The concept of a late-night comedian remaining apolitical or jabbing both sides of the aisle is from a bygone era as now it is routine for hosts to use their opening monologue to relentlessly bash Trump and Republicans at large. Its just not his ratings over at ABC/Disney that suck. Its called evil.. Notably, the executive producer of his show at the time was current CNN president Chris Licht. That flag doesn't belong to them. In the most recent months, Noah has failed to reach a 400,000 average. ET with final Nielsen data: According to Nielsens final ratings, the Monday, January 11 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallondrew just 1.063 million viewers, the fourth-lowest audienceever for an original episode of the late night show. Dont do this. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Literally. Similarly, across adults aged 18-34, Colbert beats Kimmel and Fallon with a 0.2 over their 0.1s. President Trump's supporters enjoy mocking liberal safe spaces, but when a public person ridicules or critiques the current commander in chief, they often cry foul and boycott the messenger. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images), JIMMY FALLON ADDRESSES SNL BLACKFACE SKETCH, SAYS HE WAS ADVISED TO JUST STAY QUIET. TBS canceled "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee," as the far-left host lost a whopping 79% from her 2017 audience average of 1.25 million viewers to 268,000 viewers. Samantha Bee poses backstage at the 72nd Writers Guild Awards at Edison Ballroom in New York City on Feb. 1, 2020. But for the first time in its 18-year history, Jimmy Kimmel Live! In 2016, "Jimmy Kimmel Live" averaged 2.2 million viewers. Using Live+7, across viewers aged 18-49, all three shows score a 0.3, but The Late Show wins with 430,000 viewers compared with The Tonight Shows 345,000 and Jimmy Kimmel Live!s 342,000. There has been a shakeup in the late-night landscape in the post-Trump era. Signup for Breaking News Alerts & Newsletters. The insufferable Stephen Colbert on CBS came in second with only 1.315 million viewers. 2,214, This story has been shared 2,159 times. In 2018, Fallon apologized and called it a "mistake.". 'Yellowstone' Return Date Info, Savannah Guthrie Rushed Out Of 'Today' After Testing Positive For COVID-19 During Live Broadcast, Where Is Hoda Kotb? In the 2019-20 season, The Late Late Show trailed Late Night by 87,000 viewers, 101,000 adults 25-54 and 66,000 adults 18-49. The previous year, the Emmys had no host and attracted more viewers. ", Rosenthal told Kimmel that his jokes about Trump are a "public service" because "people feel comforted knowing they're not alone.". Why would I purposefully undermine something that seems to be a great idea, pretty much across the board?". People really do prefer No Host At All to Jimmy Kimmel. COMMENTS POLICY: We have no tolerance for messages of violence, racism, vulgarity, obscenity or other such discourteous behavior. The shrinking audiences have been systemic among the liberal comics. Fallon drew 1.481 million and Kimmel had 1.3 . The virtual72nd Emmy Awardshosted by Jimmy Kimmel on ABCdrew 6.1 million viewers, a 20% dropcompared to last years host-less version, according to TheWrap. 'The Mandalorian' Season 3 Episode Guide: How Many Episodes of 'Mandalorian' Will There Be on Disney+? NOTICE: While your contribution is vital and directly supports The Political Insider, it is NOT tax deductible. I dont watch late night anymore anyway.. Its like watching a bunch of 3 year olds.Good luck and good night. ", FULL FRONTAL CANCELED: SAMANTHA BEE'S MOST UNHINGED, EPIC BLUNDERS FROM HER LATE-NIGHT SHOW. ET with final Nielsen data: According to Nielsen's final ratings, the Monday, January 11 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon drew just 1.063. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. CBS The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has reigned supreme for five consecutive seasons as the most-watched of the three major late-night shows. In an interview over the weekend, the ABC late-night host said he doesn't care about losing Republican viewers. Instead of wasting all that money broadcasting Jimmy Kimmels ratings poison, they should broadcast nothing. . Market data provided by Factset. Don't let liberals in media silence conservatives. It's been one of my greatest challenges, it's been one of my greatest joys. Kimmel noted that he knew the decision would cost him fans and hurt the show's ratings but that he is "proud" to be a part of a group of late-night television comedians who speak out against Trump. Heres my favorite part. Kimmel, another vocal Trump critic, made national headlines during the Trump years for his monologues advocating for health care reform after his newborn son underwent heart surgery, as well as for stricter gun control laws. Legal Statement. All rights reserved. are your ratings so bad that you have to place monologue clips on twittersadMan Show Jim? 1,177, Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved, Watch Travis Kelce Sing Fight For Your Right on Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show, Jenna Ortega, Travis Kelce Set For 'SNL' Host Duties in March 2023, Tig Notaro Roasts Herself Over Hilarious 'Celebrity Wheel of Fortune' Flub. New data from the US shows the drop in the couple's approval ratings over the last three months. Last Friday, The Late Show was watched by 3.8M viewers its largest three-day audience since November 2019 and it will be interesting to see whether this continues over the next 12 months, or whether late-night viewers will look to The Tonight Show for laughs. