Greg Gutfeld Does Long Interview With the NY Times: Talks Conservatives, Culture, and Late Night
“I put the people I don’t know in a different kind of room, but I make fun of everybody that I love, and relentlessly.”
FOX News host Greg Gutfeld did a long-form interview with the New York Times this weekend that is worth checking out. During the course of their discussion, Greg talks about the success of his nightly show, humor and culture on the right, and much more.
Of course, this is still the New York Times, so interviewer David Marchese does what he can to try to bait Gutfeld into bashing Trump and conservatives in general. To his credit, Gutfeld never gives him the satisfaction.
Here’s how the conversation kicks off, via the NY Times:
I want to start with the biggest stories in late night this year: the impending cancellation of Colbert and Kimmel’s suspension. Do you remember what your immediate reaction to the news of both was? Why did it take so long? I had crushed them like bugs, David. I’d crushed them and thrown them into the wind, and they were still here. I call it entertainment welfare. The only reason why they were around for so long, despite the fact that their numbers were dropping, was the fact that they toed the line. I don’t think it was political. I didn’t know anybody — and I’m counting my many liberal friends — who watched them, and I think it’s because it wasn’t entertainment anymore. It was more like a therapy session for people that were upset at the world.
You don’t give any credence to the notion that there were larger corporate-political considerations that went into what happened? I don’t think so. There’s never been anybody who’s ever really folded because of Trump saying, “You suck.” Was it extra noise in the story? Probably. But I honestly think that the grumbling was already there.
You described their shows as being therapy sessions for people who are mad at the world. Is there not a way in which your show functions similarly? Oh, no. Our show is fun.
You can be fun and mad at the same time. You can. But generally, I like to be part of the punching bag, and I encourage that among the guests. The teasing makes it fun. And also I genuinely like people that I tease. In fact, if you want to know the people I don’t like, it’s the people that I don’t tease.
So you must love the women of “The View.” Yes! I love Whoopi.
You must be a big fan of Rosie O’Donnell? I put the people I don’t know in a different kind of room, but I make fun of everybody that I love, and relentlessly.
Here are a couple of quick clips to give you an idea of how the interview goes:
.@greggutfeld: Leftwing late-night shows have been propped up by “entertainment welfare."
“I crush them like bugs. The only reason why they were around for so long, despite the fact that their numbers were dropping, was the fact that they towed the line."
But what about Trump?… pic.twitter.com/th5yh3Cq1U
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) November 8, 2025
NEW: Greg Gutfeld is going viral with the biggest MIC DROP moment when a podcaster from The NY Times tried complaining about Planned Parenthood receiving mean letters.
Gutfeld: “Well, I mean, they are killing kids.”
GOLD 🔥 pic.twitter.com/ONbdVB4R4q
— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) November 8, 2025
You can watch the whole thing below:
Featured image via YouTube.
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I don’t watch any of the late-night talk shows, and I never have. That being said, whatever I watch in the evening, I want to be at least somewhat entertaining.
The Kimmels and Colberts of the “entertainment” world have become insufferable. They’re not funny,,and they come off as lecturing their audiences. They don’t even entertain the majority of people who agree with them politically.
Search youtube in the morning for Gutfeld e.g. 11/10/25 and filter for today, and pick the 39-40 minute long one. The previous night’s show without commercials is always there bootlegged by somebody, usually Asia or Arab based.
I stopped when CBS replaced the hilarious and brilliant Craig Ferguson for that bloated non entity, James Corden.
Craig was simply funny and didn’t need a political crutch; he had Geoff!
Gutfeld is turning into more of an applause show instead of a joke show, as the left has been mostly vanquished and they lack a target. The guests spend more and more of their time preaching the party line to each other instead of massively ridiculing a serious-minded left.
Clearly you dont watch the Greg Gut show
It’s funny, the guest rotate , at least 2 and quite frankly it’s entertaining
And yes, he laughs at himself
I watch the extended clips on YouTube. I find much of his humor forced, and his gutter mouth gets old fast.
That being said, much of the commentary is interesting.
Not only his gutter mouth but also that of his guests. Hearing a (physically) very attractive woman getting bleeped several times in less than a minute is very off-putting. She turns ugly quickly.
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Yes, I notice that woman with the mouth of a streetwalker.
Forced…. Um, yup, how about the forced attempts to trap him or trip him up…… It is the NYCrimes after all, clearly unbiased….. Please
I’m talking his monologues, not the interview.
I watch every day.
You get the same party line that you do in right wing comment sections, in short, having conquered the left mostly. Clickbait/applause is the rising format.
Making fun of yourself for supposing that you’re right doesn’t come up, which would be true making fun of yourself. Also responsive to how language works. Nothing you start out proving winds up proved because the words shift, you try to take in too much context.
I highly doubt Gutfield would care about the opinions of the most laughably pretentious pseudo intellectual comments section jumper whose existence revolves around trying to convince people you’re brilliant by name dropping post modern literary critics you read as an undergrad. But do let us know when a human female allows you to touch her intimately. I’m sure everyone here as well as at Althouse where you spend your dateless and miserable hours will all give you a round of applause.
What he gets so well is humility;you can and should laugh at yourself! This is what the left forgot with their preachy holier than thou sermon style comedy; that consisted of them preaching the woke to loud applause; it wasn’t funny, it was angry and it was insufferable. Gutfield takes us back to when there were the Conan O’Briens on TV and Jay Lenos who spent as much time poking fun at themselves as they did everyone else. The left is funny, the right is funny, there’s a lot of comedy gold out there, in terms of stupid and insane behavior on all the spectrum of politics.
Buy the left is not funny
I’ll watch Gutfeld two or three times a month, but that’s all because it’s basically the same show every time. Very funny, but how many times do you want to laugh at the same basic joke? I wish he’d broaden it out and make it less relentlessly political. I don’t want it to be mush or anything, but it’s monotonous pretty quickly. His show could be quite a bit better.
I’m sure he’ll take your advice…. For fear of being colberted or Kimmeled….
On the turf of the Fake News? That takes guts, Gutfeld
Interesting interview. Actually I was impressed by Marchese. Sure, there were “gotcha” questions, though not that many. He had read Greg’s books. He was prepared. He challenged Greg, which was fine.
We need more conversations like this. Left talking to Right. Willing to take the risk. The goal isn’t to convince the other that my ideology is correct and yours is wrong. It’s to convey my belief system and how that guides my choices, political and otherwise.
We really DO need to convince the other side that it is wrong.
While there are undoubtedly many on the Left who will not even listen, there are more reasonable people who would give reason, logic, and facts a fair listen.
We can no longer agree to disagree, as our country’s fate is at stake, and we need as many people as possible to realize that the founding principles are the only path to prosperity.
That might be the ultimate goal. But the first step is to get both sides together having civil discourse, listening to each other’s perspectives. I can’t convince you that your stance is wrong if I don’t understand the path you have taken to arrive there.
The Left is unwilling to act in a civil fashion, and like a spoiled child that continues to cry and kick and scream, it needs to be shown its behavior is wrong and will not be accepted by others who are agreeing to disagree.
Over a century of compromise and retreat on the Right have put the country on the brink.