The Showmanship of the Savannah Bananas Won Late Night This Week

Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images So what's been going on in the news lately? Anything to make topical humor from? We're going to do like Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers did: briefly say that shooting people is bad then move on. Meyers, particularly, laid out how much gun/political/politically motivated gun violence the American newsreader is constantly subjected to and how it must end. This column has frequently addressed how late-night television has painted itself into a corner by becoming the current-events processing machine. It is difficult, some might even say counterproductive, to . . .