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This Dave in History August 8

08-08-1952: CBS Orchestra drummer Anton Fig is born in Capetown, South Africa.

08-08-1989: Dave has his cholesterol tested again: it's down from 265 to 249. Dave is happy and relieved.

08-08-1989: Top Ten Demands of the Striking Telephone Workers - 2. The right to call everyone "Larry" -- as in: "Thank you for using AT&T, Larry."

08-08-1990: Live Remote at the NBC Commissary: Al Roker demonstrates the Electric Pepper Grinder as a G.E. nuclear power plant explodes.

08-08-1994: After no one picks up the payphone on the corner, Dave steps outside and grabs Inna Mirovich, from Russia, to sit on stage throughout the show. She does, despite Howard Stern.

08-08-1994: Howard Stern explains to Dave why he's decided to end his gubenatorial campaign. They wanted him to disclose his financial records.

08-08-1995: "May I Taste Your Dinner Please?" culminates in a patron from Martini's to bring his lemonade and bread into the theater for Dave to sample.

08-08-1995: Top Ten Items on the Westinghouse To Do List - 1. The Late Show With Dick Assman.

08-08-1996: CBS Mailbag: (1) "Inky" sniffs markers; (2) microscope view: million-year-old bacteria with Dole's head there; (3) Bob Borden gives mail-to-Late-Show tips (include money); (4) "Secret Service Macarena".

08-08-1996: Dave gets Bob Borden to shave off his goutee during the show. Also, "Rupert's Tale of Times Square" debuts in an episode called "Jimmy and the Talk-Show Host."

08-08-1996: Dennis Miller makes what so far is his last appearance on the Late Show.

08-08-1996: From the CBS Mailbag, it's the "Secret Service Macarena."

08-08-1996: In addition to Dennis Miller, guests are soccer star Mia Hamm and what the Late Show/CBS calls "B***H*** Surfers".

08-08-1996: Top Ten Signs the Scientists at NASA Have Gone Nuts - 4. The "second moon" they discovered turned out to be Rush Limbaugh.

08-08-1997: "The Letterman Family", a new TV show, has women instead of kids?

08-08-1997: CBS Mailbag: (1) Dave visits the old Atlas supermarket; (2) Pat Farmer: The Stagehand Who Is Stranded on a Desert Island (Kenny appears, too); (3) Late Show staffers all have babies; (4) Biff wrestles a giant kitty.

08-08-1997: CBS Mailbag: Has Biff ever sumo-wrestled a chicken? No, but Biff is seen wrestling a giant kitty.

08-08-1997: Top Ten Things Overheard at the Garth Brooks Concert in Central Park - 1. Run for your lives! It's the late Conway Twitty!

08-08-2000: All night long, building engineer George Clarke stands outside to see how hot it is.

08-08-2000: Campaign 2000, starring Maria Pope, sponsored by Compostumbler (same stuff as yesterday). Maria picks Rupert as the Iron Chef. Sponsors: Compostumbler and L.P.F.P.S. (the "It's just unbelievable" guy, then Alan: "Don't you dare touch me ...").

08-08-2000: Late Show Iron Chef: Rupert Jee vs Joe G, or chicken rotellini versus a ham and tomato pizza. (See below.)

08-08-2000: Top Ten Invisible Guy Pickup Lines - 6. "That's not my hand, but don't stop shaking." (Closing music: The Beatles' "You Won't See Me".)

08-08-2002: Tracye "5 pencils" Gillande celebrates her 28th birthday.

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