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox. Yes, you read that correctly. At 11:30 p.m., the interesting competition is in the demos. By subscribing, I agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. These declines tend to be between 10 percent and 20 percent every week as far back as mid July, though some weeks saw even bigger drops. In 2022, he's plummeted to 1.5 million, losing more than a third of his audience. Get our latest storiesin the feed of your favorite networks. https://t.co/qDPOB4DLIM, breakingnews (@evansnewsreport) October 7, 2017, Stop tuning into @jimmykimmel @jimmyfallon @StephenAtHome @LateNightSeth @latelateshow Let their ratings plummet. The late-night star, whohostedthe Emmy Awards ceremony live from the Staples Center without a crowd, also mockedPresident Trumpas "Schitt'sCreek" won big. Crowder began with Kimmels statement that well never know why a human being would do something like this to other human beings., Its a really simple answer why, responded Crowder. I'm just not going to do it like that.". ABCs Jimmy Kimmel Live! This story has been shared 4,135 times. Source: ProTrumpNews Staff The ratings for left-wing shows continue to crash. All rights reserved. Market data provided by Factset. (ABC). Perhaps one of the greatest falls in late night is that of "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon, who largely remains apolitical in comparison to his direct competitors. For the shows future, its more than appreciable.. 1,195, This story has been shared 1,177 times. Teller's Manning asked. By that logic, the First Amendment doesnt protect freedom of speech on the internet, which didnt exist at the time. Thats how you know its not interesting anymore. So the Oscars were no fluke. ABC/Disney should try this. Crowder then addressed Kimmels argument (which is quite common) that the founding fathers never intended the Second Amendment for the array of modern firearms available. He shrugged them off. March 26, 2021 2:00pm. Conan O'Brien ended his struggling TBS program last year after losing 57% of his audience from 2016 to less than a quarter million viewers, though he has found more success with his podcast that he launched in 2018. But while sketches such as The Tonight Shows 2020: The Musical, which saw Andrew Rannells and Fallon recap the year with Broadway songs, scored 2.7M views on the Google-owned video platform, its still clips making fun of Donald Trump that score best for all three hosts; Colbert amassed 11M views on YouTube for his live monologue on Wednesday, January 6 after the attacks on the U.S. Capitol. Wow! Anew low for the annual awards show, TheWraps Tony Maglio reported. During a 2017 interview with CBS, the ABC host was asked whether he was concerned if such activism would alienate Republicans enough to change the channel. What We Know. For the show's future, it's more than appreciable." So done w Late Night. Please let us know if you're having issues with commenting. MAGA! ", Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton sings Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" during the "Election Week Cold Open" sketch on "Saturday Night Live" on Nov. 12, 2016. "I love this country too. This has continued over the last four months with data from Nielsen showing that through January 8, The Late Show averaged 3.1M viewers against Jimmy Kimmel Live! Never watched and wont start. The rest of Kimmels arguments, which you can see refuted by Crowder below, arent much better. "I literally prayed, please have a joke at the end. Follow his Facebook Page here. Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel suffering huge ratings drop. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonmay not have drawn many live viewers, but its possible that thousands of fans tuned in via Hulu, Peacock, or NBC.com, data from which is not included in the 1.063 million figure. Liberals turned on Fallon following his cordial interview with then-candidate Trump just weeks before the 2016 presidential election. (Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Writers Guild of America, East). Are you surprised to see Kimmels ratings slip? Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel chokes up while advocating for affordable health care following the heart surgery of his newborn son in 2017. Host Jimmy Kimmel speaks onstage during the 90th Annual Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 4, 2018 in Hollywood, California. An early sign of this dramatic shift in comedy was in May 2017 when "The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert told Trump, "The only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c--- holster." Get the best of Fox News' entertainment coverage, right in your inbox. 2,287, This story has been shared 2,214 times. 