(LifeSiteNews) — The most popular host in late night TV is not, as many might assume, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, or Jimmy Fallon. It is Greg Gutfeld’s show Gutfeld! on Fox News. According to the Nielsen ratings for January, Gutfeld averaged 3.497 million total viewers while his progressive counterparts were lagging far behind, with Colbert at 2.376 million and Kimmel below two million. Earlier this year, Variety magazine called him “Late Night’s New King.”

Gutfeld is also very pro-life.

“Almost all the people I know in my industry are pro-choice,” he told Charlie Kirk at last week’s Turning Point USA conference. “I know that I am always, always outnumbered. I always think: Don’t you even wonder why? Like, you seem to agree with a lot of things I say. You think that I’m a smart person.”

“Do you think I’m just crazy on one thing?” he laughed. “Like, ‘He’s really good on the economy, he’s really good on foreign policy, he can write well, but he’s completely nuts on unborn children?’ That doesn’t really logically make sense.”

“You know, you know what’s interesting about really, really smart pro-choice person people, they admit it’s murder. They have to,” Gutfeld went on. “They have to go — look, you know what? I’m not going to argue about it, it is murder, but I’m still for it. That was the ‘liberal comedian’ way of dealing with it. Almost every smart comedian, when they talk about abortion, will not deny that it’s murder.”

Greg Gutfeld speaks passionately about being in the pro-life minority in show business:

“I know that I am always, always outnumbered. … Do you think I’m just crazy on one thing? Like, ‘He’s really good on the economy, he’s really good on foreign policy, he can write well, but… pic.twitter.com/iCRmGSKecr

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 12, 2025

Gutfeld is not exaggerating. HBO’s Bill Maher has stated on his show that pro-lifers don’t hate women, they just think abortion is murder and admitted, “And it kind of is. I’m just OK with that. I am. I mean there’s eight billion people in the world. I’m sorry, we won’t miss you. That’s my position on it.” According to Maher, he believes in “killing the right people” because he is “just not one of those people who think all life is precious.”

He followed that up by saying, “I bet you a lot of people wouldn’t say that, but if you’re pro-choice that’s really what you’re thinking anyway.” Some years before, Maher made his audience equally uncomfortable by observing, “You don’t have to be religious to be against abortion. I mean, you see the little picture of the kid in there and at some point, you know, it’s kind of wrong to kill it. I mean, at a certain point when it’s sucking its thumb it just seems a little … ” He didn’t finish the sentence.

Louis CK has said much the same thing. In his view, abortion “definitely kills a baby,” but should be permitted anyway. He even made fun of his clearly uncomfortable audience for accusing pro-life protesters of being upset about abortion. “People hate abortion protesters,” he noted. “They’re so shrill and awful! They think babies are being murdered! What are they supposed to do? Well, that’s not cool. I don’t want to be a d*** about it though. I don’t want to ruin their day as they murder several babies all the time.”

Dave Chappelle challenged his audience more ambiguously, stating that he doesn’t like abortion but that men should have no say. Or did he?  “If you can kill this (baby),” Chappelle said to nervous titters, “I can at least abandon him. It’s my money, my choice. And if I’m wrong, then perhaps we’re wrong. Figure that s*** out for yourselves.” In short, A truly pro-choice society can’t allow women to kill babies but demand that men pay child support.

Bill Burr also called abortion “killing a baby.” Of course, he emphasized that he’s “pro-choice” because “I don’t like people telling me what to do.” “However, I still think you’re killing a baby. To be honest, that is the whole purpose of the procedure. You know, you’re not going in there because you got an earache. You’re going in there because you’re like, ‘I got a baby in there. Get it the (expletive) out of here.’ Right? You walk in with a baby, you come out without one. What happened to the baby? Something (expletive) happened. So pro-choice people are like, ‘Well, it’s not a life yet. It’s not a baby yet.’ My gut tells me that doesn’t make sense.”

Of course, Colbert, Fallon, and Kimmel would never have the guts to get that close to the truth — maudlin moralizing is more their style. It is fascinating to consider that Gutfeld, the new king of late night, actually believes the same thing about abortion that Maher, Louis CK, and Chappelle do: that it is “killing a baby.” Gutfeld, however, still has the moral clarity to be appalled by this fact and to oppose abortion publicly and often. The others, it seems, are willing to stare the horror in the face, and embrace it anyway.