Fox News’ ‘Gutfeld!’ Finally Overtook Colbert’s ‘Late Show’

[Wingnut]

Greg Gutfeld set out to beat other late-night hosts in the ratings and on Tuesday he finally won


Fox News’ 11 p.m. ET “Gutfeld!” finally beat every other late-night show — including Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” on CBS — Tuesday in total viewership and the advertiser-coveted age demographic of 25 to 54. When the right-leaning program debuted in April, host Greg Gutfeld and his promotional team made no secret of their ambition to overtake late-night rivals, but Colbert blocked him from the top spot.

On Tuesday night, “Gutfeld!” took in a total average of 2.120 million viewers, with 434,000 in the key demo, on average. The “Late Show,” which has an 11:35 p.m. ET start time on CBS, grabbed an average of 1.896 million total viewers of whom 423,000 were in the demo. Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” — an NBC program which also airs at 11:35 — came next with 1.216 million total viewers, on average, and 354,000 in the demo. (It’s worth noting that “Gutfeld!” airs at 8 p.m. PT on the West Coast, and does not repeat at 11 p.m. when the broadcast networks’ late-night shows are on.)

https://www.thewrap.com/gutfeld-ratings-win-colbert/

[PeteS in CA]

He got a lot of help from the late night show comedians not being funny.

[Wingnut]

He got a lot of help from the late night show comedians not being funny.

True story. Never has there been such a large group of unfunny men on TV at 11PM EST in the history of Late Night Shows.   Well since Tom Snyder anyway

[jmyrlefuller]

True story. Never has there been such a large group of unfunny men on TV at 11PM EST in the history of Late Night Shows.   Well since Tom Snyder anyway

Tom never intended to be funny... and he still told better jokes to his crew on The Late Late Show than most of the hosts intentionally try to be today.

It's sad. I've tried watching them. Jimmy Fallon is proof that friends in high places (cough, Lorne Michaels) trumps talent, and I know he's trying, but he's just not funny—The Tonight Show has suffered immensely under his hosting, and any other host would've been fired. Jimmy Kimmel is just smug. Colbert has a few flashes of good material but a lot of times he comes off as just plain awkward... and I also see Conan O'Brien, the king of "let's take something we know is funny, try to take it too far by overexaggerating it and make it edgy," recently quit the late-night biz. Lilly Singh (also recently quit) was total cringe.

Then you have the foreigners like John Oliver, Trevor Noah and Samantha Bee who think it's hip to come to America and lecture us on how awful our country is and how stupid we are.

So Gutfeld is pretty much the best by default at this point.

[goatprairie]

There seems to be contest now among these lib talk show hosts as to who can be the most woke.
Kimmel used to be funny on The Man Show. How long ago was that?   A quarter century?
They have to know that conservatives won't tune in to be insulted. Why do they do it?