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06-23-1980: "The David Letterman Show" debuts on NBC at 10 a.m. (ET). Its first six weeks are 90-minute shows; it's reduced to 60 minutes for the remaining 12 weeks. Announcer Bill Wendell at the opening of the first show: "And now, the man NBC replaced three game shows with, David Letterman!"...
06-23-1986: Dave orders a pizza for audience member Mary from Troy.
06-23-1989: Late Night receives a plaque and a permit for a good-level softball field from NYC Park Commissioner Henry Stern (no relation to Howard).
06-23-1992: Top Ten Olympic Sports on NBC's Pay-Per-View Triplecast - 6. Endurance squatting.
06-23-1993: Top Ten Signs that Madonna Would Make a Good Mother - 2. Lots of practice changing diapers on grown men.
06-23-1994: Dave mentions a rumor that the Top Ten home office might move.
06-23-1994: Dave runs and runs and runs to CBS to punch his and Dan Rather's time card.
06-23-1994: Julia Roberts and Dave hug for an unusually long time.
06-23-1994: Sirajul and Mujibur reveal why they stayed at Rapid City, South Dakota's Bel Air Inn - "It's Super Clean!"
06-23-1994: Taped the week before, but preempted due to the wild and wacky O.J. car chase; Coast to Coast with Mujibur and Sirajul, tonight at Mount Rushmore.
06-23-1994: Top Ten Ways to Make the World Cup Soccer More Exciting - 6. Have Madonna inflate the ball.
06-23-1995: After 12 years, R.E.M. make their return appearance on Dave.
06-23-1995: Dave celebrates 15 years on national television, playing a clip from the first episode of his morning show, aired June 23, 1980. After tonight's taping, Dave visits Jon Stewart to celebrate the last night of _his_ show, and brings along a clip from the _last_ episode of the morning show, October 24, 1980.
06-23-1995: Top Ten Signs Your Camp Counselor is Nuts - 10. When campers arrive yells, "Welcome to Funky Town!" and starts pounding the Riunite.
06-23-1997: "Why Some Celebrities Won't Be on the Late Show" bit.
06-23-1997: Dave takes Inky's gum. The band plays Dave over with "Stars and Stripes Forever".
06-23-1997: Guest Jonny Lang is a 16-year-old with the #1 blues album.
06-23-1997: Remote: Dave talks to Child Prodigies (a math wizard, violinist, pianist, and chess master).
06-23-1997: Top Ten Signs a Mafia Boss Is Nuts.
06-23-1998: Network Time Killers: Dave cleans his glasses; Al Norwood uses a boom mike to stir Dave's coffee; Anton plays a drum solo; Biff plays a sax solo; Dave does some "speed-whittling"; Kenny Sheehan reveals endings to summer movies; Pat Farmer does performance art ("Pop Goes the Weasel" with breaking plates); Gerry Mulligan is a mentalist and reads Dave's mind; and a guy who is _not_ Art Garfunkel sings "The Sound of Silence".
06-23-1998: Top Ten Saddam Hussein's Summer Fun Tips. Also, Dave was in the X-files movie but his scene was cut, apparently--we see the clip.
06-23-1999: "Texas blues legend" Jimmy Vaughan (guitar) sits in with the band.
06-23-1999: New For Summer: "Secret Word Rules" scroll by rapidly; a dancing pork chop; Paul in reruns; no more fake fights; Lou Rawls in the Green Room; a Giant Hosie Cow, etc.
06-23-1999: Secret Word is "entropic" for 300 damn dollars (sponsor: Larry King).
06-23-1999: Top Ten Least Inspirational Things For a Coach To Say at Halftime.
06-23-2000: CBS Mailbag: (1) Has Dave painted a sailboat? In reply, he paints "NO". (2) Dave buys groceries online; they get dropped from space and break when they hit the road; a page brings them into the theater. (3) Biff is in the guest chair, and we see "Biff Henderson's Exclusive Interview with Shaquille O'Neal", which consists of just "Hey Shaq". (4) The letter asks, "When's the last time you had sex?" Dave replies, "Why don't you ask your mom?" Dave feels bad and goes to Florida to apologize; the kid who wrote the letter isn't there but the (sexy) mom is....
06-23-2000: Dave does an impression of a local newscaster who looks at the wrong camera. Later, Dave says he emails people after watching them have sex on the Internet.
06-23-2000: Paul will be in Toronto over the weekend for the "Walk of Fame" thing.
06-23-2000: Piedmont Bird Callers: (1) lesser night hawk, (2) Hawaiian crow, (3) prairie Falcon.
06-23-2000: Staffer/Not a Staffer: Dave correctly guesses "staffer". It's Allison Abbate, production assistant for 3 years, from Staten Island.
06-23-2000: Top Ten Things You Don't Want To Hear from a Lifeguard, read on tape by Bill DeLace, acting as a lifeguard.
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