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...what, anyway, is a comedy character? "There was no Larry 'Bud' Melman character," says Merrill Markoe, Late Night's first head writer. "It was just Calvert being unable to read cue cards particularly well. It was a trait with which he was so consistent that we could call it a character. That was the character: there was no character." As for Stupid Pet Tricks, Markoe dreamed it up for Letterman's NBC 1980 morning show -- which he, not NBC, owns -- and reused it on Late Night. "I came up with a really good sequel to Stupid Pet Tricks," adds Markoe...
...Cue card used by David Letterman on his last Late Night broadcast, Friday, June...
...changed my style of teaching and the students have noticed it," says Bretscher, who says his CUE rating has declined from a 4.8 to a 4.0 since he has become less accessible. "It only got me into trouble...
...Heinicke '93, one of the principal authors of the amended constitution and bylaws, says the idea for the council's reevaluation committee, an internal board devised to examine the council, stemmed from the "unfortunate" election scandal involving former Vice Chair Maya G. Prabhu '94. "That was really a cue to move forward," Heinicke says...
...Conan the host. For Michaels, it was evidently an epiphany; to NBC, it was madness. But since Michaels is, in NBC's desperate post-Tartikoff era, the only putative in-house genius, his notion was not summarily dismissed. A few days later, O'Brien, with no preparation and no cue cards, hosted his make-believe show on the Tonight show set. "The kid is no pro," says an NBC programmer who watched the test, but immediately the network took him more seriously, and, unbeknown to Bob Costas, even offered him the 1:35 a.m. slot now occupied by Costas' talk...