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Jerry Foley, the former 'Late Show with David Letterman' director who helmed close to 4,000 hours of late-night TV and was nominated for 24 Emmys, is died at 68

That opening night set both the tone and promise of what was to come for the next 22 years.

Revisit Letterman's Late Night in celebration of the series' 40th anniversary with this 1988 interview with director Hal Gurnee.

When you buy a buffalo, what do you get at the first of the month? Decades before Letterman was lowered into a huge water vat wearing an Alka-Seltzer suit, Allen was covered with tea bags and submerged into warm water. The Story Of Late Night – which repeats 10 p.m. this Saturday, May 8 – airs a clip of Allen showing the proper technique for smashing a cream pie into a mannequin's face. A stage hand then volunteers to do it, but instead slammed the pie into Allen's face. So Allen chased him into the studio audience, where everyone tossed a pie at him.