“That red-hot performance was almost certain to end at some point,” Mr. Burke<br />said, “but he’s still head and shoulders above his competition, creatively.”<br />Though the program has seen turnover in top creative posts — the showrunner Josh Lieb left in the fall;<br />the head writer A. D. Miles exited this spring — Mr. Fallon said these were “growing pains.”<br />“I don’t want to have the same exact people here,” he said.<br />Where would he draw the line?”<br />She added, “How long will it take before American audiences lose all their faith in him, as an honest person they can watch every night?”<br />Lorne Michaels, the creator of “Saturday Night Live” and executive producer of “The Tonight Show,” said<br />that at the time of Mr. Trump’s “Tonight Show” visit, he was regarded incorrectly as a presidential also-ran.<br />Colbert brought a carving knife, and Mr. Fallon brought a butter knife.”<br />Though Mr. Fallon is not averse to joking about Mr. Trump on his program or impersonating him in comedy sketches<br />that portray the president as a squinting narcissist, he does not want this type of humor consuming “The Tonight Show.”<br />“There’s only so many bits you can do,” he said.
