Alan Kalter, Late Show With David Letterman Announcer, Dead at 78

Alan Kalter, who served as announcer on CBS’ Late Show With David Letterman for 20 years, has died on the age of 78, based on The Hollywood Reporter. He handed away Monday in a Connecticut hospital, his spouse Peggy confirms.

Kalter succeeded Letterman’s authentic announcer Invoice Wendell, who departed The Late Present in 1995. On display, Kalter incessantly performed a heightened model of himself, showing in a myriad of segments, typically as a sexual deviant. He additionally hosted show-within-a-show Alan Kalter’s Superstar Interview. He remained a fixture on The Late Present by way of Letterman’s retirement in 2015.

“RIP Alan Kalter,” former Late Present scribe Invoice Scheft wrote on Twitter. “A beautiful man, and as my previous boss would possibly say, a ‘excellent stooge.’”

Along with The Late Present, Kalter served as announcer on numerous recreation reveals together with To Inform the Fact and The $25,000 Pyramid, together with USA Community’s USA Saturday Nightmares and Commander USA’s Groovie Films within the Eighties, in addition to WrestleMania XXVII in 2011. He additionally appeared in two episodes of the early-aughts NBC dramedy Ed — which was co-produced by Letterman’s Worldwide Pants Integrated — as Principal Roger Gable. His final televised look got here in 2017, when Letterman was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor throughout a Kennedy Heart PBS particular.