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How Greg Gutfeld Became the Bill Maher of Fox News — And Toppled Fallon and Colbert in the Ratings
Variety.com ^

Posted on 02/20/2025 7:02:26 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

“The quick-wittedness that he has is really second to none,” People fully grasp how serious and thoughtful he is about what he does. He can be informative; he can be offensive; he can be hilarious. He’s certainly going to be provocative. But at the base level, it’s based on preparation as much as anything else.”

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KEYWORDS: billmaher; fnc; fox; foxnews; greggutfeld; gutfeld; jimmyfallon; latenight; stephencolbert
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Human interest article-a bit too long but surprising. A Jewish kid who was an alter boy. Father was an atheist after having survived the holocaust.
1 posted on 02/20/2025 7:02:26 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I have a hard time watching the whole hour. Chosen topics can be stupid and boring.


2 posted on 02/20/2025 7:04:27 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

But sadly Rupert’s kids might bring Greg down when they take over.


3 posted on 02/20/2025 7:05:27 AM PST by ncfool (America has died we are living in the united socialist states of aMeriKa)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I am trying. Just not getting it.


4 posted on 02/20/2025 7:06:32 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: DIRTYSECRET

He has a decent show, I think it could be better produced to take it to the next level.


5 posted on 02/20/2025 7:09:33 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ncfool

Actually, Rupert’s kids better hope that Gutfeld doesn’t pull a Joe Rogan.


6 posted on 02/20/2025 7:10:02 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: RoosterRedux

Bingo.

He is the only reason I tune into Foxnews.

If he goes, I’m gone.


7 posted on 02/20/2025 7:13:59 AM PST by sevlex
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To: DIRTYSECRET

I can take Gutfeld in small doses. I wish he would clean up his language, not only on his own show, but also on The Five.


8 posted on 02/20/2025 7:14:26 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Gutfeld, his followers have a tremendous advantage over other, has-been, radical Leftist TV hosts:

After 4 years of Biden (12 years of Obama) the vast majority of the American public was at the point of violent upchucking from the lying MSM and Entertainment moguls.

Gutfeld offered an alternative universe for an exhausted majority.

Gutfeld and his crew exposed the slanted political smears by offering his own retaliatory retorts which were very funny and exposed how extreme the “other side” was.

Agreed, that his show sometimes lacks luster but we can hope that he too will learn his lessons and improve on a good thing.


9 posted on 02/20/2025 7:16:37 AM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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He is very well-prepared......does a lot of homework.


10 posted on 02/20/2025 7:17:08 AM PST by Liz
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Half the jokes are gay jokes, and 25% have something to do with the hole in the hind end. I stopped watching many months ago.


11 posted on 02/20/2025 7:22:24 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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Gutfield is married to a woman.....but yeah, sometimes he seems a little *elegant*, if you know what I mean.


12 posted on 02/20/2025 7:23:22 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Gutfield is ok. He’s no Carson, but he’s certainly better than all the other late nighters out there right now.

Not a huge fan of the format and some of the jokes are just lame, but he’s pretty self deprecating so I give him a pass on that.


13 posted on 02/20/2025 7:24:10 AM PST by reed13k
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To: LeonardFMason

We watch Gutfeld he and the guests are funny about half the time. But Colbert and Fallon were never funny.

Gutfeld and his guests try to be edgy, and when the guests don’t work it’s not funny. Then some of the guests refuse to be comedians and just make political statements.

The quirkiness is part of the charm.


14 posted on 02/20/2025 7:24:57 AM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: reed13k

What you said.


15 posted on 02/20/2025 7:25:38 AM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Ge0ffrey

**Half the jokes are gay jokes, and 25% have something to do with the hole in the hind end. I stopped watching many months ago.**

My sentiments exactly.


16 posted on 02/20/2025 7:27:43 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Fallon & Colbert = MSNBC & CNN


17 posted on 02/20/2025 7:29:05 AM PST by Vaduz
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A Jewish kid who was an alter boy. Father was an atheist after having survived the holocaust.

I'm guessing Gutfeld's 'escape' was reading. He and Maher - two of our best - both with unusual childhoods - both with high IQ insights paid for with the an outsiders natural alienation.

18 posted on 02/20/2025 7:34:11 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
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To: GreenHornet

Ditto- he’s getting pretty foul-mouthed and nasty- not enjoyable listening to filth. It’s a shame beczuse he can be really funny without being nasty, but chose the cheap path to fame with filthy material. Some may not mind it, but I don’t appreciate the foul language- just not enjoyable listening to it.


19 posted on 02/20/2025 7:35:34 AM PST by Bob434 (...Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Guests like Joe Machi, Jamie Lissow, Paul Mauro, Dr. Drew, KT McFarland, Dana P, Michael Loftus and a few others besides Gutfeld and the usual gang are great when they’re on in the right combination. Kat must be out having her baby...Tyrus?...I don’t really miss him when he’s not there but he’s okay too. Greg’s introductory comparisons of him to other really big things are hilarious...Whatever happened to Gutfeld’s old sidekick Bill Schultz from the “Red Eye” show?


20 posted on 02/20/2025 7:35:55 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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