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| Born | Gregory John Gutfeld (1964-09-12)September 12, 1964 (age 61) San Mateo, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) |
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| Employer | Fox News |
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| Political party | Libertarian |
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Gregory John Gutfeld (born September 12, 1964) is an American television host, political commentator, comedian, and author. He is the host of thelate-night comedy talk showGutfeld!,[1] which was formerly aired on Saturday nights asThe Greg Gutfeld Show from May 2015 until March 2021, when it was announced that the show would move to weeknights.
Gutfeld is also one of five co-hosts and panelists on the political talk showThe Five. Both of the shows air onFox News. From 2007 to 2015, he hosted the 3 a.m. seriesRed Eye, a late-night talk show which also aired on Fox News.[2]
Gutfeld was born inSan Mateo, California to Jacqueline Bernice "Jackie" (née Cauhape) and Alfred Jack Gutfeld.[3] Growing upCatholic he attended the all-boys Roman CatholicJunípero Serra High School in San Mateo.[4] In 1987, he graduated from theUniversity of California, Berkeley with aBA degree inEnglish.[5][6] In a 2009 interview, he said his politics changed while in college:[7]
I became a conservative by being around liberals, and I became alibertarian by being around conservatives. You realize that there's something distinctly in common between the two groups, the left and the right; the worst part of each of them is the moralizing.
After college, Gutfeld interned atThe American Spectator, as an assistant to conservative writerR. Emmett Tyrrell. He then worked as a staff writer atPrevention magazine and as an editor for variousRodale Press magazines. In 1995, he became a staff writer atMen's Health. He was promoted to editor-in-chief ofMen's Health in 1999. In 2000, he was replaced byDavid Zinczenko, a publisher.
Gutfeld then became editor-in-chief ofStuff, at the time owned byDennis Publishing, aBritish company. During his tenure, circulation increased from 750,000 to 1.2 million. In 2003, Gutfeld hired severaldwarfs to attend a conference of theMagazine Publishers of America on the topic of "buzz", with instructions to be as loud and annoying as possible.[8] The stunt generated publicity but led to Gutfeld being fired soon afterwards; he then became "director of brand development" at Dennis Publishing.[8] He edited the company'sMaxim magazine in the U.K. from 2004 to 2006.[6] His contract expired without renewal after losses in readership under his tenure.[9]
Gutfeld was one of the first posting contributors toThe Huffington Post, from its launch in 2005 until October 2008. Frequent targets of his commentaries includedHuffington Post colleaguesDeepak Chopra,Cenk Uygur, andArianna Huffington.[10]
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Beginning on February 5, 2007, Gutfeld served as host of the late-night talk showRed Eye on the Fox News Channel. The hour-long show initially aired at 2am.ET Monday through Saturday mornings and at 11pm on Saturday evenings. However, beginning in October 2007, the show began airing at 3am Monday through Saturday mornings while retaining its 11pm timeslot on Saturday evenings. From 2007 to 2013,Bill Schulz served as Gutfeld'ssidekick andAndy Levy was the show'sombudsman. Schulz had been Gutfeld's colleague atStuff magazine, and Levy was a fellow blogger atThe Huffington Post. On July 11, 2011, Gutfeld became a co-host and panelist on the Fox News political talk showThe Five, which airs weekdays at 5:00 P.M. ET.[11] Gutfeld leftRed Eye in February 2015, withTom Shillue succeeding him as host.[12]
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On May 31, 2015, Gutfeld began hosting a new weekly late-night talk show on Fox News calledThe Greg Gutfeld Show; which aired on Saturdays at 10pm. In February 2021, it was announced that beginning in the second quarter, the show would move to weeknights at 11pm;[13] on March 10, it was announced that it would be calledGutfeld! and premiere on April 5, 2021.[14] In August 2021,Gutfeld! overtookThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert in the nightly ratings, becoming the highest-ratedlate-night talk show in the United States (though "Gutfeld!" aired in prime time at 8 p.m. on the West Coast and did not repeat at 11 p.m.).[15] It averaged 2.12 million nightly viewers, more thanThe Late Show,The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, andJimmy Kimmel Live!.[15]
By the end of 2021, the combined viewership forGutfeld! andThe Five averaged over five million viewers.[16] In June 2023, Fox News announced thatGutfeld! would move to 10 P.M. ET beginning July 17, as part of a larger realignment of its primetime schedule, which means the show is no longer considered "late night" as it is no longer competing with other late night shows.[17][18]
Gutfeld has appeared as a guest onCoffee with Scott Adams[19][20] andThe Adam Carolla Show.[21]
In late 2021, Gutfeld was named the 12th-most influential person in American media by theMediaite website.[16] In 2022, he rose to 10th, recognized for his combined 6 million viewers acrossThe Five and Gutfeld! in November.[22] However, in 2023, Gutfeld dropped to 23rd due to controversial remarks and extreme rhetoric.[23]
By 2024, Gutfeld was back in 12th place on Mediaite's rankings, reaffirming his position as one of Fox News' most-watched personalities.[24]
Gutfeld has attracted controversy and significant backlash for a variety of inflammatory statements he has made over his time at Fox News.[25]The New York Times described his rhetoric and style as "insult conservatism", and that it has allowed Gutfeld to "frame any serious argument as a joke and any joke as a serious argument, leaving viewers to suss out the distinction".[26] In 2025,The Independent opined that his content was increasingly "sycophantic" towards Trump, and described his rhetoric as becoming "increasingly extreme and unhinged".[27]
