01-24-1984: Dave announces that the first guest on the show will be the first woman who gets out of the 6th-floor elevator. Instead, a security guy leaves, another guy goes in, two guys exit, a woman arrives but is disqualified because she was set up, three more guys, one guy fixing another elevator, and even more guys. Finally, as the minutes waste away, two woman exit; one is NBC page Laurie Guthrie, who later this year joins the Late Night staff and six years later poses as the model for Anton Fig's "Guess the Expiration Date."
01-24-1985: Late Night's latest controversy erupts after the world's fastest typist, Barbara Blackburn, types gibberish in a competition with Production Coordinator Barbara Gaines. It's discovered the following week that she had her right hand shifted over one key too many. The secret history of Mike McIntee's coding matrix thus revealed.
01-24-1996: CBS President Les Moonves takes a moment to comment on Clinton's State of the Union address by singing "Holding Out for a Hero."
01-24-1996: Child sports reporter Sparky Mortimer returns to the show and is given a new assignment: to cover the Super Bowl, and to remind us all that staff members Biff Henderson and Bob Borden do a much better job with these segments.
01-24-1996: Fake clip of Clinton's note to Gingrich. Also, Paul does "What's a Fat Boy Got To Do?" song.
01-24-1996: Guests Joe Ely and Todd Snider sing "Oh Boy". Earlier, the band plays Dave over to the desk with, shockingly, "Hooray for Hollywood".
01-24-1996: Top Ten Ways The Country Would Be Different If It Were Run By Models - 6. Lots of public service announcements on how to make yourself throw up.
01-24-1997: Composite rerun guests Sandra Bullock (in her awesome appearance from 1/10/96), Steven Segal, and Red Hot Chili Peppers (who do that music/aeroplane song).
01-24-1997: Dave introduces the composite rerun, saying "you can sleep when you're dead".
01-24-2000: Late Show 2000 - Comedy Under Siege*. Week 2 begins with a rerun from San Francisco (May 1996) with Manny the Hippie.
01-24-2000: Some alt.fan.letterman readers worry about Dave.
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