One summer evening, back in the ‘80s, I filed into a Chicago theater and beheld my city on the big screen, pretty much for the first time. I saw "The Blues Brothers," the crazy car-crash comedy ...

Saturday Night Live over the decades has served as a building block for comedians, using that platform as a way to get your name out there and eventually spin their popularity into other ventures. One ...

At several points in “The Blues Brothers” (1980), for no particular reason except the glee of destruction, police cruisers chasing the titular rogue siblings go airborne, spiral, smash into one ...

Fans of “The Blues Brothers” have been looking forward to the return of a festival billed as the world’s greatest tribute to the iconic 1980 film. After being postponed in 2023 due to the Screen ...

Jim Belushi is sharing fond memories of The Blues Brothers’ first appearance on Saturday Night Live. “When John and Danny entered that first time, nobody knew what was going to happen,” the actor and ...

Does “The Blues Brothers” deserve a book? In the pantheon of gloriously dumb movie comedies derived from “Saturday Night Live” and the National Lampoon, the 1980 John Belushi-Dan Aykroyd R&B farce ...

You know them as Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues, the brothers who are paroled from an Illinois State Prison and embark on a “mission from God” to keep tax officials from foreclosing on the Catholic ...

The Blues Brothers is a 1980 musical comedy film directed by John Landis, featuring comedy legends John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd as Jake and Elwood Blues. These characters were initially created for ...

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The following is adapted from “The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic,” published March 19 by Atlantic Monthly Press. The author ...