While billboarding the show, Dave mistakenly identifies Kevin Spacey’s new film to be about James Darren, not Bobby Darin. To the kid, it doesn’t make much difference.

I went home Tuesday night and watched a bit of the LATE SHOW. There was something in the taping I was kind of hoping would be edited out. It was near the top of the show. The moment was approaching where Dave was billboarding tonight’s performance of Streb. He was looking for the info card on them. Damn. I see Barbara quickly run over to put the card on his desk. Damn. Dave reads the card . . . . and you saw the rest. He stumbled over the wording. Whenever Dave stumbles over something when reading from a blue card, my heart jumps to my throat. (Is that the correct phrase?) Feeble and frightened, I then turn to the page in the script to see if it was just a simple mis-speak or if there was a typo. You can’t imagine the relief when I discover that it wasn’t me. Tonight, dang it, it was me. I made a typo. I made a mistake and all the world was made aware. Not only did I make a typo but it was then shown on the TV. What was the mistake? I don’t know. Something about Streb turning ‘dance’ into an extreme sport. When it was unfolding, I couldn’t look. Last night while watching it on the TV, I still couldn’t watch. I watched just enough to see if it was in or not.

We say hello to Rupert at the Hello Deli. Tonight on the agenda is the LATE SHOW Turkey Drop. Dave instructs Rupert to go outside, find a contestant and take her or her to the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theater.

Did you read where someone sold a grilled cheese sandwich on Ebay for $28,000 because it reportedly had the image of the Virgin Mary on it? Well coincidentally, Dave bought a sandwich at Rupert’s for lunch today and, lo and behold, right there on the toasted white was the image of Burt Reynolds. It’s sure to pick up a $100 on Ebay.

Last week President Bush continued a White House tradition when he pardoned a turkey named “Biscuits.” This turned out to be a mistake. Osama released another one of his video messages today:

”The defection of Biscuits the turkey marks a great victory for our jihad! You are a fool, Bush. I tell you there are millions of Al Qaeda sympathizers among American poultry. I call upon the faithful, whether they be men or plump, juicy birds, to bring death to America!”

Back to Rupert and his contestant. He is with Karen from Alabama. Karen will have 3 attempts to drop a fake turkey into a tub of gravy awaiting on the sidewalk of West 53rd Street. The roof is 90 feet up. The tub of gravy is 26 inches in diameter.

Weather conditions:
Temperature – 53 degrees
Humidity – 83%
Barometric Pressure – 30.10 inches and rising
Wind – calm
Visibility – 9 miles

I gulped hard when Dave read the visibility as “9 miles per hour.” DID I TYPE THAT, TOO?” I painfully turned to the page in the script which had the weather conditions and it read . . . . . . . “9 miles.” It wasn’t me. Phew.

And what are we playing for tonight? It’s a Krups Waffle Chef Belgian Waffle Maker.

Karen takes aim with her fake turkey. Looking, aiming, looking, looking, aiming, she is now ready. Karen releases the fake turkey and it . . . . misses by inches, just to the left of the mark.

Karen takes another fake turkey. She aims, looks, aims, aims, looks, looks and releases. The fake turkey falls to 53rd Street at the rate of 32 feet per second second . . . . I never knew what that meant . . . . and the fake turkey . . . . . . BINGO! It’s a hit! Bullseye! Congratulations, Karen. Nice going. And for her efforts, Karen wins a Krups Belgian Waffle Maker and a Hello Deli deli platter.

Dave notices the Hello Deli deli platter was kind of skimpy. There wasn’t much to it tonight. Rupert sheepishly agrees, admitting, “Yeah, I know. I didn’t have much time today.”

There’s not a night that goes by where Rupert’s sweet innocence and honesty doesn’t make me laugh.

Dave decides to let Rupert in on the fun. He instructs Rupert to let the Hello Deli deli platter fly down to the tub of gravy. Rupert takes his deli platter and releases. The deli platter flutters groundward and it . . . . misses the mark, landing just to the left of the tub of gravy. We take a close up of the Hello Deli deli platter and discover that the meat slices and cheese slices and even the tomato in the center did not budge in the slightest. As it looked in Rupert’s hands seconds ago, it looks exactly the same now lying flat on 53rd Street. Not a piece has been altered, as if each slice had been crazy-glued in its place. Very funny image, and quite unexplainable. Dave said earlier while reading the weather conditions that the face that the wind was ‘calm’ was probably the most important thing. I didn’t think the wind would affect the flight of the fake turkeys, but when the deli platter was dropped I fully expected even the slightest wind to take it flittering and fluttering and tumble-saulting on its way to the ground. That didn’t happen. The platter floated down softly, remaining perfectly flat the whole way. It landed just the way it was dropped.

Live, unscripted TV. Now that was fun!

KEVIN SPACEY: He’s stars, co-wrote, and directed Beyond the Sea, the biopic of singer Bobby Darin.

