Posted on 01/06/2023 10:23:19 PM PST by DeathBeforeDishonor1
Hapless host Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show is losing the ratings war to FOX News rival Greg Gutfeld — and the TV flop’s sinking number has left NBC brass with buyer’s remorse, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Nearly 19 months after the Peacock Network handed Fallon a whopping $80 million five-year contract extension, The Tonight Show is drawing under 1.3 million eyeballs — less than half the audience of upstart Gutfeld!
But that number is even more shocking when compared to Fallon’s celebrated debut! The Saturday Night Live alum, 48, chalked up an impressive 11 million viewers when he first took over for outgoing legend Jay Leno — but now he’s also being bested in the ratings by Stephen Colbert’s CBS Late Show!
A source said NBC regrets the funnyman’s pricey long-term deal and added, “The network knows the days are gone when tens of millions of people would tune in for The Tonight Show — but they were counting on Jimmy to do better than this!”
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You threw your audiencevaway to score points with the liberal crowd.
Sometimes, even a good host can wear out their welcome.
Times, trends and general zeitgeist of national moods is always subject to change, more today than 20 years ago, because there are so many choices available now.
The thing is, there are a lot of left-wing late night talk shows all competing for the same crowd of idiot leftists who will clap like trained seals over any slander aimed at non-leftists. Gutfeld is the only one trying to entertain the non-leftists - it’d be amazing if his ratings didn’t clobber the others.
Biden is such comedy gold and they won’t tell jokes about him. Falling down, falling asleep, seeming lost in public, blank stares for awkward seconds and they won’t tell jokes about him.
I wonder how much Fox pays Gutfeld. He could probably ask for a lot.
But I've never even heard of Greg Gutfeld.
I'm really out of it.
Just think, they could have auditioned for 1,000 comedian talk hosts, assigned each one a single night paying them each $80,000, and covered the five years for the same amount, and it might actually have been interesting to watch.
You lucky guy you....
He’s WONDERFUL! Haven’t followed him since he got popular as I don’t have normal TV anymore, but back in the day I looked forward to his show. Not like looking forward to Johnny Carson, but not far off.
Fallon - second rate at best. Colbert 1st class, smarmy, nasty leftist POS. The rest - who?
I don’t own a TV nor watch TV, but I’ve never been impressed by Jimmy Fallon. He seems like he can fake laughing at a guest’s joke pretty well but all in all, he isn’t much of an anything.
It was stupid, boring and pedantic to make every opening monolog and skit about Trump for 4 years.
No talent and not funny after a while
Johnny Carson would have so much fun with Biden…
Not since Carson retired have I looked forward to a late night show like GUTFELD. Some of his humor is a bit much, but along with his supporting guests, he has quite a following.
I think we’ve been hungry for something like this for a long time.
I know Carson was a democrat, but he poked fun at both sides, that was his appeal.
Last time I watched Jimmy Fallon, we was ruining SNL skits by laughing through them. Apparently he’s now ruining a whole show and damaging a network. Impressive. Few people can fail upward so well.
No other network’s have a show at that time, except Gutfeld and Fallon? Gutfeld. Is #1 and Fallon is #2?
I don’t own a TV nor watch TV
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Not owning or watching TV is so passé. I don’t even own a phone. Neither land line nor cell.
The Tonight Show's format was always celebrity happy-talk and plugging their next projects, with a few skits occasionally thrown in.
When Obama became President, none of the late-night shows would make jokes about him.
When Trump became President, none of the late-night shows made jokes about Democrats of any kind.
When Biden became President, none of the late-night shows made jokes about anyone (except Trump, conservative "supremacists," and Congressional Republicans.
And their "jokes" were really mean-spirited attacks disguised as friendly barbs, and then just outright attacks.
Gutfeld has the advantage of being on cable TV, which lets him loosen the dialog a bit. But mostly, he's not afraid to touch any "third rail" of politics, and he calls out everyone on the left who tries to play the cancel game.
Gutfeld's background is in magazines, so he focuses on the way media frames stories, while others speak to their own expertise (Dana Perino and the White House Press, Jeanine Pirro on the law, Harold Ford, Jr. on Congress, etc.). His panels usually include his sidekick(s), a news pundit, and a political/cultural/comedic guest.
What people like is that Gutfeld's assembled panels have the same kinds of conversations that everyday people would have while watching Fallon and his counterparts: a little skeptical, a little blue, a little "inappropriate." They say the things that we are thinking, but are afraid to say at work or in public.
-PJ
there is so many better shows on late at night if you look at on YouTube and rumble...favorite is Rekita law....drunk lawyer who comments on legal issues in the news and pokes the proverbial bear of liberalism. Doomcook on overlord dvd he is another that pokes the bear while doing impressions and singing songs...You will never see late night television being able to get the numbers to tune in that it was getting before 2016 because the potential audience has splinter into many directions. another good show is Chrissi Mayer an old school female comedian that does panels of female youtubers talking about stuff in a way that you have to laugh and is definitly not the view.
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt.
The only ‘late’ night host I could even watch was Craig Ferguson and poof, he decided to quit. No one could do late night like Johnny Carson. That moron Letterman jumped the shark in the mid 2000s making his show completely unwatchable.
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