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...host was Justin Bond, backed by the piano stylings of Kenny Melman. He kept the event afloat with his lithe sarcasm. ("If I could love," he told one singer, "I would love you very much.") But the 500 or so attendees standing on that pier really came to life when Mitchell bounded onstage, singing forcefully, dancing with a practiced frenzy, showing the audience and the other performers what stage presence really...
With the mention of this, a double for the former Larry 'Bud' Melman appeared from behind the section dedicated to the culinary arts. He enquired as to my year in school. I replied that I was to be a first-year in Cambridge this fall...
...midst of a televised cross-country tour, the duo are clear successors to veteran Letterman foil Larry ("Bud") Melman -- with one important difference. Melman was a character played by actor Calvert DeForest. Mujibur Rahman, 34, and Sirajul Islam, 39 ("the boys," as Letterman calls them), are real New Yorkers -- and a real problem for their fellow emigres, who have no illusions about what America is laughing...
...said of Letterman. "But the reality is . . . he walked out of our marriage." And so NBC picks a fight with flush CBS over comic ideas that were hackneyed when Letterman started using them; call it banalimony. That surely describes the high-level mud wrestling over De Forest's Melman. "If you have an actor who's a bumbler," asks Manhattan attorney Stanley Rothenberg, "do you prevent him from earning his living after this series is over? Do you say he can't go and bumble elsewhere...
...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...