Greg Gutfeld has arrived.
If you are a right-leaning person, a conservative, or a libertarian, you have long known about Greg Gutfeld. You may have watched his old show ‘Red Eye’ or his new show Gutfeld!, both of which are products of FOX News.
Now the liberal media has noticed that millions of people are watching Greg’s show and enjoying the heck out of it. They have also finally noticed that Greg draws a bigger and more loyal audience than Colbert, Kimmel, and other network shows with bigger budgets and way more writers on staff.
Variety is considered one of the biggest names in entertainment news and they just did a huge profile on Gutfeld and his show.
How Greg Gutfeld Became the Bill Maher of Fox News — And Toppled Fallon and Colbert in the Ratings
On a Tuesday in February, Hollywood is in the throes of a “Bonfire of the Vanities” moment. Karla Sofía Gascón’s old social media posts, with shocking takes on George Floyd (“a drug addict swindler”) and Islam (“an infection for humanity that urgently needs to be cured”), are roiling awards season and have turned the actress into a pariah. But the “Emilia Pérez” star, the first openly trans person nominated for an acting Oscar, is also a tricky subject to satirize.
Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert have ignored the conflagration that has engulfed this year’s standard-bearing #Resistance film. The task is left to Greg Gutfeld, whose eponymous Fox News show has made him the most-watched man in late night…
Gutfeld may be a novel phenomenon to some. But to a sizable and growing portion of the Fox News audience, he’s the man of the moment. Just as Megyn Kelly defined the network in the late Obama era with her disarmingly direct interview style and Bill O’Reilly occupied the throne throughout the Bush-Cheney years, Gutfeld has become the latest breakout star. His status as Fox’s ascendant court jester was cemented when he interviewed Trump before a live studio audience on “Gutfeld!” at the height of the 2024 presidential campaign. His sardonic, blunt takedowns have carried him so far that it’s easy to forget that Fox News, historically, has thrived when playing the role of loyal opposition to those in power. Now, though, Gutfeld flits from late night to daytime (as co-host of current events show “The Five”) with gravity-defying ease.
In one segment of the story, Gutfeld points out one of the things that his competitors get wrong:
“The more Howard Stern had to lose, the less risk he took,” Gutfeld says. “I think that when you’re in that group — the late-night comedy or humorous world — they start putting their professional status and their personal status in front of what could be really funny and what could be really true. They had four years of an incapacitated president, and they didn’t say shit. And instead, they unravel over posts by Trump, and it’s like, you could do both.”
Gutfeld is popular for simple reasons. He is funny and smart, and he is the only late-night host who is doing something different. All of the other hosts are competing for the same, shrinking audience with the same tired anti-Trump jokes.
Congratulations to Greg and his crew. They’re doing a great job and it shows.
WATCH: Greg’s latest monologue on left-wing media failures. pic.twitter.com/QAIN1wORqK
— Gutfeld! (@Gutfeldfox) February 20, 2025
