A Tucker Carlson impersonation that’s so funny it’s painful
This is the best Tucker Carlson impersonation ever – although come to think of it, I’ve never seen anyone else impersonate Carlson. Nevertheless, I can’t even imagine anyone doing a better job.
I’ve got a post (maybe a series of two) coming that represents my opinion on what happened to Tucker Carlson to turn him into what he is today. But meanwhile, I’ve watched quite a few of these and been highly amused. If you’re not familiar with Carlson’s mannerisms – especially the sudden eruption of the maniacal laugh – or some of his claims, this video may seem rather odd. But believe me, it’s only a very very slight exaggeration:
The guy’s a genius, IMHO. He also does a great Trump, Netanyahu, Kamala Harris, Nick Fuentes, Piers Morgan, Donald Murray, and Joe Biden.
From the Babylon Bee: Latest Tucker Carlson guest Bigfoot reveals how mind-controlling chemtrails are sprayed over the flat Earth by the Jews.
They certainly have a way of getting to the heart of the matter.
It is a very, very good impersonation. He nails Carlson’s speech patterns, tempo, tics, laugh and the way Carlson deceptively weaves false refutations and platitudes in with his attacks and smears to try to appear like he’s not stating opinions. The pitch of the voice is off a bit, and there’s something else off with the tone. It seems to be coming from a slightly different place in his throat?
Then there’s this (h/t Instapundit):
https://babylonbee.com/news/latest-tucker-guest-bigfoot-reveals-how-mind-controlling-chemtrails-are-sprayed-over-the-flat-earth-by-the-jews
We await Tucker’s conversion to Islam and The Democrat Party to complete his downward trajectory.
No one will care.
I’m looking forward to your thoughts about Tucker. I used to be a fan but he went off the deep end and I wonder what happened to him.
Funny, but needs to work on the hysterical laugh a bit.
Stopped watching him long before he left FOX. Pegged him as antisemite and an isolationist who know nothing about world politics.
Marisa,
“I’m looking forward to your thoughts about Tucker. I used to be a fan but he went off the deep end and I wonder what happened to him.”
He goes where he gets paid:
CNN (2000–2005)
PBS (2004–2005)
MSNBC (2005–2008)
His present gig got a start from a $15,000,000 bundle from a Muslim: Omeed Malik so now the anti-Semitism, anti Christian Zionist and anti-Israel bias is now out in the open.
Recently he said “Why does America protect Poland?” and “Why doesn’t Poland go to war with Russia.”
Like Nick Fuentes, I think he will say anything for clicks and money.
I have lost all trust in him.
It’s odd to think that Fox News, long anathema to leftists as an extremist right network, were the ones restraining Carlson’s crazy impulses. There were actually producers and executives shaking their heads at him and directing editors to tone down his monologues so he didn’t go completely overboard.
I’d being willing to bet part of the famous “Carlson stare” involved the two dogs fighting within him, one wanting to spout off an insane conspiracy theory to his guest, the other reminding him to continue appearing sane and even-handed so he could keep his paychecks coming.
Is Tucker just another Attention Whore? Not for the money, so it’s worse than just the benjamins.
Definitely the money but I feel like it wasn’t much of a leap from him either. Very smooth transition to antisemitism, like he knew just how to politely suggest … that Jews are the root of evil. Awful. It’s like those situations when someone you thought was trustworthy and intelligent suddenly blurts out a slur and it’s a figurative kick in the stomach.
@ John Galt III > “He goes where he gets paid:”
I never followed Tucker, other than watching an occasional clip linked by someone here or on another blog.
My questions are:
(1) Why did Fox hire him after his stints on all three Left-Media flagships?
(2) Was he operating as a “token” conservative” or were his appearances bipartisan?
(3) Did he offer anti-Semitic and other objectionably opinions in the past similar to the ones he publishes now?
(4) Does anyone know anything about his real beliefs, if it’s possible to even learn that?
So I looked him up. My goal was to get a timeline and an overview of his career.
tl;dr:
(1) & (2) He was a red-meat-conservative, at a time when CNN, PBS, and MSNBC were at least trying to appear balanced and bipartisan.
