05-06-1982: Viewer Mail: Kirk Hancock asks if the backdrop behind Dave consists of real glass. A 20-year-old tradition is thus born as Dave throws a pencil through the window to the sound of breaking glass.
05-06-1985: Brush With Stupidity features Barbara Dale, who got her hair stuck in a typewriter, Tom Kaniewski, who accidently set off a fire extinguisher in his car, and Peter Vote, who snapped a fuel line while burying a pet.
05-06-1986: The Museum of Natural History displays on Late Night a Topaz, the world's largest cut gem.
05-06-1987: Dave calls a 7-11 in Las Vegas to get someone there to gamble on a slot machine. Loss: $1.
05-06-1992: Bonnie Hunt makes her first appearance on Late Night, promoting "Beethoven." Fifteen months later, she debuts her own show, produced by Dave's Worldwide Pants, Incorporated.
05-06-1992: Top Ten Things Mike Tyson Does To Pass the Time in Solitary Confinement - 10. Tons - and I mean tons - of shadow boxing.
05-06-1993: Al Gore's Top Ten Pet Peeves - 9. Picking up Big Mac wrappers off the White House jogging track. 5. The round-the-clock drills on spelling "potato."
05-06-1994: Remote: Dave talks to cab drivers about Clinton. Back live, Dave tries to call the White House, but the operator hangs up on him twice. At the end of the show, guest Sharon Stone is seen dancing outside with one of the cabbies.
05-06-1996: "Dave Talks to San Francisco Kids" bit is pretty good.
05-06-1996: Late Show begins a week in San Francisco as the city's mayor, Willie Brown interrupts the show throughout the hour by offering Dave the key to the city, a loaf of sourdough bread, and a stick from his yard. Also, Paul composes a music video for Cable Car Operator Luis "Guido" Montano, with cameos by Los Lobos, Carly Simon, Hootie & the Blowfish, and Celine Dion.
05-06-1996: The new San Francisco set has moving cable cars.
05-06-1996: Top Ten Signs You Eat Too Much Rice-A-Roni - 5. Every Wednesday night you have a small group meeting that begins with someone saying "My name is Bob and I eat too much Rice-A-Roni" The list is brought in on a bike by Robin Williams, and the Home Office is in San Mateo, CA.
05-06-1997: Dave wears a "3-D hairpiece". Also, Top Ten Things Overheard During President Clinton's Trip to Mexico.
05-06-1997: Fake promo for Paul's new sitcom: "The Guy Who Does What He Says He Won't Do".
05-06-1997: How Many Guys in Bunny Suits Can Get Into a Fountain? Six, until a security guard forces them out. Later, John Goodman, drunk off his ass, dives in.
05-06-1998: "Mother's Day Cards" bit.
05-06-1998: Biff's Tobacco Juice Spin Art: Bill spits on a spinning card to make a lovely Salvador Dali-like creation. Later, Sally Field contributes.
05-06-1998: Top Ten Least Popular Summer Jobs - 10. Taco Bell cook in charge of deep-frying the Chihuahuas.
05-06-1998: Video of Dave earlier tonight screwing up a joke.
05-06-1999: Cold Start: Dave has (guest) Rev. Jesse Jackson, who got the hostages out of Serbia, check to see if he can get Dave out of his CBS contract--apparently not.
05-06-1999: Tonight's Secret Word is "biscuit" for 100 damn dollars. "Marlene DeBenedetto", who won on April 27th for $2600, also won last night for $200. The two models bring out a giant check with "Two Hundred Damn Dollars" printed on it.
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