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‘Tonight Show’ Writers Explain How Jimmy Fallon Pulled Off the Nicolas Cage ‘Tiger King’ Sketch

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By Ellise Shafer editor Writers from “The Tonight Show” virtually joined Variety’s Marc Malkin to discuss working from home, ideas that didn’t make it to air and how Tuesday’s hilarious “Tiger King” sketch came to be.

Presented by the Writers Guild of America, the panel consisted of “Tonight Show” head writer Rebecca Drysdale along with Gerard Bradford and Jeremy Bronson, who are both writers and producers.

Although social distancing guidelines have turned their writer’s room into a “writer’s Zoom,” all three have leaned in to the reality of quarantine to produce some of Fallon’s funniest sketches yet.

Drysdale was named head writer only a month ago, meaning that she has not actually been in the official writer’s room yet. Despite this,

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