David Letterman stalwart Calvert DeForest passed away at about age 86. Very--extremely unintentionally--funny guy, and the perfect nerd foil for Letterman's proto-postmodernism.
Here's a clip of DeForest in action from early in the Letterman's show's run at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal, interviewing a driver and several women who look like my aunts, as they arrive in Fun City:
"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west, and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... Now you tell me what you know."--Groucho Marx