When I first saw this Free Range cartoon, I was baffled, wondering why people were putting their desks down the elevator shafts. It took some staring before I finally got it.

From Tom Tomorrow.

… is not good.

As I said, the only way that I can get through listening to what Donald Trump says when you are laughing at him. Jimmy Kimmel helps.

During the shutdown crisis, the usually noisy creature known as the McConnell has suddenly disappeared into the undergrowth. Stephen Colbert finds nature documentary footage of the behavior of this animal when threatened, which explains the lack of recent sightings in the wild.

On #LSSC tonight: We found Mitch McConnell! pic.twitter.com/0FnniaugPU

— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) January 12, 2019

Otherwise it is infuriating. Seth Meyers distills the latest nonsense uttered by Trump, as he desperately tries to make the case that his wall is not a wasteful and stupid idea.

Some time ago, comedian Jim Jeffries delivered a sobering corrective message about the boast about America being the greatest country in the world that every American politician repeats incessantly and which many others repeat, and to which the rest of the world responds with snickers. At the end, he provides a new patriotic song that can be sung at all sporting events that represents a more accurate picture. This message is needed even more now as the country goes through this ridiculous shut down over a stupid wall that makes it the laughing stock of the world.

Ted Alexandro discusses the cases of Bill Cosby and Louis C. K.

Anyone whose work enters the public sphere gets criticism. Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow provides a catalog of the various types of critic.