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This Dave in History September 25

09-25-1982: Late Night is honored with its first parody as Joe Piscopo impersonates Dave on "Saturday Night Live." "Dave" rolls out a "Bob the Dog" film and plays host to Eddie Murphy's "Gumby."

09-25-1984: After an hour's live remote search on the street, Eric Watson is crowned Mr. September.

09-25-1986: Due to a primetime anniversary special of The Tonight Show, Late Night airs a rare 11:30 PM broadcast. An old "Late Night repeat airs in the usual 12:30am spot, with a rerun in which everyone’s voices have been lip-synched with overdubbed voices.

09-25-1987: Jessica Hahn's Top Ten Turn-Ons - 9. Sipping drugged wine with someone who respects me.

09-25-1987: The Prancing Fluids are filled tonight with 20 gallons of cheap Carlo Rossi wine. Also, Chris Elliott makes another appearance as Marlon Brando.

09-25-1990: Dave calls his mom and asks her to review "Cop Rock."

09-25-1990: Top Ten Surprises in the Khruschev Tapes - #9: Started Cuban missile crisis to impress Kim Novak.

09-25-1991: Stagehand Theater: Al Maher and Joe Gorta reenact a scene from Madonna's documentary "Truth or Dare."

09-25-1991: Top Ten Surprises in the Dead Sea Scrolls - 8. It turns out Billy Joel did start the fire.

09-25-1992: Throughout the show, writer Bill Scheft bets on horses at the Belmont Park racetrack. Allotted $1,000, Bill comes out even, and race track hot dogs are distributed to the audience.

09-25-1992: Top Ten Voter Pet Peeves - 2. Getting exit-polled, if you know what I mean.

09-25-1995: Top Ten Martha Stewart's Worst Tips For Living - 8. Add glitter to every damn thing you own.

09-25-1996: Dave selects Michael Macaluso from Joe G's Pizza as America's Most Eligible Bachelor.

09-25-1996: Guest William Baldwin.

09-25-1996: Top Ten Things Overheard at Princess Diana's Breakfast with Hillary Clinton.

09-25-1997: After missing his guest appearance on the show the day before due to a delayed airline flight, Drew Carey arrives to deliver tonight's Top Ten list - Top Ten Signs You Work in a Bad Office.

09-25-1997: Fake Promo: "Urban Cop Patrol" with Dave and Paul.

09-25-1997: Guest Alec Baldwin.

09-25-1997: Guest Jonathan Lipnicki almost faces the camera once during his interview.

09-25-1997: Know Your Current Events ends with an audience member being hugged by an oily stranger - Richard Simmons.

09-25-1998: "Inky" apparently gets annoyed with some joke repetition; he storms off and later takes a bow. Also, Top Ten Least Popular Stephen King Novels.

09-25-1998: Guest Jon Stewart "shows us a clip" of his book "Naked Pictures of Famous People".

09-25-1998: Tony gets annoyed with some joke repetition; he storms off and later takes a bow.

09-25-1998: Top Ten Least Popular Stephen King Novels.

09-25-2000: Biff Henderson's Fun with a Bullhorn: he gets a hot dog vendor to eat a hot dog.

09-25-2000: Dave is somewhat annoyed at a New York Times magazine article which calls him a "non-voting Republican." He says that he is not a Republican, he's not a Democrat, he's an American.

09-25-2000: Dave on his voting record: He first voted in Muncie, IN when he was a Ball State student in 1968. He also voted in 1972, but not so much in his "California cocktail waitress days". Now he lives in New Canaan, CT, and voted in 1996, 1994, 1992, and 1988. He has been registered since 1984. He's never registered with either party, and he's voted for candidates in both parties. The writer said that Dave's a Republican because he liked Rush Limbaugh's show! Dave calls Limbaugh "entertaining, but also a bag of gas (an entertaining bag of gas)".

09-25-2000: Dave returns from vacation with many things to discuss from his desk, including "Are you tired of seeing the same five commercials on the Olympics?"

09-25-2000: Fake ad: GWB Fall 2000 Blowout--to electrocute guys round the clock-- out of room, these prisoners must go to make room for the 2001 prisoners, etc.

09-25-2001: "Dumb Ads" has a nice a cappella intro. One ad says, "When quality education for your children is not an option... the answer is Bethany Christian School."

09-25-2001: "Pastries That Look Like Celebrities" include buns that look nothing like Morley Safer and George Clooney.

09-25-2001: Guest Doris Kearns Goodwin is apparently the first historian ever on the show. She compares the events of 9/11/01 to the Battle of Britain, as well as Giuliani to Churchill and GWB's recent speech to Roosevelt's 1942 Map Speech. At age 24, she was a White House Fellow for Lyndon Johnson, who was a great storyteller. Now she's working on a biography of Lincoln, who apparently kept humor alive in the middle of the Civil War.

09-25-2001: The American flag is gone from the opening.

09-25-2001: Top Ten Things People Say to Me, Dave, When They See Me on the Street: 10) "You suck!" 9) "Didn't you used to have a show?" 8) "Hey Letterman, you suck!" 7) "Are you gonna read that Penthouse all day or are you gonna buy something?" 6) "Nice wig, Pinhead" 5) "Hey Maury, you suck!" 4) "Cute, you've got matching sweaters for your poodles" 3) "May I see your license and registration?" 2) "Hey Grandpa, you suck!" 1) "There he is--let's get him!"

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