1990; she and Tanner Colby later ...

Judy Belushi-Pisano, an actor and the widow of “ Saturday Night Live ” star John Belushi, died Friday, according to social media posts shared by the Belushi estate. She was 73.

In the years following his death, Pisano dedicated herself to honoring Belushi’s legacy, notably penning a 1990 memoir Samurai Widow under her then-name Judith Jacklin Belushi in response to Bob ...

Belushi had become famous by imitating Joe Cocker and practicing samurai moves in Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center, where SNL is still filmed today. But the two friends — experts in comedy ...