it is 2021. >> i hope 2021 is a little better than 2020. >> the bar is very low. >> happy new year, america. god bless you all. >> yes, we >> reporter: we are here to ring in a new year. we are almost there, so close to ending this crap storm that was 2020 but i am proud of you, you made it in one piece. we will try to do well on the positive stuff like this. isn't that beautiful? and this. and this. ♪

>> that sums up 2020 for me, leather face, the last scene of texas chainsaw massacre from my private stash. think of it is looking back on 2020 wearing beer goggles. let's welcome sally -- theologian and fox news contributor jonathan morris seems as cheerful as i'm sneer full. carley shimkus is chatty, bratty and slightly betty, host of sincerely on fox nation and he is big, brash and makes a number, my host. that is why john mclaughlin imitation. did they fill the year with stripes or benefit your life? winners and losers, heroes and

0s, melvyn is in room 5. operation warp speed was amazing. we had governor andrew cuomo the opposite of amazing. the selfish and the selfless, the helpers and hinders, the law abiding in the leaders. 2020 was loaded with those who rose to the challenge regarding the way. lots of obvious candidates. we will talk about losers in a second. the guy who with a champ in my book, hasn't got the recognition he deserves until now. >> i will reach $1 million by february. what? yes! game over! yes! yes! yes! i did it! greg: we don't have proof of that but it didn't take much to get him happier is happy this year. who were the losers of 2020.

>> you brought them up. governor cuomo came out and a lot of people's eyes as a superstar but one thing he did that is so obviously wrong, he transferred elderly people with covid-19 into nursing homes. we didn't know much about the virus at the time but we knew elderly people were getting sick. he did it anyway because he panicked because he thought there would be no hospital beds as we had the navy ship comfort that was never used, built massive hospitals that weren't used. he panicked and never recognized. this is interesting to me. i'm trying to figure out whether he is avoiding the question or believes he did nothing wrong because to this day when you bring this up he just blames it on right-wing media, just says that is garbage.

know, it actually happened. it isn't like 9/11 truthing or bigfoot. there is actual evidence these people were sent to the rest home and they died. bring it up to him, that is right-wing media. it is not. that is a good choice. what is your loser? carley: my losers are all the politicians who broke their own coronavirus restrictions. it is surprising, not because they are people too who wants to see their families but how many people did this. you would think that after governor newsom got caught at the french laundry people would say i don't want to be this and i will take this seriously. every day story after story of people breaking their own rules and the biggest losers of the bunch i give to the woman in la

who was an actress, trace gallagher told me and i googled it and she was, she was the one who voted for outdoor dining ban, went outside and the mayor of austin telling people -- he was on vacation. >> without help from anybody, dob gillis and who was the costar, bob denver like jughead. like somebody - when somebody introduce something like that into my head it will be there for the rest of the show. i will sit here, thank you. this is close to doing ecstasy

when there is a piece of trivia stuck in my head and it explodes in my brain and i feel it all through my body, dob gillis, like doing strong drugs. >> glad i could provide that. >> watch this now. want your feedback. >> loser you. >> he didn't kill anybody that i am aware of, the jury is still out but michael avenatti is my biggest loser of all time. this guy is going to be the president to wheelchair money robbing presenter. that is loser like any other way. >> he is still in jail. >> he is not on cnn.

he was the -- he was america's savior. greg: he is at every party. >> he was the darling bill of the ball of cnn who was going to take down lord vader and trump and save the world. he was everything. he robbed strippers, handicapped people and blackmailed nike. >> what i love about nike is they challenged him on it and they got him. good choice. who is your loser of 2020? >> apple bobbing, bobbing for apples. nobody wants to bob for apples and mcdonald's play places, serotonin and dopamine.

unsuccessful 2020. greg: if you are going that direction and not a bad person but a victim the real loser is everybody who was looted. >> i don't know if apple bobbing will ever come back. >> movie theaters are losers because they are not coming back. this is a theory i don't buy into completely, spitballing which you shouldn't do in the era of covid-19. did covid-19 the race certain things that were already on their way out in terms of businesses, people stopped going to movies and this went like this, kicked it out the door. we are going into a very grim place but an interesting way of

looking at it, people that were unfairly damaged and there were so many. i had a lot of losers. experts, they were wrong every single week. don't wear masks, then wear masks, go to the parade, don't go to the parade but if there's a protest, go. other losers, hard news. i'm so tired of hard news pretending they know everything when it is commentary like me who have been right. i don't know why i had that on my list. the media. we've been talking about the media every week on the show. they have been exposed once again as charlatans, a great opportunity to run a short montage of my favorite low points. >> i want to be clear in how i characterize it. this is mostly a protest.

