It is with considerable sadness that we note that Calvert "Larrry 'Bud' Melman" DeForest has passed. The AP describes him as "gnomish" and a "balding, bespectacled nebbish," but we prefer to remember him as a vivacious, late night comic foil in a cheap bear suit just trying to make change for a ten dollar bill in an NBC hallway.

• Larry Bud Melman in a bear suit [YouTube]
• Letterman Regular 'Bud' Melman Dies [Breitbart]

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