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09-24-1985: Stupid Pet Tricks: One dog picks up three tennis balls at once; another chooses McDonald's over Burger King (his favorite), and a third balances himself on a fiber glass rod. The first and third tricks are featured on NBC's "50 Years of NBC Late Night," aired September 23, 2001.
09-24-1986: James Taylor makes a rare television appearance, performing and discussing his song "Only a Dream in Rio." He appears on Late Show on this same date seven years later, performing his only other South-of-the-Border song, "Mexico."
09-24-1987: The Prancing Fluids are filled tonight with 120 bottles of Blue Scope. Due to the continuing technician's strike, there's no gruff but lovable Gus. So Library Lady Kathleen Ankers is forced to drive the NBC Bookmobile herself into the studio.
09-24-1987: Top Ten Things Robert Bork Regrets - 5. Letting Billy Dee Williams beat him out for that malt liquor endorsement deal.
09-24-1991: Top Ten Reasons for the Trump-Maples Break Up - 8. Shy, reclusive Trump feared marrying an ex-model might attract attention. 3. He found out she was lying when she said her father invented maple syrup.
09-24-1992: Political Charts and Graphs: JFK + Confused Parakeet - JFK = Quayle.
09-24-1992: Top Ten Debate Conditions Demanded by Bush - 2. Clinton must be in full hillbilly regalia.
09-24-1993: Dave shows America what all the fuss is about regarding "NYPD Blue" with a clip of naked people with rifles.
09-24-1993: Dave's birthday gift for Pete Fatovich: A remote entitled "Searching for Freebies in New Jersey." James Taylor relates his sailing with Clinton at Martha's Vineyard: "Fun is an overrated concept."
09-24-1993: Guest Glenn Close sits on an audience member's lap.
09-24-1993: Top Ten Hillary Clinton's Tips For Making Your Man Happy - 2. Add a little spice in the bedroom by dressing up as a McDonald's waitress.
09-24-1996: Dave rants about people abusing the E-Z Pass lane on the Connecticut Thruway.
09-24-1996: New for Fall #5: A foul-mouthed librarian translates Dave's speech.
09-24-1996: Top Ten Ways President Clinton Has Fun in New York City - 9. Sits in Central Park, feeding shredded Whitewater documents to pigeons.
09-24-1997: "Presidential Photo File" bit.
09-24-1997: All throughout the night, Dave...is...Dellaventura!
09-24-1997: Because Drew Carey's plane is delayed by an hour, he misses the show. The staff run over to the "Windows Of The World" restaurant and ask head chef Michael Lomonaco if he'd like to be on the show.
09-24-1997: Top Ten Things Overheard at the Country Music Awards.
09-24-1998: During Know Your Current Events, Dave takes out his artificial tooth.
09-24-1998: Gerry Mulligan appears with his "kids" and begs Congress not to impeach Clinton, as it would be bad for comedy writers.
09-24-1998: Guest Howard Stern plays with his gut and later strips to his underwear in order to show us his legs.
09-24-1998: Top Ten Ways the World Would Be Different If The Numbers 1-9 Did Not Exist--list has only one item (home office--Havana, Illinois).
09-24-1999: After waiting nearly 21 years, Bill Lehecka FINALLY gets his letter answered in Letter #4 of the CBS Mailbag. The ironic thing is to answer the letter, Dave used the commercial campaign Bill hates most, the heroin-addicted GAP singers...
09-24-1999: CBS Mailbag Letter #4: an insightful, well-written letter gets a fake ad based on those annoying "Gap" commercials as a response.
09-24-1999: Dave announces that having the two "babes" welcome him at the beginning was his idea.
09-24-1999: Dave plays "guess the rock" with audience paleontologist guy.
09-24-1999: Guests Kelly Preston, who's pregnant, and Stirling Moss, who was an auto racer in the old days ('47-'62).
09-24-1999: Top Ten Ways the Y2K Bug Will Affect Your Dog.
09-24-2001: "Rejected Back-To-School Items" includes a no-ringed binder, "Liquid Paper" soda, an apple for Teacher containing a $50 bill, and the "I'm a Bed Wetter" lunch box.
09-24-2001: Dave's monologue includes a joke about the Miss America Pageant: each contestant went as something from her home state, so Miss Florida went as a crooked voting machine.
09-24-2001: NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani appears on the show and talks about his reactions to 9/11. Katie Harman, Miss America 2002, does the same.
09-24-2001: Starting the second week of shows after 9/11, the show's opening is more back to normal. Alan now announces the guests (but with no added bit after "from New York" or before "David Letterman"). There's somewhat subdued applause when Dave enters. He does his first monologue since 9/11. (The show did still start with the American flag.)
09-24-2001: Top Ten Signs Your Wife Is Having An Affair with the Jolly Green Giant: 9) bottle of shampoo in shower which reads "For oily, green hair"; 3) your last two kids have been green; 2) you've never seen anyone eat corn on the cob that way.
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