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This Dave in History November 15

11-15-1982: Dr. Hunter S. Thompson makes his first appearance on Dave. Flashed on-screen during the interview: "Edited for television."

11-15-1983: It's the first of two Custom-Made shows, where the audience votes on various aspects of the show. Tonight: the opening announcement comes from Bob, a traffic coordinator, to the theme from "Gilligan's Island," and home base is replaced with lawn chairs. Later, Larry "Bud" walks through the NBC halls in a bear suit.

11-15-1988: The Pan American Goodwill Tour makes its first report from Lexington, Kentucky, using a video-phone hookup, where still images of Calvert are transmitted to Dave's video-phone receiver. At this initial stage, Calvert seems enthusiastic about the trip.

11-15-1988: Yassir Arafat's Top Ten Ways To Improve the PLO's Image - 4. Kidnap Geraldo. Keep him.

11-15-1989: Lech Walesa's Top Ten Questions While in the United States - 7. "Are you joking? McRibs?" 3. "Could you get me another cup of coffee, Mr. Quayle?"

11-15-1990: Another installment of Biff Henderson's Where Are They Now? Tonight's celebrity: Charles DeGaulle. Biff: "Dead."

11-15-1990: Top Ten Least Popular Brands of Cigarettes - 1. Oscar Mayer Smokable Weenies.

11-15-1992: Dave appears via videotape on "Donahue: The 25th Anniversary."

11-15-1993: Dave calls the payphones on the corner and invites Trece Chancellor from Alabama to sit on the catwalk stairs. Later, he invites her friends inside.

11-15-1993: Top Ten Things Overheard at the New York City Marathon - 4. Faster! Here comes Lorena Bobbitt!

11-15-1994: Dave sends an audience member, Sandy Lerner, outside to a camera crew and pretend she's Ricki Lake (who spent the previous night in jail and is the show's first guest) and tell them, "You deadbeats go home! I'm not talking to anybody!"

11-15-1994: Top Ten Signs Your New Governor Is Nuts - 4. Giggles uncontrollably whenever somebody says the word "gubernatorial."

11-15-1995: A Greetings Cards segment is enhanced by the addition of the Late Show Choir. Cards include "You have a new baby; hope it's better looking than your first two" and "Lose the goatee."

11-15-1995: David Letterman's Top Ten Retirement Plans - 3. Drive cross-country with Richard Simmons.

11-15-1996: Dave goes to the United Center and has "I Love Minnie Cocke" put on the scoreboard.

11-15-1996: Friday Night on the Road takes Late Show to Chicago, as Dave and Dennis Rodham appear on videotape in drag. Meanwhile, the Top Ten Favorite Illinois Names are presented by April Showers, Rob Banks, Tim Burr, Harry Pitts, Peter Bumpass, Michael Jordan, Dick Long, Dick Short, Dick Hair, and Minnie Cocke.

11-15-1996: Stupid Pet Tricks: (1) Two border collies play catch with tennis balls; (2) two kids with a turtle pushing a stroller, theoretically; (3) dog and kids jump rope; (4, bonus) a bulldog jumps up and grabs a bike tire.

11-15-1999: "Early Show" clip shows a guy with his arm cut off?

11-15-1999: "Pedestrian Theme Songs" bit is anything but pedestrian.

11-15-1999: Dave rants about the dumb contestants on "Millionaire".

11-15-1999: Fake clip: Pokemon guy in a 70's porno.

11-15-1999: Guest Claudia Schiffer puts chestnuts in a microwave.

11-15-1999: Top Ten Chapter Titles in George W. Bush's autobiography.

11-15-2000: "Charts and Graphs" is mostly about the election.

11-15-2000: Clinton Classic Joke involves Hillary visiting Egypt and taking a ride on a camel. Right after the joke, Calvert wanders out, gets a drink off Dave's desk, spits it out, and leaves.

11-15-2000: Clip of people scurrying away from Dave's desk as the commercial break ends.

11-15-2000: Clip: David Boies in Florida complaining that the Secretary of State exercised discretion arbitrarily.

11-15-2000: Guest Mike Myers recently became an American citizen. Now he's Canadian, British, and American--triple citizenship. We see a clip of him in "Range Rider and the Calgary Kid" in "The Adventure of the Dinosaur Badlands" (with a plastic dinosaur). He's on the documentary about the Beatles that airs this Friday. He met Paul McCartney at Austin Powers II premiere--Paul talked too much?

11-15-2000: More of Dan Rather's zany expressions from the Nov 7 election coverage.

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