CBS canceled Stephen Colbert's show after years of cratering ratings.
His ratings had been dying for years – and last Greg Gutfeld showed America exactly why.
What he caught Colbert, Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Trevor Noah doing on the same night is something no self-respecting comedian should survive.
Gutfeld Caught Colbert Kimmel and Meyers Reading from the Same Script
President Trump posted an image on Truth Social holding a fistful of UNO wild cards, captioned "I HAVE ALL THE CARDS."
It was a flex. A meme. The kind of thing that makes Democrats reach for their laptops at midnight.
Colbert went first on CBS, mocking Trump for holding cards in a game where the winner ends up with none.
Seth Meyers told the same joke on NBC.
Then Kimmel told it on ABC.
And finally Trevor Noah told it wherever he still broadcasts.
Same setup. Same punchline. Four different shows. One night.
Greg Gutfeld rolled all four clips back to back and let the audience watch it happen in real time.
His reaction said everything: "The exact same joke. And I think the thing is, I don't even know what UNO is" – and he still understood it better than four alleged professional comedians did.
Kat Timpf and Michael Loftus Spotted What Four Writers Rooms Missed
Gerg Gutfeld's panel – comedian Michael Loftus and Fox News contributor Kat Timpf – didn't need long to finish the job.
Timpf went first: "If they all come from the same POV, then you will see a lot of the same jokes."
Then Loftus – an actual comedy writer who has worked on sitcoms – identified what four late-night writers rooms missed entirely.
Trump was holding wild cards.
Wild cards are the most powerful cards in the deck – they let you change the color, redirect the game, and force your opponents to draw more.
Loftus lit up: "Trump is holding the wild cards. He still going to win, you dumb a**!"
Millions of dollars in writers' salaries across four shows – and Gutfeld's panel spotted the hole in their joke inside 120 seconds.
Four Networks One Agenda by the Numbers
This was not bad luck.
A study released earlier this year found that 92% of all political jokes told on late-night television in 2025 targeted Republicans – up from 82% the year before.
Kimmel hit 97%.
When every joke points in one direction, you stop competing with the guy on the next network and start racing to out-Democrat him instead.
Loftus called it what it is: "This is the most horrible thing you can possibly imagine in late-night. Everyone telling the same joke."
They were proud of it.
Gutfeld Ratings Top 3 Million While Colbert Gets Canceled
Johnny Carson made fun of everybody.
The president, the politicians, Hollywood, the culture – nobody was safe and 30 million Americans tuned in every night because of it.
Gutfeld is pulling 3.3 to 3.7 million viewers a night.
Colbert peaked at 2.7 million before CBS pulled the plug.
Kimmel is torching what's left of his career making jokes so vile about Melania Trump that she went on record calling him a coward hiding behind ABC.
These men had the most coveted real estate in American entertainment – the last thing people watch before they go to sleep – and they chose a shrinking audience of people who already agree with them over the half of America that just wants to laugh.
Gutfeld beat every one of them.
And when Colbert, Kimmel, Meyers, and Noah finally found a joke with a sliver of truth in it, they all told it the same night, got it wrong, and Gutfeld's panel corrected them before the commercial break.
Trump was holding the wild cards.
He always is.
Sources:
- Dominic Patten, "Late-Night TV Got More Liberal In 2025, Per Study," Deadline Hollywood, January 6, 2026.
- "Colbert Pokes Fun at Trump for Not Understanding the Game of Uno," Yahoo Entertainment, May 5, 2026.
- "Same Joke Four Ways: Trump Has All the Cards Edition," LateNighter, May 5, 2026.
- "Here Are Final Late Night Ratings for Q1 2026," LateNighter, April 2026.
- Fox News Channel Press Release, "Fox News Channel Shatters Ratings Records," Fox News, January 28, 2026.
- "Trump Calls on ABC to Fire Kimmel After Melania Joke," CNN Politics, April 27, 2026.
