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This Dave in History September 5

09-05-1983: After a lame opening segment on the Country Music Museum, Dave passes out $300 to the audience, $1 for each member. Meanwhile, NBC cancels "Voyagers," prompting a Late Night Afterschool Special: "They Took My Show Away."

09-05-1984: Museum of the Hard-to-Believe: Chris Elliott is the Smile of Mystery.

09-05-1989: Dave calls the pedestrian, Andy Ferrain, to whom he gave a cellular phone three weeks before. Of course, there's no answer.

09-05-1989: Top Ten Columbian Tourist Slogans - 1. It's like Club Med with car bombs!

09-05-1990: Anton Fig's Expiration Date: Half & Half: Correct!

09-05-1991: Top Ten Punchlines to Dirty Jokes - 2. And the dog says, "I've never had five dollars before!"

09-05-1991: Top Ten Punchlines to Dirty Jokes - 9. How do you think I rang the doorbell?

09-05-1994: Dave takes the Standby audience into McGee's, where show guests Fran Drescher and Samuel L. Jackson later hang out.

09-05-1994: Top Ten Signs Your Team Won't Be Going To The Super Bowl - 2. Starting fullback: Richard Simmons.

09-05-1995: It's Green Hair Night: Dave sprays Tony Mendez's recently colored blonde and Alan Kalter's naturally-colored red hair green. Later, Dave sprays his own hair green and adds to the list guest Tom Snyder, Paul Shaffer, Robert Morton, and half the audience.

09-05-1995: Top Ten Things Overheard at the World Conference for Women - 6. Is it true that every American woman must sleep with President Clinton?

09-05-1996: CBS Mailbag: (1) Why no crease in Dave's pants? (2) Pat Farmer in an anti-litter commercial/PSA; (3) "The Bob 'n' Jack show" with Mujibur as Dole and Sirajul as Kemp; (4) Tepper (see above).

09-05-1996: CBS Mailbag: Leonard Tepper is "The Overly Medicated Squirrel Who Operates Heavy Machinery."

09-05-1996: In the middle of the Top Ten list, some guy sings "It's the Late Show's Birthday", or something.

09-05-1996: Top Ten Signs Bob Dole is Getting Desperate - 5. Replaced Jack Kemp with overly-medicated squirrel who operates heavy machinery. [In the middle of the Top Ten list, some guy sings "It's the Late Show's Birthday", or something.]

09-05-1997: CBS Mailbag: (1) written transcript of a Julia Roberts joke? (2) "Cooking with Biff" ends with the phrase "then pour the crap down your pants". * (3) Biggest mistake Warren ever made was coming on the Late Show? (4) "Demi Moore" (Calvert) is a guest.

09-05-1997: On Warren Zevon's last night of filling in for Paul, he gets a Deputy of Comedy badge.

09-05-1997: Top Ten Ways to Make School More Appealing to Teenagers - 2. Sex ed. includes weekly field trip to Hooters.

09-05-1997: we learn what will happen to certain characters in the Fall (Rupert, Pat Farmer, and Kenny Sheehan).

09-05-2000: After reviewing stills of Dave's hand being stitched up, we're ready for the removal of the stitches. This event is supposedly being simulcast on www.cbs.com/lateshow. In the guest chair is Doctor Lou Arrone, who works at New York Presbyterian Hospital; he says Dave "almost cut off the tip of his finger". Doctor Robert Hodgkiss, chief of hand service for the office of special surgery (?), put in 3 stitches. "Dr. Robert Hodgkiss" (Calvert) walks out. Actual doctor comes out, puts on goofy glasses. The ladies bring out the medical equipment. Dave plays with special small magnifying camera (puts in mouth, down pants, etc.). Finally, all 3 stitches come out. Rupert brings in potato salad (music "Potato, Potahto").

09-05-2000: Anna Kournikova Play of the Day: putting something in her tennis bag.

09-05-2000: From the Hello Deli, Rupert makes potato salad, using 1.5 lbs Yukon gold potatoes sliced into about half-inch cubes, olive oil, white wine vinegar, 1 tsp dried oregano, flat-leaf Italian parsley, salt, and freshly ground pepper. Later, Dave complains that the salad doesn't have enough salt, pepper, and dressing.

09-05-2000: Top Ten Things Going Through George W. Bush's Mind At This Moment (when he called reporter Adam Clymer an asshole) - 1. "Actually he's minor league compared to Letterman." Note: Dave skips #4. We see the clip (of GWB calling Clymer an asshole) twice.

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