Jon Stewart hunts for underground gold as Kimmel signs off from Brooklyn
The Friday monologue, with Trump's midterm travel and a stop for Ken Paxton in Texas, closed a night when Bernie Sanders and Paul McCartney also drew far beyond a usual start.
Jimmy Kimmel LiveStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,811,778 views a day, 17 times a normal first day on this channel (169,767).
Trump Desperate to Win Midterms, Jon Stewart is an Urban Scavenger & We Say Goodbye to Brooklyn!
"Trump Desperate to Win Midterms, Jon Stewart is an Urban Scavenger & We Say Goodbye to Brooklyn!" is the Friday monologue that closed Jimmy Kimmel Live's week of tapings at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It came close to three million views in its first day, roughly sixteen times what a new video on the channel usually manages.
The first stretch is politics. The description lays it out: Trump plans to travel every day for the next month to help Republicans in the midterms, at least a dozen Republican candidates have taken references to him off their websites, and he stopped at a factory in Texas to back Ken Paxton. Then the show turns local, with a controversy at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, before the bit in the title. Jimmy talks to one of New York's "Urban Scavengers," played by Jon Stewart, who is searching beneath the city for gold and valuables. Stewart spent sixteen years hosting The Daily Show, so here a famous anchor turns up in someone else's monologue as a man digging for treasure.
The farewell night had company. Bernie Sanders, who grew up in Brooklyn, covered how he takes his Nathan's hot dog at Coney Island along with AI and campaign money, and his interview passed a million views of its own. Paul McCartney talked about singing at Taylor Swift's wedding, a duet with Ringo Starr and being turned away from a Grammys party.
The monologue's comments came in about six times faster than on a usual first day. Much of the talk is about the November midterms and registering to vote. Viewers also mention Stewart's turn and the Brooklyn crowd, send greetings from Canada, Germany and New Zealand, and several ask for New York shows two or three times a year.
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- Channel
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Subscribers
- 22,300,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 37,596,192
- Channel views, pace per day
- 4,430,794 (on a normal day: 4,106,278)
- Video published
- October 3, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,847,704 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 2,797,582
The numbers
The monologue's first day ran far ahead of the channel's usual start, and its comment section filled up faster too.
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