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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on September 12, 2024, 05:38:03 PM
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The far-left Hollywood Reporter sure is a good dog. As left-wing Late Night TV continues to wither on the vine, the propaganda outlet fabricated all kinds of excuses and managed to do it without mentioning the word Gutfeld! You gotta be a real good dog to do that. Late-night TV is dying. What had been a cheap-to-produce cash cow less than ten years ago, is no more. Ratings are in the toilet. Shows are being canceled. Fridays are all reruns. Cost-cutting is happening everywhere.
Earlier this year, NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers had to drop its house band as part of budget cuts. And last year CBS opted to end its Late Late Show after James Corden left, opting to replace it with the less expensive After Midnight comedy game show.
And here’s the dismal ratings news:
Five years ago, The Late Show finished first in total viewers among late-night talk shows with 3.81 million, to 2.44 million for The Tonight Show and 2.04 million for Jimmy Kimmel Live. In 2023-24, The Late Show remained No. 1, but with only about 2.6 million viewers — a decline of about 32 percent from 2018-19. Kimmel moved into second with 1.82 million viewers, down about 11 percent from five years earlier (having Monday Night Football as a lead-in once a week last fall helped some; the show averaged 1.77 million viewers from January to May). The Tonight Show slipped to third in viewers with 1.43 million, losing 41 percent of its 2018-19 total.
So what does the Hollywood Reporter blame for this demise? Could it be that Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and even Jimmy Fallon turning their backs on entertaining America and sixty years of tradition to instead lecture, shame, virtue signal, and divide might have something to do with it? Not according to the Hollywood Reporter.
No, no, it’s TikTok and YouTube and streaming. Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket.
Except as of last month[emphasis original]:
Gutfeld! brought in 1.65 million total average viewers between August 19th and the 22nd — as well as 293,000 viewers in the demo. Colbert landed in second place with 1.62 million total viewers and 287,000 demo viewers during the same time frame.
Jimmy Kimmel came in third with 799,000 total viewers and 170,000 demo viewers, all according to Nielsen ratings. The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon was not far behind with 731,000 total viewers and 189,000 demo viewers. Gee, and let’s not forget that Gutfeld!is only available via pay TV, which means it reaches millions fewer homes than Colbert and the Jimmies. Oh, and Gutfeld! is still doing so well, Fridays are new shows, not reruns. It’s also worth pointing out that the guests on Gutfeld! are not Hollywood/celebrity/recording royalty. If you go back look at those August numbers, Gutfeld! drew more total viewers than the Jimmies combined.
We’re told that 81 million people voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and yet, even in the middle of a presidential election, Colbert and the Jimmies can hardly attract three million total combined viewers. Why? Because no one, not even leftists, find woke lectures and smug pandering appealing or entertaining. The whole idea behind Late Night when it launched with Jack Parr and Steve Allen some 60 years ago, was to give the American people a place to unwind before bed. A few laughs, some funny skits, a few attractive stars, good music… For three decades, Johnny Carson attracted around nine million viewers most every night. Today, his Tonight Show replacement, Jimmy Fallon, can only attract 731,000.
I get that the TV universe has changed along with people’s viewing habits. No one expects 15 million viewers in the age of 500 cable channels, the internet, and other distractions. But those distractions were all there five years ago when left-wing Late Night’s ratings were much healthier.
Something else drove those ratings down, and we all know what it is.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2024/09/12/nolte-late-night-ratings-crash-excuses-debunked-with-one-word-gutfeld/
Happy 60th Birthday Greg!
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The last 10 years of late night TV...
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And they wonder why no one is watching.
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I DVR Gutfield! every night. It's the most entertaining show in TV these days.
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Well to be in the top ten you need to be entertaining and all but one isn't as it is pointed out in the OP. Johnny Carson didn't engage in the hate filled stuff that is going on now. You can tell the difference if you can see the reruns of his show and watch the others that came after him. The new batch of host and their writers just can't cut it.
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Well to be in the top ten you need to be entertaining and all but one isn't as it is pointed out in the OP. Johnny Carson didn't engage in the hate filled stuff that is going on now. You can tell the difference if you can see the reruns of his show and watch the others that came after him. The new batch of host and their writers just can't cut it.
His show is on Antenna TV nightly and once in a while I'll flip over. While he teased Ford, Carter, Reagan, and G.W. Bush, his jokes were never mean. That's all the Jimmy's and COAL-bert do on their slobberfests.
Admittedly, I've become a big Gutfeld fan in the past decade. While his show is sort of a counterbalance to the network ones by being conservative, the show is downright funny.
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I watch Gutfeld! almost every night. I like his show and most of the guests he has on. And he balances it when some lefty is brave enough to come onto the show.
I rarely say anything about anyone's wealth because I want everyone to succeed, but if Kimmel lost every single dime he had it would make me feel good and I only say that because of HOW he made that wealth. On the Man Show he did stuff that he castigates others for now and it seems he forgot where he came from once he got into the big dollars and he bent the knee. Adam Corrola on the other hand has stayed true to who he is.
KC
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I watch Gutfeld! almost every night. I like his show and most of the guests he has on. And he balances it when some lefty is brave enough to come onto the show.
I rarely say anything about anyone's wealth because I want everyone to succeed, but if Kimmel lost every single dime he had it would make me feel good and I only say that because of HOW he made that wealth. On the Man Show he did stuff that he castigates others for now and it seems he forgot where he came from once he got into the big dollars and he bent the knee. Adam Corrola on the other hand has stayed true to who he is.
KC
Got a good giggle out of this line that Greg said last night: Tim Walz is the poor-man's Rip Taylor. (an antiquated reference but I'm old enough to get it)
And compare that to what the NY Slimes had in their morning update on the wit and wisdom of Jimmy Kimmel last night: Jimmy Kimmel commented on the suspected Trump gunman: “He tweeted earlier this year that his dream ticket would be Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy, which is how you know he’s nuts.”
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Got a good giggle out of this line that Greg said last night: Tim Walz is the poor-man's Rip Taylor. (an antiquated reference but I'm old enough to get it)
I missed that one! I think I dozed some. I too, am old enough to get that one.
KC
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I missed that one! I think I dozed some. I too, am old enough to get that one.
KC
It was pretty late in the show and I was getting near drifting off as well. Instead of Rip Taylor, perhaps Greg could have used other examples of flamboyant personalities such as Paul Lynde or Charles Nelson Reilly.
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It was pretty late in the show and I was getting near drifting off as well. Instead of Rip Taylor, perhaps Greg could have used other examples of flamboyant personalities such as Paul Lynde or Charles Nelson Reilly.
That ain't no lie!! That dude is seriously weird!
KC