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Jimmy Kimmel Live! took back the top spot at 11:35 during last week’s July Fourth holiday lull, leading the broadcast late-night field in both total viewers and adults 18–49 despite airing only repeats for the second week in a row.
According to Nielsen Live+3 ratings data for the week of June 28, 2026, the ABC late-night show averaged 1.45 million total viewers (+3 percent) and 167,000 adults 18–49 (+11 percent), outpacing NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, which also aired repeats as it began its own early-summer two-week break.
The Tonight Show averaged 1.17 million total viewers (–21 percent) and 143,000 adults 18–49 (–23 percent).
On CBS, the network’s Byron Allen-produced late-night block continued its run in the former Late Show time period. Averaging its two half-hour telecasts, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen drew 651,000 total viewers and 73,000 adults 18–49 across the 11:35 p.m. hour. The show’s first half-hour—airing three original episodes and two repeats—averaged 779,000 viewers (–5 percent) and 89,000 adults 18–49 (–3 percent), while its second half-hour, comprised entirely of repeats, averaged 523,000 viewers (–9 percent) and 56,000 adults 18–49 (–29 percent).
Averaging its two half-hour telecasts, Funny You Should Ask drew 412,000 total viewers and 47,000 adults 18–49 across the 12:35 a.m. hour. Both half-hours consisted entirely of repeat episodes.
Airing mostly at midnight, FIFA World Cup on FOX After Hours with James Corden averaged 902,000 total viewers (+38 percent) and 324,000 adults 18–49 (+54 percent) across six original episodes. As LateNighter recently reported, the show’s strongest performances have continued to coincide with direct FIFA World Cup lead-ins.
At 12:37 a.m., ABC’s Nightline averaged 879,000 total viewers (+3 percent) and 84,000 adults 18–49 (+12 percent) across four original broadcasts. NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, airing repeats all week, averaged 651,000 total viewers (–6 percent) and 84,000 adults 18–49 (–2 percent).
Switching to cable, with staffers away for the holiday, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show did not air during the week, while Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live aired only one episode, on Sunday. The Bravo show averaged 194,000 total viewers (–24 percent) and 60,000 adults 18–49 (–9 percent).
Keeping the lights on at Fox News was Gutfeld!, which aired new episodes Monday–Thursday and averaged 2.79 million total viewers (flat) and 161,000 adults 18–49 (–14 percent).
Complete ratings charts for the week of June 28, 2026, follow below.
Note: Time period listed is the most common airtime for each show.
Live+ 3 Ratings — All Viewers (P2+)
| Avg Share (%) | Avg Viewers (000’s) | Vs Last Wk | |
| 10:00 PM | |||
| Gutfeld! (FNC)† 4 first-run episodes | 5.32 | 2,788 | 0% |
| Watch What Happens Live (Bravo)* 1 first-run episode | 0.48 | 194 | -24% |
| 11:00 PM | |||
| The Daily Show (COM)* Dark | — | — | — |
| 11:35 PM | |||
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC) 4 repeats | 5.04 | 1,453 | +3% |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) 5 repeats | 4.12 | 1,174 | -21% |
| Comics Unleashed (CBS)* 3 first-run episodes, 2 repeats | 2.46 | 779 | -5% |
| 12:00 AM | |||
| FIFA World Cup on FOX After Hours with James Corden (FOX) 6 first-run episodes | 4.43 | 902 | +38% |
| 12:05 AM | |||
| Comics Unleashed (CBS)* 5 repeats | 2.21 | 523 | -9% |
| 12:35 AM | |||
| Funny You Should Ask (CBS)* 5 repeats | 2.22 | 434 | -14% |
| 12:37 AM | |||
| Nightline (ABC)* 4 first-run episodes | 4.48 | 879 | +3% |
| Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) 5 repeats | 3.63 | 651 | -6% |
| 1:05 AM | |||
| Funny You Should Ask (CBS)* 5 repeats | 2.39 | 389 | -15% |
Live+ 3 Ratings — In the Demo (P18-49)
| Avg Share (%) | Avg Viewers (000’s) | Vs Last Wk | |
| 10:00 PM | |||
| Gutfeld! (FNC)† 4 first-run episodes | 1.30 | 161 | -14% |
| Watch What Happens Live (Bravo)* 1 first-run episode | 0.76 | 60 | -9% |
| 11:00 PM | |||
| The Daily Show (COM)* Dark | — | — | — |
| 11:35 PM | |||
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC) 4 repeats | 2.57 | 167 | +11% |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) 5 repeats | 2.21 | 143 | -23% |
| Comics Unleashed (CBS)* 3 first-run episodes, 2 repeats | 1.29 | 89 | -3% |
| 12:00 AM | |||
| FIFA World Cup on FOX After Hours with James Corden (FOX)* 6 first-run episodes | 7.71 | 324 | +54% |
| 12:05 AM | |||
| Comics Unleashed (CBS)* 5 repeats | 1.12 | 56 | -29% |
| 12:35 AM | |||
| Funny You Should Ask (CBS)* 5 repeats | 1.16 | 47 | -42% |
| 12:37 AM | |||
| Nightline (ABC)* 4 first-run episodes | 2.06 | 84 | +12% |
| Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) 5 repeats | 2.31 | 84 | -2% |
| 1:05 AM | |||
| Funny You Should Ask (CBS)* 5 repeats | 1.41 | 46 | -36% |
Ratings data © The Nielsen Company, used under license.
