Late night is more lefty than ever \u2014 with 92% of jokes targeting the right and liberal guests outnumbering conservative ones almost 100 to 1, according to new data shared exclusively with The Post.<\/p>\n
Jokes targeting conservatives rose 10% in 2025 from the year before, according to media watchdog NewsBusters, who went through 818 episodes this year.<\/p>\n
It found that across the Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Taylor Tomlinson and Daily Show universe, 197 liberal guests appeared and only two conservative ones.<\/p>\n
Late night veered more to the left in 2025, new data shared exclusively with The Post shows. NY Post Design<\/p>\n
One was Fox host Greg Gutfeld, who appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in August, and the other was economist Oren Cass, a center-right policy analyst, who appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in April to talk about President Trump\u2019s tariffs.<\/p>\n
The shocking data comes at the end of a tumultuous year for late night comedy, marked by Jimmy Kimmel being temporarily yanked off the air in September after saying the \u201cMAGA gang\u201d tried\u00a0scoring political points off Charlie Kirk\u2019s savage public execution<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,\u201d Kimmel said. <\/p>\n Kimmel was the most radical late-night host, according to the data \u2013 railing against the right 2,975 times last year, representing 97% of his jokes.<\/p>\n Some of his jokes were crude \u2014 like referring members of Trump\u2019s cabinet as \u201cAI-generated human vomits\u201d to explain why the president\u2019s cordial first meeting with NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.<\/p>\n Jimmy Kimmel apologized for making a joke about Charlie Kirk on his return to Late Night. ABC<\/p>\n \u201cTrump looks over in the corner. He sees JD Vance all sweaty and eager. He sees Stephen Miller sucking on his pinkies. He looks around at all these weird, unattractive, AI-generated human vomits in his office. And he\u2019s like, \u2018Why can\u2019t I have this Mamdani around?’\u201d said Kimmel.<\/p>\n Kimmel made fun of Trump 1,668 times over the course of his 155 episodes this year \u2013 or 11 jokes a show.<\/p>\n Trump was overwhelmingly the butt of the jokes across late night, with hosts targeting him a staggering 7,045 times. Last year that number was 5,980.<\/p>\n Some viewers called Prince Harry and Colbert\u2019s Trump bashing awkward and \u201cpainful to watch.\u201d Scott Kowalchyk \/CBS<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Prince Harry took a jab at Trump<\/a> during his awkward appearance on the \u201cLate Show with Stephen Colbert,\u201d that even people on the left found in bad taste.<\/p>\n The skit starts with the two debating whether Americans are obsessed with royalty, with Colbert saying they\u2019re not, while Harry disagreed.<\/p>\n \u201cReally? I heard you elected a king,\u201d Harry said while boos and groans erupted from the audience.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was painful to watch, and I don\u2019t like Trump,\u201d wrote one commenter on social media.<\/p>\n Colbert became therapy for the left, observers noted.<\/p>\n \u201cAnother Colbert failure,\u201d railed another.<\/p>\n In July, CBS\u00a0announced it was canceling Colbert\u2019s \u201cLate Show<\/a>\u201d next May, citing financial reasons. His show had become a \u201ctherapy\u201d session for the left<\/a>, NewsBusters found.<\/p>\n Late night also campaigned for Mamdani, by telling 95 percent of its mayoral-election jokes about his rivals, with only\u00a0three out of 63 jokes\u00a0were about the socialist front-runner.<\/p>\n Colbert even hosted Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to for an unusual three-segment-long interview that included an attempt from both to push Mamdani on the rest of the country.<\/p>\n Warren appeared on Colbert this year and both pushed Mamdani on the rest of the country. Scott Kowalchyk \/CBS<\/p>\n \u201cHis message of affordability, his message of the rights and dignity of working people, I think, is a very powerful one that, you know, it may open in New York, but like a Broadway show, it\u2019s going to play very well in the national tour,\u201d Colbert said to Warren.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, this is the whole point,\u201d agreed Warren.<\/p>\n \u201cThe numbers don\u2019t lie,\u201d said Media Research Center president David Bozell. \u201cSo-called late-night comedians are part of the entire elitist media complex that has fueled hatred of conservatives for years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late night is more lefty than ever \u2014 with 92% of jokes targeting the right and liberal guests…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1036,88,17114,13726,10674,1505,92,194],"class_list":{"0":"post-360105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-comedy","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","11":"tag-late-night","12":"tag-stephen-colbert","13":"tag-television","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}