From the Los Angeles Centennial:
Although he is only referred to as “Crowd #3″ in the scripts, background character Lester Cornblooth was a beloved fixture on the Orlando’s Joint set. He has memorable one-liners in episodes 5 (“You whack, yo.”) and 9 (“You’re on the front page, yo, this joint is famous!”), and was about to pitch ideas for expanding his role when he got the pink slip.
“Lester always showed up on time, and didn’t eat too many of the snacks so I dug having him around,” said series creator Terence Anthony. “It sucks I had to can him, but since I’m not a big Wall Street corporation there’s no government bail-out for me in these tough times.”
“I really got some good response from my lines and I had a whole mess of ideas to keep the momentum going, yo,” said Lester. “Like I was thinking I could have my own seat in the Coffee Joint so I could always be sitting there saying one-liners, like Norm in ‘Cheers’. No seat for me now.”
Cornblooth is unclear if he will remain in show-business in the future.
“I been calling ‘The Cleveland Show’ show but haven’t heard nothing. I’m looking into becoming an unlicensed plumber, yo.”
It figures that the rapacious MadJoint, Inc. and its self-serving CEO Terence Anthony would lay the the collapse of their stock at the feet of work-a-day cast members and laborers like Lester Cornblooth. While Anthony is technically correct that he personally is “not a big Wall Street corporation,” a recent SEC filing shows the extent of his compensation package with MadJoint, a corporation that held its most recent “board meeting” in the Seychelles. I urge Lester and everyone else to expose MadJoint for their cavalier treatment of the little people who got them where they are today, and to think seriously before agreeing to watch future free MadJoint video offerings.