Late Night Ratings Revealed: Who’s Top & Who’s Lagging Behind?
The ratings are in for the second quarter of 2025, and things remain competitive across late-night, with Stephen Colbert holding onto the top spot in his hour and Greg Gutfeld dominating his slot, and having huge gains year-on-year.
According to LateNighter.com, citing Nielsen ratings, CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert topped the 11:35 pm hour in total viewers with an average of 2.417 million across 41 first-run episodes. The Late Show was also the only program to show an increase over the first quarter, with the show up 1%. In the coveted 18–49 demo, Colbert brought in 219,000 viewers.
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! came in second for the 11:35 pm slot with an average of 1.772 million viewers; however, the show edged out Colbert in the demo with 220,000 viewers. Meanwhile, NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon finished in third with an average of 1.188 million viewers and 157,000 in the demo.
The biggest ratings winner, however, was Fox News’ Gutfeld! in the 10 pm slot. The show, which takes a satirical look at the weekly news with a panel of comedians and political commentators, averaged 3.289 million viewers for the second quarter and 238,000 in the demo.
Compared to the same period last year, Gutfeld! was up 31.5% among total viewers and 24% in the demo. However, the show was down compared to the first quarter of 2025 in both metrics, by -9% in total viewers and -22% in the demo.
Elsewhere, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers continued to stay on top at the 12:37 am slot with an average of 900,000 total viewers and 111,000 in the demo across 35 episodes. In comparison, ABC’s Nightline averaged 810,000 total viewers and 108,000 in the demo, and CBS’ After Midnight, which wrapped up its run last month, averaged 591,000 total viewers and 89,000 in the demo.
Finally, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show averaged 994,000 viewers and 190,000 in the demo in its 11 pm slot. While this was down -2% compared to quarter one, the show was up by 2.7% in the demo compared to the same period last year (though it was down -1.2% in total viewers).
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Colbert was a one trick pony, He became irrelevant when all he did was cry politics, I tuned in to see late night comedy not whining. Without Trump what does he have? Sure, crying has its place once in a while but NIGHT AFTER NIGHT AFTER NIGHT AFTER NIGHT. All of us are surprised he lasted this long.
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Trump is the biggest crybaby whiner who ever lived. All he does is cry about how unfair everything is while he grifts his way through his second term making $$ deals.
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I know, he should just autopen his way thru his second term.
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He might as well. He has no clue most of the time what he is signing.
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Only bidumb did that
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You're one of the miscreants of the dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooofus party.
Democratic strategist carville said in a new opinion piece for The New York Times that the current Democratic Party is “a cracked-out clown car.”
“Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they’re not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles,” Carville said in the Times piece released mon.
Carville pointed to the recent clinching of the Democratic nomination for New York City mayor by zohran mamdani which shocked many political observers, saying it “wasn’t an isolated event.”
“It represents an undeniable fissure in our political soul. We are divided along generational lines: Candidates like Mr. Mamdani are impatient for an economic future that folks my age are skeptical can be delivered,” Carville added.
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It's a shame we couldn't be entertained with comedians like Don Rickles satiring every day life rather than choosing political nonsense non-stop.
cant figure it out in DC. Certainly cant do so on late nite. Thanks for sports
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You’re wasting bandwidth. Try to stay on topic.
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Never saw Colbert cry or whine...you must be thinking of someone else.
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Selective memory, huh ?
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All of you dems with your crying towels bitter ale red red whine & cold crow whine daily.
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Him and Kimmel cry alot.
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The ratings for all of 3 of the traditional late night shows stink! I wouldn't be surprised if this type of show is completely gone in 3-5 years. They are expensive to produce and barely beat repeat episodes of shows like the office, storage wars, or law and order in the ratings. With 100's of channels to watch or stream it's becoming less practical to spend money on shows like these that aren't live news or news commentary programs. The timing may be suspect but this was probably coming soon anyway. The only surprise is Jimmy Fallon didn't get cut first.
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Don't go hittin' 'em over the head with FACTS now, darlin'. They are poorly educated and fragile of mind. You'll send them to their safe spaces!
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They do tend to break into fits of banshee wails when presented with the truth.
