Today in Jim Belushi: Stephen Colbert says he slapped Belushi onstage once

Sometimes, in the midst of a committed “yes, and” things can go horribly awry. Just ask Stephen Colbert, who, on the latest episode of his podcast, Strike Force Five, told co-hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver about the time he slapped Jim Belushi. It all began in Colbert’s Second City days when he would play improv games like “Freeze Tag” on stage. The game requires two performers to begin a scene. Then, a third actor calls “freeze,” tags out one performer, and starts a new scene. We promise this is the last we explain the rules of an improv game in this newswire.

Anyway, Colbert says that fellow Second City performer Jim Belushi would regularly “slap people on stage” to get a “shock reaction” from the audience. “He has these big old meathook hands,” Colbert said. “So he would pick someone who he felt like, ‘That guy’s not gonna hit me back.’ And he would jack them.” While Colbert “1,000%” got the joke of slapping people on stage—if we don’t—he did recall a time when things went “a little bit too far.”