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    Larry 'Bud' Melman Shuffles Off Mortal, Late Night Sidekick Coil

    By Mark, 8:40 PM on Wed Mar 21 2007, 5,242 views (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

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    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.

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