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Yes here is a good overview about the shifting habits of viewers, and also discusses the monetization of these shows on other platforms, like how they put them on YouTube etc,.and how much advertisers have been spending. For sure the streaming services are taking over and the options for media are spreading out, leaving each thinner. I love these shows and how they skewer clown Trump because he totally deserves it, but i never watch them in their network time slots, rather i will come across clips on YouTube. I rarely watch the big 3 or 4 networks at all; even the shows i do like from them i prefer to watch on Hulu or Paramount itself etc because that's what i pay for. But the reduction in ratings isn't because people don't want political satire or because libs are being "owned."
CBS' Colbert Cancellation and Late-Night's Profit Free Fall
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Fallon doesn't make $15,000,000 mil a year.
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Johnny Carson, & Jay Leno were so successful because they didn’t take political sides. I know people that know Colbert & they say his extreme Left Wing views are just an act. He should have stuck to non political comedy.
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When has Stephen Colbert even done non-political comedy?
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Look at him since he was cancelled. He’s embarrassingly bitter.
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Letterman averaged 3.8m viewers and Leno avergaed 5m viewers when they were on…. Nobody watches late night anymore..it’s boring. Saying that Trump had someone call up CBS and tell them to cancel is stupid at best. Its a business…if your not making money then it goes away…simple as that.
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I never watch the politically biased shows.
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Too bad. You might learn something.
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Like how to regurgitate talking points from either side?
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Soooo…you do know that Fox News is politically biased, right?
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Try a truthful News network. Newsmax. We tried the old leftist propaganda, it was called The Soviet Union.They had a leftist only agenda & media, How did that work out?
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They give both sides at the SAME TIME to debate. STUNAD
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Hilarious😂
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Yea, sounds like someone who has FOX NEWS burnt into his TV
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No, actually, it sounds like a well-rounded, mentally-healthy individual who understands that politics isn't all there is to life.
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maybe not all there is to life, but at this moment in history, certainly should be top of mind for anyone paying attention
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Yes, I, too, avoid Fox News. Kudos Tim.
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Totally agree,,, its just boring not even funny . He kepts having Stacy Abrams on and Adam Schiff,,I dont need to see those people at bed time of Jasmine Crockett as well. Save that for the real news shows.
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If it's so boring, how do you know who his guests are?
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You are absolutely correct,,, he does has stuffy and not even funny.. Comedy Central is funny he makes fun over everyone. Johnny Carson and Leno made fun of everyone.. Day of funny talk shows are gone. At least Fallon doesnt talk politics much and he is entertaining.
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Did you watch when Biden was President? If Biden did something to make fun of, he joked about it.
If you watched back then you would know that. However, the biggest difference now is that no other president made a fool of himself several times a day every day like this nutcase.
I would love days, weeks & months to go by where we don't hear from him or have to be embarrassed by what an idiot he made of himself or what he's doing to destroy this country today but he's too needy & greedy for that to happen & we all pay the price.
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It's all about money. How long can CBS keep a show that is losing that much money?
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Colbert is woke. He isn't even funny
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You don't know what 'woke' means.
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You are sleep. LOL !
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You not considering him funny is a great compliment to him.
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Wokes ass. You people are not funny not even a little bit.
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Hope the show goes to a competitor
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No network whats to spend 120 million on a late night show with 200 employees.
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You must be young, Johnny Carson lambasted every President but even conservative Reagan had a sense of humor or understood the history of it. The Presidents knew it would be more funny if they criticized the comedian. This guy is backwards on everything which means he's talking out his, you know......
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MAGA people call any criticism of DJT "whining."
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Colbert is complete garbage and should have been yanked off the air years ago.
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Yeah, too bad your beloved Rush Limbaugh is no longer alive to provide the rebuttal!
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Greg's show is hands down the best late night comedy he is the KING of LATE NIGHT tv damn skippy! 😍
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Gutfeld! is the best,
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The thing is, we've never had a president (at least in our lifetimes) so brazenly corrupt, hateful and humorless. There is SO much material that can (and should) be satarized. By comparison, all the previous presidents were much smaller targets.
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Corrupt where?
Hateful where?
