Jimmy Fallon Tops Stephen Colbert’s Ratings for the First Time Since Trump’s Inauguration

But last week, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon briefly reclaimed its crown for the first time since the inauguration. For the week of June 19-23, Fallon averaged 2.66 million viewers to Colbert’s 2.62 million, Variety reports. However, this is pretty misleading, really, considering that repeats don’t count towards Nielsen data, and that’s exactly what Colbert was forced to air due to his recent Russia trip.

So it appears that reports of Colbert’s demise are being greatly exaggerated, and we might reasonably expect his ratings to pop back up over Fallon this next week. Although it’s important to note that even though Colbert wins the war, the battle over late-night adults aged 18-49 is still consistently won by Fallon. This is the group most important to advertisers.