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Fox News fans will see a familiar face added to the network’s weekend line-up on Saturday amid ongoing talent shifts following star Tucker Carlson’s departure last year.
According to a press release from the network on Wednesday, radio host Jimmy Failla will now become part of the weekend’s bevy of programming. Failla announced his new gig in a Wednesday tweet, revealing the title of the new show, “Fox News Saturday Night w/Jimmy Failla.”
The network noted that the show premiers on Saturday, Jan. 13, and will then air weekly in the 10 p.m.–11 p.m. EDT timeslot.
“THRILLED to announce this former cabbie has been named The HOST of “Fox News Saturday Night w/ Jimmy Failla.” HUGE thanks to Fox leadership for believing in a small town gal like me. Group hug w/ everyone who forgives my Tweets from the bar later. We are going OUT TONIGHT girl!” he said.
“The show intends to ‘keep America laughing with a break from the hard news stories of the week’ alongside other Fox News personalities and guests, according to the release. The program is set to ‘deliver comedic commentary on cultural, political, and lifestyle topics,'” the Daily Caller reported, quoting the Fox release.
“FOX News Saturday Night is a show for everyone who realizes that our country doesn’t need more Republicans or more Democrats; it needs more comedy,” Failla added in a statement that Fox included in its release.
Meade Cooper, the executive vice president of Primetime Programming, first announced Failla’s new show, calling the new weekend host “a classic American success story” who went from a cab driver to a cable news host.
Failla joined Fox News in 2016 and began hosting his own radio show in 2020.
THRILLED to announce this former cabbie has been named The HOST of “Fox News Saturday Night w/ Jimmy Failla.” HUGE thanks to Fox leadership for believing in a small town gal like me. Group hug w/ everyone who forgives my Tweets from the bar later. We are going OUT TONIGHT girl!
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) January 3, 2024
On Thursday, “The Five” co-host Greg Gutfeld both explained and defended comments former President Donald Trump made about a crashing economy during a show segment on Thursday while taking a verbal potshot at a left-wing co-host of “The View.”
Left-wing cable hosts and Democrats ripped into Trump earlier this week after he said he believes the U.S. economy is headed for a crash and, if so, that it happens before the election.
“And when there’s a crash, I hope it’s going to be during these next 12 months because I don’t want to be Herbert Hoover,” Trump said during an interview with Lou Dobbs that aired Monday on a website founded by MyPillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell.
Hoover lost re-election in 1932 to Democratic nominee Franklin Delano Roosevelt after the stock market crashed in October 1929, which led to the Great Depression.
Trump added that he believes the economy is fragile and that “the only reason it’s running now is it’s running off the fumes of what we did.”
Leftist hosts and the Biden White House claimed that Trump was hoping for an economic crash. But Gutfeld explained that wasn’t at all what Trump said.
“He — what Trump said is if the economy bottoms out, I hope it’s before I’m in office. That’s what he said,” Gutfeld noted. “But the media ran with it saying, like, he wants the economy to crumble.
“Let me translate this so the media understands it, the people who work in cable news. If The Five ever gets a low rating, and I’m not saying it will, I don’t want to be on that show! Right? I don’t want to be on that show,” Gutfeld explained.
“Now, I didn’t say when The Five gets a low rating because it never does, but if it does, I don’t want to be on the show. Does that sink into Joy Reid’s head now? ‘Oh, I get it. He was saying he didn’t want — he doesn’t want it to happen, but if it does, before he becomes president. Now I understand,’” Gutfeld added.