(3) It seems he might have done, based on the selection of controversies listed.
However, he also broke a LOT of controversial anti-Leftists stories, especially when he was part-owner of The Daily Caller (or at least the outlet did).
(4) Your guess is as good as mine.
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Everything below is per Wikipedia today, skipping all their editorial opinions (other than those implied by their choice of quotes and events), and the minutiae of his broadcasts:
Carlson began his career in journalism as a fact-checker for Policy Review,[59] a conservative journal then published by the Heritage Foundation and later acquired by the Hoover Institution. He then worked as an opinion writer at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper in Little Rock, Arkansas, before joining The Weekly Standard news magazine in 1995.[59][88][89] Carlson sought a role with the publication after hearing of its founding, fearing he would be “written off as a wing nut” if he instead joined The American Spectator.
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Further into his career in print, Carlson worked as a columnist for New York magazine and Reader’s Digest; writing for Esquire, Slate, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The Daily Beast, and The Wall Street Journal.[59][82] John F. Harris of Politico would later remark on how Carlson was “viewed … as an important voice of the intelligentsia” during this period.[93]
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In 2000, Carlson co-hosted the short-lived show The Spin Room on CNN.[59] In 2001, he was appointed co-host of Crossfire, in which Carlson and Robert Novak represented the political right (alternating on different nights), while James Carville and Paul Begala, also alternating as hosts, represented the left.[59]
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Carlson was hired to helm a new program for PBS in November 2003, Tucker Carlson: Unfiltered, which ran concurrently with Carlson’s Crossfire gig on CNN.[114] The show launched on June 18, 2004, and was, according to The New Yorker, “part of a broader effort to push PBS further to the right ideologically”.[115][116]
Carlson announced he was leaving the show roughly a year after it started on June 12, 2005, despite the Corporation for Public Broadcasting allocating money for another show season.[117] Carlson wanted to focus on his new MSNBC show Tucker and said that although PBS was one of the “least bad” instances of government spending he disagreed with, it was still “problematic”.[117]
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Carlson’s early evening show Tucker, originally titled The Situation With Tucker Carlson, premiered on June 13, 2005, on MSNBC.[118] Rachel Maddow and Jay Severin featured as guests on a rotating panel.[118] He also hosted a late-afternoon weekday wrap-up for the network during the 2006 Winter Olympics.[119][120] He reported the aftermath of the Virginia Tech shooting and Johnson Space Center shooting in 2007.[121][122][123]
Tucker was canceled by the network on March 10, 2008, owing to low ratings;[124] the final episode aired on March 14, 2008. He remained with the network as a senior campaign correspondent for the 2008 election.[125] Brian Stelter, writing for The New York Times, reported that, “during Mr. Carlson’s tenure, MSNBC’s evening programming moved gradually to the left. His former time slots, 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., were subsequently occupied by two liberals, Ed Schultz and Rachel Maddow.” Carlson said the network had changed a lot and “they didn’t have a role for me”.[126] Carlson described being fired by MSNBC as leading to a professional “meltdown”. In discussing the termination, he described himself as “hav[ing] a lot of problems with authority and being told what to do. I don’t react well to it. I become really aggressive[.]”[127]
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On January 11, 2010, Carlson and Neil Patel (a former aide to Dick Cheney, and former college roommate of Carlson)[5] launched a political news website titled The Daily Caller. Carlson served as editor-in-chief, and occasionally wrote opinion pieces with Patel.[132] The website was funded by the conservative activist Foster Friess.[59] By February 2010, The Daily Caller was part of the White House rotating press pool.[133]
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In June 2010, The Daily Caller published excerpts from e-mails sent between members of JournoList, an invitation-only liberal forum, consisting of “several hundred journalists, academics and policy experts” launched in 2007 by Ezra Klein.[137] The forum barred media reporters and conservatives.[138]
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In February 2012, The Daily Caller published an “investigative series” of articles co-authored by Carlson, purporting to be an insiders’ exposé of Media Matters for America, the liberal watchdog group that monitors and scrutinizes conservative media outlets, and its founder David Brock.