He’s naturally funny. You obviously don’t have a lot up 🔝
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You are so right! If the right thinks the 70 % of people who are polling dissatisfaction with Trump really like watching him tear apart things, cost us so much tax money on vanity projects, and ruin the economy and cost us more money in our everyday budgets, they are crazy. I wish I had nothing to say about Trump because he wasn’t botching everything up. The comment about the democrats not seeing that the algae is being dealt with, even though the algae will return because the blue color heats up the pool, is really stupid. Why does MAGA believes these lies???
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Joe and Kamala were ripe for political humor, but these dim whites never broached it. They get what they deserve.
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Some real idiots here
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I watch Fallon,, Colbert and Kimmel not even funny. Kimmel use to do the man show.. years ago wasnt even funny on there Adam Corolla carried him.
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Sorry FACTS hurt your brain. You’ve been a feeble minded sheep so long that you can’t fathom a FACT. Sorry the truth hurts. Get used to it. Your side lost. Get used to losing because that’s all you’re going to get.
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I WATCH GUTFELD EVERY NIGHT! FUNNIEST SHOW EVER!
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Maybe in that time slot but Gutfield has a million+ more ratings than all the other mainstream late night shows
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Why do any of you care if he's gone!?! If you people don't like it, then DON'T watch it! If it's that bad, they will go out of business.
Also most people can't sit through a night show. They use their cell phones and ipads a lot more. President Chimp sure should not watch it. He also made tons of comments about restoring the 1st Amendment... but apparently that was just for him.
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Yeah, they reused to honor my 1st Amendment and give me $20 million a year and let me host a late night show. As we all know the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. And everyone is entitled to work on a late night TV show and make millions of dollars.
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I wish low ratings worked that way in politics. Tump would have been yanked a while ago.
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no his ratings are just begging need help more money !
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Tucker gets cancelled, lefties scream for JOY. Colbert gets cancelled, lefties scream oppression. 😂
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Yeah, I get it. Truth is not your greatest desire.
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Huh ?? Bob gave his opinion, nothing more.
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Yes. Stephen Colbert and your Dem propaganda media is so truthful. Your media & Colbert pushed years of the Russian Hoax and told the world, for 5 years, that not only did Biden not have Dementia, but it was the greatest version of Biden.. Colbert & Dem propaganda media tells the truth Hahahaha.
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Like dancing hypodermic needles telling me if I get the experimental shot I won't get covid? Don't you have a booster to run out and get after you had covid 3 times?
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Vaccines don't necessarily prevent the illness, they help your body defend against the illness and give you a much higher chance of avoiding the serious forms of the illness. You can, if you choose, look this up for yourself and determine the truth. Unless...
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Yes they do … but it’s Gutfeld instead bc he’s the only one worth watching
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Let them go bankrupt if they choose to be haters.
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Colbert averages 2.4 million at #1 and Gutfeld averages 3.2 million at #3?
Liberal math in action.
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Stop your whining you big snowflake! If you don’t like the show, any show, change the channel. Problem solved! Jeez!
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I do!! And anything Disney owns!
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Trump hated Carson, who consistently joked about him.
And Carson, and before him, Jack Paar, made political jokes.
Jay Leno was just a bit creepy.
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I miss Parr.
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CBS gave us the Information
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Colbert should quit, was funny long ago, not now.
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TDS is real
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different time slots, you're comparing apples to oranges
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I’m not young and I can tell you I was a regular , watching Johnny Carson. He did some jokes , but it wasn’t extreme like you say it is. In fact I have many old VHS tapes with him on them still , that’s how old I am! It wasn’t as extreme as it is with Trump! These late night host are so ridiculous, it’s like that hate America!
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10pm is primetime. Latenight starts at 11:30pm ET
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They wouldn't know who he or his guests were, but they would see a great show, not stuck on right leaned politics.
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When you flick through the channels and see things haven't changed, the same way YOU flick through channels.
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If only we could get Johnny Carson back!
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Our 1st Amendment is being taken away like it is in Communist Countries!!
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Yeah, they refused to give my my 1st Amendment 20million a year talk show.
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Not sure but I do remeber a story my dad told me about H.L. Hunt at a party in Dallas in the early 1960's when someone asked how long Lamar Hunt his son could continue loosing $1,000,000 per year on his fooball team after all that was a lot of money back then. H.L. Hunt scratched his chin and replied Oh about 100 years
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When I watch Colbert, I am not laughing. I feel like I am being lectured.
