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05-11-2000: Campaign 2000, starring Maria Pope: Rob is there again. Bowling ball clip again. Sponsors are Janet Reno, Menthol Cigarettes ("light up, it's springtime"), Maria Pope, and Richard Simmons.
05-11-2000: Guests: Kathie Lee Gifford has some bad-looking hair, while Debra Messing is a pleasant guest.
05-11-2000: Know Your Current Events: Laurie, a kindergarten teacher from Palm Springs, picks Know Your Reasons Various Experts Think David Letterman Would Make a Bad Juror, but Dave convinces her to play Know Your Mexican Wrestlers instead.
05-11-2000: Top Ten Signs Mayor Giuliani Is In Love with You.
05-12-1982: Little-known comic Jerry Seinfeld is bumped from tonight's show and appears the following night.
05-12-1983: Limited Perspective: Self-defense expert Bill Canegata reviews "Ghandi."
05-12-1986: This week's Museum of Natural History artifact to be displayed on the set is a Neanderthal Skull. Tonight, water drips out of its mouth.
05-12-1987: Paul guests on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, performing "A Taste of Honey" with the Tonight Show Orchestra. The song is arranged by future CBS Orchestra member Tom "Bones" Malone.
05-12-1989: The cast from "Cheers" films a cold open for Late Night, and Anthony Newley performs the Viewer Mail Theme. For the second time in Late Night's history, Jerry Seinfeld and Wayne Gretsky appear on the same show (the first: February 5, 1986).
05-12-1992: Top Ten Highlights of Our Upcoming Season Finale - 4. Marv Albert brings on reel of hilarious Mike Tyson prison bloopers.
05-12-1993: Top Ten Signs the World Is Becoming Overpopulated - 9. Nobody is rooting for Maury Povich and Connie Chung anymore.
05-12-1994: Day 4 in L.A. features Los Angeles Souvenirs: a Fabio Lawn Gnome, Record Industry Weasel Magazine, and a Honk-If-You've-Slept-with-Madonna bumper sticker. Also: Top Ten Things L.A. Dumb Guys Say (brought by Calvert posing as Madonna.) - 5. It's the Big One! It's the Big One! Oh, wait a second, I'm sittin' on the washing machine.
05-12-1994: Top Ten Things L.A. Dumb Guys Say (brought by Calvert posing as Madonna.) - 5. It's the Big One! It's the Big One! Oh, wait a second, I'm sittin' on the washing machine.
05-12-1995: "E.R."'s Julianna Margulies gives Dave a little front hair piece, so Dave sticks it on his chin. Later Julianna sticks a beard on hers.
05-12-1997: "Things That Have Never Before Been Seen on Television" include Marv Albert dancing with a squirrel and Rupert Jee T-shirts for $14. Also, a "gay man" kisses a "lesbian", and a shirtless Biff plays solitaire while smoking.
05-12-1997: Grover Washington, Jr. (sax) sits in with the band.
05-12-1997: In a pre-taped bit, Dave and Rupert go out annoying people--Rupert does whatever Dave says through the earpiece.
05-12-1997: Top Ten Ways The Computer Deep Blue is Celebrating Its Victory - 6. Got drunk and beat the crap out of a Nintendo.
05-12-1998: "Last Time" (bits to not be seen again) includes "Where in the Subarctic Region Is Biff Henderson", "Let's Throw a Guy Named Earl out of the Theater", "Swedes Insult Dave", "Monkey Washing a Cat", last Tony Randall appearance, and "Sandbag vs. Titanic song".
05-12-1998: Christopher Reeve shares tonight's show with Hanson, as fans of both celebrities scream outside, with one sign reading "I Love Paul Shaffer."
05-12-1998: Hanson fans vs. Paul Shaffer fans.
05-12-1998: Top Ten Least Useful College Majors - 2. The Ethnobiosocioanthropsycho-pharmacolinguistics of fudge
05-12-1998: Yet another contestant fails at "Please Stop Calling Me Chief."
05-12-1999: Dave freshens up the audience. Also, Top Ten Bad Things About Having a Summer Time Share with Darth Vader.
05-12-1999: During "Dave's Record Collection", Inky goes nuts during "Keds' Old MacDonald" and gets dragged off.
05-12-1999: The Barry Manilow Travel Club rules are explained by a drawing. Later, Dave shows guest Kathie Lee Gifford's Barry Manilow Visa Card.
05-12-1999: Tonight's Secret Word is "winky" for 400 damn dollars.
05-12-2000: Campaign 2000, starring Maria Pope. Special guest Rob Burnett. The topic is Richard Simmons, who was last a guest in February 1999.
05-12-2000: CBS Mailbag: (1) The David Letterman/Tyler Gaitlin letters: their correspondence starts with "What's up?" (2) Harold Larkin "takes care of" a cat; (3) an intern takes the blame for Dave's speeding; (4) Microsoft: "We make stuff that 'splodes."
05-12-2000: Guest Richard Simmons flies into the set in a harness and wants himself and Dave to father Maria Pope's baby, somehow.
05-12-2000: Top Ten Good Things About Being the Mother of Someone Famous is presented live in the studio by the mothers of Al Roker, John Malkovich, Queen Latifah, Erik Estrada, Andy Dick, Derek Jeter, George Clooney, "Cindy Crawford" (actually Gerry Mulligan), Kathie Lee Gifford, and Dave.
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