Kevin was excited to play this role, having been familiar with his music since childhood. His mother loved Bobby Darin and Kevin as a child spent many hours singing his songs into a hair brush. Kevin mentions that Bobby’s ventured into all types of music, successful in all. When Kevin said he wanted to perform the songs himself, the family of Bobby Darin would not allow it. Once they met Kevin, learned his heart was in the right place, and that Kevin could actually sing, they relented. A CD of Bobby Darin’s music, sung by Kevin, entitled Beyond the Sea original motion picture soundtrack, was released just today. Those in the LATE SHOW research department gave it a strong thumbs up. About the CD, Kevin says, “I did something today I never thought I would do. I did a CD signing at a Barnes and Nobel.” Kevin tells an amusing story about being at the Clinton Library Dedication. Also there was Bono of U2. Bono leans over to Kevin, pulls out the new U2/Bono CD and says, “Here. This is for you. It’s just coming out.” Kevin was pleased, and then realized . . . . . “hey, I got one for you too,” and handed Bono his Beyond the Sea CD.

Whenever I walk into a new bar that is tending to an older set, the song I usually will put on the juke box is Bobby Darin’s “Beyond the Sea.” It is the flip side to “Mack the Knife.”

BEN ROETHLISBERGER: rookie quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He set a quarterback record by winning his first 8 games to start a career. The intro said he set an NFL record for most wins by a rookie starting quarterback. I wasn’t sure if this was right. I checked Dan Marino’s Dolphins of 1983 and found they were 12-4. Marino came in about 4 games into the season. He lost his first game but went 9-1 the rest of the way. I was told later that he missed the final two games that year, so his win total was 7 his rookie season. Has a quarterback won more than 8 games in his rookie season? Ben played his college ball at Miami of Ohio, a member of the Mid-American Conference. He left with one year of eligibility remaining. Last year he defeated Dave’s Ball State, 49-3. The score wasn’t as bad as it sounds. The game was tied early. So if Ben Roethlisberger was so good, why did he go to Miami of Ohio and not one of those big big-time football college factories? For one, he didn’t play quarterback until his senior year in high school. Yikes! The guy is a quick learner. The difference between college and the Pros? Speed. Everything is so much faster in the pros.

Hazing for the rookie? During training camp he had to get up and sing his school song. For the morning meetings he was responsible for bringing the donuts. If the meeting was in the afternoon, it was Popeyes. Hmmm. I wonder if he tried the green beans?

ACT 5: The Quarterback Challenge on Broadway. As taxi cabs drive by, Dave and Ben try to throw a football through the back window. Each went 0-4. We keep trying to recapture the magic of Dave, Joe Montana, and Cybill Sheperd throwing a football through the same taxi cab of so many years ago. I’ll have to go back to the video tape because I picture the cabs back then going slower and being closer. Plus, I think the front windows were also open. I remember this because I drove one of the cabs for Dave, Joe and Cybill.

STREB: - 6 performers
- tonight’s performance is entitled “Ricochet.”
- Streb makes “Dance” an extreme sport
- Streb performers have suffered broken feet, arms, fingers, toes, and noses.
- Check out their website at www.strebusa.org.
- It’s not ‘dance’, it’s Pop Action!
We see the 6 performers running up against a clear Plexiglas wall. It reminded me of Maxwell Smart’s apartment.

And that was our show for Tuesday November 23, 2004. Wahoo EXTRA!

It’s that time of year again and it’s a tradition at the Wahoo Gazette --- it’s the Wahoo Gazette ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer/Herbie vs. Hermey debate.’ Actually, the debate is pretty much dead but I like to bring it up once a year. The elf who wants to be a dentist in the Rudolph TV special is named Hermey, but you will see him referred to as Herbie in enough places to create question. I’m forever looking for more “Herbies.” I have a few coloring books and a story book at home that call him Herbie, but I have been told many times, with direct reference to the creator of the elf himself, that it is indeed Hermey. So there will be no debate this year. What I will report are any incorrect spottings of “Herbie the elf.” Let me know if you see any. Oh, the Rudolph special is on next week on CBS, Wednesday December 1st. If you listen closely, the first time the head elf says the name of the dentist elf, it does sound a lot like “Herbie.” Watch and listen.

Ever notice how the guilty are so quick to say how they want to “get this all behind us” and to “move on.” When I hear that, an alarm goes off in my head. (Or maybe it’s just my banging hangover.) I was listening to the fan who threw the beer at Ron Artest saying how he wished we could put all this behind us.. In the interview I saw, he was wearing a hat and sunglasses. I thought I heard the announcer say he also shaved his mustache from the night before. Nut job. I saw the replay of the incident in Detroit. Not only were you able to see the guy throwing the cup of beer/soda/water, afterwards when he was trying to pull Ron Artest off someone, he snuck a few punches in himself.

Congratulations to the Toronto Argonauts for their winning the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup, defeating the British Columbia Lions, 27-19. The Grey Cup is the Canada’s Super Bowl. Or maybe I should say “Our Super Bowl is their Grey Cup” since the Grey Cup has been around for 92 years. The Super Bowl has only been around for XXXVII years.

And why is it called “The Grey Cup”? Who is this “Grey?” - The Grey Cup is named for Lord Albert Henry Earl Grey, Governor-General of Canada, who donated the trophy in 1909

Did you watch the American Girl Doll movie on the WB last night? It was the Samantha episode, New York 1904. My girls watched it and I joined in as soon as I got home. We all enjoyed it, even though we knew the ending already, having seen the show LIVE at the American Girl Doll store on 5th Avenue and 49th Street. Let’s hope another movie is made with Kit or Molly.

If you missed it, you can catch the replay on Thanksgiving night.