A.D. Miles, who is the longtime head writer for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, is stepping down to pursue acting and narrative television and film writing according to Variety.
Miles has been working with Fallon for the past eight years, with the two meeting at NBC’s “Late Night” before Fallon took over “The Tonight Show.” They have since collaborated on over 1500 episodes of late-night television. Miles and his family will relocate from New York to Los Angeles but he and Fallon are still planning to work together on an animated feature.
“Riding Jimmy Fallon’s coattails for the past eight years has given me all the confidence I need to strike out on my own and work on a movie with Jimmy Fallon,” Miles said in a statement. Fallon added, “Miles was there for the launch of ‘Late Night’ as well as the launch of ‘The Tonight Show.’ He is one of the funniest, most creative people I’ve ever met and I can’t wait to work on this next project with him. He’s family to us, and we are gonna miss him.”
Does anyone else find this to be extremely curious? Stephen Colbert has been on top of the ratings for the past seven weeks, going on eight and all of a sudden the head writer for The Tonight Show is stepping down after 8 years? Look, I could be wrong but come on. This is the equivalent of a head coach getting fired in the NFL. There’s only such much patience that ownership will have with a losing team before they make changes.
There’s been intense speculation that Jimmy Fallon’s been under a lot of pressure to switch up the show to make it more political to compete better with The Late Show. It can’t be a coincidence that the head writer is now “stepping down.” I think this is more of a “mutual parting of the ways.” A.D. Miles will have no trouble getting work.
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