The Greg Gutfeld Show, which airs on the weekend, is averaging more viewers than several big name late-night hosts according to a new report:
THE HILL – Fox News host Greg Gutfeld’s weekend show is drawing more viewers than some late-night hosts on the broadcast networks, including popular faces Seth Meyers and James Corden, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Gutfeld launched his 10 p.m. Saturday show, “The Greg Gutfeld Show,” in May 2015 and is currently averaging 1.7 million viewers. That places him above NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and CBS’s “Late Late Show with James Corden,” both averaging 1.2 million total viewers in their respective 12:30 a.m. time slots.
Gutfeld’s numbers are noteworthy since Fridays and Saturdays are generally the least-watched nights of television.
Notice that Gutfeld is beating those with ratings in the 12:30am to 1:30am time slot so that when you compare him to all of them, he comes in fourth:
Gutfeld’s audience ranks fourth among late-night hosts, behind Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon.
Colbert, 55, finished the season, which officially ended last Wednesday, with 3.82 million average nightly viewers, ahead of Fallon’s 2.44 million on NBC and Kimmel’s 2.04 million on ABC.
When you pit Gutfeld against other weekly hosts like Samantha Bee and Trevor Noah he does even better:
“The Five” co-host is also delivering more than double the number of viewers of TBS’s “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” and Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” with Trevor Noah, which are averaging 835,000 and 732,000 viewers, respectively.
I think that’s pretty impressive for a ‘right-wing’ comedy show.