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 3 Episodes
Dave grills his new announcer, making him do voiceovers throughout the show (including #1 on the top ten list).
Tom Snyder wants everybody to know that he does not hold a grudge with Dave. Meanwhile, Alan Kalter continues to get us…
Charlton Heston plays ""Dave's Boss"" and bullies him mercilessly. Later, Kevin Pollak promotes ""The Usual Suspects.""
Amongst the ""Items Included in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:"" Stuff found in ZZ Top's beards, a guitar made of David C…
Wesley Snipes promotes ""Money Train,"" then strips to a dress.
A day after the Emmy Awards, Dave tosses donuts into the audience with the new Donut-A-Pult. Quote Dave: ""Now it's rea…
The Donutapult returns, while Dave brings in a cabbie to write a Top Ten list.
While promoting the movie ""Showgirls,"" star Elizabeth Berkeley gives Dave a lap dance.
Gerard, Rupert, and others discuss what they like about Autumn, while Rush Limbaugh introduces a mini-Donutapult.
During CBS Mailbag, Cyndi Lauper sings ""Lactose Intolerant."" Later, the Donutapult makes one last appearance.
Throughout the show, winners of obscure beauty pageants (including ""Miss Peanut"" and ""Miss South Carolina Tobacco"") …
Dick Assman is still popular in Canada; Newt Gingrich presents the Top Ten list; Thomas Haden Church promotes ""Ned & St…
Rudy Guiliani give Dave a key to the city, then takes it back.
Dave gives a three pound ham to an audience member, while ""Friends"" star Courtney Cox launches the ""Donutapult 2000."…
Eddie Jamison (the guy who said ""I Love You, Man!"" in those beer commercials) interrupts the monologue; Doc Severinsen…
Doc Severinsen is still sitting in; The Delaria Sisters, a group of women who hang by their hair on a pole, demonstrate …
Dave invites his neighbor Steve over for coffee; Ellen Cleghorne promotes her new sitcom.
13 NYC cab drivers are invited to serve on a mock jury to determine the fate of OJ Simpson. Instead, they're serenaded …
1995: Uma Thurman joins Geraldo Rivera as the mock jury of cab drivers continues to deliberate, led by foreman Parminder…
Dave introduces ""The Donutapult 2000+,"" which is so big it has to sit out on 53rd Street. Later in the show, it is co…
Amongst the latest ""Back-to-School Items:"" Oreo Cookies with Clearasil Pad Filling, Larry King Ex-Wife Trading Cards, …
The cast and crew explains why they're glad the O. J. Simpson trial is over; Julianne Moore promotes ""Safe.""
Pete Fatovich, ""Creepy Dave,"" and Gerard comment on the OJ verdict, while Chazz Palminteri gives an audience member hi…
Dave's ""younger brother Carl"" sits in on violin; Dave thinks he's on a caffeine buzz.
Dave, Cybill Shepherd, and sports legend Joe Montana throw footballs into cabs on 53rd Street. After repeated attempts,…
Via live remote, Dave asks a customer at a nearby laundromat to take a pair of pants out of the dryer and bring them int…
Marilyn Horne of the Metropolitan Opera presents the Top Ten; the Rev. Jesse Jackson discusses current events and mentio…
During CBS Mailbag, Dave goes sailing with Paul, the models and Bob Denver. Later, William Shatner is beamed out of his…
Dave goes to New Jersey to find a date for mailroom employee/superstar extrordinaire Bob Borden. Meanwhile, Paul is mis…
Dave starts reading the Miranda Rights before realizing he has the wrong index card. He leaves the studio to search for …
Throughout the show, The ""Jimmy Letterman Singers"" sing ""Jimmy."" Later in the show, Dave concedes: ""It sucks, it s…
Throughout this year's World Series, kid reporter Sparky Mortimer has been making reports from the stadiums in Cleveland…
During CBS Mailbag, Paul does a Johnny Carson impression. Later, Dave and Michael Rappaport lather up in order to use t…
Dave and Paul recruit a guy named Moe from a delicatessen, and the CBS Orchestra puts together a music video about him. …
Upon returning to NYC, Dave gives Sparky a pat on the back for a job well done; Casey Kasem introduces Wayne Hazeltine a…
A pumpkin launcher is demonstrated on 53rd Street, while The Pants Across America tour stops at St. Louis.
