‘The Tonight Show’ Gets New Head Writer As A.D. Miles Returns & Mason Steinberg Exits
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: There’s change at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. A.D. Miles, who was previously head writer on the NBC show and also worked with Fallon on Late Night, is returning to the show as head writer.
Mason Steinberg, who was hired in the role last year, is exiting. Miles has a long history with Fallon; he was head writer of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, which aired between 2009 and 2014, and then moved with the former SNL star to The Tonight Show, where he was head writer between 2014 and 2017.
In all, he has written on more than 750 episodes of late-night television with the host. He is probably best known for appearing on the show itself; most notably as stepdad Gary in Fallon’s series of Ew!
sketches, which have featured the likes of Emma Stone, Taylor Swift and Michelle Obama as well as Drew Barrymore earlier this year.
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