The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and a little (though less) of Stephen Colbert. I keep hearing lately how Fallon has held on to the ratings lead in the 18-49 age group, but Colbert has won the overall ratings battle for nine weeks in a row.

I'm saddened by that because of what it says about American culture and where we're headed. While I believe Colbert is a pretty intelligent guy, I think his comedy is actually pretty unintelligent. And I'm not saying that because I disagree with him politically more than I agree with him. He always seems to go after the lowest hanging fruit. And he does it in the same way a junior high bully does it in the cafeteria surrounded by all of his minions.

Colbert reminds me of when I used to be way into chess. There was a phrase I heard commentators say about certain positions: "The game plays itself." They would use that phrase when the obvious moves even a rank amateur could see also happened to be the best moves in a given position. Trump practically writes the jokes himself. Colbert's stuff writes itself.

I understand that a lot of people are worried about and bothered by Donald Trump. But good satire causes people to think on a deeper level than they were already thinking. It doesn't just satisfy a blood lust.