Fox News host Greg Gutfeld boasted that his show “beat all these guys” in the late-night ratings, featuring a report by the Washington Examiner.
During Fox News’s The Five Friday, the hosts referred to a report from the Washington Examiner that compared the recent television ratings between Gutfeld!, at an average of three million viewers, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, at an average of 1.9 million total viewers.
“We beat all these guys, my show, and we are only in 61 million homes. CBS reaches nearly 300 million Americans,” Gutfeld said.
“[Colbert] also had 200 staffers. I employ nothing but teenage runaways. And by the way, I don’t even pay them,” he followed, jokingly.
CBS explained the end of the Late Show franchise by stating it was “purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night.” The show cost $100 million to produce on an annual basis since Colbert took over in 2015.
“It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content, or other matters happening at Paramount,” CBS claimed, referring to its merger with Skydance and recent settlement with President Donald Trump to the tune of $16 million.
“I love that they claim it’s a financial reason. Everything is a financial reason, right?” Gutfeld said. “They didn’t cancel his show, they canceled the whole show. This was an ‘institution,’ and they said rather than put somebody in his place, they just said we’re closing it up. Imagine being a chef, you’re such a bad chef that they canceled food.”
The Five co-host Emily Compagno also noted: “At the end of the day, the viewers were voting with the remote. So people like [Sens. Adam] Schiff and Elizabeth Warren saying it’s Donald Trump, it just underscores why they are failing, because everything comes back down to ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ instead of them daring to look at the mirror.”
‘GUTFELD!’ DOMINATES RATINGS AS CBS RETIRES ‘THE LATE SHOW WITH STEPHEN COLBERT’
Trump celebrated the end of Colbert’s show on CBS in a Truth Social post that claimed the host’s “talent was even less than his ratings.” According to the president, “Greg Gutfeld is better than all” late-night talk show hosts.
The cancellation of the Late Show came the same week the Senate codified Department of Government Efficiency cuts that stripped $1.1 billion in federal funding for public broadcasting.