# Greg Gutfeld
**Greg Gutfeld** is an American political satirist, humorist, and television host who hosts the [Fox News](https://www.edgepedia.org/fox-news) weeknight comedy program *[Gutfeld!](https://www.edgepedia.org/gutfeld)* at 10 PM/ET and co-hosts the weekday panel show *[The Five](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-five-talk-show)* at 5 PM/ET.[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) Describing himself as a libertarian, he built a career in men's magazine editing before joining Fox News in 2007, and his late-night-styled show has since out-rated the better-known broadcast late-night programs.[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) • [2](https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/how-a-conservative-comic-became-the-most-popular-late-night-host-on-tv/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Current shows | Host of *Gutfeld!* (weeknights, 10 PM/ET) and co-host of *The Five* (weekdays, 5 PM/ET)[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) |
| Fox News tenure | Joined in 2007 as a contributor; hosted *Red Eye* (2007–2015) and *The Greg Gutfeld Show* (2015–2021)[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) |
| Ratings milestone | In August 2021, *Gutfeld!* overtook *The Late Show with Stephen Colbert* in overall ratings[2](https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/how-a-conservative-comic-became-the-most-popular-late-night-host-on-tv/) |
| 2024 audience | Averaged 2.76 million total viewers ages 2+, the largest average nightly late-night audience that year[3](https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/2024-ratings-late-night-tvs-biggest-winners-and-losers/) |
| Education | B.A. in English, University of California, Berkeley[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) |
| Books | Six New York Times bestselling books, including *The King of Late Night*[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) |
| Other work | Fox Nation game show *Greg Gutfeld's What Did I Miss?*; live touring show GUTFELD Live[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) • [4](https://ggutfeld.com/category/news/) |
## Magazine career
Before television, Gutfeld spent the majority of his media career in magazines, working first at *Men's Health*, then at *Stuff*, and finally at *Maxim UK* in London.[5](https://www.mediabistro.com/archive/greg-gutfeld-on-his-subversive-late-night-satire-show/) At *Stuff* he was promoted to director of brand development, a role that sent him to Los Angeles to pitch television projects, before the *Maxim* editorship took him to Britain.[5](https://www.mediabistro.com/archive/greg-gutfeld-on-his-subversive-late-night-satire-show/) In a 2011 interview with the Los Angeles Times, he described this arc from men's magazine editor to Fox News personality as surprising.[6](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-nov-27-la-ca-conversation-20111127-story.html)
## Fox News shows
**Red Eye.** Gutfeld's Fox News career began in February 2007.[7](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/greg-gutfeld-fox-news/2022/01/09/5318c528-5874-11ec-a808-3197a22b19fa_story.html) *Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld* aired at 3 AM/ET on weekdays (variously at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m., with an 11 p.m. Saturday edition) and ran until 2015. The Washington Post described it as a subversive, periodically hilarious, reliably sophomoric program that made him a cult figure with street cred in New York's heavily left-leaning comedy scene.[7](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/greg-gutfeld-fox-news/2022/01/09/5318c528-5874-11ec-a808-3197a22b19fa_story.html)
**The Greg Gutfeld Show and Gutfeld!** He followed *Red Eye* with *The Greg Gutfeld Show* from 2015 to 2021.[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) In August 2021, Fox News moved him into a nightly 11 p.m. comedy show, *Gutfeld!*, which within months overtook *The Late Show with Stephen Colbert*, *The 11th Hour with Brian Williams*, and *Don Lemon Tonight* in overall ratings, beating both late-night comedy and hard-news competitors.[2](https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/how-a-conservative-comic-became-the-most-popular-late-night-host-on-tv/) • [8](https://etd.library.emory.edu/downloads/3f462664c?locale=) The show later settled into its current 10 PM/ET weeknight slot, where Gutfeld parodies current events, converses on key issues, and interviews newsmakers and culture critics.[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) Its format is a late-night one in tone and structure: monologue, roundtable, recurring gags, and rotating co-hosts with semi-celebrity status, even though a 10 p.m. start technically places it in primetime.[9](https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/greg-gutfelds-disruptive-rise-how-a-fox-news-prankster-broke-late-night-tv/) Regular panelists include [Kat Timpf](https://www.edgepedia.org/kat-timpf) and George Murdoch (Tyrus).[10](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/60268/gutfeld)
**The Five.** Gutfeld is an original co-host of *The Five*, the weekday 5 PM/ET roundtable that launched in 2011. The program has grown its audience by 148% since launch to more than 3.6 million average viewers, making it the top program in cable news and the top non-sports show on cable.[11](https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/fox-the-five-15-years) Gutfeld credits the show's chemistry among co-hosts, including its rotating liberal seats, telling Axios that "the secret sauce is teasing. You only tease the people you love."[11](https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/fox-the-five-15-years)
## Ratings and reach
Measured by audience size, *Gutfeld!* has led American late-night television. In 2024 it drew the largest average nightly audience of any late-night-styled show, 2.76 million total viewers ages 2+.[3](https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/2024-ratings-late-night-tvs-biggest-winners-and-losers/) Fox News states that the program tops all broadcast and cable late-night shows in total viewers and the adults 25–54 demographic, including ABC's *Jimmy Kimmel Live!* and NBC's *The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon*, and Newsweek has dubbed Gutfeld the "King of Late Night."[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld)
