{"id":54450,"date":"2025-08-08T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54450\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T12:14:08","slug":"fallon-fawns-all-over-maga-late-night-host-greg-gutfeld-in-softball-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54450\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallon Fawns All Over MAGA Late-Night Host Greg Gutfeld in Softball Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Fallon joked and laughed his way through a Tonight Show interview with Fox News late-night rival Greg Gutfeld, who recently tried to reclaim the word \u201cNazi\u201d as his own. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to Gutfeld! and The Five, you started hosting a new game show<\/a>\u2026 I\u2019m excited about this,\u201c Fallon said, in one of the few moments where he acknowledged what Gutfeld did for a living. <\/p>\n

\"GregGreg Gutfeld on set of \u201cGutfeld!\u201d at Fox News Channel Studios, Jan. 22, 2024. His show consistently outperforms other late-night hosts in the ratings, and the Fallon interview was his debut on a network late-night talk show. Roy Rochlin\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Gutfeld also mocked late-night host Stephen Colbert<\/a> after his show was canceled by CBS. It made his appearance on The Tonight Show even more surprising, given that Fallon had publicly expressed his support for Colbert<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Rather than question Gutfeld about any of these issues, Fallon allowed his guest to spend the interview reminiscing about how the two of them once hung out at a party. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a mutual friend named Tracy,\u201c Gutfeld explained about he and Fallon. \u201dThis is about 15 years, I think.”<\/p>\n

Gutfeld told a story about how a drunken young Fallon had \u201crun towards\u201d him and tackled him \u201clike a giant golden retriever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re not making this up, I totally know what you\u2019re talking about,\u201d Fallon said. <\/p>\n

When Gutfeld finished his story Fallon apologized for tackling him. Gutfeld replied, \u201cIt was great though. It was all very good-natured and it was a great memory.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Thursday interview marked a first appearance for Gutfeld, who is consistently outperforming<\/a> other late-night hosts in the ratings, on any network late-night talk show. <\/p>\n

\"JimmyFallon and Stephen Colbert at the 2018 Costume Institute Benefit. Fallon\u2019s friendship with Colbert made Gutfeld\u2019s appearance on his show a surprise, since Gutfeld has mocked Colbert after his show\u2019s cancellation. Taylor Hill\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

The softball approach from Fallon was hardly unexpected. The host has always adopted a largely apolitical approach to his late-night commentary.<\/p>\n

Fallon conducted a famously lighthearted interview with presidential candidate Donald Trump shortly before the 2016 election. For many of his critics<\/a>, the image of Fallon rustling Trump\u2019s hair became the ultimate example of his lack of interest in challenging anyone with influence or power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Fallon joked and laughed his way through a Tonight Show interview with Fox News late-night rival Greg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,36506,13397,348],"class_list":["post-54450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-greg-gutfield","tag-jimmy-fallon","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}