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CBS's ''Late Show with David Letterman'' regularly featured different sketches that follow the monologue and precede interviews with guests. Often these are repeated absurdist segments, involving various cast members, Dave's friends, audience participation, edited or contrived news or promotional videos, or competitions or stunts staged outside the Ed Sullivan Theater. Many of the same sketches originally debuted on Letterman's previous series, NBC's ''Late Night with David Letterman'' and ''The David Letterman Show''. The show's regularly scheduled segments consisted of "Small Town News" on Mondays and "Fun Facts" on Fridays. Thursdays often featured a rotating set of three audience participation segments: "Know Your Current Events", "Stump the Band", and "Audience Show and Tell." "Stupid Pet Tricks" and "Stupid Human Tricks", two of Letterman's trademark bits from ''Late Night'', continued to be presented on the ''Late Show'', though much less frequently. There were also running gags, which may continue for about a month, such as playing "José Feliciano's Old Turkey Buzzard" or other sound effects when a card "crashes through the window" or telephone calls from "Len Easton, California Highway Patrol" or Joe McCain on a telephone that Dave acknowledges is a prop that is not connected. Dave expresses amusement or annoyance when these recur. This article focuses on sketches that have been featured on the ''Late Show with David Letterman''. ==Kalter introduction== Announcer Alan Kalter's (and before him, Bill Wendell's) introduction of Letterman, while technically not a skit, assigned a bizarre modification to Letterman's name and appears at the beginning of every show. ("''And now: Microscopic Sea Creature, David Letterman!''") Letterman's title changes every night and often makes reference to a current event. ("''And now: Disenfranchised French Youth, David Letterman!''") Prior to September 11, 2001, the first line of Kalter's introductions contained humorous descriptions of New York City ("''From New York! Where the rats hate the subways, too!''"). Once the ''Late Show'' returned to air on September 17, 2001, the introduction changed simply to, "''From New York! The ''greatest'' city in the world!''" This remained the standard introduction for over ten years; however, "The greatest city in the world!" is omitted from episodes with guest hosts, as is the host 'title'. In 2011, Kalter took to shortening 'David' to 'Dave', in his introduction of Letterman. At some point prior to late 2012, he once again returned to using 'David'. Beginning on January 2, 2013, the introduction began "''From the heart of Broadway, broadcasting across the nation and around the world!''", while Alan also included a brief self-introduction of himself ("''I'm Alan Kalter''") after introducing Paul Shaffer & The CBS Orchestra at this time as well. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of David Letterman sketches」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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