Friday, May 22, 2026

Michelle Wolf’s Controversial WHCD Comedy Scored 1.3 Mil Viewers for CNN on Saturday Night

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After all that fuss, not that many people were watching the White House Correspondents Dinner anyway.

CNN scored about 1 million viewers from 9-10pm on Saturday night, and 1.347 million from 10-11 pm.

The dinner was beaten by all the shows on Fox by right wing personalities like Jesse Watters, Jeannine Pirro, and Gregg Gutfeld.

Viewership for Saturday night cable skews older anyway, with many Fox News viewers receiving sponge baths while the TV– with the sound down– shows angry white people screaming at the camera.

NBA playoffs on Turner and soft focused Platonic romance on Hallmark beat all of it, anyway.

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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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