it is not generally speaking unruly but fires have been started. >> too many see the protests as the problem. >> show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful. >> the money he spent he could have given every american $1 million. >> when i read it tonight on social media it all became clear, $500 million on ads, us population 327 million, could have given each american $1 million, lunch money left over. an incredible way. >> it is true. >> i feel bad for the reporter. he is an adult. he is obviously a liar. i can understand optical illusions can trick you. you can be tricked by things as

you read something but that was floating around forever. what is your problem? they suck, really, they are the worst on the planet, the media is the worst thing on the planet, do not trust them. winners. carley: i have three. my first winner is our dog. because of all the people time dog got with everybody being home. and shelters. greg: you got all those dogs? >> shelters ran out of dogs. everyone was taking them. my second winner is telecom. >> stretch that off mine. carley: last question -- last christmas they were canceled because of the sexist christmas. greg: i track to the ad.

carley: they were canceled. a couple months later everyone working at home. my third winner is space. space x and the ufos the pentagon now acknowledges as a real thing. some folks are worried about aliens. greg: dogs come in litters but they are so far from trash. i wanted to say that. okay, winner. >> i did it the same way. >> decisions foxbusiness. winners and losers. >> jeff bezos and drugs. serotonin and dopamine have a bad year. drugs have a good year. greg: drug dealers were living

high on the hard. >> decriminalized in a lot of places. >> wordplay. winners? >> lawyers, psychiatrists and therapists made a killing this year. i am not sure. i have a dog too. the jury is out whether they won because they had to endure a lot of things they didn't sign up for. they were on the wrong end because you are stuck with the same person in the house and just got yelled at for the way you choose serial. extremely loud and the dog says hi and you transfer that. what are you looking at? get away from me. therapists and divorce lawyers made a killing. greg: you know who else made a killing?

killers. the ex-priest find that funny. i will go to you. >> the absolute winner and the entire universe was my puppy. i got a puppy in the midst of covid-19. i have pictures of my puppy and that puppy is so spoiled. i will show a picture of him, not very happy, drinking whiskey, there he is. he was watching something he didn't want to see, turns to alcohol and is the happiest puppy in the world. >> i got caught up in the puppy thing and divorce lawyers. nobody mentioned the biggest winner was mitch mcconnell. he had a phenomenal year and donald trump to call the heat.

no shots fired at old mitch. he did whatever he wanted, past bills, didn't pass bills, mitch had a stellar year. >> i had telecom on my list because it allows you to control your time. going to the gym, wait there while -- dana white showed people you could figure out what to do when there was a problem as opposed to shutting everything down and he took a lot of heat. >> the euro figure out dana white was a guy. and those lady wrestlers. >> i like the guy, our capitalist, putting things to gather.

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♪ >> greg: will be forever h greg: will we forever jeer the most awful year? 2020 was brutal but as terrible as it was it did ring is great new innovations that showed what we are capable of when we are up against the wall. you have vaccines in record time. the rise of zoom and a video chat apps which was a good news for families away from home and bad news for jeffrey tube and. major companies like ford, gm and tesla shipping resources to make ventilators and medicine, people at home breaking other sewing machines to make masks for those who needed the most or in my case biohazard atlas chat. drive-through strip clubs and drive-through strip clubs. that is it. 2020 was bad but for a few moments reminded us how we get stuff done when it matters most

but was it the worst year ever? how does the computer 1347, the beginning of the black death or 1520, the rise of smallpox or 1918 with the spanish flu or 2002, the rise of maroon 5. how we felt about 2020. [screaming] greg: we are having an argument, i maintain it was 2001. the album came out in 2002. it was 2001, not 2002. now i will be mad for the rest of the show. make me happy. how do you get -- was the worst year ever? >> this was a bad year.

a lot of bad news events affect a lot of people. people were able to adapt, we could do a show remotely which was a majority of all our years in the presidential election, whether it was fair or time moves on. i do think things - i think things are going from here on out instance always, masks are going to stick around and you're not going to get out of things as easily. if you couldn't do something because you were out of town, now you can't say -- >> this is interesting. you can't say i am out of town but you can say i tested positive and have to be home for 12 days. >> i would love to see a study on the level of sick days, i am

sure it is so down because a lot of people say you are sick but there's a level of severity to sickness so you can't do that. >> this year was tough but every year until 1864 was probably worse. things got a little better with be no more slavery thing. this was worse but for me and mine. >> you made a point. >> take my chances, america. ask the good people of japan, a lot of other things happen. you get through it.

greg: i believe it was a bad year but our baseline is higher. we have indoor plumbing, running water, the internet, penicillin. our baseline is higher. >> that is true. in 2010 i only had running water sometimes but this was still a bad year. greg: it is going to get better. >> it can only. greg: by the time this show has aired it will be better. >> exactly. >> a lot of people say it's not so bad because there are silver linings to everything. carly find the silver lining but silver linings are useless, i learned how to bake or not how to bake, go find somebody who knows how to bake better than you and you can buy it.

