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12-23-1982: Paul Shaffer's song "Bermuda" finally gets its due as it's performed tonight by the Late Night Choir.
12-23-1985: Dave gives away a turkey via a giant raffle drum; participants are the show's guests for the night: Jack Hanna, Margaret Smith, and Harry Dean Stanton. Margaret wins.
12-23-1987: Top Ten Way Circus People Celebrate Christmas - 10. Geek says grace; bites head off turkey. 2. Tell really mean insulting jokes about Democratic presidential candidates.
12-23-1988: Top Ten Elf Fears - 3. Something happens to Bush. 2. Santa will replace them with really smart Oriental kids.
12-23-1992: Dave's Top Ten New Year's Resolutions - 5. Apologize to the pool boy for the business with the B.B. gun. 3. Stop wasting my time on those "Jumble" puzzles - they're impossible.
12-23-1993: Dave pays tribute to long-time Associate Director Pete Fatovich, who retires from the show tonight (even though he continues to show up for work for the next few years).
12-23-1993: Top Ten Christmas Movies In Times Square - 4. Frosty the Butt Man.
12-23-1994: The Roof-Cam finds two Sidewalk Santas getting themselves into an ugly altercation. Later, they make up and kiss.
12-23-1994: Top Ten Movies Playing in Times Square This Christmas Season - 5. "The Little Drummer Boy Becomes a Man.
12-23-1996: Dave puts an audience woman's ornament on the Christmas tree. Also, "Dave eats lunch with department store Santas" bit.
12-23-1996: The Late Show Christmas Carolers present Top Ten Least Popular Christmas Carols.
12-23-1996: The St. Luke's Bottle Band performs. [This show is rerun on Christmas 1997.]
12-23-1996: Tonight features the 1996 rendition of Paul's impression of Cher's "O Holy Night."
12-23-1996: Top Ten Least Popular Christmas Carols - 3. Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way, oh what fun it is to tell your parents you are gay.
12-23-1997: "Celebrity Christmas Cards" bit.
12-23-1997: "Christmas in New York" Quiz.
12-23-1997: Biff's taped report on a guy who thinks he's Santa.
12-23-1997: Dave gives a Christmas gift to an audience guy who looks like NBC news guy Irving R. Levine.
12-23-1997: Guest Terry Bradshaw talks about the 25th anniversary of the Immaculate Reception.
12-23-1997: Top Ten Signs Santa Claus Is Nuts (closing music: "Hell", Squirrel Nut Zippers).
12-23-1997: Top Ten Ways I, David Letterman, Am Spending The Holidays - 9. Chugging NyQuil until sugar plums really are dancing in my head.
12-23-1997: Tradition Night on the Late Show: Another Darlene Love performance of "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)." And another Paul Shaffer impression of Cher's "O Holy Night."
12-23-1998: "Stocking Stuffers" bit.
12-23-1998: As last year on this date, Darlene Love sings that lovely Christmas song and Paul does Cher's "Oh Holy Night".
12-23-1998: Dave's mom's Video Christmas Card.
12-23-1998: Top Ten Kids Who Have Been Naughty or Nice. Whoops, that's the wrong list. After the list is switched with the one Santa had, the new category is Reindeer Names or Characters Played by Tony Danza or Items on Saddam Hussein's Christmas Wish List.
12-23-1999: As last year on this date, Darlene Love sings that lovely Christmas song and Paul does Cher's "Oh Holy Night".
12-23-1999: CBS Mailbag: (1) Dave can't find Haliburton, Ontario, on a map, nor can he find a map; (2) Dave recalls his Christmas preparations (fake, fake, and real); (3) George Clarke tells the story of the Late Show Christmas tree; (4) Dave didn't get his childhood wish from Santa, so Harold Larkin and another guy rough up a department store Santa.
12-23-1999: Guest Hallie Eisenberg promotes the lame "Bicentennial Man".
12-23-1999: Top Ten Favorite Adult Films of Wall Street Traders.
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