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This Dave in History November 21

11-21-1983: Cold Open: a David Susskind parody, as Dave reviews the show "Alice" with Robert Morton, Gerard Mulligan, Merrill Markoe, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

11-21-1984: Guest Dom DeLuise tosses turkey leftovers to the audience.

11-21-1985 "Too Tired to Do a Show". The crew never bothered to go to the studio. They just slapped together an episode in the 14th floor offices.

11-21-1985: Dave wears the Suit of Chips and is hoisted "like a tea-bag" into one ton of onion dip. Back onstage, Dave sprays staffers and audience members with dip.

11-21-1985: Suit of Chips

11-21-1986: Paul guests on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, performing Stevie Wonder's "Fingertips."

11-21-1987: Suit of Rice Crispies

11-21-1987: The World's Most Dangerous Band backs up Cher on Saturday Night Live.

11-21-1989: Top Ten Ways Merv Griffin Can Cut Back - #10. No longer automatically say "yes" when kid at counter asks, "Fries with that?" 7. Casino bookings: less Sinatra, more Sinatra, Jr.

11-21-1989: Top Ten Ways Merv Griffin Can Cut Back - 7. Casino bookings: less Sinatra, more Sinatra, Jr.

11-21-1990: Top Ten Things that Will Get You Kicked Out of the Macy's Parade - 5. Cold-cocking Santa; taking his place dressed as Roy Orbison.

11-21-1990: Via a human chain, sixty-six boy scouts fetch a 7-Up to Dave from the 7th floor soda machine.

11-21-1994: The first Prime Time Special airs tonight, featuring the Best of Late Show's first 273 shows. Paul Newman makes a rare cameo on the show, interrupting Dave's Opening Remarks: "What are you looking at, Zippy?" Later, he interrupts the introduction of an Olympic Remote with "Okay, Monkey Boy; I'll see you in the back."

11-21-1994: Top Ten Words That Sounds Romantic When Spoken By Barry White - 10. Jazzercise; 9. Gubernatorial; 8. Doo-hickey; 7. Dweeb; 6. Bite me; 5. Prime time catastrophe; 4. Gingivitis; 3. Pataki; 2. Big Ass Ham; 1. Oprah

11-21-1995: Late Show Mailboy Bob Borden, still in the nation's capitol, visits the Congressional Mailroom.

11-21-1996: Biff Henderson's "Hall of Science" tests what happens when Christmas ornaments are placed inside a working blender.

11-21-1996: CBS Mailbag Letter #3: Sirajul shaves Mujibur's legs.

11-21-1996: CBS Mailbag: (1) Pat Farmer gives up coffee; (2) Alan Kalter as a crime-fighter ("The Red Falcon"); (3) Sirajul shaves Mujibur's legs; (4) Dave puts chili in his pants.

11-21-1996: Dave gives an audience guy many canned hams ("for charity").

11-21-1996: Top Ten Things Overheard During Clinton's Visit to Australia - 2. Okay, I know "Foster's" is Australian for "beer," but what's Australian for "hooker?"

11-21-1997: CBS Mailbag Letter #1 teaches us that Dave's favorite color is blue.

11-21-1997: CBS Mailbag: (1) Dave's favorite color is blue; (2) "Win Paul Shaffer's Apartment" contest; (3) Dave knows the names of the Late Show interns--is Dave an intern? (4) Dave celebrates Thanksgiving with a 5-gallon gravy dump.

11-21-1997: Fake ad for "Executive Lovelines"--phone sex with President Clinton.

11-21-1997: Guests Kirstie Alley, Luke Perry, and Shenyang Acrobats.

11-21-1997: Program is rated TV-14-DL for some reason.

11-21-1997: Top Ten Changes Planned for This Year's Macy's Thanksgiving Parade - 5. For the first time, parade will feature guys in turkey suits stuffing each other.

11-21-2000: Clinton Classic Joke involves Hillary Clinton's traveling to Italy. (She is in Florence...) Right after the joke, Calvert wanders out, stands next to Dave, pulls out a ballot, examines it closely, tears it up, and leaves.

11-21-2000: Dave mentions his Tuesday "dawn" dental appointment. His mouth is improved. Dr. Lin Hart (sp?) did a good job. He can do "this" and "that" with his mouth. Last week he could just do "this".

11-21-2000: Fake ad for 2000 Election Highlights Video has car wreck footage, clip of a shark, etc. Later, we see a still photo of GWB in a ZZ Top hat in a newspaper.

11-21-2000: Guest Brian Williams doesn't think there will be election reform because Americans have the attention spans of gnats. [Not in the first year, anyway.]

11-21-2000: Presidential Election Beat the Clock: The external camera is at Joe G's Pizza. (On the sidewalk is the Brazilian bobsledding team?) Hershel from Atlanta (in NY for Thanksgiving parade) tries to count the ballots he's been given.

11-21-2000: The new set has 2 flags behind Dave, who reminds us again that he is doing everything possible to appear more Presidential.

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