i learned how not to bake. i learned i am not good at it. so many other things people have tried, how to play guitar but i learned how to play guitar badly. trying new things creates potential for failure. either and how to speak spanish very poorly this year. greg: that is on you because you only go a certain amount of progress and that is it. i am like that with guitar and languages but not with love. i go the full 9 yards. on that note the next segment, what is the best thing that happens to you in 2020? think about yours. we will tell you hours next. ♪

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>> good friday morning. donald trump delivering the year end video message touting his administration's work to rapidly develop a covid-19 vaccine and rebuild the economy, the president calling the vaccine a, quote, truly unprecedented medical miracle, promising it will be available to every american in early 2021. he returned to the white house thursday after cutting his stay in mara lago short by one day.

ringing in the new year with the annual ball drop but things looked different. times square was closed to the general public with only select vip guests and local front-line workers allowed to watch in person. nearly 1 ton of confetti rained at midnight as everyone gladly said sayonara to 2020. now back to greg gotfilled's show. greg: this year we had all the time in the world to reflect. what were your personal highlight in 2020? did you spend more time with family or learn a new skill or have a life-changing epiphany? i bought a gun and a truck and had my tattoo of skeet all rich removed. if you have to ask why you don't know skeet but my high point was sharing my love of aviation with my best friend larry.

♪ ♪ greg: painful having to explain who skeet all rich is, he was supposed to be the next johnny depp but it didn't turn out that way. he got older and started looking less like johnny depp and more like johnny - you had a bad moment. >> i got engaged, it is also astounding. i thought it would never happen. also got a dog, little coral. i did a birthing photo shoot.

greg: you are doing what women do with their babies. >> after i gave birth - greg: the most adorable puppy or the most hideous baby. is that a french bulldog? that is my baby. he have a hair problem. like one of those circus geeks. adorable dog and adorable dog. >> do you keep the hospital smock around the house? >> or you ordered it ahead of time. >> pretty impressive. >> everyone does it with their babies. >> in the actual hospital. >> a condition. >> let me have my moment. >> what was your big moment in 2020? >> i spent a lot of time with my

family. first comic lead in a movie and proud landowner in montana. i didn't die. >> got so sick. >> if you make it through this year you will make it through the next year. >> i would like to think so. >> if you died this year you wouldn't make it to next year. that is an absolute statistic. if you made it to the 60s you are more likely to make it through the 70s in terms of age, of course. you got married. >> i did. that would be my most memorable moment normally. i am overjoyed.

but i must say very memorable was the advice greg got filled gave to me about dating. i wrote it all down, did the exact opposite and it worked. it was half an hour of you giving me advice, left the priesthood, it will be different with all the women, time to change and it worked. >> all right. >> what i said about the baking thing, turkey for thanksgiving. there it is. i could never and i thought it

would be harder. what else? i got my first christmas tree, we have a picture of it. i have a vision of it getting big and having an actual giant tree in my apartment, comes out of the ceiling and also i went to jackson hole, wyoming. haven't spent a lot of time in that part of the country. >> the wife surprised me. >> those are my highlights. greg: joe montana was standing outside my apartment last year. i was a huge 49er fan, totally blue me off, i emailed a friend of mine, a story that needs to be told. i became a gun owner, i belong

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♪ >> greg: some say blessing, others say curse. 2020 make you better >> sums a blessing. others say curse. did 2020 make you better or worse? maybe it is too soon to tell. it is a mistake to sell my facemask is this. i didn't see a market for that stuff.

a website helps me turn things around in 2021. here the tips. reduced time on social media. haven't heard that one before. waking up earlier. learning new skills. breaking new ground. buying my book the plus. without my book this list is meaningless. take a relaxing bath. ♪ greg: we never get a chance to ask if we are a better person or worse person after appear go of time. we don't do that so are you a better or worse person?

>> because i'm married i have the potential of becoming a better person. i would not say i am very yet. i spent much of my life giving advice. even in my new career in executive coaching i am giving advice but your wife doesn't want to hear your advice. i just learned that and i learned she gives good advice. i learned things go better for me when i take that advice. i have great hope for the next year. greg: should be working on a screenplay treatment on your wife on leaving the priesthood and finding out you are serving a higher being, your wife. >> good idea. greg: are you a better or worse person? >> 50/50, better at some things, better with my family and stuff but i have become really judgmental. i joined the old ladies in the

grocery store, look at her, she didn't wash her hands or social distancing, what's wrong with that person. the neighbors, five people in the front yard. i've become that guy. >> something inside all humans. you need an opportunity to be judgmental and you have to fight it. you are mister wilson. >> i didn't have the sweater. >> you are better or worse person? >> i'm becoming a better person with every passing moment. i'm not going to diminish my own value. >> you are doing this in case anyone is watching you at fox. >> every passing moment. my only weakness is i care too much. carley: i echo. i don't think i have changed all that much. i am a little more grateful.

