Comedian Jimmy Failla has found his niche at Fox News, appearing on a variety of programs — including Gutfeld! — and also hosting Fox News Saturday Night.
Failla has climbed the ladder at Fox News after previously working as a taxi cab driver while working on his stand-up comedy routine. But he believes comedy should still be the driving force behind his work, not conservative or liberal politics and policies.
In an interview with Variety, Failla said that his weekend program isn’t as partisan as a casual observer might think of when hearing that it airs on the notoriously conservative cable news channel.
“True comedy doesn’t have a political party. Comedy is a party. And at a party, you don’t ask who they voted for at the door,” Failla said.
Fox News, like others in the genre, features primetime opinion programming slanted toward one side of the political aisle. But Jimmy Failla said his program certainly doesn’t fit into the firebrand category like many others in cable news.
“We are not a call to arms show. We are like a chill the f— out show,” Failla said before adding that the now-partisan nature of late-night TV shows helmed by the likes of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and Jimmy Fallon is a “frustration” for him. He shared his belief that the late-night genre should be an escape, rather than another avenue for political discussion.
