Jane Curtin: Belushi Was Totally Sexist

You hear a lot of nostalgic reminiscing about John Belushi and how funny he was, but not from Jane Curtin. Yesterday on Oprah she recalled the "misogynistic environment" of Saturday Night Live in the 1970s, noting that Belushi was particularly to blame. "[John] said, 'Women are just fundamentally not funny,'" she recalled. "You'd go to a table read, and if a woman writer had written a piece for John, he would not read it in his full voice. He would whisper it. He felt as though it was his duty to sabotage pieces that were written by women." New York magazine has video. (More Saturday Night Live stories.)