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Late Show with David Letterman Season 6

213 Episodes First aired Aug 31, 1998

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.

Episodes

E201
201. Dave Foley, Jonathan Witherspoon, Old 97's
Aug 4, 1999

Dave shows the audience some stuff he bought on his recent vacation in a segment called ""Travel Souvenirs."" Later, ""Newsradio"" star Dave Foley promotes the movie ""Dick.""

E202
202. William H. Macy, George Miller, The Pretenders
Aug 5, 1999

Dave repeatedly shows footage of the Taco Bell chihuahua saying ""funkalicious."" Later, Dave and William H. Macy drink Tang spiked with Jack Daniels.

E203
203. Ray Romano, Jeff Altman
Aug 6, 1999

During CBS Mailbag, Alan punches Dave. Later, Dave's former ""Starland Vocal Band Hour"" co-star Jeff Altman looks back at his tumultous television career.

E204
204. Regis Philbin, Dave Attell
Aug 9, 1999

Paul refers to Regis as a bastard, only for the ""Millionaire"" host to retaliate.

E205
205. Claire Danes, Smash Mouth
Aug 10, 1999

Kreskin's knowledge of 70's backup singers is tested in a segment called ""Commodore or Pip?"" Later, Smash Mouth performs their smash hit ""All-Star.""

E206
206. Hugh Grant, The Mavericks
Aug 11, 1999

Dave announces that a crack in the building next door caused a temporary evacuation of the theater. Later, The Mavericks perform ""There Goes My Heart.""

E207
207. Rene Russo, Tori Amos
Aug 12, 1999

Dave takes up an offering for a preacher who played ""Who Your Deer Repellants.""

E208
208. Shaquille O'Neal, Helen Mirren
Aug 13, 1999

During CBS Mailbag, Inky Mendez announces his candidacy for the US Senate, while Dave chats with ""Hillary Clinton"" (Gerard).

E209
209. Tony Danza, Katie Holmes, Robert Palmer
Aug 16, 1999

A shirtless Vince DeMentri interviews people on the street, asking them what they think of Hillary Clinton. Later, Katie Holmes promotes ""Dawson's Creek.""

E210
210. Lara Flynn Boyle, David Brenner, Everclear
Aug 17, 1999

Dave announces that tonight, ""We're going to have good old-fashioned fun"": all night, Richard Egan stands on 53rd St. guessing the weight of passersby.

E211
211. Andie MacDowell, French Stewart, Tom Dreesen
Aug 18, 1999

Terence Blanchard sits in with the band, while Olympic diver Kathy Pesek does a demonstration for the audience (via telephone).

E212
212. Alec Baldwin, Dwight Yoakam
Aug 19, 1999

Dave announces that tonight is the premiere of ""Late Show Who Wants to be a Billionaire?"" Tonight's first question: ""Who took over for the 'Brady Bunch' father after the original actor was arrested and imprisoned for…

E213
213. Albert Brooks, Omar EppsSeason Finale
Aug 20, 1999

Dave announces that after 6 years and 1,278 shows on CBS, he now wants to be called ""Daddy""; Alan beats up Regis during CBS Mailbag; Albert Brooks makes a phone call to his pet parrot.