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Star Trek Parody With John Belushi

This is one of my favorite skits from the old Saturday Night Live cast. I read in a book about Saturday Night Live that Belushi always held back in rehearsal and this was no exception. Michael O’Donoghue wrote the skit (he came from National Lampoon and in my opinion was one the greatest comedy writers in our time) and was really pissed off because Belushi was doing a lousy job at imitating Capt. Kirk. O’Donoghue told him he was doing a shitty job and Belushi just laughed and said, “I’ll nail it when we’re on air.” Saturday night came and O’Donoghue said in the story that he was watching from the wings and was floored when Belushi did a spot-on Capt. Kirk.

Chevy Chase plays Mr. Spock and Dan Aykyroyd does double duty as both Scotty and Dr. McCoy. And now live from YouTube...it’s Saturday Night!

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[biff]

that was the only version of star trek i ever liked.