by myself. i used to have to drink a beer and eat a bag of potato chips first. >> when it came to improvisation she sometimes, you know, maybe wasn't as strong as, say, a dan aykroyd or joe 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's going to be the girl? >> this on?