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Colbert's show wouldn't have been canceled if 0.5% of liberals that voted for Biden or Harris watched his show.
Liberals may complain about the cancelation, but even they weren't watching.
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For you old timers, colbert is being replaced by the "The Syncopated Clock"
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Like all censorship moves this will only free him up to self produce his own words. Main stream media is dead.
In this age of podcasts, we don't need to be shackled by the silent minority. Vive le revolution.
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Jimmy Limpel , Steve Holebert ? NO THANKS !
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Since it is well known that Mango Mussolini has no control over his excretions and smells foetid, it is ironic that you think Biden "crapped his pants in front of the Queen." Very likely TACO did so, however.
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He was a shill for Big Pharma. That silly Vax skit was pretty obvious.
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Kimmel and Colbert destroyed the late show with all the politics,it stopped being funny.nobody wants to listen to a liberal democrats cry for over a hour,TDS is real.
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Gutfeld on fox news has over 3 million viewers EVERYNIGHT and Sean Hannity has more than that and their channel makes A LOT MORE MONEY than all of CBS, NBC and ABC plus Sean isn't going anywhere soon and he's making over 41 million a year and Gutfeld makes over 26 million and he beats ALL THOSE IDIOTS on the free channels and hardly anyone wants to watch someone just bash Trump their whole show just to have viewers.
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Bottom line.....Greg Gutfeld is dominating, with clear distinction, late night television.
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Stephen Colbert was just ranting and ranting and ranting about Trump. He’s not funny and has no original material. He’s just fixated with himself and thinks he’s smarter than everyone in the room. While, Johnny Carson and Jay Leno they were comic geniuses along with Joan Rivers. Please bring back people who could make jokes without just talking about politics 300% of the time. What happened to entertainment and not being lectured to all the time?
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The metrics don’t measure audiences accurately anymore. Many people watch shows the next day on subscriptions like Hulu or on YouTube. It’s no surprise that Gutfeld does well by old-fashioned cable metrics, but his show falls short compared to other late-night stars in YouTube views. Within a day, he gets a couple thousand, while Kimmel racks up over 100 thousand in the same time frame.
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Gutfield all the way
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There's also the issue with too many late night shows (all left leaning). It really divides up their audience. Once a couple of them drop out it will condense their viewers to just a couple of shows and should help keep them on the air. I won't watch them but I'm not their target audience (TDS views).
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My guess is that some rich person is supplementing the income to keep the propaganda alive.
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I think those ratings are what they are because those folks are the society sucking jobless.
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It still would have happened just alittle down the road instead… he’s lossing money every year and his ratings are down like 60% over 5 years ago and steadily in the same direction
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That’s only bc he’s on a basic cable channel if you had to pay to watch him both their number would be down even more unlike Gutfeld who’s numbers are up and up and up and people have to pay to see his show.(and he does it with a crew of about 15-20 people and they other 2 shows have between 100-200 people and can barely keep their viewers awake till the end of the show). where in fact the 2 of their shows are down something like 60-65% since 3-5 years ago bc their shows suck… they both are supposed to be comedy news shows that entertain and they both used to do all of that but today they both don’t!! You even have to admit that a few years ago they were funny and had a good show but it’s just not that anymore,I really wish it was bc I miss the old show. Just like Saturday nite live the show sucks now adays. Sucks you can’t cancel that show bc of the tradition bc it is just bad now adays.. I hey need to make a new show like Americas got talent but in this show it’s only comedians and funny writers and if they win they get a seat as a writer on SNL and maybe we can get the old show back.. something funny and we all wait for each weekend.
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Even though my political views are pretty close to Colbert's, I actually agree with you: the obsession with all things Trump gets tedious. I'd like the show better with 50% less Trump.
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I think regardless of ratings, you should be held accountable for out and out lies. Free speech is one thing, but lying like Jimmy Kimmel did is inexcusable. Late night shows lost out after Johnny Carson, then Jay Leno left the airwaves.
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Cheaper to let him work until the end of his contract than to pay the most likely hefty penalty payout for terminating him early.
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Gutfield is absolutely political motivated! The difference is he doesn't lie and pretend he's non bias. He makes fun of himself and guest and they all love it. Seems like they have a lot of fun.
