“I called the tech line here [at NBC],” Jay Leno once recalled, “and I got a guy in India and I said, ‘Thank you, what’s your name?’ And he said, ‘Abraham.’ So I said, ‘Oh wait a minute. That’s an unusual name. What’s your full name?’ He said, ‘Abraham Lincoln.’ I said, ‘Why Abraham Lincoln?’ He said, ‘We were told to pick names Americans would be familiar with.’”