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Late night is more lefty than ever — with 92% of jokes targeting the right and liberal guests outnumbering conservative ones almost 100 to 1, according to new data shared exclusively with The Post.
Jokes targeting conservatives rose 10% in 2025 from the year before, according to media watchdog NewsBusters, who went through 818 episodes this year.
It found that across the Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Taylor Tomlinson and Daily Show universe, 197 liberal guests appeared and only two conservative ones.
One was Fox host Greg Gutfeld, who appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in August, and the other was economist Oren Cass, a center-right policy analyst, who appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in April to talk about President Trump’s tariffs.
The shocking data comes at the end of a tumultuous year for late night comedy, marked by Jimmy Kimmel being temporarily yanked off the air in September after saying the “MAGA gang” tried scoring political points off Charlie Kirk’s savage public execution.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.
Kimmel was the most radical late-night host, according to the data – railing against the right 2,975 times last year, representing 97% of his jokes.
Some of his jokes were crude — like referring members of Trump’s cabinet as “AI-generated human vomits” to explain why the president’s cordial first meeting with NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
“Trump looks over in the corner. He sees JD Vance all sweaty and eager. He sees Stephen Miller sucking on his pinkies. He looks around at all these weird, unattractive, AI-generated human vomits in his office. And he’s like, ‘Why can’t I have this Mamdani around?'” said Kimmel.
Kimmel made fun of Trump 1,668 times over the course of his 155 episodes this year – or 11 jokes a show.
Trump was overwhelmingly the butt of the jokes across late night, with hosts targeting him a staggering 7,045 times. Last year that number was 5,980.
Earlier this month, Prince Harry took a jab at Trump during his awkward appearance on the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” that even people on the left found in bad taste.
The skit starts with the two debating whether Americans are obsessed with royalty, with Colbert saying they’re not, while Harry disagreed.
“Really? I heard you elected a king,” Harry said while boos and groans erupted from the audience.
“That was painful to watch, and I don’t like Trump,” wrote one commenter on social media.
“Another Colbert failure,” railed another.
In July, CBS announced it was canceling Colbert’s “Late Show” next May, citing financial reasons. His show had become a “therapy” session for the left, NewsBusters found.
Late night also campaigned for Mamdani, by telling 95 percent of its mayoral-election jokes about his rivals, with only three out of 63 jokes were about the socialist front-runner.
Colbert even hosted Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to for an unusual three-segment-long interview that included an attempt from both to push Mamdani on the rest of the country.
“His message of affordability, his message of the rights and dignity of working people, I think, is a very powerful one that, you know, it may open in New York, but like a Broadway show, it’s going to play very well in the national tour,” Colbert said to Warren.
“Well, this is the whole point,” agreed Warren.
“The numbers don’t lie,” said Media Research Center president David Bozell. “So-called late-night comedians are part of the entire elitist media complex that has fueled hatred of conservatives for years.”
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