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12-20-1979: Dave guests on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
12-20-1983: East Meets West: Russian psychic Lev Schneider competes with an American Bloodhound to hunt down Bill Wendell somewhere in the NBC building. Lev wins.
12-20-1984: Michael Keaton brings out his 18-month-old son, comedian George Wallace.
12-20-1988: Top Ten Least Popular Christmas Gifts - 8. Phil Donahue's "A Boy's First Dress."
12-20-1989: Paul performs his annual Cher impression of "O Holy Night"; meanwhile, Charlie the Dog, the Bubble Eater, doesn't cooperate.
12-20-1989: Top Ten Donahue Holiday Topics - 2. Prancer and Dancer: Should they adopt?
12-20-1990: Top Ten Items from the North Pole Police Blotter - 4. Santa's sleigh found completely stripped 5,000 miles away on Cross-Bronx Expressway. 3. Woman keeps breaking into Santa's home claiming to be Mrs. Claus.
12-20-1993: Neighbors Mujibur and Sirajul place a miniature Statue of Liberty from their store on the top of the Late Show Christmas tree.
12-20-1993: Top Ten Signs You Bought A Bad Christmas Tree - 5. Keeps heckling why you try to do a lame top ten list (The Christmas tree next to Dave says, "You suck Letterman, you really suck!").
12-20-1994: Top Ten Things New York City Cabdrivers Want for Christmas - 8. Zima, the clear malt beverage.
12-20-1994: While Hal Gurnee shows a video feed of Dan Rather getting ready for his CBS News broadcast, Tom Brokaw is still stuck at home base, Dave trying to make sure that he's late to get to his own NBC Nightly News.
12-20-1994: While Hal Gurtner (ur, Gurnee) shows a video feed of Dan Rather getting ready for his CBS News broadcast, Tom Brokaw is still stuck at home base, Dave trying to make sure that he's late to get to his own NBC Nightly News.
12-20-1995: New Christmas Toys: a Times Square Barbie, a Gameboy Full of Roaches, Power Ranger Nicotine Patches, and the Mark Fuhrman Li'l Racist Evidence Kit. Later, Howard Stern appears in drag to promote his book "Miss America."
12-20-1995: Top Ten Things Overheard In Santa's Workshop - 4. Which gifts should we plant at O.J.'s house?
12-20-1996: CBS Mailbag: (1) CD of Kenny G and Singing Dogs; (2) Shaffer in the movies "Space Jam" and "Star Trek: First Contact"; (3) "Staff Holiday Greetings" bit; (4) Dave drinks even more eggnog than last year (see above).
12-20-1996: Guests Billy Crystal ("Hamlet") and Cuba Gooding Jr. ("Jerry McGuire"). Also, Dave hugs lots of people and there's fake snow in the theater.
12-20-1996: This year's Eggnog moment: Dave (well, actually a dummy) lies on the pavement outside as eggnog is poured onto him from a window high above. Still, Dave returns back inside, soaking wet. Also, Darlene Love's annual performance of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)."
12-20-1996: Top Ten Ways I, Dave Letterman, Am Getting Ready for the Holidays - 6. Shopping like crazy for my two lovely children, Cody and Cassidy.
12-20-1999: Biff shows us the huge full moon. Also, Turkish ping pong guy.
12-20-1999: Campaign 2000 makes its debut. Hillary's office is considering the Late Show's request (for her to be on the show).
12-20-1999: Dave rants about Styrofoam packing peanuts. Also, Will Lee and Michelle O'Callahan each sent Dave stone crabs over the weekend.
12-20-1999: Guests Tom Brokaw (whom Dave gives a few gifts), Alex Kingston, and Run DMC.
12-20-1999: Late Show Christmas Tree finally appears; we see clips of past years' tree-toppers. This year we have Joe G, Mujibur & Sirajul, and Rupert, who put pizza, an ornament, and a meatball on top.
12-20-1999: Top Ten Things You Don't Want To Hear the Morning after Your Office Christmas Party.
12-20-2000: "Small Town News" includes a Yazoo, MS, doctor who does auto repairs too. During the bit, Dave says that staff morale is at an all-time low. Should they hire a motivational speaker? Dave wants Paul to call Montel. Also during the bit, there's a nice "liquid manure" Dr. Pepper joke. Later, Dave drinks some Dr. Pepper to show that it's a fine product--is he OK?
12-20-2000: Cameraman Dave Dorsett is celebrating his 35th anniversary with CBS. He started with the soap opera "The Secret Storm"--we see a still of him 35 years ago. Dave gives him two wrapped "gifts" from under the tree (empty boxes).
12-20-2000: Clinton Classic Joke deals with the types of photos Ken Starr has of Clinton and Lewinsky.
12-20-2000: Extra joke done after the monologue: The White House transition is going smoothly from Pervert to Nitwit.
12-20-2000: In honor of the movie "Cast Away", George Clarke locks himself in the boiler room. A couple of minutes later, he's in bad shape. Later, there's technical trouble, and George can't hear Dave.
12-20-2000: Top Ten Questions George W. Bush Asked President Clinton - 2. "Do you think the young lady could stop that until we're finished talking?"
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