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. "So many things about the left now contain some level of ridiculousness, and I not only call that out, I love calling it out," Maher said in the interview. @jimmykimmel good luck in the ratings. ", "The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah announces he's leaving the long-running Comedy Central program after seven years. The hosts have shown themselves to be dutiful supporters of the Democratic Party. Fallons guest list on Monday wasnt short on big names, either. I must take issue with you. He is the author of the new book A Paradoxical Alliance: Islam and the Left. Send us a tip using our annonymous form. After driving Oscar ratings to an all-time low, Kimmel waltzed over the Emmy Awards and hosted the Emmys into record-low ratings. Hes been published in The American Thinker, Rare, The Foundation for Economic Education, The Ludwig von Mises Institute, and National Review. For last week, the three major late-night shows experienced a 19 percent drop from last year in their average weekly viewership in the 18-49 demographic. Do not miss any show that I previously watched on TV. All of these numbers are a far cry from when over 20M viewers were watching Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicki on Johnny Carsons Tonight Show in 1969. Trevor Noah didn't even understand the system he attempted to mock," Young told Fox News Digital. Nielsen has only kept ratings data since 1986, but during that time,The Tonight Showhas always attracted more than a million viewers each night until now. Legal Statement. means you would reach hundreds of thousands more customers. Long gone are the days of a bitter ratings battle between Jay Leno and David Letterman and even the days of a tight race between Stephen Colbert and . Jimmy Fallon averaged 1.063 million total viewers from 11:35 p.m. to 12:35 a.m. PT. "I've got to point out where's the balance politically?" Kimmel told the network that he was unwilling to stop making fun of Trump, even if it meant losing his show. If late-night fans had switched over to Kimmel on ABC,they would have seen "This Is Us" star Milo Ventimiglia and Jake Tapper with Queen Naija as the musical guest. Colbert once said "I miss you" to Barack Obama, and another time said he was so moved by a speech by Michelle Obama in 2020 that he declared he couldn't come up with any jokes for it. Finally, ahead of the return of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah on Tuesday, the Comedy Central show posted a video of Jordan Kleppers experiences during the Capitol attacks. 4,135, This story has been shared 3,764 times. The Late Show returns to the Ed Sullivan Theater on Monday, June 14 with a full, vaccinated audience and it is expected to be a pretty rambunctious affair, one that Colbert has been counting down to. Head-to-head with left-wing late night shows, Greg Gutfield's Fox News show Gutfeld! 'Mandalorian' Funko Pops up to 77% Off Baby Yoda and More for Season 3, Who Plays the Armorer in 'The Mandalorian'? Well see if it continues. or redistributed. 1 in the adults 18-49 demographic in six of those weeks when it came to L+SD numbers. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. Like other late-night hosts, Maher's TV audience has shrunk over the years (he's down roughly 1 million viewers since 2017). Jimmy Kimmel sounded a little bit like Donald Trump when talking about the Oscars ' ratings on Monday night's " Jimmy Kimmel Live .". Fox News made history in January, becoming the first cable news network to top the charts for 20 years in a row in terms of both total average viewers and . Legal Statement. All rights reserved. A perfect example is the Oscars. According to The Wrap, the former king of late night was dominated by his counterparts, including Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, who drew an estimated 2.266 million and 1.984 million total viewers, respectively, that evening. Gutfeld! These people, with myself included, do not want to watch as our President is being bashed by a leftwingnut . And because of that, his partisan moralizing has caused his audience to shrink. "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon says he regrets ruffling Donald Trump's hair during the 2016 presidential election season. with 1.78M and The Tonight. Piscopo, a former "SNL" cast member, told Fox News Digital that "the comedy writes itself" from the Biden administration, yet his alma mater is missing "opportunities" to poke fun at the Democrats in power with so much available material. 3,180, This story has been shared 2,334 times. Make sure you see our stories daily directly to your inbox. Jimmy Fallon drew a dismal rating on Mondays showing of "The Tonight Show.". (Comedy Central). Story tips can be sent to joseph.wulfsohn@fox.com and on Twitter: @JosephWulfsohn. Late Nights Seth Meyers looked at Trump moving out of the White House, Colbert talked about the threat of more violence and Kimmel basked in Trumps second impeachment. ", "Real Time with Bill Maher" has not been nominated at the Emmys for Outstanding Variety Talk Series since 2017, something the host suspects is due to his criticisms of the left. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. We use cookies to better understand website visitors, for advertising, and to offer you a better experience. