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This Dave in History November 29

11-29-1983: Chris Elliott is The Conspiracy Guy, an agitator who's thrown out of the audience by security guards. Also: Jeffrey Tabin, a member of the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club who climbed up the more treacherous east face of Mt. Everest, has Dave recreate that feat by having him climb a rope up to the studio rafters.

11-29-1984: Having been teased for the last few months for wearing green pants for the show, Bill Wendell appears tonight in a tuxedo. Meanwhile, New Product Tester Bob McMath displays "gorilla balls."

11-29-1985: Dave guests on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

11-29-1988: In another update of the Pan American Goodwill Tour, Calvert calls from Mexico City, 2,800 miles from NYC, and wants to go home.

11-29-1988: Top Ten Fears of Snuggles the Fabric Softener Bear - 1. The Pillsbury Doughboy will ask him to poke lower.

11-29-1989: Martha Stewart makes cheap Christmas ornaments on Late Night.

11-29-1990: Another segment of "Those Funny, Funny Mapplethorpe Photos" is interrupted as a camera begins to rotate out of control because five fat guys are sitting in the studio front row.

11-29-1991: In a video remote, Late Night staff members visit the doctor. Barbara Gaines and Paul Shaffer get flu shots, Mary Connelly investigates a foot problem, and Jude Brennan discusses her mood swings with the physician.

11-29-1993: Top Ten Stores That Won't Do Much Business This Holiday Season - 4. Hefty Lefties: The Store for Left-Handed Fat Guys.

11-29-1994: Top Ten Santa Pick Up Lines - 5. "That is a candy cane in my pocket, and I am glad to see you." #4. "Uh-yeah, that's right. I'm Kenny Rogers."

11-29-1995: Merrill Markoe makes a return appearance on Late Show, promoting the paperback edition of her book "How to to Hap-Hap-Happy Like Me." On tonight's show, Ex-Gal Pal keeps TV Boy in check by mentioning that she has diaries.

11-29-1995: Top Ten Changes Westinghouse Is Planning For CBS - 9. Goodbye old shows that suck; hello new shows that suck!

11-29-1996: After Dave offers a million dollars claiming that there's no such person named Sivareddy Gotike, whose letter was read on the CBS Mailbag the week before, Sivareddy appears on the show to collect. Dave offers him instead a hotel room, dinner at Tad's, dinner at the 21 Club, two tickets to "Cats," two tickets to a Jets game, a camera, car service, and dates.

11-29-1996: CBS Mailbag: (1) Dave sits in stuffing; (2) "The Living Club" appears again, in a lame bit; (3) Jerry Springer now works for Rupert Jee? (4) Peggy, the foul-mouthed scenic designer reads a Christmas story.

11-29-1996: The band plays Dave over to the desk with "Back Home in Indiana".

11-29-1996: Top Ten Signs You've Eaten Too Much - 5. This morning, the display on your bathroom scale read "Good Lord!"

11-29-1999: "The Best and Worst of the Millennium" bit is rather lame.

11-29-1999: Open Mike Night from the Mojave Desert, again. Later, we see a technician adjusting the open mike.

11-29-1999: Top Ten Least Popular Toys.

11-29-1999: Upcoming is an episode of "Walker, Texas Ranger" that *every* parent should see, according to Dave.

11-29-2000: "A Day in the Life of the George W. Bush Transition Team" bit. Also, the Late Show has its own transition office, and we see a "clip" of GWB talking from behind a U.S. Flag.

11-29-2000: 2000 Highlights: footage of "heart attack", dingo bite, Richard Simmons obscenities, and "deer attack".

11-29-2000: A street magician in NY has frozen himself in a block of ice, so George Clarke dumps a bucket of ice down his pants.

11-29-2000: Another Gore speech is analyzed, this one for how many times he uses "vote" and "count": 23 and 27. Also, is he medicated?

11-29-2000: Canadian Election Crisis 2000: The Battle for Prime Minister: Day 2: Today, Jean Chretien is still the winner. No recounts are scheduled. We'll keep you updated as the story develops.

11-29-2000: Clinton Classic Joke mentions the impeachment trial in the Senate, with each Senator getting 15 minutes on the floor. Right after the joke, Calvert wanders out, pulls out a handkerchief, wipes off the camera lens, and leaves.

11-29-2000: Dave says he's a patriotic talk show host, while a few other talk show hosts are Communists (Oprah?).

11-29-2000: Fake clip: something went wrong with the lighting of the big Christmas tree in NY--a giant rat knocked it over?

11-29-2000: The band does a half-assed rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner.

11-29-2000: With the unusual scheduling of going to reruns on a Thursday, this show becomes the last new one until 12/11. Also, this ends a "week" of shows with no Top Ten list.

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