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Caplan: Dan Aykroyd was on and that was huge for me.

And yes, Chase was the original anchor, but Murray left him out and rounded out the top three with Curtin and Dan Aykroyd, MacDonald and lastly, his brother Brian Doyle-Murray.

Early classics include Radner’s “The Judy Miller Show, Live From Her Bedroom,” Aykroyd’s self-destroying Julia Child, an aged Belushi visiting the Not Ready for Prime Time cemetery as the only surviving cast member, Chase and host Richard Pryor in an escalating, racially charged word association test.

In 1978, the Blues Brothers — comedians John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd — released a cover of “Soul Man” that went to No. 14 on the Hot 100; the renewed attention propelled Sam & Dave for a few more years until they played their final gig together in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve in 1981.

Paula Davis, a young assistant, remembers going to Shuster’s apartment on an errand and finding Aykroyd in her bed.