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...late night in September. David Letterman is on CBS, with the same bits he perfected (but maybe didn't patent) on his NBC show: running animals through stupid tricks and Calvert De Forest -- Larry "Bud" Melman to you -- through the humiliation gauntlet. Chevy Chase is on Fox, reprising the Weekend Update routine from his early stint on NBC's Saturday Night Live. So what does that leave for beleaguered NBC and its corporate parent, General Electric? To stick with the lunch-pail charisma of Jay Leno at 11:30. To hope that Conan O'Brien (Dave's 12:30 replacement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stupid Talk-Show Tricks | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

Beth L. Pinsker '93 is the assistant editorial chair of The Harvard Crimson. She spent spring of '91 as an interm for "Late Night With David Letterman," researching her thesis, "'Larry Bad' Melman: American Hero...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: The First Line of Defense Against America's Nuts: | 9/21/1991 | See Source »

Late Night with David Letterman (NBC, 1982- ). While waiting for Johnny Carson to retire, Dave went out and reinvented the talk show. After nearly eight years of NBC jokes, stupid pet tricks and Larry ("Bud") Melman, his video fun house is as inventive and fiercely funny as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Best of the Decade: Video | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

This year's awardees are: Kyu-Chul Choi, from Seoul, South Korea; Monica Flores Correa, from Buenos Aires, Argentina; Yossi Melman, from Tel Aviv, Israel; and Goenawan Mohamad from Jakarta, Indonesia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nieman Fellows Named | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

Okay, so he doesn't look like a first-round draft pick, or even a free agent from the CBA. And he probably belongs on Letterman with Larry "Bud" Melman instead on the Utah bench...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Eight FAN-tastic NBA Season Facts | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

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