{"id":53774,"date":"2025-08-02T00:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/53774\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T00:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T00:37:15","slug":"jon-stewart-gives-verdict-on-greg-gutfelds-fox-news-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/53774\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Gives Verdict on Greg Gutfeld\u2019s Fox News Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Show<\/a> host Jon Stewart<\/a> has explained why he thinks Greg Gutfeld<\/a> is having such success on Fox News, while also saying conservatives are shooting themselves in the foot by targeting left-leaning media.<\/p>\n

On the most recent episode of The Weekly Show<\/a> podcast, Stewart answered various fan questions, including one about whether President Donald Trump<\/a> could target TV shows \u201cwith a conservative bias.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now? No!\u201d Stewart said, per Mediaite<\/a>, before turning his attention to how the current head of the FCC, Brendan Carr, has been \u201cs*** posting\u201d about Stephen Colbert.<\/a><\/p>\n

Last month, Colbert told his viewers that CBS had canceled The Late Show<\/a>, which will air its final episode in May 2026<\/a>. CBS cited financial reasons; however, others speculated that the decision was made due to\u00a0Colbert\u2019s criticism\u00a0of Paramount\u2019s recent settlement with President Trump. This comes amid Paramount\u2019s proposed merger with Skydance, which requires regulatory approval from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe partisan left\u2019s ritualist wailing and gnashing of teeth over Colbert is quite revealing,\u201d Carr posted on X in July<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019re acting like they\u2019re losing a loyal [Democratic National Committee] spokesperson that was entitled to an exemption from the laws of economics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart told Weekly Show producer Brittany Mehmedovic that this celebration about the death of liberal media from Carr and others is illogical, noting how the success of conservative voices on TV shows and social media is due to their opposition to left-wing figures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s how Fox is popular,\u201d Stewart stated. \u201cThat\u2019s how any of these people, you know, they all talk about, [Greg] Gutfeld\u2019s the most popular. Yeah. He\u2019s not popular because he\u2019s a both-sides guy. He\u2019s not a fair use, like, the fairness doctrine says, like, he\u2019s relentless. And, you know, after a day of watching Fox News and being bathed in their very purposeful propaganda, it\u2019s a great way to top off the night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite airing on cable, Gutfeld!<\/a> continues to dominate the late-night ratings wars<\/a>, topping its broadcast rivals. For the second quarter of 2025, the Fox News show averaged 3.289 million viewers, compared to The Late Show with 2.417 million, Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> with 1.772 million, and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a> with 1.188 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole thing is f***ing ridiculous,\u201d Stewart continued. \u201cAnd if you look at the social media profiles of all the people that complain about the left-wing bias, they\u2019re all right-wing influencers. They all make their money, their entire economy is based on how willing they are to attack and defame and to crush liberals.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for whether The Daily Show is in danger of a similar fate to The Late Show (Paramount is also the parent company of Comedy Central), Stewart recently said he doesn\u2019t know, but he isn\u2019t worried.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, we haven\u2019t heard anything from [Paramount]. They haven\u2019t called me and said, \u2018Don\u2019t get too comfortable in that office, Stewart,’\u201d he said on a recent episode of The Weekly Show. \u201cBut let me tell you something, I\u2019ve been kicked out of s***tier establishments than that. We\u2019ll land on our feet. I honestly don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Daily\u00a0Show, Weeknights, 11\/10c, Comedy Central, Next-Day Streaming on Paramount+<\/p>\n

Gutfeld, Weeknights, 10 pm ET\/CT, Fox<\/p>\n

Read the latest entertainment news on TV Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Daily Show host Jon Stewart has explained why he thinks Greg Gutfeld is having such success on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[17105,23641,12,88,11320,40958,9609,4208,10674,92,40959],"class_list":{"0":"post-53774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-brendan-carr","9":"tag-daily-show","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-fox-news","13":"tag-greg-gutfeld","14":"tag-jon-stewart","15":"tag-paramount","16":"tag-stephen-colbert","17":"tag-tv","18":"tag-weekly-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53774","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=53774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}