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This Dave in History December 26

12-26-1983: Window-washer/psychic Morris Fonte makes his 1984 predictions. He declares that while the Yankees will capture the pennant, the Orioles will win the World Series. Dave points out that both teams are in the same division.

12-26-1988: It's "Festival of Destruction" Week of reruns, with shows featuring a fireman destroying a locked door, stuff dropped off a 5-story tower, and Dave tearing apart his desk phone with an axe.

12-26-1989: Late Night writer Randy Cohen has a selection of his newly-published book, _Diary of a Flying Man_, read by Felice Schachter, who played Nancy Olson in "Facts of Life."

12-26-1990: How's the Weather? Dave riffles as Barbara Gaines points: A call to Elko, Nevada (no answer), to Bowling Green, Kentucky (no answer), to Sasanaw, Michigan (no answer), and a call to New Mexico (no answer). So Dave calls Bab's parents in Florida.

12-26-1990: Top Ten Most Frequently Returned Christmas Gifts - 4. Super-Itchy Slipper-Socks from Super-Itchy Technologies, Hartford, Connecticut.

12-26-1994: Dave invites an elderly couple, Fred and Estelle, to sit at homebase to enjoy the enchanting sounds of "Infected" by Bad Religion.

12-26-1994: Top Ten Signs You've Been Watching Too Much Football - 3. After sex, you spike the pillow.

12-26-1995: "All night long," "Santa" gets rid of Christmas stuff by dropping it out of a window: (1) ornaments, (2) balloons filled with sour eggnog, (3) an aquarium full of guacamole, (4) fruitcake, (5) week-old gift-wrapped melons, (6) Santa himself.

12-26-1995: A good Top Ten list: Least Popular Christmas Carols, presented by the Late Show Christmas Carolers.

12-26-1995: Highlights of the Late Show Christmas Party include skating.

12-26-1995: Stupid Human Trick: Bruce Davie catches an arrow shot by his wife Sheila.

12-26-1995: Stupid Human Tricks: (1) spins burger on an umbrella; (2) blows bubble out of ear; (3) see above.

12-26-1996: "Rejected/Discounted Christmas Cards" bit. Also, Dave parodies cybersex.

12-26-1996: A pencil is stuck in the model of the George Washington Bridge.

12-26-1996: Dave distributes gifts to the audience, and then tells a story of his eating disorder (in two days, he ate 600 chocolate chip cookies that his sister sent him from Florida).

12-26-1996: Dave has a supposed Tickle Me Elmo doll, which says "you just wasted $800".

12-26-1996: Dave says that his Mom got him a birdhouse for Christmas.

12-26-1996: Dave shows us a calendar with his co-workers' pictures (including Tony Mendez's) on it.

12-26-1996: Top Ten Things Overheard at the White House on Christmas Day - 2. I can tell the President didn't get what he wanted because Hillary's still here.

12-26-1997: [show taped before Christmas] CBS Mailbag: (1) Tony Danza taught Dave how to flip pencils? (2) Dave pretends to be a valet parker and steals a car; (3) Biff Henderson Celebrity Telephone Interview (Dick Clark); (4) fake snow in the theater (asbestos?)

12-26-1997: Dave distributes gifts to the audience, then gives Martha Stewart a wreath made of cigarette butts.

12-26-1997: Top Ten Ways I, David Letterman, Am Spending the Holidays.

12-26-2000: "Pardoned Criminals Talk with President Clinton" bit. Criminals thank Clinton for letting them out (while they commit further crimes). At the end, Hillary is shown.

12-26-2000: Bit: Mayor Giuliani's hairpiece switches automatically to the L. L. Bean version for the cold winter.

12-26-2000: Clinton Classic Joke involves Clinton's doing some renovation at an elementary school (drilling holes into computer desks). Right after the joke, Calvert wanders out with a scooter with a ribbon on it, pauses, and leaves. [By the way, right before the Clinton Classic joke, a TV monitor almost fell into the audience.]

12-26-2000: Coming out of the commercial, after the bumper, Dave tells a brief story of the dog in the statue that was just shown. (It went to Alaska to provide food to save people or something.)

12-26-2000: Dave actually complains that it's cold in theater (there are heaters above the band).

12-26-2000: Dave calls upstairs for the first time. Art answers, and says that some of the callers like the show, some don't. Art connects Dave with Steph (in his office); Dave asks her to tape Jackass for him.

12-26-2000: Dave wears green gloves, briefly.

12-26-2000: Dave's story: he was in a supermarket on Christmas Eve, and a woman his mom's age spoke to him (with her husband Ernie twice his age). She loves his show (unqualified adoration?), but she said that last night's show wasn't so good.

12-26-2000: fake clip: Alan Kalter in "What Women Want"--his scene turns into a make-out scene? Must not be the Mel Gibson movie.

12-26-2000: In honor of yesterday's eclipse, Tony re-creates it with a cue card in front of the camera (music: "Also Sprach Zarathustra"). Dave gives him a "wrapped gift".

12-26-2000: Paul is celebrating Hanukah, and is still drunk from it?

12-26-2000: Top Ten Madonna Tips For a Happy Marriage - 9. In pre-nuptial agreements, get rights to all sex videos you make together.

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