Today's Video Links

Lying awake in bed this morning at 3 AM, I started watching videos on my iPhone from last night's late night shows. I found myself laughing out loud at several segments from Stephen Colbert's program…and by the way, I'll make one of my occasionally-right predictions. Colbert's ratings are up and he and his staff are clever enough to ride their nonsensical cancelation to a lot of tune-in…so there will come a day soon when Mr. Colbert will be faced with a choice: He'll have (and may already have) lucrative, guaranteed-we-won't-cancel-you offers to do essentially the same show elsewhere.

And whoever's running CBS this week will decide they'll be better off with him than without him. Not only will they get the ratings but they'll avoid nine or ten months of being hammered as craven Trump supplicants and bad programmers. I have no idea what Colbert will elect to do but I'll bet staying right where he is will be among the options.

Anyway, he's now been doing Late Show for ten years so, acting oddly like the series started with him, he did this last night…

…followed by this, later on…

…followed by this…

And also last night, Jon Stewart returned from vacation and did one of his funniest, on-target pieces on The Daily Show…

And with that, I went back to sleep for a few hours. I'm so glad we have those guys and their shows around.