I hadn't seen a pic of him in a long while.
Not that I've been looking very hard...
Posted on 05/24/2019 9:25:12 PM PDT by ETL
Kanye West claimed liberals bully supporters of Donald Trump after being challenged on his political views by David Letterman on the comedian’s Netflix series.
West appeared in the new batch of episodes for Letterman’s interview series “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” where the duo sat down for an in-depth discussion on everything from fashion to music and politics.
West has been an outspoken supporter of the president, even publicly wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat on “Saturday Night Live” and visiting the Oval Office last year.
According to The Daily Beast, West was the first to bring up his Trump support with Letterman in the midst of a conversation about the #MeToo movement.
“This is like my thing with Trump — we don’t have to feel the same way, but we have the right to feel what we feel,” he said.
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I hadn't seen a pic of him in a long while.
Not that I've been looking very hard...
Letterman looks like a diseased street dweller.
Letterman had a secret rape/coerced sex room on his Tonight set. He has not gotten the Harvey Weinstein treatment....YET!
Just sad that he's turned into a miserable little prick.
Kanye West makes more sense than David Letterman. I’m liking this one.
He used to be good. Then he devolved...
It’s absolutely mind-boggling and pathetic. Him and Jim Carrey have completely turned into sniveling douchebags.
Too bad about Dave. His humor and mine are on the same wav length, but he got bitter after he was not anointed Carson’s successor, and it got worse as time went on.
Bud was the perfect foil for David in the early days.
Bus was everything David was not, short, stubby, old, bi-focaled, skimpy snow white hair, as opposed to David’s Jerri-Curl look, an expression-free poker face, formal appearing,
Not the best story teller either.
With Willie Nelson weed.
During my wild University days in the 90s, I’d stay up eating pizza and watching the Late Night show
Same here. Also, Late Night with Conan O’Brien.
His late-blossoming television career began with a New York University student film project called King of the Zs, by future Letterman writers Stephen Winer and Karl Tiedemann, who brought him along when they joined the Late Night writing staff.[1]
The Associated Press noted: “DeForest’s gnomish face was the first to greet viewers when Letterman’s NBC show debuted on February 1, 1982, offering a parody of the prologue to the Boris Karloff film Frankenstein.
‘It was the greatest thing that had happened in my life,’ he once said of his first Letterman appearance.”[4]
On Late Night, DeForest played the role of Larry “Bud” Melman. Melman had no fixed or defined role on the show; Late Night talent coordinator Sandra Furton described him as a “mascot”.[5]
He was simply an older, short, portly man with thick black-framed glasses who was seen relatively frequently, especially in the early years.
In the first few years of the show, the Melman character was somewhat of an entrepreneur, appearing in ads for “Melman Bus Lines” as well as for “Mr. Larry’s Toast On A Stick” (”Bread’s answer to the Popsicle!”).
He was also ostensibly the producer of the show as the head of “Melman Productions”, although this facet of the character was quickly dropped.
The character’s teenage son, Troy “Chipper” Melman (who rarely spoke, and usually just coughed uncontrollably) was seen occasionally alongside his father in various ads.
Outside the pre-taped ads, Melman would sometimes be given odd chores to perform by Letterman, such as handing out hot towels to arrivals at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
At other times, Melman would give (pre-scripted) answers to unlikely audience questions, or appear at unexpected moments to heckle Letterman or the audience.
Melman also appeared numerous times as “Kenny The Gardener,” offering dubious gardening advice to home viewers, followed by a song performed in an inimitably tuneless-but-enthusiastic style.
Occasionally, Melman would just simply wander onto the stage during Letterman’s monologue as if lost, then leave without saying anything.
A hallmark of the Melman character was his seemingly genuine lack of acting polish.
Melman’s scripted lines were clearly read from cue cards and usually delivered in a forceful shout—but when Letterman or others forced “Melman” into ad-libbing, the actor’s naturally more soft-spoken and polite nature came to the forefront.
As well, Melman routinely fluffed or mangled lines, but gamely persevered with whatever sketch he was in.
He was also noted for his remote interviews in which he would ask the interviewee a question, but pitch the microphone to the interviewee too quickly, resulting in the last part of the question being inaudible.
When Letterman moved from NBC to CBS in 1993, the Melman name was retired, as NBC insisted that the character of “Larry ‘Bud’ Melman” was their intellectual property.
However, starting from the very first edition of Late Show with David Letterman, DeForest continued to play exactly the same character he had played on Late Night — he now simply used his own name to do so.
DeForest often “drew laughs by his bizarre juxtaposition as a Late Show correspondent at events such as the 1994 Winter Olympics in Norway and the Woodstock anniversary concert that year.”[4]
One of DeForest’s more memorable skits came on Letterman’s May 13, 1994 show in Los Angeles.
The host stated Johnny Carson would announce the evening’s Top 10 list, at which point DeForest appeared as “Johnny Carson.”
Shortly after DeForest’s exit, the real Johnny Carson appeared in what would prove to be Carson’s last television appearance.
DeForest continued to appear on Letterman’s show until his 81st birthday in 2002 before retiring from acting.
He had appeared in 15 outside films or TV shows since he began his association with Letterman in 1982.
Letterman noted after DeForest’s death: “Everyone always wondered if Calvert was an actor playing a character, but in reality he was just himself: a genuine, modest and nice man.
To our staff and to our viewers, he was a beloved and valued part of our show, and we will miss him.”[4][6]
When asked how he’d like to be remembered, DeForest responded, “Just being able to make people laugh and knowing people enjoyed my humor.
I also hope I haven’t offended anyone through the years.”[7]
Letterman was great back in the NBC days. Larry Bud Melman ringing in the first day of Spring in Times Square was best comedy I’ve ever seen on television.
When Letterman switched to CBS in the 90’s the show was still good but had lost its edge.
But during the GWB administration the show went total crap. Letterman hated Bush and turned what had been a comedy show into the kind of leftist pablum that is typical today. Totally unwatchable.
Here’s a link to the YouTube search results for “Larry Bud Melman”.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=larry+bud+melman
I NEVER, EVER thought I would have ANY respect for Kanye, no less more than just a little.
Vulgar songs and antics and now he’s one of the few in the public media eye to step up for Trump.
You just NEVER KNOW who it will be.
And obviously many were STILL too cowardly to come forward.
Either that or there are that few in media that like Trump.
No loss there.
Good for Kanye.
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