Comparisons come with a structural caveat: because *Gutfeld!* airs at 10 p.m. ET, it competes in late primetime rather than the traditional post-11:30 p.m. late-night slot, and it begins about 90 minutes before Colbert's former show did.[9](https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/greg-gutfelds-disruptive-rise-how-a-fox-news-prankster-broke-late-night-tv/) In the 2025–26 season, *Gutfeld!* trailed *Jimmy Kimmel Live!* (284,000 demo viewers), *The Late Show* (262,000), and *The Daily Show* (227,000) in the adults 18–49 demo under Live+7 measurement.[12](https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-ratings-2025-26-season-kimmel-colbert-fallon-gutfeld/) His first appearance on a network late-night talk show came on *Jimmy Fallon*'s program, an interview the Daily Beast characterized as a softball chat.[13](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fallon-fawns-all-over-maga-late-night-host-greg-gutfeld-in-softball-talk/)
## Style and reception
Gutfeld's comedy is grounded in conservative and libertarian commentary. The Washington Post's 2022 profile described his shift from underground comedic acclaim to conventional right-wing fame, with silliness such as poop and flatulence jokes folded into surefire right-wing themes like criticism of coronavirus vaccine mandates, alongside repeated skewering of mainstream media figures.[7](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/greg-gutfeld-fox-news/2022/01/09/5318c528-5874-11ec-a808-3197a22b19fa_story.html) An Emory University thesis notes that his jokes tend to riff on liberal figures, reflecting the ideology of the host and his network.[8](https://etd.library.emory.edu/downloads/3f462664c?locale=) Salon's culture critic argued that his rise shows Americans live in two separate comedy ecosystems, one anchored by the broadcast late-night shows and one by his Fox News audience.[14](https://www.salon.com/2023/03/04/gutfeld-humor-comedy/)
His factual claims have drawn scrutiny. PolitiFact's scorecard for Gutfeld lists one Mostly False, three False, and one Pants on Fire ruling, including his 2022 statement that no one with a concealed carry permit ever committed a mass shooting (rated False) and his 2017 claim that global temperature increases fall within the margin of error (rated Pants on Fire).[15](https://politifact.com/personalities/greg-gutfeld/) AllSides rates him as a Lean Right author source.[16](https://www.allsides.com/news-source/greg-gutfeld-media-bias)
## Books and other projects
Gutfeld has written six New York Times bestselling books, including *The King of Late Night*.[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) Beyond television, he hosts the Fox Nation game show *Greg Gutfeld's What Did I Miss?*, in which contestants isolated for three months answer questions about real versus fake news headlines; its second season premiered in April 2026.[1](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld) • [17](https://press.foxnews.com/press/press-releases) He also performs a live touring show, GUTFELD Live, with annual tour schedules announced through his website.[4](https://ggutfeld.com/category/news/)
## References
1. [Greg Gutfeld, Fox News personality page](https://www.foxnews.com/person/g/greg-gutfeld)
2. [How a conservative comic became the most popular late-night host on TV, Nieman Journalism Lab (2021)](https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/10/how-a-conservative-comic-became-the-most-popular-late-night-host-on-tv/)
3. [2024 Ratings: Late-Night TV's Biggest Winners and Losers, LateNighter](https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/2024-ratings-late-night-tvs-biggest-winners-and-losers/)
4. [News, Greg Gutfeld official site](https://ggutfeld.com/category/news/)
5. [Greg Gutfeld on His Subversive Late-Night Satire Show, Mediabistro](https://www.mediabistro.com/archive/greg-gutfeld-on-his-subversive-late-night-satire-show/)
6. [The Sunday Conversation: Greg Gutfeld, Los Angeles Times (2011)](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-xpm-2011-nov-27-la-ca-conversation-20111127-story.html)
7. [Greg Gutfeld has risen to the top at Fox News — and that's no joke, The Washington Post (2022)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/greg-gutfeld-fox-news/2022/01/09/5318c528-5874-11ec-a808-3197a22b19fa_story.html)
8. [Emory University thesis on Gutfeld! and the late-night media market](https://etd.library.emory.edu/downloads/3f462664c?locale=)
9. [Greg Gutfeld's Disruptive Rise: How a Fox News Prankster Broke Late-Night TV, Mediaite (2025)](https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/greg-gutfelds-disruptive-rise-how-a-fox-news-prankster-broke-late-night-tv/)
10. [Gutfeld!, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/60268/gutfeld)
11. ["The Five" at 15: Fox News' unlikely TV survivor, Axios (2026)](https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/fox-the-five-15-years)
12. [Here Are Final Late Night Ratings for the 2025-26 Season, LateNighter](https://latenighter.com/news/ratings/late-night-ratings-2025-26-season-kimmel-colbert-fallon-gutfeld/)
13. [Jimmy Fallon Fawns All Over MAGA Late-Night Host Greg Gutfeld in Softball Chat, The Daily Beast](https://www.thedailybeast.com/fallon-fawns-all-over-maga-late-night-host-greg-gutfeld-in-softball-talk/)
14. [The late night rise of "Gutfeld!" is telling us something, Salon (2023)](https://www.salon.com/2023/03/04/gutfeld-humor-comedy/)
15. [Greg Gutfeld, PolitiFact scorecard](https://politifact.com/personalities/greg-gutfeld/)
16. [Greg Gutfeld Media Bias, AllSides](https://www.allsides.com/news-source/greg-gutfeld-media-bias)
17. [Press Releases 2026, Fox News Media](https://press.foxnews.com/press/press-releases)
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