EXCLUSIVE: Jimmy Fallon can claim a gold medal of his own, thanks to the start of the Winter Olympics last week.
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon saw its best audience in just over 14 months for its post-Olympics telecast on February 6, per Nielsen data. The episode tallied 2.4M viewers, more than any since the 2024 Thanksgiving airing that had a lead-in from the NFL.
This year’s post-Olympics offering was up 14% compared to The Tonight Show telecast that followed the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. This makes sense, since the audience for the Milan-Cortina Opening Ceremony was also up significantly from Beijing.
For the week of February 2 to 6, The Tonight Show was up 27% versus its season average. NBCUniversal also says that content from the episode has hit more than 101M social impressions.
The February 6 telecast featured Chris Hemsworth, MrBeast, a surprise appearance by Drew Barrymore and musical guest Lil Uzi Vert. The episode also included an original music video, “Now That’s What I Call Just the Most Famous Two Seconds of a Song” with Fallon and Nick Jonas. Fallon also welcomed back the Westminster Thrust Ensemble to perform the iconic NBC Olympic theme.
From Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group and Broadway Video, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is executive produced by Lorne Michaels and produced by Chris Miller and Gerard Bradford. Miller is the showrunner. It tapes in front of a live audience from Studio 6B in 30 Rockefeller Center and airs at 11:35 p.m. ET/PT on NBC. It streams the next day on Peacock.