never thought we would be in a situation where you could run out of toilet paper. looking forward to a time when that is not a possibility which is going to happen next year. >> i don't know if i am better or worse but i'm lucky as hell. the fact that i don't know, just by working, being in a profession, media is a profession that does better when people are not doing well. that is an interesting and sad thought i should get out of my head because now i am feeling bad but i lost 40 pounds. i'm less of a person. not better or worse, i am less of a person. up next, new year's resolution, do over screwups. ♪

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♪ >> greg: resolutions, should you do weights or just say screw >> resolutions, should you do to just screw it? the same as fatigue.

that is okay. screw it. a segment on resolutions, these shows are pre-taped. you can't do any real news because it gets old really fast so you do something called evergreen topics that can hold for a week at a time like a story on resolutions. resolutions. they are hard to stick to, harder than sitting on a couch re-watching the vampire diaries for the tenth time. new research shows the key to keeping a resolution is how you phrase it saying i will try to do something is better than i will avoid. and new year i will try to pronounce microwave this way. >> i still need a bit of milk, fat, warmed in the microwave. greg: i believe she is sober. your resolution?

>> last time we did this, eat more apples and i successfully completed that task so much so they are sending me free apps so i will keep the apple party going and continue to eat - greg: apples are almost the perfect food. they come in their own packaging, you can put them in your pocket, white it and eat it, have little seeds in the middle to plant more trees. it is an all in one package. i don't think anyone ever pointed this out before. i am the first person to stumble on this. >> that and the entire industry. >> you get things stuck in your head and hard to get them out. four times during the show you got things stuck in your head. >> i of the study that says the best way to complete a

resolution is to rephrase it, i will start to do this. that is an easy resolution if all you have to do is start. i will start to lose weight, then i fulfilled the resolution, done. >> you are a hard -- >> i'm getting very critical. greg: i like this version of jonathan. very unforgiving for a life coach. >> what i am going to try to do is write down - my wife knows i am on it is not going to watch this. i am going to write down things i think she thinks would be good for me to improve upon and that is the value of marriage, you help the other person improve. i won't tell her i am doing this because then she is right.

i will write down these are the things i think she thinks i would be an improvement and start to do them. greg: i will have apples and you will honor your wife. going to be a long night at my house. carley: i am not big on resolutions but a reoccurring resolution i can never do is remember people's names. i want to get better at that. i think if there is any year where everybody can give themselves a pass and not make a resolution this is the year. go with the bare minimum. greg: anything? >> i don't do -- not that i can't think of ways to improve, i always do. my little voice telling me i am not good enough every day of every year, i am not going to do

a resolution. i am going to wake up every morning by meditating on how to be the best employee at fox news channel than i was the day before that. >> i will eat an apple and everyone else is having life moment. greg: mine is don't get fat. when you lose weight the only thing your head is gaining it back. i hate that. >> an expensive suit or not so expensive, say i am not going to get fat because i want to fit into this suit. that is the way i like it. the tighter the better. >> and plant trees, make it almost and even, all my family's honest wishes and dreams, a tree for my daughter. >> i will work on success or

failure, fox news channel depends on me and me alone. >> you are going to work a lot more, stay longer at the office and might come in on weekendss. >> i will go to a third world country and make it a second world country. that is what i am going to do. that is why resolution. greg: you should probably go to california. >> that is where i was thinking. greg: toast to the new year next. don't go anywhere.

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♪ >> greg: not much time left in the show are the year. let's end up on a toast. we found ourselves stuck at home

with nothing much to do. if 2020 was a tough year, the happy times are revealed. we worried for our loved ones, we stayed in separate rooms. we work from home and sweatpants and learned to meet on zoom. dining out, no haircuts, nothing on the silver screen, we wore our masks and hunkered down, and wished for a vaccine. we think our first responders, a brutal year to cope, and now at last we look ahead and fill ourselves with hope. from all of us, we wish you joy, good fortune, and some wealth. most of all, we wish you peace, and covid free good health. to better days and back to normal, let us raise a glass. good riddance, 2020, we kick your sorry -- cheers, everybody! i want to think jonathan morris, carley shimkus, kat timpf, and tyrus. i'm greg gutfeld, and i love you, america!

♪ ♪ ♪ >> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. [cheers] >> i feel good ♪ i knew that i would now ♪ i feel good. griff: happy new year, it's 2021. we made it. welcome to the first "fox & friends" of 2021. i'm griff jenkins. you are looking there at the ball dropping in times square in new york. looking very different this year. i am joined by rachel campos-duffy and jason chaffetz. happy new year guys.