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Jimmy Kimmel signed off for summer break last week with a decisive win, topping the 11:35 field in both total viewers and adults 18–49 despite a comedown from the prior week’s sports-fueled near-season highs.
According to Nielsen Live+3 ratings data, Jimmy Kimmel Live! averaged 2.55 million total viewers (–17 percent) and 274,000 adults 18–49 (–50 percent) for the week of June 14, 2026. The show returns July 6 with a rotating lineup of guest hosts.
Kimmel’s week-to-week declines came after the show benefited the week prior from highly rated NBA Finals and Stanley Cup Finals lead-ins. Even so, the ABC late-night show handily beat its 11:35 p.m. competition and outpaced Comedy Central’s The Daily Show for the week’s top demo audience among all the shows we track.
NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon averaged 1.30 million total viewers (–5 percent) and 184,000 adults 18–49 (–3 percent) across three original episodes and two repeats. The show’s Monday night Knicks takeover produced a 31 percent lift week over week in total viewers and a 73 percent jump among younger viewers, but Tonight was unable to hold those gains across the rest of the week, with an extra Thursday repeat further weighing on its average.
At 12:37 a.m., NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers held steady in total viewers, averaging 909,000 (flat), while falling 19 percent in the demo to 101,000 adults 18–49. ABC’s Nightline averaged 1.01 million total viewers (–19 percent) and 108,000 adults 18–49 (–60 percent) across five original broadcasts.
On CBS, the network’s two-hour Byron Allen-produced late-night block saw audience gains nearly across the board in its latest full week, though it remained well behind its broadcast competitors. Averaging its two half-hour telecasts, Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen drew 695,000 total viewers and 92,000 adults 18–49 across the 11:35 p.m. hour—less than a third of Kimmel’s total audience and just over half of Fallon’s.
The show’s first half-hour averaged 808,000 total viewers (+5 percent) and 104,000 adults 18–49 (+22 percent), while its 12:05 a.m. repeat drew 581,000 viewers (+9 percent) and 79,000 adults 18–49 (+31 percent).
Averaging its two half-hour telecasts, Funny You Should Ask drew 443,000 total viewers and 57,000 adults 18–49 across the 12:35 a.m. hour. Its first half-hour averaged 472,000 total viewers (+23 percent) and 61,000 adults 18–49 (+24 percent), followed by 414,000 total viewers (–5 percent) and 52,000 adults 18–49 (+3 percent) at 1:05 a.m.
Switching to cable, Gutfeld! (which airs on Fox News at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT) drew the largest overall audience among the shows we track, averaging 2.93 million total viewers (+3 percent) across five original episodes. The show drew 166,000 adults 18–49 (–9 percent).
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show averaged 1.11 million total viewers (+7 percent) and 256,000 adults 18–49 (+29 percent) across four original episodes.
Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live averaged 227,000 total viewers (–22 percent) and 59,000 adults 18–49 (–19 percent) across five original episodes.
Complete ratings charts for the week of June 14, 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)† 5 first-run episodes | 5.69 | 2,930 | +3% |
| Watch What Happens Live (Bravo)* 5 first-run episodes | 0.47 | 227 | -22% |
| 11:00 PM | |||
| The Daily Show (COM)* 4 first-run episodes | 3.10 | 1,106 | +7% |
| 11:35 PM | |||
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC) 3 first-run episodes, 2 repeats | 9.39 | 2,549 | -17% |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) 3 first-run episodes, 2 repeats | 4.98 | 1,296 | -5% |
| Comics Unleashed (CBS)* 5 first-run episodes | 2.74 | 808 | +5% |
| 12:05 AM | |||
| Comics Unleashed (CBS)* 5 repeats | 2.50 | 581 | +9% |
| 12:35 AM | |||
| Funny You Should Ask (CBS)* 5 repeats | 2.42 | 472 | +23% |
| 12:37 AM | |||
| Nightline (ABC)* 5 first-run episodes | 5.14 | 1,007 | -19% |
| Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) 4 first-run episodes, 1 repeat | 5.30 | 909 | 0% |
| 1:05 AM | |||
| Funny You Should Ask (CBS)* 5 repeats | 2.53 | 414 | -5% |
Live+ 3 Ratings — In the Demo (P18-49)
| US Share (%) | US AA Proj (000’s) | Vs Last Wk | |
| 10:00 PM | |||
| Gutfeld! (FNC)† 5 first-run episodes | 1.36 | 166 | -9% |
| Watch What Happens Live (Bravo)* 5 first-run episodes | 0.50 | 59 | -19% |
| 11:00 PM | |||
| The Daily Show (COM)* 4 first-run episodes | 3.29 | 256 | +29% |
| 11:35 PM | |||
| Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC) 3 first-run episodes, 2 repeats | 4.81 | 274 | -50% |
| The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (NBC) 3 first-run episodes, 2 repeats | 3.40 | 184 | -3% |
| Comics Unleashed (CBS)* 5 first-run episodes | 1.62 | 104 | +22% |
| 12:05 AM | |||
| Comics Unleashed (CBS)* 5 repeats | 1.63 | 79 | +31% |
| 12:35 AM | |||
| Funny You Should Ask (CBS)* 5 repeats | 1.53 | 61 | +24% |
| 12:37 AM | |||
| Nightline (ABC)* 5 first-run episodes | 2.66 | 108 | -60% |
| Late Night with Seth Meyers (NBC) 4 first-run episodes, 1 repeat | 2.90 | 101 | -19% |
| 1:05 AM | |||
| Funny You Should Ask (CBS)* 5 repeats | 1.58 | 52 | +3% |
Ratings data © The Nielsen Company, used under license.
