Fox News<\/a> host Greg Gutfeld<\/a>, a favorite of Donald Trump<\/a>, was a guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a> on Thursday as the president continues to hint that the SNL alum and fellow late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> could be about to lose their jobs<\/a>. <\/p>\n Gutfeld was warmly received by Fallon, with the two men steering clear of politics as the conservative given the floor to tell a lengthy anecdote<\/a> about his first encounter with Fallon in a bar in Hell\u2019s Kitchen at which both parties were \u201cwasted\u201d and engaged in a drunken wrestling bout. The former Maxim editor then rattled through his pre-Fox career and promoted his new game show, What Did I Miss?<\/p>\n \u201cThis is hilarious \u2013 we’ve met before,\u201d Fallon opened with. \u201cYes, you have no memory of it. Which is understandable, because we were wasted,\u201d the former Red Eye host said. <\/p>\n The two continued to banter about drunkenly wrestling each other. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd you run towards me, and you tackle me, like you’re a giant golden retriever. You’re like on top of me. And so we’re wrestling. We’re wrestling. And then you change, and you start wrestling my buddy Andy, and you’re wrestling him. And you guys get on the ground. You guys are now on the ground wrestling,\u201d Gutfeld told the audience, who gave the host a generally warm reception. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Fox News host Greg Gutfeld guests on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Thursday August 7 2025 (The Tonight Show\/NBC)<\/p>\n Last week, Gutfeld alluded to his upcoming appearance with Fallon, saying it would be the \u201cbiggest crossover since the Harlem Globetrotters visited the Golden Girls.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cUnlike the other guys, Jimmy sitting with me proves he\u2019s not afraid of upsetting his peers or afraid of my mesmerizing charm,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Fallon has shown his willingness to be pragmatic about humoring the right before, famously hosting Trump in September 2016, two months before his victory win over Hillary Clinton<\/a>, and ruffling the New York property tycoon\u2019s blonde hair to check whether it was real.<\/p>\n The gesture alienated some of The Tonight Show\u2019s audience, and Fallon later expressed regret over it<\/a>, telling The New York Times in 2017: \u201cI didn\u2019t do it to humanize him. I almost did it to minimize him. I didn\u2019t think that would be a compliment: \u2018He did the thing that we all wanted to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n In another interview with NBC\u2019s Today the same year, Fallon said political comedy is \u201cjust not what I do,\u201d<\/a> adding: \u201cI don\u2019t really even care that much about politics. I love pop culture more than I love politics.\u201d <\/p>\n The comedian subsequently complained about the negative response<\/a> his segment with the Republican had attracted, telling The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s Awards Chatter podcast he felt like asking the public: \u201cSo now what? Are you happy? I\u2019m depressed. Do you want to push me more? What do you want me to do? You want me to kill myself? What would make you happy? Get over it. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sorry. I don\u2019t want to make anyone angry \u2013 I never do and I never will. It\u2019s all in the fun of the show. I made a mistake. I\u2019m sorry if I made anyone mad. And looking back, I would do it differently.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump himself was angered over Fallon\u2019s \u201cwhimpering\u201d attempts to distance himself from the controversy, rebuking him on Twitter: \u201cBe a man Jimmy!\u201d<\/p>\n The host did make one risque joke at the president\u2019s expense in his opening monologue to Thursday\u2019s show, shortly before Gutfeld was introduced, discussing Trump\u2019s tariff program coming into effect and remarking: \u201cThe only places Trump didn\u2019t [tariff] are North Korea and Epstein Island.\u201d <\/p>\n The president appears to have his late-night detractors in his sights right now and was asked at a press conference on Wednesday about \u201cshock jock\u201d Howard Stern\u2019s Sirius XM radio show reportedly being brought to an end<\/a>, shortly after Paramount cancelled CBS\u2019s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a>, and whether that meant anti-Trump comedy was facing extinction.<\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Fallon and fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel are facing the axe (Getty)<\/p>\n \u201cWell, it hasn\u2019t worked,\u201d the president answered. \u201cAnd it hasn\u2019t worked, really, for a long time, and I would say pretty much from the beginning. Colbert has no talent.<\/p>\n \u201cI mean, I could take anybody here. I could go outside in the beautiful streets and pick a couple of people that do just as well or better. They\u2019d get higher ratings than he did. He\u2019s got no talent.<\/p>\n \u201cFallon has no talent. Kimmel has no talent. They\u2019re next. They\u2019re going to be going. I hear they\u2019re going to be going. I don\u2019t know, but I would imagine because they\u2019d get \u2013 you know, Colbert has better ratings than Kimmel or Fallon.\u201d<\/p>\n By contrast, Trump has long been a champion of Gutfeld, posting a Fox press release celebrating his high ratings on Truth Social last September and writing<\/a> in all-caps: \u201cGUTFELD! NOTCHES LARGEST AUDIENCE IN PROGRAM HISTORY WITH NEARLY FIVE MILLION VIEWERS DURING INTERVIEW WITH FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.\u201d <\/p>\n![\"Fox](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Gutfeld-Fallon.png\")
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