1:56 Fox News late-night and primetime host Greg Gutfeld has topped all broadcast and cable comedy programs in the ratings race, including CBS' Late Show with Stephen Colbert and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. Greg Gutfeld's Right-Wing Comedy Makes Him One of the Most Watched People on Cable News - and His Audience is Only Growing By Alex Griffing Jul 6th, 2022, 7:38 pm Last week Fox News's. But for that audience, it scratches an itch.. The CW Renew/Cancel Part 6: All American: Homecom Wednesday Cable Ratings 2/8/23: South Park Returns Wednesday TV Ratings 2/8/23: Not Dead Yet Starts w Tuesday Cable Ratings 2/7/23: Fox News Leads State Tuesday TV Ratings 2/7/23: The State of the Union Monday Cable Ratings 2/6/23: The Rachel Maddow Sho Sunday Cable Ratings 2/5/23: Pro Bowl Steady with Saturday Cable Ratings 2/4/23: Sweeter than Chocol Monday TV Ratings 2/6/23: NCIS and The Neighborhoo Marietta Season 5 Episode 13 - Finnish Line. Oh thats a nice way to Swisher began before bursting into laughter. I would call him just an entertaining show. Sure, its a bit unfair to Gutfeld! And if were able to talk about really polarizing topics in a way that those guys can then I think that also makes us different, Licht replied. Let us spend a moment with Fox News Channel late-night kingpin Greg Gutfeld. If a comment is spam, instead of replying to it please click the icon below and to the right of that comment. 12% would reduce their carbon footprint; 3% cited some other resolution. Hes an unorthodox, conservative, and even atheist comedian whose jokes consistently target anybody and everybody, but especially so the figures that are most revered by the left, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci. Its certainly not streaming. Not necessarily comedy, but, if you look at someone like John Oliver or Bill Maher its informed perspective programming that allows you to make your own decisions. As dominant as Gutfeld! Liberals are less attuned to threat in their environment. In contrast, Young argues that conservatives are constantly monitoring the world for threats, and as a result, theyre less patient with ambiguities and uncertainty. My sons dont watch CNN. In other words, conservative media has created such an all-encompassing narrative that now its practitioners are able to joke around about that narrative, like when a Marvel movie puts in sly nods to other characters in the MCU. Fox News host Greg Gutfeld on Wednesday night hit back at "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert for mocking Fox News after a suspect allegedly set fire to a Christmas tree outside the New York City headquarters of Fox News and News Corp. "Flaming Christmas Tree just got its own show on FoxNews!" Colbert jeered. In a sense, the fight over who gets to be funny is a cousin to the fight over who gets to decide which books are taught in schools: What people are really arguing over here is who will be teaching young people how to think about the world. But beating network TV is something different. The right is starting to get better at comedy and its making lefties nervous, tweeted InfoWars contributor Paul Joseph Watson in 2018. If your joke is about Hillary Clinton eating babies, thats untrue, so its not going to be funny. Success! Fox News Channel finished August 2022 as the most-watched. dominates. On the other hand, advertisers looking to reach a slightly older and more conservative audience will gravitate toward Gutfeld! BizPac Review is under attack by progressive Silicon Valley zealots. Executives at Fox News have been encouraged by Gutfeld's 11 p.m. program, which has generated more viewers than many broadcast late-night shows, and Watters' new 7 p.m. show, which is . "Gutfeld!" finished August as the first late-night cable program to finish an entire month as TV's most-watched late-night show, outpacing "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." The world doesnt make it easy for us to crack a joke. The affably acerbic Greg Gutfeld, leading with his eyebrows, is the host who lends the show his name. Even CNNs most-watched show Anderson Cooper 360fell behind King Gutfeld, pulling in a meager average of 950,000 nightly views. ET timeslot. The prior week, July 18 to 24, Colbert hit 2,143,000 average viewers while Gutfeld got. It doesnt take a lot of unpacking. Fox News has been promoting the audience for Gutfeld!, and comparing its 2.19 million average viewers in. 2/2/2022 Fox News' late-night talk show Gutfeld! Please also read our Privacy Notice and Terms of Use, which became effective December 20, 2019. Why liberals and conservatives dont get each others jokes. Somethings happening in late night. The irony is that even before Gutfeld! launched, Gutfeld the person was already beating them at their game, albeit with his prior show. Today, Stewarts disciples among them not just Colbert, Noah, and Oliver, but also Samantha Bee, Steve Carell, and Jessica Williams are the comedy mainstream. We love hearing from our readers and invite you to join us for feedback and great conversation. Late-night talk show hosts Steven Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Jimmy Kimmel have all seen their ratings drop without Trump. launched in April 2021 with the tagline Cancel culture just got canceled and was immediately top of its time slot among cable channels. Good for recruiting young people, renewing the coalition and keeping it moving forward. The strategy may or may not be deliberate, and it may or may not be effective. The general structure of a political [liberal] late-night joke tends to use incongruity, says Young. 