Calvert DeForest, RIP

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― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Top Five LBM Moments:

5. Handing out hot towels.
4. Moving the mic away to his subject in mid-question.
3.. "This is CBS!"
2. Seeing him walk by while loitering in NBC lobby circa. 1988.
1. Calvert DeForest IS... Roy Orbison.

― Pleasant Plains, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

awww, rest in peace

― kingfish, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

RIP

― latebloomer, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

this must be why dave was out last night

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

RIP

I knew all about Larry Bud Melman years before I ever saw Letterman's show, thanks to Cracked and Mad magazines.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:33 (nineteen years ago)

awww

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:50 (nineteen years ago)

we had the same birthday ;_;

― ghost rider, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 22 March 2007 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

0. His appearance in Run DMC's "King Of Rock" video

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 22 March 2007 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

oh no!!!

;__;

― Eisbaer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

no funeral service?!?!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 22 March 2007 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

It's not unheard of.

Rest in peace.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 22 March 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

RIP!

jesus he was great, especially back in the NBC days.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 22 March 2007 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

No YouTube clips posted yet? Heavens, people.

Enjoy the hot towels

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

In a bear suit looking for change

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 03:58 (nineteen years ago)

And that very first appearance on the very first show

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 March 2007 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

ah I missed this thread...

He was discovered by a couple guys I know who cast them in their NYU student films. When Dave hired them as writers, they had to have Calvert as well.

that Orbison impression: "Murthy."

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 22 March 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

no wai

;__;

― King Boy Pato, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

And I don't get warm towels at the Port Authority Bus Terminal, btw.

― King Boy Pato, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

I was amused at the obits that said "actor," though.

I'd forgotten the most hysterical element of his "Man in the Street" interviewer segments -- from [Removed Illegal Link]:

Better yet were the countless segments that sent Melman into the world as Letterman's "representative." He was the least professional TV personality imaginable; when he interviewed people, he'd begin a question holding the microphone close to his face, then jerk the microphone away midway through the question so that the rest of it was inaudible.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

again...

The House Next Door

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 March 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

He also did some commercials. One of his 1-800 Collect ads (the one where he tries to call Seattle) was put to great use in the Grunge doc Hype!

― C. Grisso/McCain, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

thanks, Ned. Exactly what I needed today. :)

― kenan, Friday, 23 March 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

"thanks, phone dude!"

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

He would've been a great co-star for Edith Massey, no? Very similar ... style.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 23 March 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

He attended Poly Preparatory Country Day School in Brooklyn.

that's where i took my SAT!

― get bent, Friday, 23 March 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

This Is A Rock and Roll Museum, You Guys Don't Belong In Here.

― C. Grisso/McCain, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

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