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From the New York Times, this is The Interview.
I'm David Marchese.
Why can't conservatives break through on late night TV?
For years, that was an open cultural question.
The Left had the Daily Show, and last week, tonight with John Oliver,
not to mention other liberal-leaning hosts like David Letterman,
Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel, the Right had no one.
That is, until Greg Gutfeld.
Formally a health and men's magazine editor,
Gutfeld joined Fox News in 2007 to host a later-than-late-night-chat show called Red Eye.
Then he worked his way up the schedule until 2023 when his new show, called Gutfeld,
it's got an exclamation mark at the end,
moved to weekday nights at 10 on the East Coast, and started dominating.
Its format is a little different from traditional,