12-31-0000: From 1982 through 1992: No new Late Nights aired on this date.
12-31-1993: Dave pretends the show is aired live for New Year's Eve as Roseanne and Tom Arnold make one of their last appearances as a happy couple.
12-31-1993: Top Ten Least Popular Alcoholic Beverages - 7. Orville Redenbacher's Butter-Flavored Vodka.
12-31-1996: Calvert DeForest is live at Times Square as the show is taped hours earlier. Tom Arnold appears again on New Year's Eve, this time without Roseanne.
12-31-1996: Top Ten Signs You're at a Bad New Year's Eve Party - 6. Everyone has to be back in their own cells by 10:00 PM sharp.
12-31-1997: Because a college bowl game lasts longer than anticipated, tonight's new show is seen only in selected cities in the West. All other regions air a rerun. What viewers miss is Biff Henderson live at Times Square freezing his ass off, while George Clinton blows the roof off the joint.
12-31-1997: Top Ten Signs You're at a Bad New Year's Eve Party - 6. Any combination of Richard Simmons and a diaper.
12-31-1998: Biff reports live from Times Square. Also, the Top Ten list (David Letterman's New Years Resolutions) is read part before and part after midnight. (At midnight they go back to Biff, of course.)
12-31-1998: Guests: Stupid Human Tricks ([1] plays William Tell Overture on teeth; [2] quarter rolls off gut into glass; [3] shoots free throw during hand stand), Nathan Lane, Kamar the Discount Magician, the St. Luke's Bottle Band (plays the 1812 Overture), and Mitch Hedberg (bumped).
12-31-1999: "Full" credit crawl.
12-31-1999: "Live" (8:38 pm ET) footage of Peter Jennings, who has been on the air since 4:50 am, shows him out cold.
12-31-1999: "Live" camera in Ittoqqurtoormiit, Greenland eventually shows us penguins celebrating the New Year. (Wow, penguins in Greenland!)
12-31-1999: [special show--aired at 8 pm ET in some markets, 10 pm PT in Seattle] Guests: Stupid Human Tricks ([1] barks like three breeds of dog; [2] blows in wife's nose to inflate balloon; [3] guy hits softball off his friend's stomach while other guy catches it in his mouth; [4] later, a bonus trick--upside down hula hooping), Kevin James (brief standup and panel), and Brooklyn Philharmonic (which plays a four-minute excerpt from Beethoven's 9th).
12-31-1999: cold start: Dave's champagne cork flies out the window and knocks over Dick Clark.
12-31-1999: Dave wears a tux for the show. Also, Mayor Giuliani appears, saying it's only 5 seconds to New Year's. (Alas, his fake Rolex is giving him the wrong time.)
12-31-1999: Full credit crawl.
12-31-1999: Times Square New Year's Eve Quiz.
12-31-1999: Top Ten Effects of Y2K, read live in the studio by James Earl Jones (closing music is from Star Wars).
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