flaherty, but she always found a way to endear herself to the audience. >> i consider myself a circus performer, working without a net. i'm on a tightrope. and if i'm bombing, you're going to see it in my face. and if they're not laughing, do something. get louder. you know, do anything. you're working for the audience. and one day i got a phone call and it was john belushi. ♪ he said, you know, this is john belushi. do you want to be the girl in the show? and i say it in those words because that's what he needed, a girl to be in the show. who is going to be the girl? >> this on? you. you be the girl. >> okay. ♪