Casey Kasem and the Pants Across America tour reports from Mount Rushmore, while up and coming actress Claire Danes intr…
Carol Channing harasses Dave during CBS Mailbag; the tour hits the Grand Canyon.
Tonight on the ""Pants Across America"" tour, Casey Kasem is in Las Vegas, listening to an Elvis impersonator perform ""…
Television City Studios, Day 2: Danny DeVito and Dave get into the stage pool and have a water fight. Meanwhile, Tony Me…
From Los Angeles: Alka Seltzer® is inserted into the backdrop pool; Demi Moore presents ""The Top Ten Least Popular Stri…
Red Hot Chili Peppers – ""My Friends""
Biff interrupts Dave's opening remarks and asks for water. Out runs NYC marathon winner German Silva with his drink. Lat…
Dave uses the speaker phone to get someone to bring him pizza. Later, thirty folks show up with boxes, and slices are ha…
Elton John promotes and sings two songs from his latest album, ""Made In England.""
An audience guy holds cue cards in place of Tony (he's sick), while Sean Penn promotes ""Dead Man Walking.""
The Presidents of the United States of America perform their breakthrough hit, ""Toad.""
Dave sends mailroom dude/budding diva Bob Borden to Washington as a White House correspondent.
Dave asks folks on the street (including a poorly disguised Michael J. Fox) what they think of the federal budget crisis…
Amongst what's ""New for the Holidays"": Gingerbread Rats, Howard Stern's book ""Miss America"" read by James Earl Jones…
Dave gives a turkey to a lady in the audience, then takes a turkey to the balcony with the help of a ladder; throughout …
""Soup Nazi"" Ali ""Al"" Yeganeh passes out turkey chili to the audience.
In a sign of future legal trouble, Microsoft owner and multibillionaire Bill Gates tries to fix the Late Show Quiz Machi…
Dave has Paul sit down on the guest chair because it's his birthday. Soon afterwards, the outside cam reveals Dave buyi…
Cold Opening: Dave and Creepy Dave go mano a mano in the green room. Also, Dave demonstrates one of the ""Top Ten Chang…
Steve Martin shows up a day early, and Dave can't get him offstage.
After showing a clip from his new movie Father of the Bride, Part 2 on a 16mm film projector, Steve Martin and Dave appe…
As a tribute to such beloved recurring segments such as ""The Man Under the Seats"" and ""The Fugitive Guy,"" Chris Elli…
After a video montage of the annual eggnog drinking from increasingly larger bowls, Dave and a model hop into a gigantic…
CBS President Les Moonves (bogus) takes a moment to comment on Clinton's State of the Union address by singing ""Holding…
Sparky Mortimer makes another amusing -- albeit clumsy -- Super Bowl report; Dave chats with basketball star Reggie Mill…
Dave offers Liz Taylor a riding mower if she'll come on the show; clips from the HBO movie The Late Shift, which Dave ca…
In mock tribute to HBO's ""The Late Shift,"" Dave throws baseballs at an archery target.
