It feels like a scene out of Jimmy Fallon’s Tonightmares, nevertheless it was truly a part of one thing a lot scarier — Fallon’s tepid romantic comedy with Drew Barrymore, Fever Pitch. Whereas filming the 2005 film with the Farrelly Brothers, the Saturday Evening Dwell veteran had an odd request: He needed to spend some high quality time speaking to the grave of John Belushi.
“I cherished Belushi’s power,” Fallon gushed to Howard Stern this week. “I like that he might sing. You guys would have been mates.”
Positive, a number of individuals cherished Belushi. However why did Fallon wish to go to the lifeless? Primarily as a result of he was close by. “I am going to Martha’s Winery, I’m at Peter Farrelly’s,” he remembered. “I am going, Belushi’s grave is out right here someplace, like in the course of a subject.”
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Farrelly confirmed Fallon’s intel. “Do you wish to go to it proper now?”
Go to the grave of an SNL legend? Fallon didn’t should be requested twice. “That is the midnight, in all probability 10 o’clock at night time,” remembered Fallon. “(Farrelly) goes, ‘Nice, get a six-pack of beer out of the fridge and let’s simply go proper now.’”
Fallon, Barrymore and Farrelly piled into the automobile and headed off into the night time. “He dropped me off at Belushi’s grave, which is only a rock,” Fallon mentioned. “After which he left, him and Drew took off. I used to be there for an hour.”
A youthful Stern would have goofed on Fallon for haunting a gravesite with a six-pack of Sam Adams, however the current-day model was impressed. “Did you sit down and have a dialog with Belushi and drink a beer?” Stern puzzled. “I might see you doing that.”
In fact, confirmed Fallon. However when Stern requested concerning the dialog, the Tonight Present host performed coy at first. “I imply, it’s between me and John,” mentioned Fallon a couple of story he clearly pitched to Stern’s producers throughout his pre-show interview. Like Carly Simon, who by no means revealed the topic of “You’re So Useless,” Fallon mentioned, “I’ll by no means inform.”
Then Fallon instantly instructed. “I simply mentioned thanks and I like him and I want he was round,” he mentioned. “I’d love to speak to him. I’d love to hang around with him. I needed to inform him that, , Saturday Evening Dwell is doing nicely and persons are nonetheless having enjoyable and it’s the very best present.”
Stern interrupted with a number of “wows” however Fallon pressed on. “I used to be simply speaking to him. I don’t know if he might hear me or what,” he mentioned. “I would return. It was nice — one-sided, however .”
Fallon additionally revealed another reason he caught round that night time and stored the dialog going along with his idol: “There was no means house.”
