Trump cancels Fallon, picks Fox ‘comic’ for Tonight Show
Gutfeld delights MAGAs by punching down
Jeffrey Denny
PHILADELPHIA, PA, Sept. 20, 2025 — Comcast/NBCUniversal announced that Greg Gutfeld, host of the Fox late-night comedy show “Gutfeld!”, will replace “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon by executive order of President Donald Trump.
Gutfeld, known for zingers like “Obama’s tenure had more dirty linen than Charlie Sheen’s hamper,” won the coveted 11:30 p.m. slot previously held by American comedy legends Steve Allen, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, and David Letterman.
Federal agents dragged Fallon from his Sagaponack, New York, home on charges of sedition and treason for joking about the president. The former Saturday Night Live cast member was reportedly sent to a comedy prison camp somewhere in U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s rural Georgia district.
The White House rejected claims that Trump picked Gutfeld because he “shamelessly sucked up” to the president. Comcast/NBCUniversal also denied that hiring Gutfeld was related to its bid, along with the Trump organization, and Fox Corp., before the Federal Communications Commission to purchase ABC, CBS, USA Network, The CW, Telemundo, GOD TV, and the rest of the 50 broadcast networks. “The president would never try to take over the media and create a massive propaganda machine on his behalf,” one executive said. “And we would never go along with that.”
“The radical socialist communist fascist Antifa America-hating left never misses a chance to spread lies about the greatest president history has ever seen,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. “As everyone knows, the president is a media genius. He fired Fallon for low ratings, a lack of talent, and because his so-called ‘humor’ is not in the public interest.”
Leavitt added that Trump, who appointed himself executive producer of The Tonight Show, believes Gutfeld is “the funniest man alive” even without resorting to mocking the most popular president in history.
Entertainment industry insiders noted this claim was literally true after Trump declared the careers of Gutfeld’s rivals, including Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jon Stewart, and John Oliver, officially dead. Bill Maher reportedly was spared because smug sanctimony is not considered humor.
Asked whether comedians have the right to mock presidents and politicians in a democracy, Leavitt banished the reporter from White House briefings. He was last seen at a Trump culture re-education camp at the Alligator Alcatraz prison complex in the Florida Everglades.
Gutfeld’s star continues to rise.
Trump, as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, selected Gutfeld for the 2026 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
The gala performance celebrating Gutfeld will feature a cavalcade of the biggest names in patriotic comedy, Tony Hinchcliffe. The comic was briefly famous for his viral bit at a 2024 Trump rally about how Puerto Rico is a “floating island of garbage” and for ethnic stereotypes about Latinos, Black people, Palestinians, and Jewish people.
Sources say the president’s heroically selfless scion, Donald Trump, Jr., is pressing NBC studios to develop a “must-see TV, by order of the President” sitcom for Hinchcliffe, titled “Hinchcliffe.” The show is about the comedian and three other white, patriotic, Christian male friends who are forced to live in a filthy, crime-ridden liberal city but endure by exchanging hilarious Bible quips about God slaughtering immigrants and LGBTQ people.
NBC executives, who “soiled themselves” over Trump Jr.’s “dazzling” pilot script, sources say, selected Hinchcliffe after Gutfeld accepted the Tonight Show role. “It’s too bad — Gutfeld could have been Seinfeld for God-fearing Christians in real America,” a network source said.
Broadcast TV network executives, speaking freely without fear of losing their jobs and seven-figure compensation, all rallied around Gutfeld as the perfect late-night voice of America and its beloved president.
Unlike the recent Antifa-affiliated late-night TV hosts, they say, Gutfeld believes the shows should entertain and bring people together. Hosts should send Americans to bed with laughter rather than partisan rage, as Gutfeld demonstrates with his classic gems:
— “Liz Warren fell on the Senate floor. Surprisingly, she did not yell ‘Geronimo’ after falling. Her new, jokingly attributed Indian name is ‘Fall On Ass’.”
— “Trump signed an executive order that will force the homeless off America’s streets and put them where they belong: on MSNBC’s Morning Joe”.
— “The Department of Health and Human Services will stop federal funding for sex changes on children. This implies that if a boy wants to get rid of his testicles, he will have to do it the ‘old-fashioned’ way by marrying Megan Markle.”
— “Caitlyn Jenner wrote on X that she is more masculine than Tim Waltz. She has no need for tampons.”
— On a new Fox News streaming service: “It’s like Netflix, but with less drag queens and more content that doesn’t make you want to gouge your eyes out.”
In selecting Gutfeld, Trump pledged to “Make comedy great again” by establishing a Trump Humor Commission.
The panel, led by Trump aide Stephen “Deadpan” Miller, will review comedians’ material to ensure they perform officially sanctioned “insult conservatism,” which is more bitter, sarcastic, mean-spirited, and inflammatory than humorous.
“The president is off limits,” Miller said. “As Mr. Gutfeld proves, there’s plenty of humor to be found in tearing apart poor immigrant families, mocking LGBTQ and transgenders, laughing at homeless people, and joking about the Holocaust and Nazism.”
Miller added, “It’s not funny if it doesn’t punch down. MAGAs deserve to feel good about themselves.”
Jeffrey Denny is a Washington writer.