The ratings bump already evaporated. The fake controversy last summer last many times longer and far larger. Colbert’s dwindling audience disappeared forever.
Notice how neither Kimmel nor his bosses even tried to maintain this momentum because they already know that it won’t last and it doesn’t matter because he’s done in 2027 (and 2028 at the latest).
It has nothing to do with Trump, just like the NFL ratings collapse in 2016-2017 had nothing to do with players kneeling.
Boomers in both parties just want to believe these fairytales for some bizarre reason because it motivates them somehow.
Huh? Wha?
Take your shit elsewhere, and never darken our doors again!
No kidding. The NFL dominates the ratings in the Fall and winter.
It’s still hilarious to me that with Colbert no longer on, his viewers moved over to Kimmel and are now beating Gutfeld in the ratings despite Gutfeld being on an hour earlier.
Greg is sold on the 25-54 Demo.
Like you, bitchboi!
He does great with boomers who fall asleep in their recliners with Fox News on and trailer park wife beaters with fetal alcohol syndrome like you.
you support the party that hates Jews. Good for you GOLBERG
And Hezbollah is wanting up the gas chambers.
And you’re gonna fucking lose, badly, like ALL Nazis do!
All you Gentiles are CLUELESS. And I support neither party. If you really want a functioning government, get rid of the MAGAs and neoliberals and replace them all with Jews, who tend to have higher IQs and levels of education than other groups.
I know exactly how you think. I already know you small hats are not loyal to any party or ideology like communism even though you created it.
Because you Khazar kleptocrats are like hermit crabs. You find whatever hollow entity you can and use it as a shell until it becomes unwieldy or expires.
But no, letting you hook-noses have outright power, which you so desperately want (that’s why you’re all lining up so many senators, governors and presidential candidates next election) rather than hiding behind your shabbos goyim and golems is bad because it means you can’t pretend you don’t have all this power.
We live in a systems of checks and balances, but you all developed a strategy where you’re unaccountable until October 7, which was one of the greatest events ever next to the Malice at the Palace. You play-acting shysters took off the mask of every character you were deployed to play (see, Jud Suß 1941 or the Rothschild Family 1934 movie).
We used to have all these checks on your Kabbalic power until 1967. So rednecks even knew back then what your tribe was all about. Woody Guthrie would go around with his banjo trying to change that because he knew small hats were all communists back then.
And you all developed ‘Radical Centrism’ around this Nixonian era. Never letting the white left go too far or the white right, but instead the radical neocon center. That’s when you created ‘judeo-Christian.’ So all these dumb southerners would trip over themselves to send their sons to die for Israel.
That’s just the brief summary. Sloppily brilliant strategy, but we can see now IN THIS VERY CHAT that the remnants of this Zionist hurricane is now just a tropical storm with these propagandized boomers flitting about in impotent rage because everybody under 50 is Hitler online. They want the old way of life back where they dodged the draft during Vietnam and became pom-pom patriots for neocon wars their sons served in.
So no your new strategy would not work because you guys are flipping out now that you’re being checkmated by Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas and randomly in the streets back home now. You guys were somehow unprepared for this moment. I’m amazed. How long did you expect ZOG to last?
And you still don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about, Zero! Get some fucking help now, child!
Gutfeld isn’t late night . He’s prime time.
For some reason, this site insists on including him and Watch What Happens Live.
Comics Unleashed sucks.
imagine if Gutfeld was on FREE cable. Fox is a premium channel you have to pay for expanded cable. ABC comes free with Basic cable, practically given away for free.
Gutfeld would be 3 or 4 times as Kimmel
You know it, he knows it, etc
It’s not like Fox doesn’t have its own broadcast network
Gutfool has nothing outside his precious Fox News bubble! No network will touch him, because he’s a lying, bigoted sack of shit that would turn off decent people!
You MAGAturds are all lame and pathetic!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fox News is basic cable.
Even though Gutfeld can be somewhat funny or at least he was back in the Redeye days when I had television, anything on Fox News will get 3 million viewers. Tucker didn’t take his viewers with him, he built a new fan base. O’Reilly didn’t either. Boomers will watch whatever is on Fox News.
Because they speak to you like the overgrown, underdeveloped child that you are, bitchboi!
Wow, those stats are all over the place. Is late night comedy finally going the way of lack of interest?
Personally, I think the networks have “shot” themselves in the foot…to keep it clean.