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This Dave in History December 15

12-15-1986: Top Ten Unsafe Toys for Christmas - 8. Black & Decker Silly Driller.

12-15-1987: Gary Hart's Top Ten Christmas Wishes - 5. To be played by Lorenzo Lamas in Donna Rice's made-for-TV movie.

12-15-1987: Throughout the show: Anton's letter to his mom, narrating his day on the show.

12-15-1988: Top Ten Campaign Promises George Bush Is Sorry He Made - 2. To bring more lightweight pretty-boys into the executive branch.

12-15-1989: Blitzen's Top Ten Pet Peeves - 2. Swanson's Reindeer Pot Pie.

12-15-1989: Four-year-old genius from London, Lulu Cash Gibson, is mesmorized by Dave's bubble machine. Dave: "I don't care how smart you are, you've got to love bubbles." Later, she sits on Dave's lap and ignites the confetti cannons.

12-15-1990: Top Ten Reasons To Give Dan Quayle a Raise - 6. You'd rather he went out and got a real job and maybe screwed up an entire industry?

12-15-1992: Call to Meg Parsont across the street at Simon & Schuster: Santa (Regis Lee Philbin) arrives in Meg's office and gives her Kathie Lee Gifford's new book.

12-15-1992: Top Ten Things the Bushes Have To Do Before Leaving Office - 2. Decide whether to end farewell speech with "Kiss my you-know-what" or just go ahead and say "ass."

12-15-1993: Top Ten Reasons Donald Trump Will Make A Good Husband - 5. In 1987, paid Billy Dee Williams $10 million to teach him everything there is to know about kissing.

12-15-1994: Top Ten Surprises in the Presidential Address - 3. The President's unsolicited testimonial for Big Ass pork products.

12-15-1994: What's New For the Holidays ends with Siskel and Ebert having a snowball fight with Dave.

12-15-1995: Dave sends audience member Karl out to get a tree. When he returns, Dave sends him out again for ornaments. Meanwhile, White Zombie's pyrotechnics manage to set off the theater's fire alarm.

12-15-1995: Top Ten Things Clinton Is Hiding In His Whitewater Notes - His passport, a fake beard, and $10,000 in cash.

12-15-1997: Guests Kevin Costner (in an over-long segment), Tyra Banks (with a $3-million bra), Nina & Nikolai (quick-change artists).

12-15-1997: Remote: Tony Mendez realizes a week-long dream to kick a field goal for the New York Giants at the Meadowlands.

12-15-1997: The Late Show set is ornamented with lovely holiday decorations.

12-15-1997: Top Ten Signs Your Wife Is Having An Affair With Santa Claus - 1. During sex she shouts, "Ho, ho, ho!"

12-15-1998: Lame mentalist Kreskin incorrectly predicts that Tom Arnold will spell the word in question "Chanukah"; Tom spells it "Hanukah". Yes, it's that lovely bit "How Do You Spell Hanukah". (If only Kreskin had seen the name of the bit written down in advance!)

12-15-1998: Natalie Merchant appears for a second straight night; this time she does a nice song with Billy Bragg.

12-15-1998: The theater is decorated for Christmas; Rupert comes in to put the steaming meatball (or pastrami sandwich) on top of the tree.

12-15-1998: Top Ten Signs There Is Tension in the Clinton Marriage.

12-15-1999: "Christmas Cards" bit.

12-15-1999: All night long, Philadelphia Flyers guys take shots at a cardboard cutout of Dave.

12-15-1999: Dave announces he has office hours from 7-9 PM.

12-15-1999: Hillary's still not booked on the show. Also, the Turkish ping ping guy appears in his underwear again.

12-15-1999: It's announced that Hillary's still not booked on the show.

12-15-1999: The Turkish ping pong guy appears in his underwear again.

12-15-1999: Top Ten Demands of Striking Elves.

12-15-2000: A lovely split-screen still photo comparison: GWB and a deer in the headlights.

12-15-2000: Before guest Sara Gilbert comes on, Dave mentions (and describes) the "Welcome to New York" show. Dave says that it's now on opposite "Ed"--have to tape one and watch the other.

12-15-2000: CBS Mailbag Letter #4: Brad Stewart of Stillwater, OK, asks, "What do you want for Christmas this year?" Dave is not sure what he wants, but Gerard Mulligan has a few words on Christmas: He's 55 and doesn't like working hard any more. The best Christmas gift ever for him was the election of GWB. We see a clip of GWB gaffes. All the child actors who play his son appear (6 of them, including an adult). "Thank you, America, for choosing the dumb guy!"

12-15-2000: Clinton Classic Joke involves it being so hot that people are going under desks just for the shade. Right after the joke, Calvert wanders out, sucks down some more eggnog (he has it in a pitcher this time), and leaves.

12-15-2000: Dave is peeved that he wasn't invited to the CBS Christmas party. Even though he had to work, it would've been nice to have been invited.

12-15-2000: Late Show Watercooler Talk (Pat and Kenny): "Who finally won that Presidential thing?" "I think it was Gore or Bush or one of those guys."

12-15-2000: The first segment of the show is a "record" length: 22.5 minutes.

12-15-2000: Top Ten Items on George W. Bush's To-Do List - 3. Tell Al Gore to keep his schedule clear in case things don't work out.

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