The state of the world is currently making me quite sad. Yes, there is more good than bad, you must look at the glass half full, love always wins, look on the bright side, etc. But every time I turn on the evening news, there is drama, politics, shootings, pain, death and disasters. It's all so heartbreaking, and whether I watch it live in the evening or record it and watch it the next morning, it's terrible way to start or end the day.

And then there are all the skewed perceptions of "the news." No matter the channel, no matter the time, the news report each day is everything but an unbiased account of world events. The TV channels need ratings; so the reports focused on are the ones who bring drama, make people keep watching or get a rise out of people.

For a long time, I watched ABC with my family each night because that was what my parents watched. Then I realized different channels report on different things in different ways. So I began watching several different news reports on different channels each night. This took up too much time, led to overlap and still left me feeling as though I was not getting the full story. It felt as if the filter over the information created was already resolving my feelings on each report before it was even over.

So I stopped watching the news.

And instead, I watch "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert."

Very opinionated, yes. Very skewed, of course. It is a comedy show, after all. But it makes me laugh. Colbert makes fun of everyone and everything in the news, in politics, in any sort of media. I figure, if any version of the news I watched is skewed, then why not pick a version of it that I enjoy watching?

So Colbert it is. His monologues each night usually cover the campaign trail and any other big time stories that are splashed across the front page.

I'm not an idiot though. I realize I can't have an informed view of the world just from a comedy show. I read the news, from any and every website I come across. I skim the Orlando Sentinel, I listen to conversations with friends when world events come up. If my family is watching some news show, then I'll sit down and watch with them.

But my only constant is "The Late Show" every night, laughing a little at the rough patches of the world. Because, in my opinion, the only way to make it through this life is by laughing at the utter insanity of it all.