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. On Tuesday night, "Gutfeld!" took in a total average of 2.120 million viewers, with 434,000 in the key demo, on average. Thats no longer the case. On Tuesday night, Fox News Channel's Gutfeld! A number of people seem to be buying what hes selling just not liberals or TV critics. Instead, young women are overwhelmingly trending liberal, while young mens political preferences are standing still. The right has correctly seen that and said, Oh, theyre not doing comedy anymore. Communications scholar Amy Becker points to the Tina Fey effect: Watching her parody Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live made both Republicans and independents less supportive of the ticket, she says. Theyre not as stressed about whether or not theyre going to be the victim of crime, she says. Even if it really is regressive and pointing back to old dominant ideas. Our survey research shows conservatives are high in political knowledge. The size of that viewing audience bests both NBCs The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon and ABCs Jimmy Kimmel Live and also consistently trumps such cable rivals as Comedy Centrals The Daily Show and HBOs Last Week Tonight and Real Time With Bill Maher.. To make sense of it, that is cognitively taxing, says Young. Meanwhile, whats the secret behind Mr. Gutfelds appeal and relentless comedic presence? 1 @GutfeldFox! It has higher viewership than anything on CNN or MSNBC. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. Greg Gutfeld celebrated the historic ratings win on social media. Now at last he has ascended to his long-awaited destiny as the face of late-night comedy on Fox News. by Martin Walsh, June 9th, 2022 "Fox News Channel had the most-watched shows on cable news, not only in the total audience but among the key A25-54 demographic . They just feel like they cant laugh at them.. That period is gone, says Matt Sienkiewicz, a media scholar and the co-author with Nick Marx of Thats Not Funny. NBC Renew/Cancel Week 14: Young Rock and American Wednesday Cable Ratings 2/15/23: Beavis & Butthead Wednesday TV Ratings 2/15/23: The Masked Singer Re Tuesday Cable Ratings 2/14/23: NBA Leads, Tucker C Tuesday TV Ratings 2/14/23: American Auto Drops to Monday Cable Ratings 2/13/23: Gutfeld! Its not on Comedy Central. Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist and the co-author of Late Night with Trump: Political Humor and the American Presidency, says this split is exacerbated by the increasingly polarized conservative news landscape. Dovetailing back to the Times, the paper is clearly in deep denial. and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, two of the three big broadcast network late night shows. Youngs theory, to be sure, has a certain resonance with such classic culture war fights as My Kid Could Draw That and Who Actually Likes Opera?, If Obama was a sonnet, Trump is a limerick, Gutfeld mused shortly after Trumps 2017 inauguration. Teresa Prados-Torreira, a historian and the former head of the American Humor Studies Association, argues that the comedy you can watch on John Olivers show Last Week Tonight and the comedy you see in right-wing spaces are based in two intrinsically different versions of reality. Still, with FOX News at Night often well above a million viewers in the 12 am to 1 am time slot, one can presume Gutfeld! In a few clicks, one can move from Gutfeld on Fox News laughing at a story about immigrants to a libertarian comedy podcaster interviewing a race scientist to a song parody on YouTube of Oasiss Wonderwall featuring the line Today is gonna be the day / that were gonna fucking gas the Jews.. Mr. Melugin revealed that eye-opening tidbit in a tweet Tuesday. The right, meanwhile, is perpetually on the defensive against the lefts comedic dominance, as Gutfelds fawns more than a herd of deer speech makes clear. Correction, December 20, 10:45 am: A previous version of this story misstated Lauren Levines title. Meanwhile, Fox News viewers might not get exposed to the storylines the rest of the country is making jokes about, and vice versa. Political comedy, back then, meant making fun of the heaving dinosaurs of the right. PLEASE JOIN OUR NEW COMMENT SYSTEM! They are less worried about someone coming out of the shadows, which gives you the luxury of being able to sit around and think. Liberals, in other words, have enough time on their hands to like jokes that make them work a little bit, in the same way they might like cultural products that make them work, like jazz or abstract art. outpaced every show on CNN and MSNBC Tuesday in the key 25-54 age demographic. Gutfeld's irreverent humor, willing to speak truth to power against the Biden administration, is drawing a lucrative, and surprisingly youthful, crowd. Email us. The "Late Show," which has an 11:35 p.m. That put the Fox show above all of the late-night stalwarts, including NBC's The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with CBS' The Late Show with Stephen . By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. They just know