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11-04-1977: Dave hosts a doomed game show pilot, "The Riddlers," with guest panelists Michael McKean, Joanne Worley, Joyce Bullifant, Robert Urich, and Debralee Scott. (thanks to Brien Henke for the date). Two episodes are planned for tape, but, as Dave explains to Michael 13 years later, the producer tells Dave, "Thanks, we won't need to tape another show."
11-04-1977: Dave hosts the pilot of the game show The Riddlers, taped this date. The game, produced by Bob Stewart (who created The Price Is Right and produced the Pyramid shows), does not sell.
11-04-1982: Limited Perspective: Tony Lupo, Yorkville Driving School Instructor, reviews "Road Warrior."
11-04-1985: Brush With Greatness: Audience members describe their close encounters with Mickey Rooney, Linda Blair, and Dr. Joyce Brothers.
11-04-1987: Dave offers the Top Ten NYC Pedestrian Tips via a megaphone outside of a window overlooking Radio City Music Hall - 8. Yelling at cabdrivers in English wastes your time and theirs.
11-04-1988: Henry Mancini and his Orchestra debut the much-beloved Viewer Mail Theme.
11-04-1988: Top Ten Reasons Dan Quayle Would Make a Great President - 1. Impossible to pick himself as Vice President.
11-04-1992: Writer Bill Scheft creates 78 jokes on Bill Clinton having just been elected President, the most he's ever written in a day. Top Ten Signs Bill Clinton Has Gone Mad with Power: #9. Has been asking staff members, "Do I get to be on dollar bills and stuff?" 3. Banished Ross Perot to a Mexican zoo.
11-04-1993: Garry Shandling, a guest for tomorrow night's show, keeps walking onto the set.
11-04-1993: Top Ten Ways To Mispronounce "Newt Gingrich" - 3. Newtros Newtros-Gingy.
11-04-1994: It's Archery Night, as Olympic Gold Medal winner Jay Barrs shoots arrows at a well-shaken bottle of champagne, an apple off the top of a dummy of Dave's head (Jay misses and gets Dave's dummy in the face), a string of six light bulbs, a gumball machine, a tv set with a target in its monitor, and finally, a burning arrow at a box of fireworks.
11-04-1994: Top Ten signs you're not going to win the New York City Marathon - 6. Instead of Gatorade, you're drinking Zima.
11-04-1996: Cold start: Dave and Mel Gibson give voting tips (simplified voting for dumb guys).
11-04-1996: In honor of his last appearance on the show, when Paul accidently stabbed him in the leg while cutting off his pants, Mel Gibson is introduced to the music of Bryan Adams' "Cuts Like a Knife."
11-04-1996: In the Late Show News Review, a fake ad says "Ross Perot: The Fine Line between Genius and Insanity".
11-04-1996: Mel Gibson reads his own Top Ten list: Lines You'll Never Hear Mel Gibson Say in a Movie.
11-04-1996: Top Ten Last Minute Bob Dole Promises - 1. Four years of the oldest, crankiest bastard in U.S. history.
11-04-1996: Winner of NYC Marathon (Giacamo Leone) runs through theater. Also, an odd Spanish-speaking guy gives Dave a melon.
11-04-1996: Winner of NYC Marathon runs through theater.
11-04-1997: Guests Mandy and (his mom) Doralie Patikin cook from her cookbook.
11-04-1997: The external camera helps Dave pick someone (Lee Holt) from Joe G's Pizza to come in to the theater and make him a campaign ad. (His daughter was with him at Joe G's, and she's a big fan, but Dave doesn't invite her in.) Later, a negative ad criticizes Lee Holt.
11-04-1997: Top Ten Reasons "E.R." Might Be Moving to CBS - 8. Wants to join forces with Dellaventura to beat up punks.
11-04-1998: "Dave's Record Collection" and "Pedestrian Nicknames".
11-04-1998: Clip of the new Minnesota governor Jesse "The Body" Ventura in the movie "Running Man", and then a list of other (wrestler) political candidates.
11-04-1998: Just for Bill, a long credit crawl.
11-04-1998: Top Ten Things on Chuck Schumer's "To-Do" List, read in the theater by Schumer.
11-04-1999: A 100-foot pumpkin cannon (operated by "Max") finally launches a pumpkin at the end of the show, but it's too dark to see the pumpkin. The bit apparently cost $41,000. Also, Top Ten Rejected Game Shows.
11-04-1999: CBS Mailbag: (1) The CBS Mailbag "helps people" (clip); (2) Tony Mendez's Surprise International Superstar: Constantinos Matsukus; (3) Dave goes to Dallas to save the writer from suicide, or is it a joke? (4) Dave in new Nike commercial.
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