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This Dave in History for January 28

01-28-1981: Dave guest-hosts The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

01-28-1985: Two milestones on Late Night: Ted Koppel does a stupid human trick by balancing meat on his nose, and Laurie "Rose" Diamond is hired as the show's receptionist.

01-28-1986: Brush With Stupidity audience participants include a woman who washed her friend's contact lenses down the drain, a woman who stuffed her bikini top with oranges, and a man who pushed his car over a cliff into a rock quarry.

01-28-1992: To promote the upcoming Late Night's 10th Anniversary Special, Paul appears on CNBC's "Talk Live," hosted by Richard Belzer.

01-28-1997: "New York Cheesehead" bit. Also, the external camera and Samantha Jaffone--the security people won't let Dave's crew in the building to do the bit, unfortunately.

01-28-1997: Biff presides over another segment of "What They Would Have Had for Lunch If They Were Still Alive." Tonight: Lorne Greene: "a BLT."

01-28-1997: Tony Williams (percussion) sits in with band. (Anton stays in.) Guests Tony Danza, Super Bowl XXXI MVP Desmond Howard, and Helena Bonham Carter, whom Paul and the band play out with "Black Dog" for some reason [1].

01-28-1997: Top Ten Ways O.J. Can Still Win The Civil Trial - 8. Produce surprise "confession letter" from the late Erma Bombeck.

01-28-1998: Dave is played over to the desk with "Potato, Potahto" [2]. Also, "LewinskyGate" graphic.

01-28-1998: John Popper sits in with the band. Guests Blues Traveler, Brian Williams (good segment), and Michael Keaton.

01-28-1998: Presidential Scandals Charts and Graphs: The cards are so huge that Dave is hidden behind them. Later, after the Top Ten Cool Things About Having an Affair with the President, the CBS Orchestra plays "Cool Jerk."

01-28-1998: Top Ten Cool Things About Having an Affair with The President - 4. Your name: Kate. Name of scandal: Kategate.

01-28-1999: Know Your Current Events players: (1) Lisa from Augusta, Maine, is an Olive Garden bartender; (2) Andy from Hillsborough, NJ, works in an auto body shop. Later, Biff gets Andy a tie.

01-28-1999: Top Ten Signs You're at a Bad Super Bowl Party.

01-28-2000: Late Show 2000; Comedy Under Siege [3] offers a rerun with the entire audience supposedly from Indianapolis (April 1997).

01-28-2000: Rerun show guests: Rosie Perez, John Hiatt, Stupid Human Tricks.

01-28-9999: [1] possibly for Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham--thanks to Rick Diamant. [2] Actually "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" by George Gershwin--thanks to Alan Page. [3] "Comedy Under Siege" phrase by James Langdell.

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