If you’re still being told that traditional late-night hosts are leading the conversation, the latest Gutfeld ratings say otherwise — and not by a little.
While network staples like Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel continue to cling to their shrinking slice of the 11:35 PM pie, Fox News’ Gutfeld! is quietly — or not so quietly — blowing past them in total audience and the key demo. Again.
And this time, the gap isn’t even close.
Gutfeld Crushes the Competition in Total Viewers and Demo
According to Nielsen Live+3 data cited by LateNighter, Gutfeld! pulled in 3.53 million total viewers and 300,000 in the Adults 18–49 demo for the week of March 9.
Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert laughing together – YouTube, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
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Let’s put that in perspective.
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: 2.40 million viewers, 190,000 demo
- Jimmy Kimmel Live!: 2.17 million viewers, 228,000 demo
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: 1.357 million viewers, 197,000 demo
Even combined, Colbert and Kimmel barely keep pace with what Greg Gutfeld is doing on his own.
Yes, Gutfeld! airs earlier at 10 PM. And yes, that’s often used as a built-in excuse to downplay its performance.
Greg Gutfeld on his late night show Gutfeld! – YouTube, Fox News
But here’s the problem with that argument: viewers don’t care about industry excuses — they just watch what they want. And right now, more of them are choosing Gutfeld! than anything else in late night.
Network Late Night Continues Its Downward Slide
If there’s a consistent theme across the latest Gutfeld ratings comparison, it’s this: nearly everyone else is trending down.
- Colbert: down 2% in total viewers, down 13% in demo
- Kimmel: down 5% in total viewers, down 13% in demo
- Even Gutfeld: down 5% week-over-week, though still dominant
The only exception?
NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, which managed modest gains — up 3% in total viewers and 2% in the demo — albeit in a much later 12:37 AM slot with significantly smaller overall numbers.
Greg Gutfeld appears on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show on August 7th, 2025
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Meanwhile, Fallon held steady in total viewers and saw a slight bump in the demo, but remains far behind both Gutfeld and his 11:35 PM competitors.
The “11:35 Winner” Narrative Is Starting to Look Hollow
For years, the late-night conversation has been framed around who “wins” the 11:35 PM hour.
Right now, that title technically belongs to Colbert.
Stephen Colbert interviews Jimmy Kimmel – YouTube, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
But that framing is starting to feel increasingly irrelevant.
Because when you zoom out and look at total audience across late night, the real story is staring everyone in the face: Gutfeld! is pulling in millions more viewers than any of its broadcast counterparts.
Winning a specific timeslot matters a lot less when another show is simply attracting far more people overall.
Cable vs Broadcast Excuses Don’t Change the Reality
There’s a long-standing tendency in entertainment media to separate cable and broadcast as if they exist in completely different universes.
But audiences don’t make that distinction anymore.
Jimmy Kimmel on Colbert – YouTube, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
They’re not flipping between channels based on industry categories — they’re choosing content. And increasingly, that content isn’t coming from the traditional late-night circuit that dominated for decades.
That’s what makes the current Gutfeld ratings so significant. This isn’t just a cable show performing well within its lane. It’s outperforming the entire late-night ecosystem.
The Bigger Picture for Late Night
Zoom out even further, and the trend becomes even more obvious.
Most late-night shows are:
- Losing viewers
- Losing ground in the key demo
- Struggling to maintain relevance in a fragmented media landscape
Greg Gutfeld on his late night show Gutfeld! – YouTube, Fox News
Meanwhile, Gutfeld! continues to lead in both total viewers and the demo, even in weeks where it dips slightly.
That’s a pattern. And whether the industry wants to acknowledge it or not, the numbers are becoming harder to ignore with each passing week.
How do you feel about Gutfeld destroying traditional late night ratings? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
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I watched a portion of Jimmy Kimmel the other night because I wanted to see Tedeschi Trucks Band play. God his show is horrible. Derek Trucks is a guitar god but even watching him work wasn’t worth sitting through one minute of Kimmel. It’s still so hard to believe this is the same guy from The Man Show and Win Ben Stein’s Money.
He’s a monkey paid to spread globalist propaganda.
All those figures are tiny.
And how much of the audience are 70+ in age, with the tv on in the background all day? In general, television is dead: sports only. Good riddance, it was always a society-destroyer.