New York's mayor, Trump and public restrooms carry Jimmy Kimmel Live
Zohran Mamdani's interview pulled far ahead while the channel as a whole, and the late-night shows around it, moved well below their usual pace.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,949,198 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (138,494).
Mayor Zohran Mamdani on His Relationship with Trump, People in Sewers & New Public Restrooms
What brings New York City's mayor to a Hollywood talk-show couch? The title lists three things: his relationship with Donald Trump, people in the sewers, and new public restrooms. Zohran Mamdani's visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live had close to 1.9 million views in less than a day.
That is roughly fourteen times what a new Kimmel upload usually gathers on its first day. It also arrived during a slow spell for the channel, which was drawing well under half its normal daily views overall. The neighbors were quiet too. The channels of Jimmy Fallon's and Stephen Colbert's shows were both below their usual rates.
Mamdani won New York's 2025 mayoral race after serving in the State Assembly for a district in Queens, and he took office at the start of 2026. Earlier in the week, the host's own Trump material set the pace on the channel. This time the Trump talk comes from a guest who runs the city where the president grew up, and the mix of sewers and restrooms suggests a conversation that stayed close to the everyday work of the job.
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- Channel
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Subscribers
- 22,200,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 619,252 (on a normal day: 2,049,059)
- Video published
- September 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 1,895,692 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,949,198
The numbers
The figures below show a single interview racing ahead on a channel that was otherwise having a quiet stretch.
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