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Fox News Bets on Comedy, but Not Only for Laughs
Fox News is giving more time on its primetime schedule to comedy-styled shows led by Jimmy Failla and Greg Gutfeld
MSNBC in 2016 enlisted Michael Che and Colin Jost, the hosts of “Weekend Update” on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” to sit with analyst in late-night hours and discuss the headlines coming out of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. We are like a chill the f—k out show.” He writes his own jokes and sketches, and takes great delight in a letter he received from NBC’s Jimmy Fallon congratulating him on launching the Fox News series, as well as a cooler filled with Ben & Jerry’s “Tonight Dough” ice cream. That, in part, is what Fox News has been banking on, especially for “Gutfeld.” The network has made an aggressive effort to compare the ratings for that program against those of CBS, NBC and ABC’s late-night series, and, more recently, against the return of Jon Stewart on Comedy Central.
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