JD Vance may have given Gutfeld! a full hour, but he didn’t give Fox News’ late-night-styled show a ratings record—or anything close to it.
The vice president’s June 16 appearance averaged 3.480 million total viewers in Nielsen live-plus-three-day data. That was good for a 7.47 share and ranked as the show’s 19th most-watched episode of the calendar year to date, up 7% compared to the show’s 2026 average to date.
Those are hardly bad numbers. But for a full-hour appearance by the sitting vice president—and coming on the same day he helped The View log its best ratings in two years—they amount to something closer to a shrug than a surge.
The younger-viewer numbers were even less flattering. Vance’s appearance drew 191,000 adults 18-49, significantly below the show’s average in the demo. In fact, out of 112 Gutfeld! episodes so far this calendar year, the Vance episode ranked 90th among adults 18-49.
The performance certainly pales in comparison to Donald Trump‘s September 2024 appearance, which averaged nearly 5.8 million total viewers in Nielsen live-plus-three-day data, making it the most-watched episode in the show’s history. That episode also drew 532,000 adults 18-49. Of course, that appearance was also in the closely-watched run-up to the 2024 election.
Vance appeared on Gutfeld! to promote his new book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, and to discuss the “current state of the country and other news of the day,” per Fox News’ pre-show announcement. The episode featured Vance alongside Fox News personalities Kat Timpf, Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery, and George “Tyrus” Murdoch.
The booking was still a notable one for Gutfeld!, which has made a point of positioning itself as late night’s right-flank counterprogramming. Sitting vice presidents do not typically spend full hours on late-night shows, comedy panel or otherwise.
But as a measure of whether Vance can deliver anything resembling Trump-sized tune-in for Fox News’ 10 p.m. entry, the answer—at least this time—was no.
Wow. The dismissiveness is staggering. LOL. When was the last time that the Jimmys had those kind of ratings outside of sports as a lead-in? Exactly.
Gutfeld’s not even in late night, his show airs in prime time. Obviously something that airs in prime time is gonna do much better there than in the actual late night time slots of 11:30 and 12:30. I bet you the moment you put the guy back into 11:30 his ratings would go into the shitter faster than you can “JD Vance fucked a couch”
Where the average collective IQ of the audience is way smaller than the other late night shows!
Kimmel is mildly funny at best, and Fallon is a sniveling little dork, yet both are far funnier than Gutfeld could ever hope to be. Also, 10:00pm vs. 11:37pm is a VERY different overall potential audience size. Gutfeld is in primetime and shouldn’t even be considered late night. Besides, if you look at the hourly ratings for Fox News, it’s pretty clear that a large portion of his audience are just braindead MAGAs who leave Fox News on the TV from 6am to midnight (I know weirdos like this). It’s an impressive number for sure, but it’s a unique situation and a completely different time slot. Not to mention, ratings do not equal talent.
No shit, he has the charisma of a dried-up cum sock.
Like the one he put in between the couch cushions
😂😂
Please be kind to the Hillsbury Doughboy.
Nobody could read a script written by corporate small hats like Obama.
‘Vance’ (not his real name) will never be president.
Couchfucker shouldn’r be anywhere’s near the White House, let alone be compared to Obama, one of the best presidents in the country’s history, as proclaimed by presidential scholars, while Drumpf is the absolute worst by those same scholars!
You’re welcome!
If he were a Republican you would say he was the worst ever. You SWPLs are something else. He was the only colored politician who could actually pull off reading the script. None of the others come close.