Greg Gutfeld is a Superstar
Greg is a friend of mine, and a guy I admire hugely. I've often appeared on his pitch-perfect Red-Eye show on FoxNews, and am really loving his appearances on The Five, FoxNews' new afternoon show.
So, with those disclosures aside, let me offer major congratulations to my friend and superstar Greg Gutfeld, who is responsible today for causing executives and on-air talent at MSNBC and CNN to lose their lunches. From Deadline Hollywood:
CNN’s 9 PM anchor Piers Morgan Tonight is regularly pummeled in the ratings by its Fox News primetime counterparts. But in October, it also got beat by Fox News’ overnight program Red Eye, which airs at 3 AM.
The talk show hosted by Greg Gutfeld averaged the largest audience in its five-year history (446,000) as well as 177,000 in adults 25-54. In the demo, it edged Piers Morgan (176,000) at 9 PM as well as a slew of other cable news programs in way more trafficked time slots: CNN’s Erin Burnett Outfront (146,000) at 7 PM, MSNBC’s Morning Joe (141,000) from 6-9 AM, MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews (163,000) at 5 PM and 7 PM, HLN’s Nancy Grace(157,000) at 8 PM, and CNN’s John King USA (121,000) at 6 PM.
A moderate-conservative funny show at 3AM beats CNN, MSNBC, and HLN. Beats John King, Chris Matthews, Nancy Grace, and Piers Morgan. And not by a hair, either. Decisively. This is big.
What do I mean, this will cause the CNN and MSNBC executives and on-air talent to lose their lunches? They're going to have to change their pants.
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Oct '10
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Can Greg be on the next podcast then?
Oct '10
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Doublepost
Edited on Nov 1, 2011 at 2:49pmDec '10
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But it's not like CNN/HLN or MSNBC are in business to make a profit. I mean, if they were, they'd care whether they're producing a product that consumers want.
Unless... they're the kind of "businesspeople" who think that the problem is that the consumers are just too dense to realize how much they really, deep down, want the marvellous product they're peddling, and that once they figure out the right messaging for their promotional campaigns, they'll pull in the massive ratings.
Jan '11
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What they need to do is give Keith Olbermann a show at three in the AM; that'll put Greg in his place.
Jul '11
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I used to be a big fan of The Daily Show BEFORE John Stewart made it all about lefty politics. Greg's Red Eye definitely filled that void for me. I am a regular, and I suspect that I don't even get counted - since I record the show each nigh and watch it the next morning with my cup of coffee...
You Go Greg!
Dec '10
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Maybe he can finally hire a better looking cabana boy.
Mar '11
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Every morning I
Red-Eye isn't my only news source, but it is the one TV show I watch with any regularity.
Dec '10
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Nobody wants to see Banshee Pelosi or DWS in the "leg" chair.
Jan '11
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Gutfeld's an entertaining guy.
I get the feeling that he could be very serious if he wanted to be, but chooses to laugh instead. I'm grateful for that; I usually need a laugh more than "penetrating political analysis." He's not a mere goof, and he's not an angry comic. He's just funny.
If you could bottle that and sell it, you'd make a fortune.
May '10
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No. Or I very much doubt it. Red Eye isn't a show where you're on for five minutes with an opinion about one topic, or just reading news off a prompter. It's an all-day writing gig, with modest-to-nonexistent staff. Add The Five to that, and it's like Hannity doing three hours of radio plus a primetime show. Hard work. I hope he's laughing all the way to the bank. He's got a Russian mail-order bride to support.
As Ricochet's foremost Twitter authority on Red Eye (being followed by Lauren Sivan, Mahsa Saeidi-Azcue and Kinsey Schofield, to name a few), it's surprising that people are surprised by this ratings news. There have been weeks when they beat the entire CNN primetime line-up. This is nothing new.
And still they run commercials for Slap-Chop and adult diapers...
Aug '10
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I wish Fox would move Red-Eye after the 10pm O'Reilly repeat to 11pm Central. I would much rather watch that than Hannity...
Mar '11
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It might mean they just double down on the mud slinging, he generates an amazing amount of hate among liberal types. Timely example recounted in his recent blog bit, "Why I Love Unicorns and hate Twitter.", just within the past few days. With these numbers out heads may start exploding.
Edited on Nov 1, 2011 at 6:39pmAug '10
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Red Eye is the only show I watch without fail (on my TiVo). If I have time, I also watch Special Report, and maybe O'Reilly once in a while.
It's really quite a brilliant concept. While other talk shows feature every celebrity under the sun who's got a movie or book or album to flog, Greg has decided he doesn't need to scout so far afield for talent: he just has his friends on. And he has a lot of friends. A typical guest may appear not once a year, but once a month, or once every couple of weeks. And while one might fear a sort of sameness creeping in, nothing of the sort actually happens. Instead, many of the guests develop on-air relationships which make the show all the more interesting. Like Dana Vachon and Jesse Jocye's insane verbal sparring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFFGYIPxNUg
Nothing like that ever happens on Leno.
May '10
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Had a convo last night with Dana! About The Walking Dead and Downton Abbey. I did OK, but it's a little intimidating. Hard to keep up. (Really made me wish I had a drink, actually). That's what makes him such a fun substitute ombudsman. Keeps the guests in a state of confusion, and it's interesting to see how they roll with it.
I much prefer the scary, whip-cracking ombudsmen to the nice ones for that reason.
Feb '11
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Gregologues are a wonder. It's on 3 AM for a reason, so they can joke about adult topics sometimes, but the shared sense of ease and good humor is welcome and their collective laughter is infectious. It's nice when smart people on our side succeed.
Aug '11
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Three cheers for the gnome in a salmon sweater!
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Respect.
May '10
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It's amazing how small success is measured in television these days. In the second week of the 1965-66 season, ABC's The Jimmy Dean Show (yeah, singing sausage king) finished 85th in the Nielsens with a 12.3 rating.
If you did a 12.3 today, that would have placed you 4th last week in primetime.
Jul '11
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EJHill: It's amazing how small success is measured in television these days. In the second week of the 1965-66 season, ABC's The Jimmy Dean Show (yeah, singing sausage king) finished 85th in the Nielsens with a 12.3 rating.
If you did a 12.3 today, that would have placed you 4th last week in primetime. · Nov 1 at 6:03pm
There may be one or two more channels on the boob tube today as opposed to 1965... Not to mention the interwebs!
Jun '10
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Kennedy Smith
And still they run commercials for Slap-Chop and adult diapers... · Nov 1 at 3:43pm
Hey, there are a few us for whom adult diapers are becoming a more interesting and necessary consumer product.