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Pink Unicorn, lets start a gofundme, so we can help CBS make up the $40 million they need to keep Colbert's show going.
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We should start a gofundme to help CBS make up the $40 million loss they are taking so that Colbert can keep his show and 200 employees going. He is worth every penny of his $20 million salary.
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And the same right liberals are still saying Charlie Kirk is saying racist things. Conservatives know the truth he's said, liberals lose their argument from Kirk's truth, so they say he's racist. The liberals keep losing fact base discussions.
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Go to the Neilson's Ratings and start eating your words.
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"GENIUS" EVERYTHING IS POLITICS. EVEN RELIGION
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There is nothing to burn into your head. There's nothing there
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Losing $40mm/yr, Colbert makes $20mm, has 200 staff - no wonder he is cancelled.
If it were politics, they wouldn’t give him 10 more months to keep on talking.
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It should have been cancelled when they had that dancing hypodermic needle pushing big pharma's most recent scam.
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It’s more like a large slice of America has lost its touch.
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It’s more like people can’t stand Democrats and their leftist cult are no longer influencing feeble minded sheep. People are waking up. People are done with “woke” and have now been AWAKEN.
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Using too much Jargon and too few visuals.
Where you use demo - do you mean demographic or demo as in a test reel? Can't tell.
Would love it if someone didn't cut off the knowledge by comparing to only the 1st quarter.
You got me hooked, I want info - where are the charts that show any of this data?
It's important however that immediately after the article you provided where to watch; trying to pull viewers eh?
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Yeah you line your tax dollars to be stolen by Tampax Tim! What an idiot!
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The guy is terrible. Only a clueless viewer would watch.
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who’s the snowflake? Triggered much? He was simply stating facts, every show is like a rerun, that’s all, which is why it is being cancelled
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What do you mean? his rating is better then all other presidents. the 1st president to have the same or better rating in his 2nd term then his 1st,he’s the only president to stop 8 wars (so far) all started before he got in office. Not to mention tons of other things he fixed bc the people before him messed up royaly!!
I don’t understand why so many people like you blindly hate just bc others tell you to do so! (That literally is the new type of racism) Even though they don’t actually tell you why to hate. These top ranked democrat politicians have literally been called out for lieing, have been caught lieing, have been proven that they lied, they literally have written books calling themselves out for lying so they don’t even fight it. But you all don’t read those books or listen to them when they all say that they lied. But you still listen & follow the lies that they said & have been proven wrong about just like sheep you all follow the heard, blindly listen and follow like good little children instead of doing what you know is right in your heart. Common sense people… this is not an attack this is an awakening it’s time to open your eyes and open your ears. I bet most of you can’t even say he did a good job in the part he took in stopping the war with Hamas?! Come on even Hilary Clinton can tell him she was proud of him and he did a good job, if she can then anyone can!!!! Do your own research & stop listening to your masters!!
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Especially after Trump sued them and WON, so they need to get rid of MORE shows that are completely woke right leaned.
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Bingo!
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The money is irrelevant, what matters is what Trump THINKS he has come out of this with, and it's not good.
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Does this incorporate streaming views, or just TV ratings? According to youtube views, these numbers/ratings are way off...
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First "Blue Bloods", and now "Late Night". Apparently, it no longer matters what "We The People " want anymore...
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You’re nuts! ! The only President who made a fool of himself was Biden! You don’t have to listen to Trump , just stop watching him on television, that’s your choice to make. Obviously you want to watch . I don’t think Trump ever crapped his pants in front of the Queen, as Biden did. You’re obviously a hippie over 70 or an idiot! Good luck to you in the future and stop with the lies!
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another one who is brain dead with TDS. 😂🤣😂
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Carville finally something I can agree with.
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BINGO
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Well Jimmy Kimmels show is finally gone thank God !!!!!
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No, that’s the difference, we are willing to have civil dialogue while you get triggered from any criticism or opinions that don’t “toe the line” of your group think
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That's rich! Every time I try to have a civil conversion with a MAGA person, they almost immediately resort to insults and epithets. They can't carry on a conversation about the issues, because they don't even understand what the issues are out of political ignorance other than that they hate liberals, accuse me of being one even though I'm not, and devolve into bigotry, slander, homophobic, mysoginistic and racist threats.
