Late Show with David Letterman
David Letterman uses mature humor to appeal to his audience in this weeknight series, which gets its music from a house band led by Paul Shaffer. Among the show's most-famous segments are the Top Ten List and Stupid Pet Tricks, the latter of which subsequently led to an additional recurring segment called Stupid Human Tricks.
Season 2 Episodes
Throughout the night, an audience woman from Brooklyn kicks footballs.
""Dropping Stuff Off the 8th Floor Window"" includes: champagne bottles, confetti, a TV monitor, presidential plates, fl…
Dave comments on Robbie Kondor; a car alarm goes off outside the theater, so Dave goes outside and bombs the offending c…
Hal Gurnee harasses taxi drivers by posting their images on the Times Square jumbotron.
An audience member gives Dave a tiny pair of pants; Gavin MacLeod pops in several times, interrupting the monologue and …
John Popper sits in with the band; Bill Murray tours Broadway; Macaulay Culkin promotes ""Richie Rich.""
Tim Allen promotes his bestselling book, Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man.
Two standby audience folks named Jenya and Gary are sent to take food to Dan Rather, courtesy of Rupert. Later, Mike Ju…
Calvert goes trick-or-treating in Nutley, New Jersey (Martha Stewart's hometown); Lauren Bacall plugs ""Pret-a-Porter"" …
John Popper sits in; throughout the night, Mujibur and Sirajul appear as correspondents on Court TV; Elijah Wood plugs N…
Dave gets freshened up by a street sweeper; Rupert serves ""Bill Clinton Soup.""
Live via telephone, Jerry Lewis pronounces the new governor's name ""Puh-tack-ee;"" ""Picket Fences"" star Fyvush Finkel…
Dave selects a woman from outside named Laurie Byrd to be his co-host tonight; Biff and George Clarke recreate a scene f…
The outside cam reveals that Dave's picture in the window of Joe G's Pizza. Dave calls and distracts Joe while Paul ste…
Roseanne makes a rare political statement; Dave's accountant Fred Nigro takes a bow.
Mujibur, Sirajul and Tony Randall take a photo together; tonight's celebrities in the audience: Mia Farrow, Eddie Murphy…
One of tonight's cue cards goes to a garbage truck outside; in the latest edition of ""Rupert and Me,"" Dave radios stra…
Cold Opening: Jim Carrey and an unshaven Dave goof around. Later in the show, Mickey, the barber at the Wellington Hote…
Siskel and Ebert throw snowballs; Michael J. Fox walks onstage with a cow.
Bad Religion performed ""Infected""
During ""Charts and Graphs,"" Dave sends an audience member down the street for copies of a chart. Also, Dave calls the…
A customer at Hello Deli shows Dave her holiday photos. Later, Dave checks his temperature (99.5 F).
Dave ends the show early yet again, and Paul finds him sobbing on the Ricki Lake show; Biff has champagne coming out of …
Michael Buffer announces Phil Hartman's entry onstage; a comely postal carrier distracts Dave.
Dave autographs a ham; Calvert (dressed as Newt Gingrich's mother) presents the Top Ten.
An audience member hangs out in the band section; Mujibur and Sirajul become the latest witnesses to testify for O.J. Si…
Al Green performs ""Let's Stay Together.""
Dave shows a (bogus) Super Bowl ad starring himself; Gerard presents ""Top Ten Signs You're Not the Sexiest Man Alive.""
Rosanne Cash performs ""I Count the Tears.""
Dave introduces the brand new ""Late Show Dancers,"" who prance around throughout the show. Also, 83-year-old Empire St…
Dave sends three members from the audience to go to a nearby movie theater to videotape some clips from Pulp Fiction. Th…
Cybill Shepherd promotes her new sitcom; Gary Sinise brags about the perks of being an Academy Award Nominee.
Wayne Newton (live via satellite) presents the Top Ten; Michael McKean comments on the recent troubles on the set of ""S…
Bernie Worrell sits in; Al Roker does a weather forecast; Dave retrieves a blue card from ""Forrest Gump"" (Calvert); Je…
Dave sends the standby audience to The Gap to purchase and wear matching outfits before they're allowed to return to the…
On the first Letterman show ever aired on this date, Bill Cosby, Tito Puente, and Dave climb a ladder up to the balcony,…
Dave sends the standby audience to The Gap to purchase and wear matching outfits before they're allowed to return to the…
Dave gives a girl in the audience named Amy money to buy spring flowers, and later her boyfriend (also in the audience) …
A woman in the audience bakes cookies for everyone; Conan O'Brien appears in Dave's latest Oscar-related dream; Dave get…
Throughout the night, Dave practices giving out Oscars, awarding achievements by Tony Randall, Doc Severinson (who's sit…
John Mayall sits in; Dave comments on his much-scrutinized performance as host of last week's Academy Awards.
Throughout the night, the legendary Ashton Family acrobats perform their greatest stunts outside on 53rd Street.
