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11-16-1982: James Downey makes his Late Night debut as the voice of President Martin Van Buren, Animated Man. He's hired as head writer for the next year. Later, Grace Jones appears with her clone.
11-16-1983: A classic Late Night: Larry "Bud" greets bus passengers arriving from the New York Port Authority. Dave cracks up at the way Larry has difficulty maneuvering his microphone, pointing it towards passengers' faces before finishing his own questions.
11-16-1983: Larry "Bud" greets arriving bus passengers from the New York Port Authority. Dave cracks up at the way Larry has difficulty maneuvering his microphone, pointing it towards passengers' faces before finishing his own questions.
11-16-1988: A Peace Through Dramatization Players theater piece goes awry: "Wool and Wombats, The Wonder Down Under" is interrupted as a "guest" hot dog (played by writer Matt Wickline) is chased by son Timmy's dog, Tuffy, into the elevator banks down the hall.
11-16-1988: Top Ten Signs That People Are Getting Dumber - 1. I'm still on the air.
11-16-1989: The Energizer Bunny is spotted beating its drum on the studio floor, so Dave smashes it with a baseball bat, accidently decapitating its head. The headless torso continues to drum.
11-16-1989: Top Ten Ways To Make Communism Fun Again - 7. Have Revlon introduce new "Khmer Rouge."
11-16-1990: After Dave commented on how ragged the band guests LaToya Jackon Horns looked the previous night (wearing ripped jeans and biker jackets), future CBS Orchestra members Bruce Kapler and Alan Chesnovitz appear tonight in tuxedos.
11-16-1990: After Dave had commented on how ragged the band guests LaToya Jackon Horns looked the previous night (wearing ripped jeans and biker jackets), future CBS Orchestra members Bruce Kapler and Alan Chesnovitz appear tonight in tuxedos.
11-16-1990: Top Ten New Jobs for Milli Vanilli - 7. Try to sell Ben and Jerry's on idea for "Milli Vanilla."
11-16-1993: The show's staff physician Dr. Lou Arrone takes stitches out of Dave's head after Dave had crashed into a box in the basement the week before. Meanwhile, boxing ring announcer Michael Buffer introduces the night's guests.
11-16-1993: Top Ten Reasons Puerto Rico Does Not Want to Become a State - 5. Alaska became a state, and look what happened -- it's freezing there!
11-16-1994: After having been made fun of by Dave for the last week, newly-elected NY Governor George Pataki appears onstage to deliver the Top Ten Ways to Mispronounce "Pataki" - 10. Patooky; 9. Pakaticky; 8. Paturkey; 7. Souvlaki; 6. Pat Sajacky; 5. Fat Ducky; 4. Gap Khakis; 3. Will Cut Taxes; 2. Cold Six Packy; 1. Boutros Boutros-Aki.
11-16-1995: Chris Elliott interrupts Dave and introduces his new running character, "The Cable-Pulling Guy."
11-16-1995: Top Ten Other Ways President Clinton Has Insulted Newt Gingrich - 2. Designated Newt's ass as carry on luggage.
11-16-1998: "Also in the News" bit.
11-16-1998: Dave starts hyping the Late Show 5th Anniversary Special (Nov 23).
11-16-1998: Kid Scientists: 1) potato gun, 2) water vortex, 3) "ball rocket".
11-16-1998: Late Show #1116 on 11/16. Also, Jayson Williams operates a camera.
11-16-1999: "Biff Henderson's Fun with a Bullhorn" bit.
11-16-1999: As Kankakee, Illinois is rated last (#354) by Places Rated Almanac, Dave calls the Kankakee mayor and gives the town a gazebo. Later in the show, "Gazebo Weekly" magazine rates Kankakee #1.
11-16-1999: Guest Will Smith wants Dave to kiss him.
11-16-1999: Top Ten Items in Ronald McDonald's Y2K Bunker.
11-16-2000: Clinton Classic Joke is about Clinton banging his head on a door. Right after the joke, Calvert wanders out, wipes his glasses on the bottom of Dave's suit jacket, and leaves.
11-16-2000: Clips from GWB's speech last night, with certain words counted: in 5 minutes, 10 "fair"s, 8 "accurate"s.
11-16-2000: Florida Ballot Counter of the Day: a guy squints at a ballot.
11-16-2000: Guest Chris Elliott says his two girls think he's an asshole. His oldest daughter is 13 and on the Internet all the time.
11-16-2000: Guest Gwyneth Paltrow says she's going to the Speilbergs' for Thanksgiving, as usual. Later, she talks to "Inky" in Spanish, and he gets pissed off and leaves.
11-16-2000: Know Your Current Events: (1) Nolie from Houston apparently didn't vote for GWB (refuses to answer the question); (2) Kevin from Livermore, CA, brought a book to the show, and plays Know Your Chads.
11-16-2000: Michael McDonald sits in on keyboards. He's no longer a Doobie Brother, or is he? Coming out of the first commercial break, the band plays a Michael McDonald song: the theme from Dave's old morning show. Dave doesn't think they played all of the real theme song--he doesn't recognize it--so he asks Paul and Mike and the band to play it again later. We get to hear it over the closing credits.
11-16-2000: Top Ten Things the Founding Fathers Would Say If They Were Alive Today - 8. "Good to see Florida is still using the same old voting machines."
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