SciFi Diner Podcast Ep. 167
Special Edition Episode:
Jay Smith from H.G. World Interviews Dan Aykroyd
(Ghostbusters, Saturday Night Live, The Blues Brothers)
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Tonight’s Discussion:
Jay Smith, from H.G. World, had the distinct pleasure of interviewing Dan Aykroyd of Ghostbusters, Saturday Night Live,and The Blues Brothers fame. This is one interview you will not want to miss. There is even discussion on the up and coming Ghostbusters movie.
Jay Smith
Expelled from Clown College at the age of 28, Jay Smith has tried several careers, including shop clerk, professional door mat, consumer crisis management, traveling wig salesman and hall monitor in a nursing home. In 1999, he and a bunch of drunk friends produced a film about a psychotic Viking spirit released from a cursed copier called “The Revenge of Ringo”. Not sufficiently humiliated by the experience, Jay wrote a novelized sequel to the film entitled “Rise of the Monkey Lord”.
Jay has written several audio drama scripts, which help keep him warm by filling the holes in the walls created during Jay’s many bouts of impotent rage at his abject career failure.
“HG WORLD” is the story of a small town riding out a global zombie uprising from inside the walls of a massive House and Garden warehouse in the rurals of north-central Pennsylvania.
Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd is a Canadian comedian, singer, actor and screenwriter. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an originator of The Blues Brothers (with John Belushi) and Ghostbusters, and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter.
In 1990, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Driving Miss Daisy.
As a young man, Dan Aykroyd was a postal worker. His first success on the verge of show business came in 1972, when he produced, wrote, and appeared in Change for a Quarter, a no-budget 15-minute cable comedy show. Later that year he was invited to join the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto, where he stayed through 1974. After that, Aykroyd was an original Not Ready for Prime-Time Player on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, alongsideChevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, and Aykroyd’s best friend from Second City, John Belushi.