Overview
- NewsBusters’ latest count for July 7–December 19, 2025 found 90 liberal or Democratic guests and one conservative across five nightly shows.
- Partisan officials booked during that span were 31 Democrats and zero Republicans, while journalists and celebrities were 59 liberals to one conservative.
- Fox News host Greg Gutfeld was the lone conservative guest, appearing on The Tonight Show on August 7, according to the study.
- The group’s 2025 joke tracker tallied 13,097 political jokes across 818 episodes, with 12,011 targeting conservatives, 982 targeting liberals, and 104 classified as non-partisan.
- Donald Trump was the most frequent subject with 7,045 jokes tracked across six shows, with Late Night with Seth Meyers logging the highest Trump total at 1,885.