Aykroyd: 'Belushi would've been on Broadway'

Dan Aykroyd has insisted that his late Blues Brothers co-star John Belushi would have enjoyed working on Broadway.

The Yogi Bear actor told The AP that if his close friend had lived he might have moved on from the broad comedies that he had become known for.

"He was very intellectual, John, and he was very well versed in theatre and books and literature, science," he said. "He would be probably one of the top Broadway directors, doing really, really special work, doing Shakespeare, doing Congreve, doing Shaw."

Aykroyd added: "That's the calibre of work he'd be doing. Although the rest of us would still be making buddy comedies, he would have definitely risen above all of that and gone on to do really important work."

The two stars were members of the original cast of Saturday Night Live and later went on to appear in three feature films together before Belushi died of a drug overdose in 1982.

Earlier this week, Aykroyd lamented that he still misses Belushi on a daily basis.