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Jay Leno Collection on Letterman, Part 1 of 3: 1982-1984

Don Giller
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Jay Leno appeared on Late Night forty-one times, forty as a guest and one in a taped cameo. Here are all of his appearances, plus other related videos scattered within. A few clips were edited together from different sources. For one video (January 6, 1983), I chose the E! broadcast, as it's the only source in my collection that didn't mute "Hostess Twinkies." The collection is in three parts: Part 1: Clips #1 to 14 -- here Part 2: Clips #15 to 28 --    • Jay Leno Collection on Letterman, Par...   Part 3: Clips #29 to 50 --    • Jay Leno Collection on Letterman, Par...   Part 3 begins with Jay's first Tonight Show as guest-host in 1986. It foreshadowed shifting tectonic plates between Jay, Dave, Dave's then-current network, and CBS. Before all that, though, there's a reason Jay appeared so often on Late Night, especially up that first guest-host milestone: he was damn funny, and Dave's laughter was genuine. There's much here to analyze thei …...more
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Jay Leno Collection on Letterman, Part 1 of 3: 1982-1984
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Jay Leno appeared on Late Night forty-one times, forty as a guest and one in a taped cameo. Here are all of his appearances, plus other related videos scattered within. A few clips were edited together from different sources. For one video (January 6, 1983), I chose the E! broadcast, as it's the only source in my collection that didn't mute "Hostess Twinkies." The collection is in three parts: Part 1: Clips #1 to 14 -- here Part 2: Clips #15 to 28 --    • Jay Leno Collection on Letterman, Par...   Part 3: Clips #29 to 50 --    • Jay Leno Collection on Letterman, Par...   Part 3 begins with Jay's first Tonight Show as guest-host in 1986. It foreshadowed shifting tectonic plates between Jay, Dave, Dave's then-current network, and CBS. Before all that, though, there's a reason Jay appeared so often on Late Night, especially up that first guest-host milestone: he was damn funny, and Dave's laughter was genuine. There's much here to analyze their evolving relationship. Part 1: 1. April 15, 1982: Jay guest appearance #1 (stand-up #1 and home base chat) 2. June 4, 1982: Jay #2 3. June 30, 1982: Jay #3 (introduced by Harve Mann) 4. October 11, 1982: Jay #4 5. November 10, 1982: Jay #5 6. January 6, 1983: Jay #6 7. February 2, 1983: Jay #7 8. April 5, 1983: Jay #8 9. July 7, 1983: Jay #9 10. September 6, 1983: Jay #10 11. October 4, 1983: Jay #11 12. January 12, 1984: Jay #12 13. March 13, 1984: Jay #13 14. May 14, 1984: Jay #14 Part 2: 15. August 16, 1984: Jay #15 16. September 26, 1984: Jay #16 17. January 9, 1985: Jay #17 18. March 21, 1985: Jay #18 19. April 24, 1985: Jay #19 20. August 21, 1985: #20 21. October 10, 1985: Jay #21 22. November 19, 1985: Jay #22 23. January 9, 1986: Jay #23 24. January 30, 1986: Jay #24 25. March 25, 1986: Jay #25 (w/Seth Green, then 12 years old) 26. May 28, 1986: Jay #26 27. June 18, 1986: Chris Elliott's Jay Leno impression #1 28. August 19, 1986: Jay #27 Part 3: 29. September 9, 1986: Jay's first Tonight Show as guest-host, monologue 30. October 2, 1986: Chris Elliott's Jay Leno impression #2 31. October 14, 1986: Jay #28 (w/Chris Elliott) 32. November 1, 1986: Dave cameos on Jay's television special 32. December 16, 1986: Jay #29 33. February 7, 1987: Jay #30 (stand-up #2 for 5th anniversary) 34. May 13, 1987 (taped April 13): Jay #31 35. September 29, 1987: Jay #32 36. November 24, 1987: Jay #33 (with 3 kids: Jocelyn Argento, Kristin Symons, and Brian Wilde) 37. February 11, 1988: same Condom Week joke setup with different punchlines, Jay guest-hosting The Tonight Show, followed by Dave an hour later 38. March 4, 1988: Jay #34 39. July 7, 1988: Jay #35 40. May 4, 1989: Jay #36 (in Chicago) 41. August 16, 1989: Jay #37 42. October 11, 1990: Leno guests on Donahue, excerpts 43. October 11, 1990: Leno guests on Live at Five 44. October 11, 1990: Jay #38 45. November 2, 1990: Jay's taped Viewer Mail cameo, taped October 11, 1990 46. June 6, 1991: Dave congratulates Jay for succeeding Johnny Carson as Tonight Show host 47. December 12, 1991: Jay #39 48. May 7, 1992: Jay #40 (Jay becomes Tonight Show host in two weeks) 49. January 14, 1993: Jay, now Tonight Show host, remarks on Dave's decision to leave Dave's then-current network for CBS 50. June 25, 1993: Jay wishes Dave well before the upcoming final Late Night

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Don Giller

237K subscribers