Newsweek reported 13 months ago that Greg Gutfeld was the new king of late-night TV when, according to Nielsen data, his Fox News show, Gutfeld!, scored a larger weekly audience than those hosted by Jimmy Fallon on NBC, Jimmy Kimmel on ABC and Stephen Colbert on CBS.
Since then, Gutfeld has defeated the big three broadcast networks several more times, including a recent six-week run, perhaps cementing the notion that nonpartisan comedy—or at least partisanship in equal measure—from the likes of Johnny Carson and Jay Leno is a thing of the past.
Newsweek asked the new, sporadic, king of late night to weigh in on the matter in a Q&A, and he didn’t hold back his critique of the competition while also offering some advice to Sunny Hostin, a co-host of The View, who has had social media buzzing recently after she criticized conservative politician Nikki Haley for not using the Indian…