During aRed Eye segment which aired on March 17, 2009, Gutfeld and his panel discussed Canadian Lieutenant GeneralAndrew Leslie's statement that theCanadian Armed Forces may require a one-year "synchronized break" once Canada's mission inAfghanistan ended in 2011: "Meaning, the Canadian military wants to take a breather to do someyoga, paint landscapes, run on the beach in gorgeous white Capri pants."[28] The comedian panelistDoug Benson added: "I didn't even know they were in the war... I thought that's where you go if youdon't want to fight. Go chill in Canada."[28] Gutfeld also said: "Isn't this the perfect time to invade this ridiculous country? They have no army!"[28]
The segment was posted toYouTube three days after the reported deaths of four Canadian soldiers inAfghanistan, prompting widespread outrage.[29][30][31] Canada had been in command of the NATO mission inKandahar Province, the birthplace and former capital of theTaliban, for three years.[32] Along withHelmand Province, it was "home to some of the fiercest opposition to coalition forces" and reported to "have the highest casualty rates per province."[33]
Canadian Defence MinisterPeter MacKay called on Fox to apologize for the comments and described the remarks as "despicable, hurtful and ignorant."[34] Gutfeld, while maintaining that the show is satirical and irreverent, offered an apology, "The March 17 episode ofRed Eye included a segment discussing Canada's plan for a 'synchronized break,' which was in no way an attempt to make light of troop efforts. However, I realize that my words may have been misunderstood. It was not my intent to disrespect the brave men, women, and families of the Canadian military, and for that, I apologize."[34][35]
AfterRussia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Gutfeld said that the media were emotionally manipulating viewers with footage from the conflict "because that makes a profit for news companies."[36][37] Gutfeld was rebuked by Fox foreign affairs correspondentBenjamin Hall who was on the ground in Kyiv: "(It) is not the media trying to drum up some emotional response. This is absolutely what's happening."[36][37] A few days later, Hall was seriously injured, while Pierre Zakrzewski (who also worked for Fox) and a Ukrainian journalist were killed, in a surprise attack on the journalists by Russian forces.[38]
During the July 24, 2023, broadcast ofThe Five, Gutfeld and co-hostJessica Tarlov discussed an educational curriculum in Florida public schools that would teach students that "slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit".[39] Tarlov, who said she isJewish, disagreed with the curriculum and asked if this could be argued for those who perished in theHolocaust. Gutfeld then invokedViktor Frankl's bookMan's Search For Meaning, implying that those who survived the Holocaust had to be skilled or useful.[39]
On July 25, theAuschwitz Memorial disagreed with Gutfeld's statement, writing onTwitter: "While it is true that some Jews may have used their skills or usefulness to increase their chances of survival during the Holocaust, it is essential to contextualize this statement properly and understand that it does not represent the complex history of the genocide perpetrated byNazi Germany."[40] The same day, Andrew Bates, deputy White House press secretary, called Gutfeld's comments "a horrid, dangerous, extreme lie that insults the memory of the millions of Americans who suffered from the evil of enslavement".[41]The Daily Beast reported that unnamed Fox News employees strongly disagreed with Gutfeld's statements. One producer stated it was "a disgusting thing to say" while another insider claimed "his career would be over."[42]
Gutfeld later received criticism for comparing transgender healthcare providers to "Nazi doctors who experimented on Jews in the Holocaust".[27]
On July 15, 2025, Gutfeld attracted controversy after claiming conservatives should reclaim the word "Nazi" for themselves after makingcomparisons of ICE agents and Trump to Nazism. He said, "This is why the criticism doesn't matter to us when you call us Nazis. Nazi this and Nazi that... I'm beginning to think they don't like us... I've said this before. We need to learn from the Blacks. The way they were able to remove the power from the n-word by using it... from now on, it's, 'What up, my Nazi? Hey, what up, my Nazi? Hey, what's hanging, my Nazi?'" The comments attracted criticism and allegations that Gutfeld was normalizing Nazism.[27]
Gutfeld said that he voted by mail in the2016 presidential election, butThe Washington Post could not find evidence that he had voted in voting records. He thinks it is possible that he missed the official deadline.[16]
As of 2018[update], Gutfeld lives inNew York City with his wife Elena Moussa, aRussian photo editor. They met inLondon, where he lived for three years.[7][43][16] They have a daughter. Her birth was announced on December 10, 2024 onThe Five, a show onFox .[44]
Gutfeld grew upCatholic and served as an altar boy.[45] He says that he is anagnostic atheist.[43] A fan of hard rock and heavy metal music, Gutfeld has spoken on-air about being a fan of many bands includingPower Trip. He paid tribute to Power Trip's singer Riley Gale after his death in 2020.[46] Members of the heavy metal bandGwar have appeared several times on his show.[47] Gutfeld is a self-described libertarian.[48]
Gutfeld is no stranger to controversy, having made a number of comments during his time at Fox News that have ignited significant backlash.
(Minute 5:44) If there was something that could do this then I wouldn't be an agnostic slash atheist.. (Minute 6:10) I wish this stuff was true because then that would validate my religious beliefs which that I do not have any which have kind of faded away
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