It suggests the few people who still watch this dog shit are going enough to have families that attend school, and now that it’s summer vacation that are too busy traveling.
In reality, the boomers who watch these piles of dog shit in suits don’t have or need summer breaks because every day is summer for them since they are retired or never worked to begin with.
Just another reason why legacy media is circling the drain.
Guarantee this creepy jizz bucket will be stalking my comment since he only comments on mine. He’ll just repeat the same boring tripe with one or two sentences because he can’t even read.
More ageist hate from the loser millennial that won’t get a job because it thinks it’s special! Sad!
Literally the exact amount of words I said too.
Lazy cocksucker
Because there’s plenty of people who are fed up with your long winded hate screeds at everyone who’s not like you! Go out and get a job already, instead of wasting your life hanging around your mommy’s computer, all day!
The Boomers that watches Late Night have to spend time with their grandkids in the park during the summer. Fox News keeps steady ratings on the summer because the boomers that watch it are hated by their grandchildren
You assume Democrat boomers aren’t hated by their own grandkids.
It’s MAGAts whom their own children despise! You’d find out on your own, except no woman;s ever going to go 50 feet near you, much less touch you!
As someone that really likes the late night format and comedy on TV in general it pains me when I see the ratings of late night, because yes, the numbers are low, and yes, it’s a very old audience. It’s not sustainable on the long run, and I really don’t like it.
But I agree with Shlomo Goldberg commenting on Byron Allen: worse than having an audience that’s too old is having an audience that’s too old AND static. If Fox News viewers spend time with their grandkids this doesn’t appear on the ratings.
You recognize how dire it is. I don’t quite understand the last part about Fox News. It could be true because Fox News has a mostly Boomer audience. The difference is their product is somehow evergreen enough to continually retain the same viewership no matter what the ‘talent.’ Jesse Watters replaced Tucker Carlson, who replaced Bill O’Reilly…yet the ratings remain unchanged. They also pioneered the cocktail waitress aesthetic with the fake highlighter hair and short skirt. Somehow it still seduces Boomers who like to think they are in a strip club. I don’t have television so I have no idea what it is now.
Yet you think you have the right to critique late night shows!
You’re in dire need of a vicious face spanking, twiggy you zero!
Nobody is talking to you yet you listen in and chime in on every comment.
You’re like that creepy old guy trying to butt into every conversation. Then everybody moves away from you until they just stop going to the bar period to avoid you.
And they’re telling you you’re a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti Semitic loser, who should be going out getting a job, instead of wasting your time hanging around your mommy’s computer, shitposting their hate to the world!
So why the fuck aren’t you doing that, you hate filled parasite? Do you think that you’re superior because you’re a mediocre asswipe? Cuz, fuck no, you’re not!
Yet nobody talks to you and nobody has an issue with what I post besides you. Nobody falls for your liberal boomer shtick. It’s fake and old hat. People like honesty. It’s why Archie Bunker was so popular and meathead wasn’t. It’s ironic because it’s the young who are honest and the old fogies like you who are dishonest.
It helps them I’m funny and you’re not.
Out with the old, in with the new.
You’re as funny as a loaded diaper! People react to you, not because you’re interesting and beloved! Quite the opposite! You’re revolting and despised! Since when does someone take your racist, sexist, homophobic, anti Semitic garbage and responded to you by saying “YEAH!!!” and “RIGHT ON!!!” No one! Because you’re a horrible excuse of a being looking for attention in the worst way possible!
Face it Zero, if this place was moderated normally, your ass would have been kicked out from the very start! Maybe they will in the not too distant future! Till then, be very uncomfortable, loser!
I don’t know how you shit snaps keep track of each other because you never use the same god damn screen names.
He just posts the same braindead Boomer barf like it’s some sort of ejaculation.
See, now you Christ killers got me typing profane grotesqueries, but unlike you all I would never say these words aloud.
He scans all the comment sections for mine alone. It’s so creepy. I can almost empathize with women when AIDS-riddled faggots like him hit on me once a year. They really do feel entitled to your energy, time and attention.
Your shit here has nothing to do with the topic at hand! All you do is post your whiny grievances with big heaping scoops of hate and bigotry towards people not like you! You think you’re some truth teller standing up for what you believe to be true, when in reality, you’re a racist shit poster that needs a whole lot of therapy!
You are not a liked person here, as Shlomo and Andre have already let you know! You aren’t contributing anything positive to this site! You’re a loser that needs to be knocked down on your ass! And, as long as you keep using this site for your shitposting, I will be here to react to your ignorance with a verbal face spanking, every…single…time!
You don’t like it, I don’t care! You gonna learn, bitchboi!
Love Jimmy Kimmel!!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😊😊😊
Please cancel his show. It’s just Horrible
It’s not your decision to make!
If they would move away from the negativity (Politics), people would flock to these shows again. Jimmy, Stephen and others have killed the format thinking they have great “Import.” They are ONLY high-paid MEDIOCRE “talent.” Get over thyselves. This is why Stephen lost his show and is now likely drinking himself to death.
The people are pissed off that Colbert and Kimmel are being attacked for speaking truth to power about Drumpf! Seems they WANT them to keep attacking them!
And Colbert has options open for him, like a Hobbit project, and not ‘drinking himself to death’ as you low IQ mouth breathing losers are suggesting!