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This Dave in History for February 18

02-18-1982: Tony Clifton (thought to be Andy Kaufman but is actually Andy's friend Bob Zmuda) botches a medley of tunes to a mystified audience.

02-18-1985: Audience participants' Brush With Stupidity: A woman set her restaurant menu on fire, a man crashed his car into a funeral procession, and a woman trapped herself in a freezer.

02-18-1986: Dial-Its include "Dial-the-World's-Tallest'Man" ("Let me take off my windbreaker," followed by 10 seconds of the sound of a zipper) and "Dial-an-Endangered-Species" ("good manners and common courtesy"), prompting NBC head "Grant Tinker" to award Dave a prestigious Humanitas Award.

02-18-1987: Night Light with Chris Elliott features guest Edward Woodward (in whose "Equalizer" series Chris was about to appear) and "Panicky Boy Under the Seats" (Adam Resnick).

02-18-1988: Dave stops by Live-at-Five across the hall to do the weather.

02-18-1988: Dave's Top Ten Election Tips - 3. Introduce yourself in bars as Albert Gore. Who would know?

02-18-1992: Dave calls Meg Parsont across the street at Simon and Schuster to celebrate the second anniversary of his first call to her 2/15/90, and he brings a Mariachi band into her office for entertainment.

02-18-1993: "Tell Us About Your Lunch," Installment 3: Dave's Mom (flank steak).

02-18-1993: Top Ten Things Dumb Guys Were Thinking During Clinton's Speech - 7. "I liked it better when Dana Carvey was president."

02-18-1994: Gold Winner Dan Jansen pays Dave's mom a surprise visit while she presents the Top Ten Norwegian Nicknames for Americans while in Lillehammer for the 1994 Winter Olympics. - 6. Gap-Toothed T.V. Boy (Actually, that's just you, David).

02-18-1997: Dave invites a patron from Joe G's Pizza to start in "Space Volcano!" Also, Dave cameos on Michael J. Fox's sitcom, "Spin City," congratulating New York's City mayor on his birthday.

02-18-1997: Dave whines about the traffic tie-up caused by Clinton.

02-18-1997: Guest Bruce Willis apparently has a permanent 8-ball tattoo on his head. Demi Moore appears with 15 dogs for Dave?

02-18-1997: Top Ten Reasons O.J. Is Moving To Florida - 5. Offer from Burt Reynolds dinner theater to star with Kato Kaelin in "The Odd Couple."

02-18-1998: Dave's mom interviews Picabo Street; Dave interviews "Bingo Granny" Maxine Stinson, who got in trouble for playing bingo on the bus.

02-18-1998: Remote: Dave goes figure skating and meets up with Regis Philbin.

02-18-1998: Top Ten Signs The Figure Skating Judges Are Not Going To Give You a Perfect 6.0 - 5. Your costume looks an awful lot like your Denny's uniform.

02-18-1998: We see ski-jumping dogs and speed-skating dogs.

02-18-1998: When Dave talks to kid Olympic hopefuls, he meets a young boy who loves eating salt.

02-18-1999: Know Your Current Events player #1 doesn't even play; instead, Dave has him walk around the theater taking Polaroids.

02-18-1999: Tonight's Secret Word is "hydraulic". Also, Top Ten Awards Won by Me, David Letterman.

02-18-2000: Late Show 2000; Comedy Under Siege* finally comes to a conclusion with Late Show Backstage #10, hosted by Tom Arnold from San Francisco.

02-18-2000: LSB guests Robin Williams--we get a story about Dave at the Comedy Store--and Jack Hanna.

02-18-9999: * "Comedy Under Siege" phrase by James Langdell.

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