Dave mentions that in between show tapings, an audience guy named Anthony sang ""My Way"" from the balcony. During the …
Dave stoically mentions that this will be the last night for the current set, and that it will be remodeled during the N…
As the Ed Sullivan Theater is being renovated, Dave hosts his show from the lobby with only 60 folding chairs set up for…
After a week of construction, the show's new ""Bridge"" set is unveiled. Dave quickly mentions that he ordered it from …
Dave has an extra joke in the monologue, so he and Tony take it over to Conan O'Brien at NBC. Meanwhile, George Foreman…
Mailbag: Dave goes over to Yankee Stadium and steals home plate. Also, Dave chats with ""Cliff Sussman"" (Jay Johnson),…
Dana Carvey drops by and receives a piece of the set; The Usual Suspects star Kevin Spacey presents the Top Ten live via…
Dave tricks young Oscar® winner Anna Paquin into getting in a magician's box, claiming he was going to show her a trick.…
After Dave promises that the Quiz Machine will never be seen on the show again, he brings out the ""Flagstar 3000,"" a c…
Anna Paquin returns to the show two days after the basketball challenge and donates her cash prize to charity. Also, Da…
CBS Mailbag: the Quiz Machine is destroyed (at last!) by a cab, while Tony Randall hides under Dave's desk to protect hi…
Dave shows a clip of Marshall Sylver's infomercial, and throughout the night Dave attempts to hypnotize members of the s…
After miraculously surviving its attempted demise the previous week, the Quiz Machine is finally destroyed once and for …
Dave begins a new contest: The town that sends the most valuable gifts will be the new Top Ten Home Office. Two huge gla…
The Home Office Competition continues: Added to Wahoo's tank is a pizza, a T-shirt, and a birdhouse, while Grand Rapids …
Dave appears on the Times Square Jumbotron demanding presents; Dave and Fred Nigro go to Jersey to help with taxes, duri…
An audience member assists in the debut of the Slatstar 2000, while Brett Butler presents the Top Ten.
Mia Farrow reveals that she's addicted to the internet. Carly Simon drops by in mid-interview, and later, both sit in wi…
Dave holds an impromptu auction, while Marshall Sylver hypnotizes more Late Show staffers.
Wahoo vs. Grand Rapids, Day 9: Wahoo sends two kids, Jeff and Josh Price, to sit in their glass tank. Grand Rapids loses…
In honor of the recent Sotheby's Auction that featured items once owned by John F. Kennedy, Biff comes stage on Jackie O…
Dorothy drops by to promote the cookbook that Dave's been plugging for the last two weeks, and she cooks him his favorit…
At the end of the monologue, a guy dressed up as an Olympic runner bolts across the stage, and later he paces around the…
Tonight's ""What's On Other Channels"" segment includes ""Condom Testing,"" ""The Mexican Navy's New Battleship,"" and "…
Pat Farmer interrupts the monologue by walking in front of the camera; Marv Albert provides color commentary on tonight'…
The Home Office Contest is over: Wahoo is now the official home office of the Top Ten List, decimating Grand Rapids from…
The Late Show begins a week in San Francisco as Mayor Willie Brown interrupts the show throughout the hour by offering D…
Frisco, Day 2: Dave gives a bouquet to a 95-year-old lady in the audience; Dave and football great Joe Montana tour the …
Frisco, Day 3: Sheila E. and Pete Escovido sit in; Dave shows off the 49ers shower curtain he has in the dressing room; …
From San Francisco: Three audience members receive free hams and souvenir cue cards; Joe Satriani sits in; Dave tells th…
Frisco, Day 5: The Alcatraz mock-up in the backdrop is subject to a jailbreak; Dave hangs out with a local hippie, thus …
Dave quizzes the audience on his week in San Francisco, during which Gene Siskel runs onstage looking for Roger Ebert. …
Manny the Hippie gives his first live remote from San Francisco, as Dave asks him to give periodic reviews on current mo…
Junior Brown sits in, and Dave tries on his very unique hat. Also, a guy dressed up as Ronald McDonald gives Dave the T…
During Mailbag, Tony sits in for Dave while Dave sits in for Alan saying ""letter number two,"" which leads into a quest…
For no apparent reason, Dave orders Tony to take a taxi; Manny the Hippie presents the Top Ten; a dentist checks out a w…
Two audience guys go outside to monitor the temperature, and given their meteorological expertise, are ordered to stand …