Dave spells Uma and Oprah with hot dog wieners, while Creepy Dave lurks in the backdrop during his interview with Bryant…
At the end of tonight's ""New Books"" segment, Dave gives one of the phony manuscripts to a girl in the audience. Also,…
Two babes in the audience are observed with ""Marry Us Dave"" T-shirts; Dave, Calvert, and Biff sit around and do nothin…
Dave invites the stand-by audience to his office and watch the show from there. Later, they're joined by Faye Dunaway an…
Throughout the night, various staffers walk onstage to give Dave ""dramatic tension,"" while Robert Pastorelli explains …
Mayor Guiliani and Dave agree to disagree on the new slogan for the New York Tourism Board; Drew Barrymore gives Dave a …
The New York Daily News, having headlined their paper with last night's Guiliani-chosen slogan, distributes miniature bu…
Two days after NYC's new slogan, ""We Can Kick Your City's Ass,"" reaches beyond the Hudson, Dave hears from mayors of o…
Live Remote: Dave annoys both an H&R Block tax accountant and his mortified customer, who prefers to hide her face.
Dave selects five guys from the audience to compete in a basketball match outside on 53rd Street with five (alleged) New…
Dave complains that the cue-card Tony is holding is too small, so Inky replaces it with a giant banner; ten mayors of ot…
An audience talent show is interrupted by Helen Reddy, who pops up several times throughout the show; later, she teams u…
Tony Randall drops by to announce who tomorrow's guests will be, and Dave squirts him with a fire extinguisher. Later, B…
After word spreads to the media that he's losing his ratings edge over Leno, Dave wants to find out if people are still …
In tonight's live remote, Dave annoys customers down the street at the Sam Ash music store and invites Marcia to sit in …
David Sanborn sits in yet again; various New York Yankees present the Top Ten; Dave loses a blue card, then finds it at …
The Flying Rat is introduced on the show during a segment called ""What's New for Spring""; in the same segment a small …
Dave and Paul leave the show early to go over to Madison Square Garden for the circus, where they run into an acrobat be…
All of tonight's guests (Marilu Henner, Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Mario Van P…
The Giant Flying Rat is introduced via lasers and special effects just after being interviewed by Tom Snyder.
(Supposed) Audience requests are fulfilled in tonight's ""Who Asked For It?"" while Harry Connick Jr. promotes his new a…
Pete Fatovich attempts to kiss Paul again; the giant flying rat delivers the Top Ten list; Jake Johanssen discusses a re…
The giant flying rat dons a sombrero; Dave leaves the show early to marry Drew Barrymore; a man gets kicked in the face …
Dave sends audience members Nico and Ingrid Van Eenennaan to London (to promote the show's visit next week) with a camco…
Jimmy Smits, a guest the night before, is seen in his hotel room naked, doing push-ups and watching TV in bed. Also, Pa…
The Dutch husband and wife from last night resurface for a brief moment; Paul wears a top hat and a tuxedo; Bruce Willis…
Paul decides to have plastic surgery, then wakes up from the procedure with a conehead; Dave shows a clip of Pakistan's …
Calvert mimics the Giant Flying Rat; Dave comments on preparations for next week's trip to London; Julianna Marguiles pr…
The Late Show starts its week broadcasting from London. Ten London Guards bring Dave out onstage; Dave and Paul wreck ha…
London, Day 2: The new James Bond, Remington Steele star Pierce Brosnan, enters backstage with models and martinis; Litt…
London, Day 3: ""London Souvenirs"" include a Prince Charles Ketchup Dispenser, a Bobby Helmet Bra, and a Tea Cannon, br…
London, Day 4: Dave and Paul play soccer (or should I say football?) at Wembley Stadium; live via satellite from New Yor…
London, Day 5: Dave repeats a monologue joke in a British accent; Salman Rushdie hands the Top Ten to Dave, and is prese…
Cold opening: Dave belatedly thanks Drew Barrymore for her birthday ""gift"" last month. Also, Dave pays Mujibur and Si…
It's the debut of ""May We Turn Your Pants Into Shorts?"" Dave cuts up his own slacks before shredding the pants of Pau…
Clint Black sits in; candy is thrown at the audience; the Top Ten Office is relocated to an audience member's hometown o…
Dave takes a bunch of sailors to a local watering hole; Mujibur and Sirajul visit Dorothy in Indianapolis; Dave bids far…
Cold Opening: Nicole Kidman asks Dave if he's drunk. Also, displayed by the window of an advertising agency across the …
Indianapolis 500 champion Jacque Vileneuve races a NYC cab around the theater block in competition with NYC cabbie Buke …
Biff delivers Dave in a golf cart; Dave and an audience member named Hal help choose the network's new slogan; a pyrotec…
It's time for a studio audience talent show, with friends and relatives of the performers swamping the backdrop. Shortl…
Dave tells Rupert to bother people at a local bistro with his hidden mic; Dave chats with a woman that recently won $87,…
Dave chooses a person off the street to tell their life story; the Top Ten Home Office moves to Grand Rapids, Michigan; …
