Popular comedy stars in the 1980s included Dudley Moore, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd.

Devo also contributed two songs, " Theme from Doctor Detroit " and " Luv-Luv " to the 1983 Dan Aykroyd film Doctor Detroit, and produced a music video for " Theme from Doctor Detroit " featuring clips from the film with live action segments.

The Chambers were used as part of the location for The House of Mirth an adaptation of the novel by Edith Wharton by Terence Davies starring Gillian Anderson and Dan Aykroyd.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast, and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.

Many of the original cast of Saturday Night Live came from The Second City and the franchise has produced such comedy stars as Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Bob Odenkirk, Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Eugene Levy, Steve Carell, Chris Farley, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

* 1952 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor and screenwriter

Parodies of Popeil's infomercials were done on the comedy show Saturday Night Live by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy and the " Veg-O-Matic " may have provided comedian Gallagher inspiration for the " Sledge-O-Matic " routine since the 1980s.

The halftime show was titled " Blues Brothers Bash " and featured actors Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, and James Belushi as the Blues Brothers.

* Dan Aykroyd

* In episode 13 of the third season of Saturday Night Live, a sketch entitled " Miracle in Chicago " portrays Mayor Daley ( played by John Belushi ) appearing as a ghost to a pub owner and a customer ( played respectively by Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray ).

" Later in the film, when the brothers are driving rapidly through Chicago, Elwood ( Dan Aykroyd ) comments " If my estimations are correct, we should be very close to the Honorable Richard J. Daley Plaza.

Daniel Edward " Dan " Aykroyd, ( born July 1, 1952 ) is a Canadian comedian, singer, actor and screenwriter.

Had I lived in a different town I don't think that this would have happened, because it was just the confluence of educated government workers, and then also all the colleges in the area, Ottawa University, Carleton, and all the schools — these people were interested in blues culture .< ref > Still on a mission from God ; interview with Dan Aykroyd by Roger Gatchet, May 18, 2007, www. austinsound. net.

In 2009, Aykroyd contributed a series of reminiscences on his upbringing in Canada for a charity album titled Dan Aykroyd's Canada.

In 2005, Aykroyd produced a DVD titled, Dan Aykroyd: Unplugged on UFOs.

On September 29, 2009, Peter Aykroyd, brother of Dan Aykroyd, published a book entitled, A History of Ghosts.

It was later used in the film Blues Brothers 2000 ( 1998 ), where it was played during a scene where Elwood Blues ( Dan Aykroyd ) and Mack ( John Goodman ) leave two members of the Russian mob unconscious in an alley.

Other regularly appearing celebrities include film writer / director Spike Lee, attorney Alan Dershowitz, comedians Dan Aykroyd and James Belushi, politico Vernon Jordan, and television news reporters Diane Sawyer, former Ambassador and President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, William H. Luers and Charlayne Hunter-Gault.

Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy, and Dan Aykroyd have cameos at the airport.

A tribute to Candy was hosted by Dan Aykroyd at the 2007 Grey Cup festivities in Toronto in November 2007.

It features a large ensemble cast, including Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Alec Baldwin, Jon Voight, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Colm Feore, Mako, Tom Sizemore, Jaime King and Jennifer Garner.

* Dan Aykroyd as Captain Thurman

Ewanuick portrays Dan, a 30-something bartender who lives and works in the fictional city of Wessex, Ontario.

The dialog between Homer and the hobo at the end of the episode was ad-libbed by Azaria and Dan Castellaneta, who portrays Homer in the series.

At the end of the episode, when Homer is eating Pinchy, a lot of the dialogue was ad-libbed by Dan Castellaneta, who portrays Homer among other characters in the series.

As of January 2010, he portrays Dr. Dan as part of a series of Brighten Bay soap parody shorts advertising for Cheer laundry detergent.

" It was voiced by main cast member Dan Castellaneta, who portrays Homer among other characters in the series.

* Dan Aykroyd as Mack Sennett, an early Hollywood film producer

Georgia's former US Senator Sam Nunn ( now retired ), Indiana US Senator Dan Coats, former Florida US Senator Connie Mack, and former Georgia governor George Busbee ( now deceased ) also joined the firm after their retirement from public office.

Pi Studios is a computer game software developer founded in 2002 by Robert Erwin, John Faulkenbury, Rob Heironimus, Dan Kramer and Peter Mack whose first commercial work can be found in Activision's Call of Duty: United Offensive.

