Channel Seven is having the last laugh after nearly one million Australians tuned in to watch Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud on Tuesday night.

The network made headlines last week after it decided to dump fledgling cooking show Restaurant Revolution in favour of a program consisting of only funny YouTube cat videos.

Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud pulled 917,000 viewers in the capital cities, beating Nine's The Hotplate, which was watched by 839,000 people.