There was always something of an angry undercurrent to a lot of Lewisâs wackier roles in the 1950s and 1960s. In a way, the smarmy TV comedian he played for Martin Scorsese in The King of Comedy is an extension of the monstrous lounge singer Buddy Love whom Lewis created for The Nutty Professor: an entertainer who oozes insincerity and misanthropy.
For the opera singer, see Nellie Melba. Melba toast is a dry, crisp and thinly sliced toast, often served with soup and salad or topped with either melted cheese or pÃ¢tÃ©. It is named after Dame Nellie Melba, the stage name of Australian opera singer Helen Porter Mitchell.
A toast is a ritual in which a drink is taken as an expression of honor or goodwill. The term may be applied to the person or thing so honored, the drink taken, or the verbal expression accompanying the drink. Thus, a person could be the toast of the evening, for whom someone proposes a toast to congratulate and for whom a third person toasts in agreement. The ritual forms the basis of the literary and performance genre, of which Mark Twain's To the Babies is a well-known example.