Whereas some viewers questioned Jimmy Fallon for having Fox Information persona Greg Gutfeld on The Tonight Present final week, it seems the choice paid off, not less than by way of rankings.
In accordance with The Wrap, The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon scored its largest viewers since 2023 for final Thursday’s (August 7) broadcast, which noticed Gutfeld and the Jonas Brothers becoming a member of the late-night host on the couch, together with musical visitor Good Charlotte.
The episode averaged 1.7 million viewers, per Nielsen live-plus-same day figures, the very best numbers The Tonight Present has seen since December 19, 2023, in an episode that featured Bradley Cooper, Martha Stewart, and Rufus and Martha Wainwright. These numbers exclude episodes that had reside sports activities lead-ins, which have drawn bigger audiences.
Per LateNighter, The Tonight Present‘s share of the full viewing viewers elevated throughout Gutfeld’s section in comparison with the half hour earlier than it. As well as, the Gutfeld interview is final week’s most-viewed video on the present’s YouTube channel with 990,000 views as of writing (for comparability, the Jonas Brothers interview has 151,000 views).
The viewership for the August 7 episode ended up boosting The Tonight Present‘s common for the week of August 4 to 1.2 million, making it the most-watched week of The Tonight Present because the week of Could 19.
Different visitors featured on the present final week included Chris Pratt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Jordan Klepper, Heidi Klum, and extra.
Gutfeld’s The Tonight Present look got here amid the comic’s continued dominance throughout late-night. Regardless of airing on cable, Gutfeld! regularly tops its broadcast rivals — though it does air over an hour earlier in primetime at 10/9c. For the second quarter of 2025, the Fox Information present averaged 3.289 million viewers, in comparison with The Late Present with 2.417 million, Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! with 1.772 million, and The Tonight Present with 1.188 million.
Following his Tonight Present debut, Gutfeld spoke about his expertise on his personal present the subsequent night time. He praised Fallon, saying “it took guts” to ask him on the present. Gutfeld additionally touched on those that anticipated him to assault the NBC host, explaining that he “went on the present for a similar cause I began [my own] present. Late-night wants extra enjoyable. I used to be a gracious visitor to a pleasant man.”
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