{"id":1957952,"date":"2025-08-13T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1957952"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:56:08","slug":"jimmy-fallon-scores-highest-ratings-in-nearly-2-years-after-greg-gutfeld-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-fallon-scores-highest-ratings-in-nearly-2-years-after-greg-gutfeld-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon Scores Highest Ratings in Nearly 2 Years After Greg Gutfeld Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While some viewers questioned<\/a> Jimmy Fallon<\/a> for having Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld<\/a> on The Tonight Show<\/em><\/a> last week, it appears the decision paid off, at least in terms of ratings.<\/p>\n

According to The Wrap<\/a>, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em> scored its biggest audience since 2023 for last Thursday\u2019s (August 7) broadcast, which saw Gutfeld and the Jonas Brothers joining the late-night host on the sofa, along with musical guest Good Charlotte.<\/p>\n

The episode averaged 1.7 million viewers, per Nielsen live-plus-same day figures, the highest numbers The Tonight Show<\/em> has seen since December 19, 2023, in an episode that featured Bradley Cooper<\/a>, Martha Stewart<\/a>, and Rufus<\/a> and Martha Wainwright. These numbers exclude episodes that had live sports lead-ins, which have drawn larger audiences.<\/p>\n

Per LateNighter<\/a>, The Tonight Show<\/em>\u2018s share of the total viewing audience increased during Gutfeld\u2019s segment compared to the half hour before it. In addition, the Gutfeld interview<\/a> is last week\u2019s most-viewed video on the show\u2019s YouTube channel with 990,000 views as of writing (for comparison, the Jonas Brothers interview<\/a> has 151,000 views).<\/p>\n

The viewership for the August 7 episode ended up boosting The Tonight Show<\/em>\u2018s average for the week of August 4 to 1.2 million, making it the most-watched week of The Tonight Show<\/em> since the week of May 19.<\/p>\n

Other guests featured on the show last week included Chris Pratt<\/a>, Lin-Manuel Miranda<\/a>, Seth Rogen<\/a>, Rose Byrne<\/a>, Jordan Klepper<\/a>, Heidi Klum<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n

Gutfeld\u2019s The Tonight Show<\/em> appearance came amid the comedian\u2019s continued dominance across late-night. Despite airing on cable, Gutfeld!<\/em><\/a> continually tops its broadcast rivals<\/a> \u2014 although it does air over an hour earlier in primetime at 10\/9c. For the second quarter of 2025, the Fox News show averaged 3.289 million viewers, compared to The Late Show<\/em><\/a> with 2.417 million, Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em><\/a> with 1.772 million, and The Tonight Show<\/em> with 1.188 million.<\/p>\n

Following his Tonight Show<\/em> debut, Gutfeld spoke about his experience on his own show the next night. He praised Fallon<\/a>, saying \u201cit took guts\u201d to invite him on the show. Gutfeld also touched on those who expected him to attack the NBC host, explaining that he \u201cwent on the show for the same reason I started [my own] show. Late-night needs more fun. I was a gracious guest to a nice guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/em>, Weeknights, 11:35\/10:35c, NBC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the latest entertainment news on TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While some viewers questioned Jimmy Fallon for having Fox News personality Greg Gutfeld on The Tonight Show last week, it appears the decision paid off, at least in terms of ratings. According to The Wrap, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon scored its biggest audience since 2023 for last Thursday\u2019s (August 7) broadcast, which saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1957953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[309078,101314,23571,26298,311723,309143],"class_list":["post-1957952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bradley-cooper","tag-greg-gutfeld","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-martha-stewart","tag-the-jonas-brothers","tag-the-tonight-show"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Jimmy-Fallon-Scores-Highest-Ratings-in-Nearly-2-Years-After.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}