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He agreed when Rosie Odummer was canceled, but when he was canceled for the same actions he's crying NOT FAIR!!! They can get rid of all of them today, NONE are good like the old ones.
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I've watched Gutfield's show a few times, the jokes are so badly written it is actually humorous that people watch this. Its astonishing that anyone would take him seriously, then again MAGAts have zero sense of humor.
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"against at least 55% or even 25% of America"...so which is it? By the way, Colbert is 'highbrow' only to those at the bottom of the food chain.
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Apart from your candidate and her running mate being unelectable idiots, it was arrogant people like Colbert and you talking down to others that helped Kamalamadingdong lose the election.
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I only watch Colbert if he has a guest or guests I like or find interesting.
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Doesn't have 10 more months, they jerk him off the air immediately yesterday, after the FCC chairman warned ABC that their license could be in jeopardy. It was only for politics, Kimel had the second highest ratings in their timeslot second only to Colbert who was number one. Trump is moving ahead with the project 2025 censorship plan.
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That is Jimmy
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2nd place out of 3 isn't all that amazing. I mean, you and I are 4th in the time slot and we don't even have a show on the air.
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Censorship plan? That's a stretch. We know without hesitation that Biden was pressuring Facebook, Twitter and Google to censor his dissenters but there is absolutely ZERO evidence of any censorship from Trump. Just because you don't like Trump doesn't mean you get to blatantly lie about him with ZERO evidence. This must just be a thing from folks on the left. Cry hard, blame ...rinse and repeat!
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ADVICE: Wear a wire whenever you speak with Trump. He can't deny his threat when the words are in his own voice.
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Advice, get educated and stop being a sheep. Think for yourself for once. You live in a lie.
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why is gutfeld even in the survey? he's not funny at all.
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Because apparently he does better in the ratings..
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Because he uses a panel that rotates comedians into the panel. Other late night shows do an opening and an interview which usually is promoting something. Remember when late night would feature young comedians?
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Why is Gutfeld on an hour earlier than it used to be?
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Because the audience is so old they'd be asleep before it airs.
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Gutfeld!" attracts a broad audience, including a larger percentage of younger viewers (18-49) compared to other late-night shows. Nielsen/MRI Fusion data also indicates it has the most affluent audience within the 25-54 demographic.
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Because 10pm is reasonable for most folks when you have to go to work the next morning. 1 hour show means it ends at 11pm, then night, night. I'm talking about most working professionals. I'm in business but I'm also a night owl. Most successful people that I know wake up around 5am.
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Gutfield's audeince like Fox is old people who go to bed at 8:30
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So, 3.3M viewers are the homeless, unemployed Dems who are “woke” after 8:30pm? Thank you 😀
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The audience for this dreck skews OLD. They can't stay awake much later than 11.
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But it doesn't skew old. Do a little research. It's numbers are very high in the 25 - 54 demo. It's much lower in the 54- 70.
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he has way more 18-49'ers than your beloved dullards.
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Colbert, Kimmel and Fallon viewers can stay up late because they don't have jobs.
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Talk about weak statements...."way too political motivated to interest me" and "Kind of glad to see it go". What do watch that's not so "political"... girls ice skating shows? grow a pair bobby...
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Wrong!! You don't need a pair to watch Stephen or Kimmel. But you need to tuck in your pair to play in girl's ice skating team. Gutfeld on the other hand, will remind you that you've got a huge pair.
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Oohhh-tough talk from a hyper typer..."grow a pair" indeed-LOL.
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Love Colbert
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You edited that and it’s still rife with errors.
PS - this cancellation is way too politically motivated, as it is appeasing a tyrant to gain favor for a pending merger.
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colbert is not even funny,, he is terrible at stand up. late night should be a relaxing show like Johnny Carson,, light and entertaining.. its nothing but bashing conservatives and having political people on. I dont need to see Stacy Abrams 4 times and Adam Schiff on keep that for the real news. Glad he is gone. Also the show cost over 100 million to produce and only little over 2 million are watching. The budget for Colbert is more then some major league baseball teams.
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his ratings beg to differ
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I wonder how their ratings would be if they reran Johnny Carson Tonight Show episodes? There are generations that have never seen them.
