Larry (Bud) Melman RIP
Larry (Bud) Melman of the Letterman Show died earlier this week. In later years, because of a copyright dispute between CBS and NBC he used his real name Calvert DeForest.
He of exotic, yet uncertain physiognomy, and a countenance of perhaps a deer in the headlights, Larry (Bud), as I will always know him, was not what many have described him as; a regular guy pushed into irregular situations for laughs.
Everything about him was uncommon. A face that could draft notice as extreme as Beelzebub stealing candy from infants, or as innocent as a towel boy at a two cent pay toilet. He knew what he was doing. He was not, as it may have seemed sometimes, the amatuer act pushed onstage at the last minute because the headliner didn't show. One cannot post indelibly upon my mind, forever and ever, as he has, and be a shnook.
He played one beautifully.
Joe Postove
He of exotic, yet uncertain physiognomy, and a countenance of perhaps a deer in the headlights, Larry (Bud), as I will always know him, was not what many have described him as; a regular guy pushed into irregular situations for laughs.
Everything about him was uncommon. A face that could draft notice as extreme as Beelzebub stealing candy from infants, or as innocent as a towel boy at a two cent pay toilet. He knew what he was doing. He was not, as it may have seemed sometimes, the amatuer act pushed onstage at the last minute because the headliner didn't show. One cannot post indelibly upon my mind, forever and ever, as he has, and be a shnook.
He played one beautifully.
Joe Postove
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