Stephen Stills sits in; Dave ""attends"" a recent President Clinton press conference; basketball star/party animal Denni…
Travis, a five-year-old golden retriever, has the ""Dog Cam"" attached to his head; John Turturro dresses up as Batman, …
Dave arrives at the theater in a police car; throughout the night, spelling bee winner Justin Carroll comes out to spell…
Travis and the Dog Cam return; Englebert Humperdinck serenades Rupert; ten kindergarteners write and present the Top Ten…
Dave announces that this is show number 4000, but later admits he's off by a zero; John Denver performs the theme song t…
Dave invites both a cabbie and an audience member to jump into a rooftop swimming pool. They're later joined by two NYC …
Shortly after a ""What's New for Summer"" segment, Dave hands hamsicles (or, if you will, cold ham on a stick) to the au…
Cold Opening: ""ER"" star Anthony Edwards refuses to give Dave a physical. Also, Jonathan Katz does standup and promote…
Dave celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the debut of The David Letterman Show by showing clips of the first broadca…
Bernie Kopell storms out of the theater after ""The Love Boat"" is somehow mentioned twice in a Top Ten List about Hocke…
Dave invites a standby audience member to play ""Will You Eat the Meatloaf?"" Later in the show, Dave chats with Pete, …
In an experimental comedy bit called ""Letters to the Editor,"" Dave reads a (bogus) note from Al Gore telling The New Y…
Dave shows the audience an old photo of Morty with an afro, and then later shows a doctored photo of himself with a head…
In a remote, Dave asks apartment dwellers, ""What's the Coolest Thing In Your Apartment?""
Jim Carrey, Andre Agassi, and Tom and Roseanne Arnold miraculously appear in the audience, Tom being both on stage and i…
Dave says hello to viewers in France and Italy in their respective native tongues; during ""May We See Your Photos, Plea…
Charles Grodin promotes his new cable talk show.
A small army of cyclists rush across the stage, while Dave and Pete Sampras play a pickup round of tennis out on 53rd St…
After an admittedly lame remote on a ""Day In The Life"" of producer Robert Morton, he jumps into a giant bowl of puddin…
Dave flashes back to how he stayed cool over the weekend by stuffing popsicles in his pants; a woman who picks up one of…
Dan Rather presents the Top Ten; Chevy Chase plugs Man of the House and talks tennis.
Ed Sullivan Theater Building Engineer George Clarke begins his ""Quest for Corn"" throughout the Midwest. He's off to I…
Dave demonstrates a triple pencil flip; Rupert finds one of Dave's blue cards attached to Mary Tyler Moore's backside; D…
Clarence Clemons of the E Street Band sits in; Dave offers an audience guy with an unruly beard $300 to shave it; Talent…
A ""Dumb Ads"" segment introduces Canadian filling station attendent Dick Assman. The entire North American audience im…
Dave calls up Dick Assman; Ray Liotta arrives onstage riding a baby elephant, and later he makes a (bogus) appearance wi…
Dave and Tony switch places for a few minutes; David Schwimmer is reunited with the monkey who played Marcel on Friends;…
During a segment called ""Ask the Mayor,"" someone from the audience asks Rudy Guiliani, ""Is that a real hair piece?"" …
George Clarke's ""Quest for Corn"" finds him in Indianapolis with Dave's mom: 5 ears. Later, Nick Turturro and Dennis F…
Dave gives $100 to an audience member after a monologue joke bombs; the show is interrupted for a ""Dick Assman Update""…
Dave announces that CBS has just been bought by Westinghouse, then spends the rest of the show joking about it.
Dave chats with Mary Ann Dennis, whose dog stopped a man that tried to mug her.
During ""Stupid Pet Tricks,"" a small fish eats a worm whole. Meanwhile, Dave goes into a Westinghouse washer in spin c…
The final installment of ""George Clarke's Quest for Corn"" finds our hero at Hello Deli (five ears). Afterwards, Georg…
Dave announces it's ""Christmas in August,"" with Glen Campbell singing a medley of holiday standards at Hello Deli.
Junior Brown sits in with the band; baseball star John Kruk talks about his recent retirement; Dave hectors a man on the…
The ""Dick Assman Update"" reveals that his popularity has hit fever pitch. Later, Christopher Walken promotes three ne…
Dave shows a ""highlight"" of last night's show: Dan Rather fondling Dave's butt.
In honor of an incident that resulted in a forfeit in the previous night's Dodgers-Cardinals game, audience members thro…
All night long, Rupert touches meat and is joined later by Kelsey Grammer, his then-fiancee, and a priest from the audie…
Dave claims that the chairman of Westinghouse has agreed to fight him. Later, Sonny Bono signs to Calvert's upstart rec…
During an interview with Isabella Rosselini, a guy on fire runs around the stage. Later, Bjork and the CBS Orchestra pe…
Paul is introduced as ""Johnny Lavaggi;"" Dave shows a (doctored) clip of Monica Seles grunting; David Brenner does stan…
Dave bids a fond farewell to his announcer, while Dick Assman also makes one last appearance.
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