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Colbert lose $40,000,000.00 for his company a year. Not political....just common financial sense.
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you should itch slap whoever gave you that false information
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Why have that name when you don't even use it? CBS reportedly lost $40 million per year on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert". This was a primary factor in the network's decision to end the show. The show's production costs were estimated at around $100 million annually, while revenue, particularly from advertising, had been declining.
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If a new boss is taking over and they don't like your contract you aren't going to make it. If it was to suppress speech why would he be allowed to stay another year?
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What's political when you lose $40 million a yr?????
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stunad, losing $40 million is politically motivated??????
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Let’s use some logic here. If that were true, Trump would receive favorable comments across all networks. Use your brain.
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Their desire to stop losing money is "gaining favor"? I guess you expect the networks to keep losing money to prop up the democrats with the propaganda?
The only political motivation is that CBS (probably at the behest of Skydance) decided not to renew Colbert's contract and to continue to lose motivation as the politically motivated content of his show was not bringing in enough advertising to pay for it and they (unlike Disney) do not have the other funding to prop it up.
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This is totally politically motivated, Trump has to approve CBS' upcoming merger and they are getting rid of Colbert's show to curry favor with Trump. It's patently obvious what's going on here.
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If only George didn't run his mouth.
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Why do I have the impression that you have no facts on which to base your theory?
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frumps fingerprints are all over Colbert's cancellation. Squashing criticism at every turn.
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I totally agree especially when Colbert is highest in the ratings Everybody's afraid of trumpy. If they put a show on TV they did accurate fact checking every time trump opened his mouth I'm sure that show would be off the air in about a week
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Perhaps highest 11:30 ratings but terrible ratings for all three of them. Definitely not a financial winner for any network.
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1 million viewers is a joke. You could put up Green Acres reruns and it would do the same thing without all the expense.
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Green acres really? Yes that's actually what Donald would want the American people watching mindless television.
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No, Gutfeld! on Fox News Channel has THE HIGHEST LATENIGHT RATINGS by almost 1 MILLION viewers. Colbert has 2.4 Million and Gutfeld has 3.3 Million viewers. And Colbert did nothing but lie to his audience every night and people got sick of it. Colbert and The Late Show lost 700,000 viewers since Letterman retired. And 5 Million less viewers on average from Letterman’s first season. That’s why Colbert was canceled. Sorry, truth hurts.
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You keep drinking the Kool-aid the Fox News hands out.
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Exactly!, plus most of America is sick of listening to divisive liberals, hopefully Kimmel and The View will be next.
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Divisive liberals? Are they the ones in favour of grabbing brown people off the street and deporting them without their families? Are they the ones who tried to overthrow the running of government on Jan 6th? Are they the ones who refuse to raise the legal age of marriage in red states? Enquiring minds want to know. The divisive ones must surely be the ones who want segregation, who voted for a sexual predator (which shows they think that is okay!).
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NO. THEY ARE THE ONE'S GETTING RID OF ILLEGALS. How about the illegal that just shot an officer that had been brought in unvetted by bibumb???? 4 times removed & re-entered. DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFUS
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Attn all AWOL "brainiacs"
Yes, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has seen a decline in ratings, leading to the show's cancellation by CBS. While the show has consistently been #1 in its time slot, viewership has dropped, and the decision to end the show was primarily based on financial reasons. The show will end after its eleventh season, with the final episode airing in May.
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Another conspiracy theorist. Where is the factual basis?
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America is now an authoritarian regime. He is attacking all media that is against him, PBS, CBS, CNN, etc. Colbert was by FAR the highest rated show in late night. For those that say these shows dont do well... The audience is actually higher than Leno/Letterman. They averaged about 3 million viewers a night, Colbert is averaging 2.7 million nightly, plus almost 3 million views a night on youtube and another million on other sites.
I really dont understand how the right is ok with this. I stand for Fox news right to spout fake news too.
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Colbert and The Late Show lost 700,000 viewers since Letterman retired. And 5 Million less viewers on average from Letterman’s first season. That’s why Colbert was canceled. Sorry, truth hurts.
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You know they're screaming into their comfort pillows as I type.
