03-26-1979: Dave guest-hosts The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for the first time.
03-26-1984: Bad Phone Call: Teresa Lange calls her mom to inform her that she's working at the Saratoga Race track. Dave then takes a call from former astronaut Gordon Cooper, who talks to the mom.
03-26-1985: NBC Bookmobile titles include "How to Flatten Your Stomach, by the College of Cardinals," "Leo Buscaglia's Touch Me on the D Train," and "John Riggins' 500 Comebacks for Every Situation."
03-26-1986: Chris Elliott's "The Regulator Guy" finally makes its network debut in an episode called "The Omega Man," only to be interrupted by an NBC "news bulletin" presented by real newsboy Bob Jamieson.
03-26-1987: The ever-popular "Dancing Waters" are first introduced during Viewer Mail. They remain in front of Dave's desk for another 8 months, although a legal tangle results in the Waters being eventually re-christened "The Prancing Fluids."
03-26-1991: Top Ten Slogans for the World League of American Football - 7. Tired of watching overpaid, well-known, highly gifted athletes?
03-26-1991: Window washer/Psychic Morris Fonte gives his Oscar predictions, despite the fact that the Academy Awards have already been presented the night before.
03-26-1992: Top Ten Things Overheard at the President's Physical - 4. Do we have to do this on C-SPAN?
03-26-1993: Top Ten Other Products Being Test Marketed by McDonalds - 4. McHookers.
03-26-1996: All of a sudden, the Bowling Green State University Men's Chorus comes in off the street and sings a capella.
03-26-1996: Babe the pig has a commentary on the Oscars.
03-26-1996: Dave imitates John Wayne's walking.
03-26-1996: Documentary: The Making of the New Late Show Set.
03-26-1996: Guests Phil Hartman, 103-year-old horse handicapper Rose Hamburger, and The Band.
03-26-1996: The show's new "Bridge" set is unveiled. Martha Stewart honors the occasion by hammering in the last nail. Later, she's seen sanding backstage and, still later, operating a blowtorch.
03-26-1996: Top Ten Things Overheard at the Academy Awards - 5. Real hookers to the left, women playing hookers to the right, please!
03-26-1997: "Tribute to Late Show Academy Award Winners" video.
03-26-1997: "What's on Other Channels" bit.
03-26-1997: Biff presents "What They Would Have Had for Lunch If THey Were Alive Today." Tonight's deceased celebrity: Fred MacMurray. His meal: Split-Pea Soup with Lightly-Salted Saltines.
03-26-1997: Clip of "Thomas Jefferson" sky-diving. Later, we also see "William McKinley" and Paul sky-diving.
03-26-1997: Clip of guest Marv Albert's 1966 radio show.
03-26-1997: Dave gives a special message to the teens on Spring Break.
03-26-1997: Top Ten Other Signs George Bush Is Nuts.
03-26-1998: A British Airways commercial is played again, and everyone in the audience gets a free round-trip ticket to London?
03-26-1998: A guy on fire runs through the theater. Also, "The Big Biff Bar" is a new candy bar.
03-26-1998: Biff visits the New York Yankees Spring Training facilities in Tampa, Florida, directing a rendition of the team's new song, "Yankees, Yankees, Yankees." Seven months later, they win the World Series. Coincidence?
03-26-1998: Top Ten Advantages of Being the Smallest Man on Earth - 4. You and tallest man on earth can go to bars and beat up medium guys.
03-26-1999: "Elia Kazan", fresh off his honorary Oscar win, sits in with the band and "names names" all night.
03-26-1999: CBS Mailbag: (1) At the Oscars, Dave grabs Roberto Benigni's shoe; (2) Alan reads an interesting disclaimer for the Volkswagen Passat ad; (3) what Dave did on his vacation; (4) a Kool-aid stand outside the theater is dismantled.
03-26-1999: Dave says goodbye to Tom Snyder, whose last show is tonight.
03-26-1999: Dave wishes Carson a speedy recovery from quadruple bypass surgery.
03-26-1999: Tonight's Secret Word is "elliptical".
03-26-1999: Top Ten Things You Don't Want To Hear from a Cab Driver, read (on tape) by an "actual" cab driver with passengers.
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