{"id":616,"date":"2007-03-22T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/03\/22\/hello-dave\/"},"modified":"2007-03-22T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-22T19:23:47","slug":"hello-dave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Hello, Dave!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calvert DeForest &#8211; AKA Larry &#8220;Bud&#8221; Melman from the <em>David Letterman\u00a0<\/em>show\u00a0&#8211; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/675\/story\/1071476.html\">dead at 85<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Brooklyn-born DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, Letterman&#8217;s &#8220;Late Show&#8221; announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He made dozens of appearances on Letterman&#8217;s shows from 1982 through 2002, handling a variety of twisted duties: dueting with Sonny Bono on &#8220;I Got You, Babe,&#8221; doing a Mary Tyler Moore impression during a visit to Minneapolis, handing out hot towels to arrivals at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone always wondered if Calvert was an actor playing a character, but in reality he was just himself &#8211; a genuine, modest and nice man,&#8221; Letterman said in a statement. &#8220;To our staff and to our viewers, he was a beloved and valued part of our show, and we will miss him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hard to even remember which Melman bit I liked the best&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calvert DeForest &#8211; AKA Larry &#8220;Bud&#8221; Melman from the David Letterman\u00a0show\u00a0&#8211; is dead at 85: The Brooklyn-born DeForest, who was 85, died Monday at a hospital on Long Island, Letterman&#8217;s &#8220;Late Show&#8221; announced Wednesday. He made dozens of appearances on Letterman&#8217;s shows from 1982 through 2002, handling a variety of twisted duties: dueting with Sonny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}