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MMMMMMMORON. $40 million losses are unsustainable Doooooooooooofussss
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See what happens when YOU sit in the back of every class you took
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You are exaggerating Gutfield's popularity. His audience is a limited group of like-minded MAGA loyalists and those who do not necessarily promote truth.
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Hahaha! Bye Colbert. Jimmy Kimmel, you’re next
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Got a little butt hurt over unflattering reviews of your Orange Fuhrer?
😂
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Numbers don't lie. No one is exaggerating the numbers. 3 million is an acceptable number. Especially since it is at a time when it completes with broadcast shows. I am curious what the numbers are in comparison with other programs airing in it's time slot.
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You’re right, the numbers don’t lie. It’s Gutfield’s numbers vs all the others combined. So, all the normal shows for the win vs. radical right shows.
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That was at the start, the numbers are on the decline...
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Also, it probably does not have the same cost structure - that is what the crazies on the left don't seem to get. CBS no longer has the funds to keep propping up the democrat's propaganda.
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And he’s also in the 10 o’clock slot that’s way different than the 11:35 slot
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And Colbert doesn’t have brainwashed liberal sheep watching his show? What are you on? NUMBERS DONT LIE! Sorry the truth hurts. Gutfeld is NUMBER ONE on every metric and website that collects ratings info. Sorry. Get used to losing.
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Gutfeld is abysmally unfunny
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Says you.
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Colbert only appeals to the left wing antifa types that are full of hate and rage. That and the neanderthal libs and what's left of the 60's burnout hippie types that still exist but in dwindling numbers.
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Like Gutfeld only appeals to fascists and Nazis? Would that be the point you are trying to make? Wasn't he making a point that the new age Gestapo are crying about being compared to the German group who snatched people off the street and put them into camps?
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Kind of like Colbert's fanatics - except there are fewer of them, or at least the ones the advertisers deem worthy.
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Those who comments suggested that this was politically motivated are absolutely correct. If they did not need trumps FCC approval they would not cancel the show. It is the highest rated show of its type in its slot. It carries 2.4 million viewers so to those of you who say America does not like the show, you are obviously wrong. With the exception of maga America loves and enjoys the show. No network gets rid of a show that brings in high paying advertisers and the more the viewership, the higher the ads, the higher the channels income. If Trump were not in the White House this show would not be canceled.
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Since the three are on at the same time, there are over 5 million viewers watching the three 'boring late night shows'. The interesting thing is how many of the commenters that can't stand them, seem to know who they have as guests and what they talk about.
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It's called DVR "genius"
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According to Reuters, the show lost $40M last year. A network can't sustain that type of loss for any show.
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These shows should have been treated as "donations" to the DNC - that is why they were kept afloat with the annual losses they generate.
ABC / Disney seem to be on board and can probably keep it up - Kimmel's show may not cost as much too. CBS cannot, especially after that "payout" / loss 🙂
It doesn't matter that Colbert is doing better than the rest of them, if HIS show is losing money, that cannot be sustainable. I KNOW the left has their panties in a bunch, but obviously they have not been watching, or at least no more than 220k/night.
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Wrong. The show lost money. 40 million dollars last year. That's not successful. Thats a problem. If he wasn't so wrapped up in politics and promoting nothing but democrats and opposing all things Trump he would probably have more viewers. People want unbiased takes. Or their bias specifically. But you'll go so much further not alienating half the country. Bring on guests from both sides. Rip on both sides. There's so many shows that are on YouTube etc. where shows like this are failing. When Gutfeld on fox news pulls in over a million more viewers, you realize what cutting out half the country does for your show. Imagine somebody who wasn't politically biased in 1 direction. They may have 5-6m viewers because everybody could watch without feeling personally attacked because the guys only gear was anti trump and pro liberal.
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So, if it lost money, and it has over twice the viewership as the Tonight Show, how are they still in business?
Think before you type.
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It's been running at a loss for some time.
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Which raises a question: why would CBS carry such a loser for so long?
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When you've got a headache over Trump try "Sue De Fed".
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saying it's the highest rating show of its type is subjective. at the end of the day, he caters to less than half of the US and is hemorrhaging money. he has an opportunity now to listen and learn but instead has doubled down on his vile comments against trump and republicans. his comments about trump aren't designed to be funny, more about being nasty, partisan, and vindictive. trump lives in colbert's head.
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