If he was on any other network, their ratings would go through the roof. And then activists would hit the roof. There’d be public protests and calls for boycotts, and his ass would be fired before you could say, “there’s nothing good on the boob tube anymore.”
But Greg Gutfeld makes his home at Fox News. That’s where he thumbs his nose at the world, with a Fox-hole as his safe haven.
Late-night ratings have soared at Fox News, because of him. But there hasn’t been much outrage. That’s because activists seem to have given up on Fox News. It’s as if they’ve concluded the reprobates there will never share in any vision of their liberal utopia. So they’ve chosen to shrug their shoulders and ignore that network, hoping it will somehow go away.
Thus, Greg Gutfeld hasn’t been the target of any protests, boycotts, or employment terminations.
“Gutfeld!” has been the name of his hour-long romp of politically incorrect banter. It debuted as a five-night-a-week, late-night talk show in 2021. But it prepared a long time for this debut, because from 2015 to 2021 it appeared only once a week on Fox, and was known as The Greg Gutfeld Show.
The show’s spartan stage setting and production make an art out of simplicity. Greg occupies the apex of a semi-circle of seated panelists, before a live audience, where he introduces issues for discussion. Usually these subjects cover the controversial or trending topics of the day, whether they be political, cultural, or matters of the strange and unusual.
Greg punctuates serious commentary with his wacky, satirical, and often irreverent sense of humor. He crosses lines with his humor that few comedians dare trespass, in this day and age of cancel culture and hypersensitivity. And he offends all groups equally, whether they be oppressed or oppressor. He even skewers other Fox News hosts.
And he attacks his rivals on other networks mercilessly. Late-night talk show hosts such as Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and James Corden, are ripped apart regularly by the spears, arrows, and grenades lobbed from the tongue of Greg Gutfeld. He complains that they’re not funny anymore, due to their obsession with being politically correct, and their fear of cancel culture.
He may be right. When Gutfeld! debuted in April of 2021, critics predicted low ratings and an early demise for this uncouth experiment by Fox News. But TV audiences, hungry for meatier humor in their homily soup, abandoned the established shows, and flocked to Fox. Gutfeld’s ratings quickly took flight, and by August of 2021, he was sailing over his competition.
Gutfeld! has dominated the late-night ratings ever since. His rivals exclude him from mention, choosing to ignore this nemesis that reigns as the new king of late-night. Even those who rate late-night talk shows often ignore Gutfeld!, omitting it from their ranked lists. Perhaps this is because the show has a conservative political slant. Conservatism is treated like leprosy by many media outlets.
I watch Gutfeld! regularly. Sometimes I find it funny, but it often falls flatter than our economy during a pandemic. That’s because it’s primarily a serious program, that adds humor to its recipe to make its messages more easily digestible. But when it’s funny, it can be sphincter-dilating funny. So I’m always careful to put on a pair of adult diapers, before I switch the show on. In my opinion, it’s like no other late-night talk show these days, in its willingness to violate social taboos for a good laugh.
But what do I know? I don’t even watch those other shows anymore.
If you are a bleeding-heart liberal, or often feel oppressed, or identify with a group that claims to be oppressed, you’ll probably recoil from watching Gutfeld! But if your skin is thick enough to take a joke, and you delight in well-crafted sarcasm and satire, and the slaughter of sacred cows, I think you’ll enjoy the hour of viewing. In fact, I have a Gutfeld! feeling you’ll like it.
You can watch Gutfeld! on the Fox News Channel, weeknights at 11:00 PM, Eastern Time. Unlike other late-night talk shows, it does not adjust its air time to be in the same slot for each time zone. Thus, it airs at 10:00 PM Central Time, 9:00 PM Mountain Time, and 8:00 PM Pacific Time.
Here’s a recent clip from Gutfeld!:
Categories: Reviews
Chasing Unicorns 
I’ve never had a subscription to the American “victim culture” club, so I’m a little curious. But it’s been so long since I’ve watched TV that I don’t even know how or where to watch Fox. In fact, it’s been about a year since I last saw the TV remote, so I have to muster up the energy to walk up to the thing just to turn it on. And that’s usually to use it to stream music. But something that appeals to reprobates could be mildly amusing.
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Given where you live, perhaps you’d have better luck watching your backyard for a fox.
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More Bears and BobCats. Dear God… BBC! Definitely need to find that remote!
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No need to find the remote, as you live in a remote location. I’ll bet it’s full of ABC’s, CBS’s, and NBC’s, too.
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I guess my hearing problems have made watching TV for information a lost cause. I use captioning, but often it can’t keep up with the pace of the speakers.
I’m glad that you enjoy something to watch on TV enough that it spurs your mind to fun things.
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I understand. I’ve tried captioning a few times, while trying to watch TV in a noisy house, and it’s often way off.
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We don’t get Fox so, this is the first time I’ve heard of ‘Gutfeld’ I must say that I found his sarcasm and humor very refreshing! I like what he said about comedy in that you first need to start from truth! We need more personalities like him again! Thanks for sharing this clip, Tippy! I got more than a few good laughs! Although, I’m sure the overly sensitive types would probably be offended by his humor- I enjoyed it thoroughly! 😆 🤣 😂
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Well, when you look at this nutty world through a lens of truth, there seems to be no end to the humor you can find. You’re welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed the clip.
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I don’t have cable as I got tired of paying for a service that is primarily an advertising vehicle for other companies. Why should I pay to advertised at?
Fox left the conservative point long ago and is in delusional far-right whacko land as far as I can tell. But I use the crazy liberal Wall Street Journal as one of my primary news sources so what do I know.
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I’d love to unplug from cable. It’s way too expensive, in my view. But my wife likes it, so I go along. As they say, happy life, happy wife.
From what I’ve seen, there are some Fox commentators that have moved far-right, but most seem to be fairly close to center. At least, in my opinion.
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“Happy wife, Happy Life!” Such a wonderful quote. 😊
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It’s one of the hard facts every husband has to come to terms with.
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Hey, it’s not hard at all!
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Yeah, right. You should try being a husband for awhile. Poor Brad.
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Pftttt!!
I am low maintenance, get me a beach house and will be happy forever. See, easy!
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But I’ll bet that beach house has to be located near a Starbucks, so you can get all the caramel lattes you can drink.
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It’s raspberry latte’s now .😋
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If I ordered one of those, it would be for one raspberry latte, hold the latte.
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😶🤚!
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He is funny! 😄
Oh how I remember watching the OJ Simpson trial!
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I figured you’d like him.
Yes, the OJ trial helped us legalize murder in California.
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I hope you don’t go around making enemies with anyone since murder is legal!
But yes that trisl taught that plus it also taught that when you are rich, you can get away with murder.
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I just make sure I don’t piss off any ex-football players.
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Good idea!!
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