It's time for a new game called ""May We Turn Your Pants into Shorts?"" Dave is the first to mutilate his slacks, and i…
Dave shows a clip of his favorite moment from last night's show: Biff doing a quadruple take upon seeing Dave's slacks g…
Dave's jacket is stain by coffee, so he throws it into the balcony; an ""unknown guest"" crashes the show; Leslie Nielse…
Dave and Conan O'Brien get ""Bob Dole Is Old"" jokes from the joke storeroom in the basement of the Ed Sullivan Theater.…
Live via satellite in San Francisco, Manny the Hippie reviews the film ""Spy Hard"": ""It's schwiggity schwag!"" Also, …
Dave invites customers from the Roy Rogers restaurant across the street into the theater to be checked for ticks; Dr. Sa…
Diana Ross performs a variation of the song ""She Loves Me"" called ""He Loves Me,"" and while holding the final note, b…
Dave tells a mean fat joke about Roger Ebert, and shortly afterwards the film critic calls Dave a bastard; four singers …
The final day of celebrity ""She Loves Me"" performances takes place when Rosie O'Donnell sings, holds the last note, ru…
Biff attempts to learn how to fly; actor/soccer fanatic Andrew Shue introduces footage of him, Elizabeth Shue, and John …
In a piece of videotape footage that ""will disturb and shock you,"" Dave introduces clips of Bill Clinton singing ""Mus…
Dave fools around with a hot glue gun, while up-and-coming actress Liv Tyler (daughter of Bebe Buell and Steven Tyler) p…
Kenny Wayne Shepherd sits in; Dave points out that one of tonight's ""CBS Mailbag"" letter-writers is in the audience; d…
Dave bids farewell to one of his longtime staffers; Kelsey Grammer promotes ""Down Periscope""; Manny reviews The Cable …
Remote: Dave works the drive-thru at a Taco Bell in Jersey. Later, he chats with Lucille Treganowan, 66-year-old grandm…
Some guy carrying the Olympic torch comes through to interrupt the monologue. Also, Dave recalls a fake Father's Day me…
Biff recruits an audience member to get splashed in the face by a speeding taxi going over a puddle. Also, CBS head hon…
In response to a CBS Mailbag letter that noticed a likeness between Inky Mendez and Steven Speilberg, Martin Scorsese is…
Dave shows off a tick that has embedded itself into his suit, then shows more footage of him at Taco Bell. (correct syno…
Jerry Van Dyke rides onstage on a mule; Luke Perry gives Dave his sideburns; The Fugees perform ""Fu-Gee-La.""
Manny the Hippie reviews Striptease: ""Schwag."" Also, Creepy Dave drops by to ask Michael Keaton about human cloning.
Dave airs his first new July 3rd show since his morning show in 1980. During the ""Rejected FDA Products"" segment, Dav…
Mujibur and Sirajul stand on the roof, waiting for the fireworks in broad daylight; during Mailbag, ""Neil Diamond"" (Ca…
Dave switches places with an audience woman, and later she sits in with the band; Elaine Stritch storms onstage and chew…
Dave points out that Paul is the co-musical director for the Olympic closing ceremonies; Biff keeps interrupting Dave; D…
Manny the Hippie talks about his trip to Roswell, New Mexico, while The Charlie Watts Quintet (featuring Bernard Fowler)…
Dave shows a semi-embarrassing clip of Meg Ryan from her days on ""As The World Turns,"" featuring a ""young"" Paul Shaf…
Dave tries to find the owner of car whose license plates read ""SO HAPPY,"" and later he shows footage of a Wheel of For…
Dave continues to gloat over the Late Show's (alleged) title as Official Talk Show of the Summer Olympics, with abortive…
Country legend Marty Stuart sits in, while a disgruntled alien (Gerard) comments on inaccuracies in the movie Independen…
Dave discusses in length the show's embarrassment of Emmy riches this year (four nominations); the ""CBS Mailbag"" prese…
Leonard ""The Ronald McDonald Guy"" Tepper joins Rupert for another one of his hidden-mike remotes with Dave. Later, Ja…
Dave welcomes the Gold Medal-winning U.S. Olympic Girl's Gymnastics Team (minus the injured Kerri Strug); during a ""New…
Dave announces that the Late Show has its own version of ""The Real World,"" with Paul, Anton and Pat Farmer whining abo…
During ""CBS Mailbag,"" Secret Service Agents dance the Macarena; Dennis Miller promotes his new HBO talk show; Butthole…
Dave brings up three girls from the audience, confiscates their gum, and sends them out to goof off in a nearby fountain…
Dave chats with Yankees pitcher Dwight ""Doc"" Gooden, who threw a no-hitter the night before.
Dave gives a ham to a man in the audience who correctly guessed his weight (158 lbs).
Cast