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In June 2020, Carlson sold his one-third stake in The Daily Caller to Patel for an undisclosed amount and said “Neil [Patel] runs it. I wasn’t adding anything. So we made it official”.[144]
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In May 2009, Fox News announced that Carlson was being hired as a Fox News contributor. He was a frequent guest panelist on Fox’s late-night satire show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld, made frequent appearances on the All-Star Panel segment of Special Report with Bret Baier, was a substitute host of Hannity in Sean Hannity’s absence, and produced and hosted a special entitled Fighting for Our Children’s Minds in September 2010.[145][146][147]
On the eve of then-President Barack Obama’s first debate with Mitt Romney in October 2012, Carlson publicized a 2007 video recording of then-Senator Obama criticizing the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and complimenting his pastor at the time, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.[148][149][150] Wright’s sermons had been a controversy in Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.[150] Portions of the video had been available online since 2007.[150]
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In April 2013, Carlson replaced Dave Briggs as a co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend,
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On November 14, 2016, Carlson began hosting Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News. The premiere episode of the show, which replaced On the Record,[153] was the network’s most watched telecast of the year in the time slot, with 3.7 million viewers.[154]
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In October 2018, Tucker Carlson Tonight was the second-highest rated cable news show in prime time, after The Sean Hannity Show with Sean Hannity, with 3.2 million nightly viewers.[159] By the end of 2018, the show had begun to be boycotted by at least 20 advertisers after Carlson said immigration makes the country “poorer, dirtier and more divided”. According to Fox News, the advertisers only moved their ad buys to other programs.[160]
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By January 2019, Carlson’s show dropped to third with 2.8 million nightly viewers, down six percent from the previous year.[165] The show also lost at least 26 advertisers.[166][167]
In March 2019, there were calls to fire Carlson from Fox News after Media Matters resurfaced remarks he had made over several years to the radio show Bubba the Love Sponge concerning women, calling them “like dogs” and “extremely primitive”, and statutory rape,[168][169] Iraqis, and immigrants.[170] His ratings rose eight percent that week despite the boycotts.[42]
By August 2019, Media Matters calculated that some companies had fulfilled their media buy contracts and advertising inventory for the time slot and had now begun their purchases for other time slots on Fox News.[171][172] At the close of 2019, Carlson’s Nielsen ratings among all viewers 25–54 placed him second only to Fox’s The Sean Hannity Show among cable news shows.[173]
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Beginning the week of June 8–14, 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight became the highest-rated cable news show in the U.S., with an average of four million viewers, beating out the shows hosted by fellow Fox News pundits Hannity and Laura Ingraham. This came in the wake of Carlson’s remarks criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement, which had caused some companies to pull their advertising from the show, including The Walt Disney Company, T-Mobile, and Papa John’s.[176]
In July 2020, Carlson’s head writer Blake Neff resigned after CNN Business reported that he had been using a pseudonym to post remarks that were widely described as racist, sexist, and homophobic on AutoAdmit, a message board known for its lack of moderation of offensive and defamatory content. The incident drew renewed scrutiny to Carlson’s program, already under pressure from sponsors because of Carlson’s remarks about Black Lives Matter.[177][178] Neff had also previously been a writer on The Daily Caller.[179] Carlson condemned Neff’s posts on the second episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight that aired after the posts were initially reported.[180]
By October 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight averaged 5.3 million viewers, with the show’s monthly average becoming the highest of any cable news program in history at that point. In the 25–54 demographic, the show maintained an average viewership of just over a million, with 670,000 being between 18 and 49.[181][182] Carlson’s program saw a dip in viewership following the aftermath of the 2020 election, losing out to Anderson Cooper 360° in the 25–54 demographic, which Carlson had maintained a hold of the prior month.[183] In 2020, Tucker Carlson Tonight and The Sean Hannity Show became the first cable news programs to finish a full year with viewership in excess of four million.[184]
In the week following the inauguration of Joe Biden as president, Tucker Carlson Tonight remained the only cable news program not to see a drop in viewership, slightly increasing from where it stood one week prior and reclaiming its lead among the 25–54 demographic.[185][186] It remained the most-watched news-related cable show as of mid-2021.[187][188][189] Through May 2022 it was a close second to The Five, while leading in the 25–54 demographic.[44]
Tucker Carlson Today
In February 2021, Carlson announced a multiyear deal with Fox News to host a new weekly podcast and series of monthly specials dubbed Tucker Carlson Originals on sister streaming service Fox Nation, which released on March 29.[190][191][192] In spring of 2021, he began hosting a show on Fox Nation called Tucker Carlson Today.[193]
Departure from Fox News
On the morning of Monday, April 24, 2023, Fox News dismissed Carlson and the executive producer of his evening show.[8][9] It does not appear that Carlson received advance notice of his dismissal, given that on Friday, April 21, in what became his final show’s sign-off, he told his viewers that he would “be back on Monday”.
