Fox News' Greg Gutfeld secured the #1 spot in Late Night TV on Tuesday, elbowing out Stephen Colbert

Holly Ash

Aug 20, 2021

Is anyone else tired of hearing Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah, and Jimmy Kimmel preach about how you're a domestic terrorist if you deny the slightest of the woke beliefs?

I guess at least a few of you are:

Fox News launched Greg Gutfeld's late-night show in April with the goal of beating out all other traditional rivals. On Tuesday night, that happened.

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.

Yeah, that's a margin of more than 220,000 viewers, which isn't a small deal, especially for a new show that's going up against the decades-old late-night regime.

This is also super important:

(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.)

You know what they say about going woke! I guess comparing American grandmas to the Taliban isn't working in the joke department!


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