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A case of the blues

he Blues Brothers were a deadly serious joke. Devised in the late ’70s by comedian Dan Aykroyd and his co-star/best friend John Belushi, the act was a sincere tribute to the black blues and soul music they loved. It was also veiled in deadpan irony – Aykroyd and Belushi were fully aware of the inherent absurdity of two white comedians, one Canadian the other Albanian-American, presenting themselves as a funky Sam & Davestyled antidote to the disco era. They sent themselves up but is the greatest R&B musical-comedy-action-cartoon-car-chase extravaganza ever made.

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