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In a video on his Twitter feed on May 9, 2023, Carlson said he would relaunch his show on Twitter.[206][207]
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In June 2023, he was reportedly seeking funds to start a new media company with Neil Patel.[214][215]
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In October, it was announced that 1789 Capital had invested in Tucker Carlson’s new media company.[218] According to 1789 Capital founder Omeed Malik, this was “one of [the] first investments” by the venture capital firm.[219] In December, Carlson launched the new streaming service, called the Tucker Carlson Network, with both ad-supported and subscription-based content. Initially planned for Twitter/X, Musk’s company was unable to deliver the needed technology. Justin Wells, a former executive producer at Fox for Carlson, will oversee programming.[220][221]
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In May 2024, Carlson launched the weekly commentary podcast The Tucker Carlson Show. At its launch, Slate wrote that Carlson had diminished popularity. Quickly, though, Carlson regained his popularity, and The Tucker Carlson Show soon became one of the highest-rating political podcasts; it was the #1 most popular on Spotify in July 2024.[227][228][229]
On September 2, 2024, Carlson hosted podcaster and amateur historian Darryl Cooper on Tucker on X.
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On October 28, 2025, Carlson hosted white nationalist political commentator Nick Fuentes.[235]
“Does anyone know anything about his real beliefs, if it’s possible to even learn that?” – Aesop Fan
One of the results of the Fuentes interview is Carlson has gone on other podcasts, most notably Megan Kelley and Dave Smith to articulate why he opposes Israel. If you listen/read those statements critically you can see the bias/error he makes in coming to his conclusions.
For example he stated that Israel pushed out Gazans before the military entered because the area for other reasons than trying to minimize civilian casualties– based on statements made my leaders to two of the smaller Netanyahu coalition party leaders. But he misstated what those leaders actually said.
This sort of sloppy reasoning is common/pervasive today. I’ve started to compile some of this using the transcripts of these interviews, but the transcripts are sometimes not entirely accurate.
“Whatever happened to Tucker Carlson, Part I” has been posted.
@ Brian E > “But he misstated what those leaders actually said.
This sort of sloppy reasoning is common/pervasive today.”
Not just sloppy reasoning, if the BBC is an indicator.
However, there is a lot of sloppy listening, reading, interpreting, and remembering even when one is TRYING to be accurate; if there is no real desire to do that, then — well, the one thing Democrats are correct about is that there IS a lot of mis- and dis-information swirling around, they just mainly lie about what it is and who does it, excusing themselves completely.
I really roll my eyes at the “mal-information” whining: “it’s true, but we don’t like it.”
Not that Republicans, conservatives, and right-wing in general is totally innocent, but I don’t think it’s been weaponized to the same extent.
FWIW, I do NOT put Fuentes and his ilk in the “right-wing” bucket, because the common sense of the term means “conservative,” NOT “nazi-loving authoritarians” of any type.
His cohort and other similar ones are in a field of their own, neither left nor right nor good red herring.
@ Aesop > in re Fuentes: “His cohort and other similar ones are in a field of their own, neither left nor right nor good red herring.”
Which is close to what Neo said in a comment to her post on 11/12:
https://thenewneo.com/2025/11/12/whatever-happened-to-tucker-carlson-part-i/#comment-2829938
“As far as the left wing versus right wing question for Carlson, I think he is “far-right” (granted, a very poor term and not especially descriptive) – but that’s a place where the circle starts to be complete and far right and far left meet on so many issues that it becomes difficult to distinguish.”