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08-01-1985: Viewer Mail: Jud from New York asks if folks whose letters are read on the air are notified beforehand. Yes, says Dave, as he plays a clip of a typical letter-writer's plane trip to New York, a day shopping, watching the show, and dancing, before being taken to a hospital and given a brain incision to eradicate all memory of the last 24 hours.
08-01-1988: From a show originally taped June 30, 1988: Hal Gurnee's Network Time Killer: Menu Helper; Dave does the weather, via the WNBC Channel 4 weather map.
08-01-1989: Dave calls Phoebe Cates and asks for advice on calling his mom after forgetting her birthday.
08-01-1989: Larry "Bud" recreates the high jump record that was made this weekend.
08-01-1990: Dave treats two pedestrians on the street to limousine service home.
08-01-1991: Al Maher and Joe Gorta act out a scene from "Miss Saigon" in another installment of "Stagehand Theater."
08-01-1991: Dave wonders why "hot wet meat" wasn't edited by the NBC censors, while "trouser pixies" was.
08-01-1991: Top Ten Ways To Get a GE Executive Angry - 8. Correct his grammar when he says, "We don't got no time for safety testing."
08-01-1994: The Stand-By Audience is put on a Greyline Tour Bus, and they circle around the block throughout the show, creating a parade of cars following behind.
08-01-1994: Top Ten George Bush's Complaints about Dan Quayle's Book - 8. In book, Quayle claims he was Prez. and George Bush was his yippy little pet chihuahua.
08-01-1995: Top Ten Ways CBS Will Be Different Now That It's Owned By Westinghouse - 3. I get to use slightly-rewritten G.E. jokes from the late 80's.
08-01-1995: Westinghouse bids to purchase CBS. Dave: "Here we go again. I've been in this play."
08-01-1997: "Surprising Facts about Public Figures" bit.
08-01-1997: CBS Mailbag: (1) Dave plays chess on the computer; (2) a John Grisham novel squirts sunblock; (3) Dave and Paul's Saturday Night In Your Face Laughapalooza includes a parody "Hair Force One"; (4) Dave and Paul drop a watermelon out of a window.
08-01-1997: Guest Tony Danza (age 46) enters on rollerblades.
08-01-1997: It's a dark day as millions of Late Show viewers secretly mourn the cancellation of the "Ceremonial Presentation of the Letters".
08-01-1997: Late Show bids adieu to the ever-annoying "ceremonial presentation of the letters" during the "CBS Mailbag." Ever-annoying? Hardly--this was often the best part of the show!
08-01-1997: Top Ten Other Changes President Clinton Has Made at the White House - 5. Sound- proofing to block noise of George Washington spinning in his grave. 1. Hot and cold running gravy.
08-01-2000: "Get To Know Dick Cheney" bit.
08-01-2000: "Late Show Unlabeled Canned Goods of the Night" with Biff: peaches.
08-01-2000: Campaign 2000, starring Maria Pope, sponsored by Compostumbler (woman testimonial, with more low-pitched, menacing mumblings by Alan). Bush still hasn't responded to the debate offer. Tony Randall appears briefly. (He was going to be in "Stuff Found in Titanic" bit, but that was cut.) Paul on Bobby Ridell: "World without Love" by Lennon/McCartney was done by Peter & Gordon (Peter Asher is Jane Asher's brother), but they did it like young women? Paul does the Bobby Ridell version, which is a little wilder. Sponsors: Compostumbler and L.P.F.P.S., with Alan ranting "You bastards want a piece of me?"
08-01-2000: Dave rants about a staffer who asked him about having a fireplace built and called him anal.
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