Seems my friend Jose has been beating me to the punch on such morbid news\u2026the loss of Larry \u2018Bud\u2019 Melman. That\u2019s what I get for not staying rudely glued to my iBook all night long when I should be participating in the Wednesday night D&D game.<\/p>\n
Larry was definitely a staple of the Eighties and a part of my generation\u2019s shared comedic experience (could I make that sound any more pretentious?). Personally, I feel he was one of the reasons for David Letterman\u2019s popularity because his appearances really made the show\u2019s non-sequitur humor work. You could never tell if Larry was playing along with the joke or he was a terrible actor or he had no idea what was going on but he read the lines he was given.<\/p>\n
I got the opportunity to meet him briefly in 1987 when he was the MC for a small comedy tour that came to Marquette. The headliner was Emo Philips with Rita Rudner opening. His autograph is shelved away along with a dozen others. It was pretty exciting to meet him because he was one of the first celebrities I helped WMUR (Marquette\u2019s excuse for a radio station for the tuition we paid) get station IDs for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seems my friend Jose has been beating me to the punch on such morbid news\u2026the loss of Larry \u2018Bud\u2019 Melman. That\u2019s what I get for not staying rudely glued to my iBook all night long when I should be participating … Continue reading