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EXCLUSIVE: There’s change at The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon.
A.D. Miles, who was beforehand head author on the NBC present and likewise labored with Fallon on Late Night time, is returning to the present as head author.
Mason Steinberg, who was employed within the function final 12 months, is exiting.
Miles has a protracted historical past with Fallon; he was head author of Late Night time with Jimmy Fallon, which aired between 2009-2014, after which moved with the previous SNL star to The Tonight Present, the place he was head author between 2014-2017. In all, he has written on greater than 750 episodes of late-night tv with the host.
He’s most likely finest identified for showing on the present itself; most notably as stepdad Gary in Fallon’s sequence of Ew! sketches, which have featured the likes of Emma Stone, Taylor Swift and Michelle Obama in addition to Drew Barrymore earlier this 12 months.
He has additionally carried out as a member of The Ragtime Gals on The Tonight Present, which has additionally featured assist from the likes of Justin Timberlake and Steve Carell.
After engaged on The Tonight Present, Miles moved again to Los Angeles to pursue different alternatives. He was head author on ABC’s reboot of The Gong Present and he has acted in sequence akin to Moist Scorching American Summer season, Sherman’s Showcase, Between Two Ferns: The Film in addition to on Netflix’s animated sequence Hoops.
Nevertheless, Miles remained in Fallon’s orbit even after leaving the present, offering the voice for NBC’s Password, which is exec produced by Fallon, and bringing again The Ragtime Gals on Fallon’s That’s My Jam to carry out covers of Outkast’s “Hey Ya!” And Kelis’ “Milkshake.”
Steinberg joined the present in 2022 as head author, having written on a slew of awards exhibits together with the CMT Music Awards, the MTV Film & TV Awards and the E! Individuals’s Selection Awards. He was additionally the top author of NBC’s Carry the Humorous, a comedy competitors sequence starring Kenan Thompson, and TBS’ The Distress Index. He was additionally co-head author on Chelsea, the Netflix late-night present starring Chelsea Handler; a employees author on Lopez Tonight; and a author on McEnroe, the short-lived speak present hosted by tennis legend John McEnroe.
The pinnacle author transfer comes after Chris Miller grew to become showrunner of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon final 12 months, changing Jamie Granet-Bederman.