* Art by Alex Maleev, Dan Brereton, John Romita, Sr., Al Milgrom, Frank Cho, Jim Mahfood, Scott Morse, Craig Thompson, Michael Avon Oeming, Jason Pearson, Sean Phillips, Mark Bagley, Rodney Ramos, Bill Sienkiewicz, P. Craig Russell, Jacen Burrows, Walden Wong, Leonard Kirk, Terry Pallort, Dave Gibbons, Mike Gaydos, James Kochalka, David Mack, Brett Weldele, Ashley Wood, and Art Thibert

Some former popular KCMO personalities include Joe Kramer ( deceased ), Mike Murphy ( deceased ), Dave Dawson ( deceased ), psychologist Marshall Saper ( deceased ), Don Harrison ( to CNN, deceased ), Rusty Humphries ( nationally syndicated ), Rick Roberts ( to San Diego ), Freddy Mertz, Wes Minter, George Woods, Van Patrick, Dan Taylor, Chris Baker ( to Houston and Minneapolis and now back to Houston ), John Boss ( now with Clear Channel Los Angeles as John Davidson ), Claudia Lamb, Bill Waris ( deceased ), Russ Johnson ( to KOA and later KMBZ )( deceased ), Mike Shanin ( at KMBZ ), Jerry Fogel, Scott Mayman ( Australia ), Dan Roberts, Mike Throop, Mike McGee, Jack Ihrie ( retired, living in Arkansas ), Lafe Williams ( retired ), Joe Vaughan ( retired ), Ruth Baum ( retired ), Bill Cannaday ( deceased ), Harold Mack ( Grove ) ( retired ), Paul Fredrocks, Jamie McFerran, Dan Hurst, Dick Wolf, Brian Wilson, Don Mac Brown, Rick Tamblyn and Dale Ulmer ( to Milwaukee ).

* 1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator ( b. 1908 )

* What a Waste It Is to Lose One's Mind: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Dan Quayle, Quayle Quarterly ( published by Rose Communications ), April 1992, ISBN 0-9629162-2-6.

* Joe Queenan, Imperial Caddy: The Rise of Dan Quayle in America and the Decline and Fall of Practically Everything Else, Hyperion Books ; October 1992 ( 1st edition ).

Dan Goldin became NASA Administrator on April 1, 1992, officially abandoning plans for near-term human exploration beyond Earth orbit with the shift towards a " faster, better, cheaper " strategy for robotic exploration.

He was fired following the 1992 season, and replaced by former Denver Broncos ' coach Dan Reeves.

With I Am Legend, Matheson instituted the germ theory of vampirism, a take on the old archetype which has since been tackled by other writers ( notably, Dan Simmons in Children of the Night from 1992 ).

Denver fired Westhead prior to the 1992 – 93 season and hired former star player Dan Issel as his successor.

Also, in the 1970s Jerry Reed song " Amos Moses ," in the 1990s George Strait song " Adalida ," in Dan Baird's 1992 song " Dixie Beauxderaunt ," the 1999 Jimmy Buffett song " I will Play for Gumbo ," the 2008 Toby Keith song " Creole Woman ," and its name is the title of a song by jazz songstress Marcia Ball.

Dan Smith ( 1992 )-Percussion, Hand Claps

Phoenix was an investor in the original House of Blues ( founded by his good friend and Sneakers co-star Dan Aykroyd ) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which opened its doors to the public after serving a group of homeless people on Thanksgiving Day 1992 .< ref >

The intelligence of Dan Quayle, for instance, was repeatedly disparaged for his correcting a student's spelling of " potato " as the now non-standard " potatoe " at an elementary school spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey on June 15, 1992.

St. Stephen's Day, 9 January, is celebrated as the Day of the Republika Srpska or Dan Republike, though mainly as an anniversary of the 1992 events rather than as a religious feast.

In 1992, Mendel and his University of Washington housemate Dan Hoerner decided to form a band, and invited drummer William Goldsmith to form the group that would end up being named Sunny Day Real Estate.

In 1992, guitarist Dan Hoerner and bassist Nate Mendel met when they became housemates at the University of Washington.

* A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story ( 1992 ) ( TV movie ) ... Dan Broderick

* Her Final Fury: Betty Broderick, the Last Chapter ( 1992 ) ( TV movie ) ... Dan Broderick

During the 1992 presidential campaign, Vice President Dan Quayle used part of an interview between Gibson and Reform Party candidate Ross Perot to claim that Perot displayed contempt towards the United States Constitution.

* The Hollow Man ( 1992 novel ), a science fiction novel by the US writer Dan Simmons

* 1992: " This Year's Class Picture " by Dan Simmons

It achieved a high level of political notoriety in the 1992 presidential election when Dan Quayle mentioned the show in a campaign speech, afterwards known as the " Murphy Brown speech ".

On May 19, 1992, then Vice President Dan Quayle spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

* 1992: Lorraine Adams and Dan Malone, The Dallas Morning News, " for reporting that charged Texas police with extensive misconduct and abuses of power.

* In 1992, Dan O ' Bannon filmed a more faithful adaptation, The Resurrected, starring John Terry and Chris Sarandon.

The Desperate Dan books, featuring the comic book character Desperate Dan, were published in 1954, 1978, 1990, 1991 and 1992.