The English Overdub Show on Letterman, September 25, 1986

Two Late Nights aired on September 25, 1986. The first was a new show that broadcast in place of the Tonight Show, which had celebrated its 24th anniversary earlier in prime time. The second Late Night followed in its usual 12:30 am slot; it was a rerun from February 17, 1986, but with other voices replacing everyone who was on the show. Peter Fernandez was the voice of Dave; Earl Hammond as Paul; Corinne Orr as Raquel Welch; and Maya Danzinger as Sandra Bernhard, with LN writer Randy Cohen supplying additional voices. Merrill Markoe in Time magazine, May 15, 2015: "'The Dubbed Show' was an idea by the brilliant Randy Cohen who decided to try to bring something new to a standard re-run. The show remains the same in all respects except one: It contains a perfectly synced new audio track dubbed by the people who dub foreign movies into English. To make this happen, Randy painstakingly created a script of the original show to give to professional voice-over actors who would dub it from English into other English. Watching Dave and his guests say the same things, only in slightly different voices, made me question everything I ever knew to be true in the universe."