Guillermo gets one last dance with Witney Carson on Kimmel

A ballroom farewell shares the monologue with Trump satire, drawing nearly three million views in its first day.

Channel: Jimmy Kimmel Live Story of October 16, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,977,350 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (188,510).

Trump is Laser Focused on the Midterms & Our Hero Guillermo Returns After Dancing with the Stars

The competition is over, but Jimmy Kimmel has saved Guillermo Rodriguez another turn on the dance floor. Witney Carson joins her eliminated Dancing with the Stars partner on the late-night stage, after a look back at their run together.

The upload reached nearly three million views in its first day, roughly sixteen times the usual opening for the show's regular videos. It combines two very different strands of Kimmel's monologue: an extravagantly mournful farewell to Guillermo's ballroom ambitions and political jokes with the midterm elections approaching.

Kimmel treats the elimination as a national emergency, complete with an edited news parody that makes a Trump speech appear to address Guillermo's departure. It is a comedy edit, not a real presidential response. Elsewhere, the host turns to Trump's AI-generated tiger-wrestling posts and campaign-rally footage.

Guillermo, meanwhile, sounds considerably less devastated than his host. He says he is happy to be back with everybody, then entertains possible next steps, including Love Island.

The farewell montage begins a little over ten minutes in. Viewers discussing that section single out Guillermo's journey and Carson's work as his instructor and partner. When she arrives onstage, the show gives their partnership something an elimination episode cannot: another dance together, without a judges' score to follow.

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The numbers

The farewell-and-politics monologue drew an unusually large first-day audience. Comments also came in far faster than on a typical regular upload.

the video's first day

usual first day here

188,510

this video

2,977,350

subscribers

22,300,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

15,850,131,428

views per day

9,758,239

typical day: 3,874,845

the video

views

3,013,648

likes

86,185

comments

4,606

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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34,200,000

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22,300,000

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17,300,000

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14,000,000

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10,700,000

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10,200,000

As of October 16, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.