07-25-1982: Tonight's fake premise: Larry "Bud" guest-hosts the show while Dave enjoys his vacation, building a ship model at home. Dave returns to the studio after Larry has attempted for the first time in his life to exercise, this night with Jack and Elaine LaLanne.
07-25-1983: Chris Elliot displays a Stupid Plant Trick: a plant that can play the harmonica and ride a skateboard at the same time.
07-25-1983: Simon and Garfunkel appear on the show to promote their upcoming tour, which will include future WMDB guitarist Sid McGinnis.
07-25-1984: Chris Elliott demonstrates a comparison test by eating raw coffee beans.
07-25-1984: Jim Carrey makes his first appearance on Dave, a year after his successful casting in "Duck Factory."
07-25-1984: Remote: Dave visits crew member Al Frisch at home with his collection of over 25,000 postcards.
07-25-1984: Tic-Tac-Toe Internationale: Audience member Tom Wright goes head to beak with a chicken and loses.
07-25-1985: A truly Stupid Pet Trick: a dog imitates his owner sneezing.
07-25-1987: Top Ten Other Things George Schultz is Mad About - 3. Hogan's Men Always Cutting Through Barbed Wire. (Sorry, that's Sgt. Schultz.)
07-25-1989: Cold Open: Barbara Sheehan's Fight Corner, with George Foreman.
07-25-1989: Let's Find Out How Much Gas Joe Frazier Has in His Car. For the last night: a full tank. Paul performs "Tribute to Joe Frazier."
07-25-1989: Paul hawks stuff: Ringo Starr's drumstick, a collapsible drinking cup, a Dave-meets-Elvis coin, and a Bill Wendell miniature.
07-25-1989: The Top Ten list is in Dave's dressing room, so Paul and the band and around twenty others follow Dave to retrieve it.
07-25-1989: Top Ten Names for the Letterman Estate - 1. Shangri-Dave.
07-25-1989: Top Ten Secrets Felix Bloch Revealed to the Soviets - 6. Tom Brokaw's American Express number: 360-9950-4425 (expires 4/91).
07-25-1990: Biff Henderson interrupts Dave's Opening Remarks to ask if Phil Donahue is on vacation. Finding out he is, Biff leaves the studio and tells three guys in dresses to come back next week.
07-25-1990: Hal Gurnee's Network Time Killer: A large inflatable raft is inflated in the elevator.
07-25-1990: Top Ten Reasons to Fly Eastern - 3. Statistically safer than marrying Jerry Lee Lewis.
07-25-1990: Top Ten Ways McDonald's Is More Health Conscious - 6. Counter person now asks, "Would you like the name of a heart specialist with that?"
07-25-1991: Dave calls the page in the hallway to get guests Adam West (TV's "Batman") and Lesley Ann Warren in from across the hall at Live-at-Five, but the line is busy.
07-25-1991: Top Ten Least Popular Cruises - 8. Richard Simmons' Sweatin' Round the Equator
07-25-1994: After guest Jim Carrey performs the Broderick Crawford line "Punks like you are a dime a dozen," Dave repeats the line all night long.
07-25-1994: Dave fills up a pothole outside with joke cards; meanwhile, guest Jim Carrey's limousine is tolled away.
07-25-1994: The pothole Dave filled up with joke cards yesterday is sealed today by NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani and, later in the show, is danced upon by fabulous babes performing Rockette-styled kicks.
07-25-1994: Top Ten Signs Your Local Anchorman is Nuts - 6. Puts on woman's wig and introduces self as "Connie Rather."
07-25-1994: Top Ten Things Overheard at President Clinton's High School Reunion - 1. Run for your lives! He's got the saxophone!
07-25-1995: Dave and Tony exchange roles as Tony finishes a segment on Summer Blockbusters while Dave tries to hold the cue cards.
07-25-1995: Dave escorts the entire theater audience outside to hear Bon Jovi perform on 53rd Street.
07-25-1995: Dave makes his first call to Dick Assman in Canada, promising to make him an international hero.
07-25-1995: Top Ten MTV Video Music Award Categories Michael Jackson is Nominated In - 6. Best performance in a black and white video by artist who isn't really either.
07-25-1995: Top Ten Surprise Revelations in the Whitewater Hearings - 3. The shadowy figure at the center of the whole deal: Dick Assman.
07-25-1997: CBS Mailbag: (1) Dave on the cover of "Entertainment Weekly"--he's now in the band "Hanson"; (2) Pat and Kenny do "Booty Call 2"; (3) Dave introduces the "whole band"; (4) Leonard Tepper (see above).
07-25-1997: Dave threatens to fight some audience guys from New Jersey.
07-25-1997: From Venezuelan TV, an ad for "Late Show of Passion"--pretty good!
07-25-1997: Guest Samuel L. Jackson, with a chart of his "bad-ass" filmography.
07-25-1997: Harrison Ford's World Tour - Harrison Ford reports "Live via satellite from San Antonio."
07-25-1997: In a return to Stagehand Theater, Pat Farmer and Kenny Sheehan reenact a scene from the anticipated "Booty Call 2."
07-25-1997: In the CBS Mailbag, Leonard Tepper appears as "Leonard, the Accident-Prone, Blood-Gorged Tick."
07-25-1997: Late Show's warm-up comedian Eddie Brill is bumped from his stand-up spot on tonight's show.
07-25-1997: Top Ten U.S. Astronaut Complaints About the Russian Space Station - 7. The in-flight movie always stars Yakov Smirnoff.
07-25-2000: A new ad touts that George Bush and Dick Cheney make a better team than Al Gore and his unknown running mate.
07-25-2000: Apparently, tour groups have been messing with Dave's chair.
07-25-2000: Campaign 2000, starring Maria Pope, sponsored by Compostumbler (woman testimonial). GWB to weasel out of debate? Late Show Debate Graphic points: "Jai Alai Scoring", "Smartass Remarks", and "No Question Is a Dumb Question". Sponsors: Compostumbler and L.P. Foaming Pipe Snake ("Oh Mama!"). Later, we get a graphic of what the debate bunting will look like.
07-25-2000: Dave wonders if he should go to an event this weekend which he's been invited to. (Any ideas about what it was?)
07-25-2000: From Joe G's, three 13-year-old cousins from Missouri play Beat the Clock and don't win.
07-25-2000: George Plimpton reads from "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", but he reads silently.
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