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Is Trump behind Rebecca Drysdale's exit from Jimmy Fallon's show? Head writer vows to 'never do sketch' on POTUS

'The project of making fun of Trump, or doing material about Trump, has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain'

The head writer of 'The Tonight Show' has stepped down after six months on the job. The news came to light just six months after the 42-year-old  Rebecca Drysdale took the position of head writer. The decision to part ways with the NBC late-night show was mutual, she stated in a Facebook post, “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.”

“I am making the decision for myself to never work on, write, or be involved with, another Trump sketch ever again,” she wrote. “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.”

It was reported by Deadline that, earlier this week, the Jimmy Fallon-hosted show's showrunner Gavin Purcell got replaced by Jamie Granet-Bederman, and Fallon himself extended his contract with the network.

Drysdale started working on 'The Tonight Show' on April 13, 2020, as the head writer, during the middle of the pandemic, replacing former head writer Nedaa Sweiss, who earlier this week was named co-showrunner of the show.

She previously worked as a writer on Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key’s Comedy Central sketch program 'Key and Peele', where she received a Peabody Award and three nominations for Emmy in the writing for a variety series category. Drysdale has also worked as a head writer on the Nickelodeon reboot of 'All That With Keenan Thompson'. She also has written on 'Baskets' at FX and 'High Maintenance' at HBO.

“I come from Chicago, where I was doing shows with two chairs and one light,” she told the Sun-Times in June 2020. “So I don’t feel limited. I feel like it’s a fun opportunity to figure out, ‘What can we do with these limitations? What can we do that we couldn’t even do live?’ I think that’s a fun challenge.”

As soon as the news came to light, people started reacting to it as one Internet user slammed Trump and wrote, "Hopefully the time will soon be here when the rest of us can put Trump behind us too. He’s not a punchline. He’s a nightmare." Another slammed her and said, "Not sorry she’s unemployed, but I wrote her employer out of my life long ago. It is painful to watch those who think their material is genuinely funny bomb, line after line, night after night. #ComedyShouldBeFunny"

Another one joked, "at the end Trumps term?...lmao. r u kidding me." To which another one replied saying, "The jokes arent going to stop anytime soon, lol."