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This Dave in History June 5

06-05-1984: While Late Night is in a week of repeats, Calvert DeForest begins a week-long engagement at NYC's Caroline's.

06-05-1987: [EMBELLISHED ENTRY] While their careers are in a multi-year period of decline, several comics begin an annual engagement at Dave's TV shows.

06-05-1990: From her home in Indianapolis, Dave's Mom recites the Top Ten Things Found in Dave's Mom's Refrigerator. Items include "Milk," "Margarine," "Watermelon," ["Kitty,"] and "Mushrooms."

06-05-1991: Top Ten Highlights of the C. Everett Koop Show: #9. John Sununu trying to do a sit-up.

06-05-1992: Top Ten Signs You've Sent Your Kid to a Bad Summer Camp: #4. Son comes home with poorly stitched incision where his kidney used to be.

06-05-1993: [EMBELLISHED ENTRY] For the first time on network television: The World's Largest Pinto Bean.

06-05-1995: Displayed by a window of an advertising agency across the street from the Ed Sullivan Theater is a giant toothbrush and tooth; Dave invites the workers from that window to bring the items into the theater and then presents them with the Crest Pledge.

06-05-1996: In a taped segment, a representative from Xerox gives a demonstration of the new Late Show copy machine. Also, Day 3 of "She Loves Me," with Diana Ross singing instead "I Will Survive"; another held note, another soda, another massage, another robe.

06-05-1996: Top Ten Things Bob Dole Has To Do Before Leaving the Senate - 2. Find a potentially embarrassing product to endorse on television.

06-05-1996: Video of Pres. Clinton, who apparently has adopted a 60-year-old kid. Also, "Supermarket Finds", with a few done by Biff.

06-05-1997: [EMBELLISHED ENTRY] Day 368 of "She Loves Me," with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing instead "I Walked In The Garden Alone"; another held note, another soda, another massage, another 240 robes.

06-05-1997: Biff Henderson reports from Chicago for the NBA Finals between the Bulls and Utah Jazz. Also, when asked by guest Alicia Silverstone what he's doing on Saturday, Dave says, "This is the weekend I dip my monkey."

06-05-1997: Dave goes on about "Shoot, Shop, and Compare" or something.

06-05-1997: John Fogerty does a pretty cool song ("Fortunate Son", I think) and does Suzy Q during the commercial break.

06-05-1997: Know Your Current Events Contestants: a maker of sugar wafers, a guy named Russ, a lawyer from New York, and Regis Philbin.

06-05-1997: Top Ten Signs You've Chosen a Bad College. Also, Dave goes on about "Shoot, Shop, and Compare" or something.

06-05-1998: [EMBELLISHED ENTRY] Traci the Psychic Horticulturist tests her skill at a game we call "Graft/Not-A-Graft".

06-05-1998: CBS Mailbag: (1) Dave tells Randy Travis his song sucked (Dave did this because he was "drunk"); (2) Pat Farmer spins the Prize Wheel to see who in the balcony wins $1000, but the wheel never stops; (3) Dave gives Alan a mug that calls him a red-haired freak, but Alan gets the last laugh--he leaves with a happenin' woman in a convertible; (4) Dave and Paul star in the movie "Eruption 2".

06-05-1998: Guests George Carlin, who does stand-up on sports yet again and then does more stand-up jokes from the guest chair, and "Lilith Fair" (Luscious Jackson, Indigo Girls, Emmylou Harris, etc.), who, in an homage to Haydn's "Farewell Symphony", one by one leave the stage while the song continues until Amy Ray is singing by herself.

06-05-1998: Live via satellite at the Beverly Hills Hotel: Walter Matthau gets a haircut.

06-05-2000: A chart shows Dave's residences (Indiana, L.A., N.Y.)--hey, that's three out of the NBA's final four.

06-05-2000: Alicia Silverstone is a guest again (see 1997). Also, Dave talks about his upcoming jury duty, and a 14-year-old French kid ("Nawfel") sits in with the band all night long.

06-05-2000: Campaign 2000, starring Maria Pope, sponsored by Small Birds ("I Own Seven"). Clip of the Indy 500 in which Howard Katz, president of ABC, waves the green flag. Then Dave shows us a photo he found on the "dubya-dubya": it's a somewhat grainy still of Dave at the Indy 500 that appears to have been taken by a zealous fan. Sponsors: Crystal Clear Party Ice ("Don't Feel Like a Loser") and Charcoal Briquets ("They're Hot!").

06-05-2000: In honor of "Survivor", George Clarke locks himself in the boiler room. Also, Top Ten Al Gore Tenant Pet Peeves.

06-05-2000: In honor of a CBS show called "Survivor", George Clarke locks himself in the boiler room. Also, Top Ten Al Gore Tenant Pet Peeves.

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