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American late-night talk show
Since its debut in January 2003, Jimmy Kimmel Live! moved from regularly drawing multi‑million linear TV audiences in its early years to a much smaller but still competitive late‑night audience by the...
Jimmy Kimmel did not secretly air or reveal President Trump’s IQ test results; instead he publicly offered and promoted a televised “IQ test” stunt on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, played clips of Trump boastin...
Fox News’ Gutfeld! has repeatedly posted than legacy network late-night shows in several recent snapshots, but the lead varies by timeframe, demographic, and single-night spikes; Nielsen-style monthly...
Recent ratings snapshots for Q2 2025 show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert led the traditional 11:35 p.m. broadcast late‑night hour with about 2.42 million average viewers, followed by Jimmy Kimmel ...
Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s 2025 ratings show versus 2024 averages, driven largely by a late‑September rebound and a strong Brooklyn week, but the picture is uneven when comparing discrete quarters and metri...
Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show led network late-night in viewers and the key 18–49 demographic in the early run after his 2014 debut, often outdrawing Stephen Colbert’s Late Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live th...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! posted modest overall growth in 2025 but remained in a competitive middle tier among network late-night shows: the show averaged roughly , and produced several standout spikes tied ...
The claim that former President Donald Trump has an objectionable body odor has appeared in a mix of satirical pieces, personal anecdotes, fact-checks, and mainstream commentary; the most prominent or...
Greg Gutfeld’s show registered the largest year‑over‑year gains among the late‑night programs tracked in Q2 2025, growing +31.5% in total viewers and +24% in the 18–49 demo versus Q2 2024 (LateNighter...
Jimmy Fallon opened The Tonight Show in 2014 with a — boosted by favorable scheduling and promotional lift . Since that debut the show’s viewership trajectory has been mixed: long-term decline versus ...
The three supplied analyses do not provide a figure for the of Jimmy Kimmel Live!. All sources instead focus on the show's suspension, staff payment plans, and the broader decline in late-night econom...
In 2025, reporting shows Jimmy Kimmel Live! continued to draw viewers concentrated in the industry’s prized 18–49 demographic while overall linear audience levels fluctuated between season averages ar...
Late‑night linear viewership has trended sharply downward over the past decade even as the composition of the audience shifts toward younger, digital‑first viewers; Jimmy Kimmel’s show illustrates bot...
Several specific social‑media posts by and about Charlie Kirk triggered major platform and advertiser reactions after his September 10 assassination. Platforms broadly took actions such as “do not amp...
The available Nielsen-based quarter summaries show Jimmy Kimmel Live! generally draws more total viewers than The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon but fewer than The Late Show with Stephen Colbert —...
after his controversial remarks; instead, the documented responses primarily targeted others who commented on or reacted to incidents involving Kirk, and platforms focused on moderating graphic or vio...
Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s ratings picture is mixed: some recent snapshots show , while others show , indicating that short-term swings and context matter more than a single trendline . Independent year‑ove...
Jimmy Kimmel Live! finished 2024 as a middle-tier performer among U.S. late-night shows: it averaged roughly total viewers across reported periods and roughly in the 18–49 demo, with performance fluct...
The available, recent reporting shows Jimmy Kimmel Live! had an outlier return episode in late September 2025 that drew about , but Nielsen estimates for the broader 2025 period put the show’s typical...
Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s typical audience immediately before his brief departure averaged about during the 2024–25 season, but his comeback episode drew a one-off , roughly four times the season average. ...