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! That's a 12% total audience drop and 25% drop in the key . There are, however, some interesting battles emerging across the broadcast networks involving Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Late Show with James Corden. What We Know About Her Continued 'Today Show' Absence, 'Jeopardy!' The Tonight Show team is pleased with its performance when it comes to Live+Same Day numbers, putting together a 12-week run at the top or tied at the top using this metric. NBCs The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon appears to be trying to hide a gushing interview it conducted last year with disgraced New York Gov. EntertainmentFox NewsGreg GutfeldJimmy KimmelJohn NolteLate Nightratings. Using full-season Live+7 ratings from Nielsen, Colbert comfortably won the spot with a total average of 2.95 million viewers also the first time ever the CBS show has had a five-season winning streak. Piscopo, who stressed he did not want to be critical of the show that launched his career, expressed confidence in Lorne Michaels, creator and longtime executive producer of "SNL," saying he doesn't need any advice. Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC. This has continued over the last four months with data from Nielsen showing that through January 8, The Late Show averaged 3.1M viewers against Jimmy Kimmel Live! Across adults 25-54, The Late Show wins with a 0.5 with 614,000 viewers against Jimmy Kimmel Live!s 0.4 and 489,000 and The Tonight Shows 0.4 and 477,000. "If they're so turned off by my opinion on health care and gun violence, then, I don't know, I probably wouldn't want to have a conversation with them anyway Not good riddance, but riddance.". One has to assume that some members of the team are sick of pepperoni pie as the CBS has continued its late-night ratings dominance over the past four years. All rights reserved. I filmed those episodes back in 2019 when the only people wearing masks were robbers and Jim Carrey, she said. The "Jimmy Kimmel Live" host insisted he has "evolved" since his days on the Comedy Central program. With Fallons showing on Monday, the ratingslull unseats a previous low for an original "Tonight Show" episode thatcame as recently as Sept. 25, 2020 on that night Fallon secured 992,000 total viewers when his show was delayed following a Stanley Cup Finals game. You've successfully subscribed to this newsletter! In a sign of their declining popularity, late-night comedians Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon have seen their ratings plummet for more than four months straight, as viewers in the coveted 18-49 year old demographic are tuning out consistently compared to last year, according to data reviewed by Breitbart News. There were also some inter-late-night host appearances; Singh appeared on The Tonight Show, while Full Frontals Samantha Bee turned up on The Late Show. JIMMY KIMMEL FACES BACKLASH FOR 'NON-APOLOGY' ADDRESSING BLACKFACE CONTROVERSY. Deadline is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by Refinitiv Lipper. No one who wants to keep working in the fascist entertainment industry would dare appear on Gutfeld! Bet they would. Kimmel is another beneficiary of left-wing affirmative action. In 2022, it has averaged 1.4 million, losing nearly 60% of its audience. Across adults 25-54, The Late Show wins with a 0.5 with 614,000 viewers against Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s 0.4 and 489,000 and The Tonight Show's 0.4 and 477,000. CBS The Late Show host Stephen Colbert recently attacked the Supreme Court in anticipation of its abortion ruling that could overturn Roe v. Wade. The ratings drop in late night TV is not all that surprising given that premiere week ratings tanked across the board. He was only beaten by CBS' Stephen Colbert who pulled in 2.2 million last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. "It's nothing more than a promotional mechanism to not only the liberal bubble but a very specific piece of the liberal bubble which again, is why people are tuning out. Its not gonna come back.'". While Fallon seemed regretful for turning off his liberal fans, the other late-night Jimmy, Jimmy Kimmel, has little to no regret losing conservative viewers. Kimmel, who hosted the awards for the third time, used hisopening monologue to notehow there was no audience at the Emmys this year due to the health and safety procedures in place amid the coronavirus pandemic. The across-the-board ratings decline signals trouble for the three major networks as theycontinue to use their late-night shows to push a radical left-wing agenda while demonizing conservatives. has edged out the CBS rival with 2.2-2.4 million viewers as of late. It may depend on whether political tensions in the U.S. die down over the coming months. 2023 The Political Insider ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The Tonight Show ratings have been in free fall throughout the Trump era Colbert first passed Fallon in the ratings in November 2018, and has remained on top ever since but the drop off has been particularly steep amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Kimmel appeared as a guest on an episode of the podcast "Naked Lunch," hosted by Phil Rosenthal and David Wild, where he discussed his comedy and talk show host career. When Will 'Attack on Titan' Season 4, Part 4 Air?