that they want to be the funny ones. T he first thing you notice about Gutfeld!, Greg Gutfeld's ratings-gobbling, Colbert-battling, have-some-of-that-Don-Lemon phenomenon of a late-night political-satirical talk show on Fox News . The . Are we gonna get into this conversation? Licht replied, almost combatively. "Gutfeld!" has ranked third overall since its debut in April, averaging 1.5 million viewers, below Kimmel's 1.6 million and Colbert's 2 million but above "The Tonight Show's" 1.4 million. I wouldnt rule out some kind of show that involved people talking in a way that was not delivering news in a straightforward manner, sure, Licht replied. It seems to matter a surprising amount which political affiliation gets to call themselves the funny ones. No one seems sure how to talk about the difference, exactly. delivered a total audience of 2.5 million viewers, a staggering audience for a late-night show on cable, and the second biggest night in the history of Greg Gutfelds politics-and-comedy program, Forbes reported in October. top of its time slot among cable channels. Rogan, whose politics are inconsistent to the point of incoherence but who frequently platforms far-right figures in the name of entertainment and comedy, is most popular among young men. Then in the 1980s, as the Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) fairness doctrine disappeared and the political extremes began their long retreat toward separate media silos, Levine says that progressive activist groups began to make political correctness part of their arguments against figures like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. According to the Nielsen ratings for Gutfeld! We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Fox News' late night host, Greg Gutfeld, is proving popular, just finding himself behind Stephen Colbert and The Late Show in the weeknight ratings war. does the same with Democrats and Democrat policies. Generally, the panel comes to a cheerful consensus. 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Weeknights at 11:35pm/10:35c His late-night show has outpaced ratings of network funnymen Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon. Swisher asked if CNN would produce a late-night show to bring competition to shows like Fox News Gutfeld! So right now, its Greg Gutfelds world. Colbert still managed to beat Gutfeld in the. He was talking about a video from conservative Blaze TV personality Allie Beth Stuckey, who had edited herself into an interview with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to make AOC look like she was answering Stuckeys questions badly, in a sort of clunky rendition of a slick old Daily Show trick. The program finished with an average of 2.86 million viewers, making it the most-watched late night program in all of television in total viewership with 2.9 million total viewers, topping all broadcast and cable comedy programs, including CBS Late Show with Stephen Colbert, NBCs The Tonight Show [with Jimmy Fallon] and ABCs Jimmy Kimmel Live, according to Fox News., Foxs Greg Gutfeld Show beats out left-leaning Colbert, Fallon & Kimmel in late-night ratings race https://t.co/HiI6cWSYIw pic.twitter.com/SXwujX8vPJ, Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) May 2, 2020. has the highest median income in all of late night television (ABC, CBS and NBC) in the younger 25-54 demo as well as the most upscale audience in total viewers and A25-54. Welcome to another edition of the NBC Renew/Cancel Watch. But it can be branded as being the opposite of Stephen Colbert crying about January 6 during his monologue, which is very much not cool to the teens.. Take Vox, which ran an astute piece last month titled, Is the right winning the comedy wars?. According to Lauren Levine, a communications PhD who wrote her thesis on the ways comics navigate concerns about political correctness, that association has been shifting toward the left slowly over the past 60 years. He literally has greater numbers than any other late night host. If youre talking about a panoply of things to give to people, Swisher replied to Licht, steering the conversation back to CNN. Gutfeld! Greg Gutfeld's late night right. Thats an unoriginal metaphor, Captain Jowls, Gutfeld said in one monologue addressed to CNNs Brian Stelter, after Stelter opined that former Fox News anchor Chris Wallace stood out like a sore thumb at an increasingly radicalized Fox News. The only time Stephen Colbert ruffles feathers is in a pillow fight. where comedy goes to die, and found the shows comedic perspective so bizarre that it could only attribute the shows ratings to a sense that Trumps presidency introduced into the culture a tremendous uncertainty about what was actually funny. Variety argued that the show was impossible to follow, because too often during this show, its unclear whats played for fun and what isnt., Is Gutfeld! Hes a libertarian former mens magazine editor turned Fox News personality and has exactly the screen presence you would expect from that combination: a little bit charming, a little bit smarmy. Levine argues that the left began to get concerned about political correctness starting in the 1970s, when continental philosophers like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida became all the rage in academia. 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