WEDNESDAY: Gutfeld was back in the saddle again!

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2025

America's prospects aren't good: Last night, he was back in the saddle again.

Monday afternoon, on The Five, he had launched a long attack on Jessica Tarlov in the program's first segment. To our ear, he was announcing the end of a famous experiment—the end of the very possibility of an American nation.

As we noted yesterday, he had started Monday's outburst with a ludicrous claim—with the claim that political murders have only been aimed by "the left" against "the right." 

Asked by Tarlov about the murder of Melissa Hortman (and her husband) back in June, he authored a factual error in the course of executing an utterly silly dodge.

He insulted Tarlov—McEnany had staged the first interruption—and he let his cuss words fly. Tarlov hadn't mentioned the arson attack on Governor Shapiro, so he brought it up himself, and then he proceeded to this:

GUTFELD (9/15/25): Now, you can bring up Josh Shapiro, but then you will not bring up, for example, that that was a pro-Palestine person. So don’t use your “What about this?” 

The fact of the matter is the “both sides” argument not only doesn’t fly—we don’t care! We don’t care about your “both sides” argument. That shit is dead! 

He doesn't care about sh*t like that! That shit is dead, he now said.

(For the record, the man who committed the arson attack against Shapiro had urged his brother to vote for Candidate Trump—or so the brother said. He had a long history of mental illness, as do many of the people, Red or Blue or unaligned, who have engaged in such attacks.)

In fairness, Greg Gutfeld is just a person, just like everyone else. None of us people are perfect. That said, his conduct on the Fox News Channel has long been astoundingly strange.

Last night, he was back in the saddle on his eponymous 10 p.m. show. At 10 o'clock sharp, he started the hour-long show in the usual way:

GUTFELD (9/16/25): Good evening, everyone. 

Former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg now says that Kamala Harris should not have run.

Oh wait, I'm sorry—I misread that. She should not have rum.

That was the first of his handful of opening jokes. Ever since last year, he's been trafficking the idea that Harris is—what else?—a "drunk."

That was a familiar start. He moved directly to this:

GUTFELD: The Biden family has hit the financial skids. Instead of private jets, Joe has been spotted with a book in the first-class cabin of flights.

Which, according to Bill Clinton, is a great way to hide your boner.

Aside from the endless fury, this is pretty much all this guy has. His next quip went like this:

GUTFELD: Meanwhile, at least one organization tried to negotiate a lower rate for Joe's speaking gigs. The offer includes one round-trip Amtrak ticket, a set of complementary Depends and a case of Ensure.

That involved a return to a favorite theme of the past several years—the endless suggestion that President Biden is constantly "pooping [or shitting] his pants." He offered this as a chaser:

GUTFELD: But Joe's agent keeps stressing that Joe is a limited time offer. 

AUDIENCE: [Laughter]

GUTFELD: Time's running out, we just don't know when!

That involved the ghoulish, repetitive death wish the peculiar fellow routinely directs at the former president.

Remember what we said about all the pooping and sh*tting? The TV star now said this:

GUTFELD: Worse, when Biden left office, he told friends that he needs to pay off $800,000 in debt. 

Which coincidentally is the same amount required for steam cleaning the Oval Office furniture.

AUDIENCE: [Groans]

GUTFELD: I know! But to raise the money, he's planning to sell his car.

[PHOTOGRAPH OF A HEARSE]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! With that, it was back to Harris:

GUTFELD: Jill Biden has retired from her teaching job and will be starting a new unpaid position at a think tank.

While Kamala will be sleeping it off in a drunk tank.

Then this:

GUTFELD: Good news, though! Jill is also working on a book.

It's called, "The Old Man and the Pee."

It's all this angry man has.

We'll skip past a tedious joke about Hunter Biden's crack pipe being repossessed. At 10:02, the soul-draining set of opening jokes ended—where else?—with this:

GUTFELD: In non-Biden news, a free diver from Croatia held his breath underwater for an incredible 29 minutes, shattering the previous record held by Joy Behar's waxer.

AUDIENCE: [Cheering, sustained applause]

Behar is 82 years old; she'll be 83 next month. For reasons no one has tried to explain, this seems to be who and what this broken souled cable star is. 

The misogyny is undisguised on this show—and his audience seems to love it.

During that sustained applause, Gutfeld's relief was evident. 

"Yeah—we're back," the crippled man triumphantly said. Presumably, that meant that he'd moved back beyond the fury of the previous day. It was back to nosing around inside Behar's shorts!

The Fox News Channel thinks of this as a form of prime time "cable news." It's even worse when you factor in the behavior of the four reliable stooges who are paid to sit on the set and pretend that this makes sense. 

(Kat Timpf is cast as the "reasonable" one, though it may take months for you to notice.)

This is what a very large audience wants to see and hear. This is who, and this is what, our exceptional nation is.

In fairness, Gutfeld didn't compare any liberal woman to a horse, a cow, a pig or a whale or "livestock"
during this two-minute segment. He hadn't complained about Rep. Tlaib's alleged mustache, or about Nancy Pelosi's Botox abuse.

On the other hand, this is who and this is what many of us Americans are. The "democratization of media" has turned this grisly spectacle loose—and over here in Blue America, major news orgs avert their gaze from this astounding departure from traditional form.

Can a nation survive a regime of this type? We can't say the prospects are good.

Jesse Watters is almost as bad. Might this nightly spectacle perhaps be the downfall we've chosen?

In fairness, also this: He didn't ask if Hunter Biden has started "banging" or "[BLEEP]ing" Jill Biden yet.

He did that on at least three separate occasions last year. Kat Timpf—she's cast as the reasonable one—seems to think that makes sense!