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From the beginning of June through the end of December, the late night comedy shows welcomed 120 liberal guests and only one conservative, according to a new NewsBusters study.

The 99 percent figure came during the heat of the presidential campaign season, including both party conventions, and its aftermath from June 3 through December 19.

The study looked at the five daily late night comedy shows: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. 

MRC analysts also divided the guests into two categories: partisan officials and then journalists and celebrities.

When it came to partisan officials, the count was 35 Democrats to 0 Republicans.

Colbert led the pack with 16 Democrats while The Daily Show came in a close second with 14. Kimmel was third with four, while Fallon had one. Seth Meyers did not have any Democrats on during the study’s run.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was the only guest to appear three times, but Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz each had multiple appearances.

For journalists and celebrities, the results were 84 liberals to 1 conservative.

The Daily Show led all with 29 liberal guests, while Colbert was second with 25. Kimmel again placed third with 16, while Meyers had ten, and Fallon had four. Bill O’Reilly’s July 16 appearance on The Daily Show was the lone conservative appearance.

CBS’s John Dickerson and CNN’s Adam Kinzinger led all guests with three. Others that made multiple appearances included The View’s Whoopi Goldberg, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, radical left-wing author Ta-Nehisi Coates, and retiring NBC Today co-host Hoda Kotb.

(Click here for a complete guest count breakdown.)

CNN was the most common media outlet to be represented with ten appearances. MSNBC was a close second with nine, while parent company NBC had five. CBS came in fourth with four, while the New York Times rounded up the top five with three.

This was the fifth MRC guest count study since September 2022 (see the first, second, third, and fourth, studies here) and it brings the totals since then to 403 liberals and 13 conservatives, or 97 percent liberal.

Methodology: Journalists were defined as either liberal or conservative, regardless of the segment’s subject matter. A celebrity was defined as either a current late night host if that host was on to be interviewed, political activist, or anyone famous who discussed politics or a religious project. If a celebrity is known to have strong political beliefs, but did not discuss them, they were not included.

A politician was defined as any currently or previously elected American office holder, White House staffer, cabinet secretary, their spouse, or any of their children who were on to discuss political matters. A politician who has since entered the media is considered to be a journalist.