shuster, but john belushi didn't want to do sketches written by women. >> i like sirloin steak, i like american food. don't push me, i mean it! >> john used to regularly ask for the women to be fired on the show, because chicks just weren't funny. >> awful! awful! couldn't be worse! >> really enough to make you want to puke your guts out. >> it was an uphill battle. lauren used to come around to me and rosy and say, so what have you got for the girls? we felt an obligation to cover them, because the men didn't write that much for them. [ laughing ] >> but, seriously. >> they started to write more for gilda, because gilda was very outgoing. and you know, she was more of a proven laugh getter. >> when i saw gilda radner, my mind was blown.