The late-night pecking order remained largely unchanged during the period from October through December of 2025, but the trendlines tell a different story, with Jimmy Kimmel Live! logging the quarter’s most impressive ratings gains across 38 first-run epi... See more
It’s not unusual for Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert to say—or strongly imply—that Donald Trump is a dictator in their nightly monologues. Jimmy Fallon? Not so much. But on Thursday night, the Tonight Show host went there—at least in service of a joke. Th... See more
On Wednesday afternoon, a reporter for the website The Daily Caller posted a one-minute clip of Conan O’Brien speaking at the Oxford Union in November, framing it with the caption “NEW: Conan O’Brien ROASTS TDS-afflicted comedians.” Within hours, it had b... See more
First on LateNighter: With fewer original episodes on the schedule as the year wound down, late-night viewership in December held mostly steady, with The Late Show with Stephen Colbert closing out the fall with another win among total viewers at 11:35 p.m... See more
Stephen Colbert opened The Late Show Wednesday night not with a comedy bit, as he usually does, but with a condemnation of the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis earlier in the day by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Speaking dir... See more