Simply for the sake of perspective/curiosity, here are the audience sizes for late night shows, via zap2it.com. These are the average number of viewers for the week of February 4th, ranked by audience size:
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: 3.5 million
The Late Show with David Letterman: 3.5 million
Jimmy Kimmel Live: 2.5 million
The Daily Show: 1.8 million
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: 1.6 million
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon: 1.6 million
Nightline: 1.5 million
The Colbert Report 1.4 million
Last Call with Carson Daly: 0.9 million
Conan: 0.8 million
These shows air across the evening, but the total for viewers between 10:30 and 11:00 (central) is 11.8 million. Again, for perspective, Johnny Carson's average audience in 1992 was 12 million viewers. Looking at it this way, while the total audience size for late night comedy hasn't kept up with population growth over the past 20 years, it hasn't declined all that much either.
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