Historical clue formulations

• Jay who hosted the 2020s revival of "You Bet Your Life" — 2026-06-17
• Jay formerly of late-night TV — 2026-03-10
• Winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2014 — 2024-11-23
• Onetime host with the segment "Jaywalking" — 2024-05-29
• Mocking Jay — 2024-05-26
• Comedian Jay — 2023-05-08
• Fallon's predecessor on "The Tonight Show" — 2023-02-28
• Former "Tonight Show" host — 2022-12-04
• Host that preceded and succeeded O'Brien — 2022-06-30
• Jay with jokes — 2022-05-01
• Jay with a "Garage" — 2022-04-05
• One side of a classic late-night feud — 2022-02-18
• Fallon's late-night predecessor — 2022-01-26
• 2014 Television Hall of Fame inductee — 2021-06-25
• TV host with a "Garage" — 2021-06-17
• Jay between Johnny and Jimmy — 2021-06-04
• "The Tonight Show" host before and after O'Brien — 2021-05-11
• Jay formerly of late-night — 2020-04-13
• Jay formerly of late-night TV — 2019-12-30
• Jay who preceded Jimmy Fallon — 2019-03-11
• TV host who won a Mark Twain Prize for American Humor — 2018-08-18
• Successor to Paar's successor — 2018-03-16
• Jay who preceded Jimmy Fallon — 2018-01-15
• Billy Crystal was his first guest — 2017-10-27
• Jay with jokes — 2017-10-08
• Jay once seen nightly — 2017-06-26
• Jay who preceded Jimmy — 2017-06-11
• Longtime host who wrote "Leading With My Chin" — 2017-02-08
• Longtime TV figure known for his garage — 2016-09-09
• Jay who preceded Jimmy Fallon — 2016-04-11
• Fallon predecessor — 2016-03-31
• Former late-night host Jay — 2016-02-15
• Jay formerly of late-night — 2015-09-21
• Former late-night luminary — 2015-04-23
• Jay formerly of "The Tonight Show" — 2015-02-03
• Deliverer of thousands of monologues — 2014-12-13
• James Douglas Muir ___ (TV host's birth name) — 2014-07-06
• 2014 TV retiree — 2014-04-29
• Recently retired Jay — 2014-04-14
• Subject of the 1994 best seller "The Late Shift" — 2014-02-20
• *2014 TV retiree — 2014-02-18
• "Leading With My Chin" memoirist — 2014-01-31
• One side of a famous NBC feud — 2013-06-29
• Longtime "Headlines" reader — 2012-11-30
• TV host with a college degree in speech therapy — 2012-04-11
• TV monologist — 2011-05-25
• Late-night wars participant — 2011-05-12
• Funnyman Jay — 2011-05-09
• O'Brien's late-night predecessor and successor — 2010-11-23
• Who once remarked "You can't stay mad at somebody who makes you laugh" — 2010-10-20