Second City alum Becky Drysdale, the pinnacle creator on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon,” has stepped down after 8 months at the activity, vowing by no means once more to write down comedy about Donald Trump.
“I am making the decision for myself to never work on, write, or be involved with, another Trump sketch ever again,” she wrote in a word to her Facebook pals. “I have landed in several jobs and situations over the last few years, not just ‘The Tonight Show,’ where the project of making fun of Trump, or doing material about Trump, has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain. I can’t decide the outcome of this election, but I can make the choice for myself, to vote him out of my creative life.”
The resolution to section techniques with the NBC late-night mainstay used to be mutual, she wrote: “They made it clear that I was not a good fit for the show, and I did not disagree. I wish it had gone differently and I had been able to be what they needed but that is not how it shook out.”