Well, everyone, history has finally swept through our lives like the wind through our national tree, leaving us, well, exhausted, for one thing. Also: bereft. What the heck are we supposed to write about now? Are they even gonna keep doing SNL now that Sarah Palin's just the hottest governor in the union? Well, guess we better milk this cow one final time while we can, so click on through for behind-the-scenes notes on coverage of last night's historic coverage on CNN and Comedy Central, how a noted SNL vet fared is faring in his bid for the Senate, and one final way to squeeze William Shatner into this whole blasted affair.
-- In case you weren't aware, the story last night was basically this: neither South Carolina nor Georgia nor Virginia nor Florida -- states that Obama had hoped to turn blue -- went early for the Democratic candidate, while McCain failed to make many advances of his own into blue territory but still held his own, meaning that our own predictions that it might be an early evening were not realized, and it took the West Coast coming in all blue at 11PM EST (once their polls closed) for the math to be unavoidable. A casual, unscientific survey of blogs and websites, on the other hand, revealed that they were calling this thing about an hour-and-a-half earlier, roughly the time that Ohio got called.
-- Stephen Colbert ad-libbed for 180 seconds in order to give Jon Stewart the honor of calling the election for the Obam-Anonymous meeting that was being held in their audience.
-- Despite being in a bar tuned to CNN all night, we somehow missed Anderson Cooper's groundbreaking interview with a hologram of Will.i.am.
-- By the way: this is how that hologram works. Seems sort of like horseshit to us.
-- But not nearly as horseshitty as Fox's greenscreen-based electoral board, which, we are sad to note, really seemed like magic to outgoing Fox anchor Brit Hume. Maybe you picked the right time to split, Brit.
-- As we write this, SNL vet Al Franken has not outed incumbent Republican Norm Coleman. In fact, he's tied with 81% of the votes in. Look at us, Al. Look at us! No matter what happens tonight, you're good enough, you're smart enough, and goshdarnit, people like you. UPDATE: recount.
-- OK, did you guys know that there was apparently another way that the SNL opening monologue that featured Bill Shatner was supposed to go? What, too late? Nobody cares anymore? All right, whatever. Then I guess we're all done here. Anybody know what's going on on The Mentalist these days?