Welcome. Welcome, one and all, to the late show. I'm your host, Stephen Colbert, and I don't know about you, but one week ago tonight, I was a little stressed out.

You're just about silly stuff. That in retrospect, I shouldn't have been too concerned about, like, the rising tide of fascism.

And then the election came, and I continued to be stressed out for four more days, because we didn't know who would want into battle.

Well, turns out what happens in Vegas takes four days to figure out what the hell happened.

But, but.

But on Saturday night, we learned that the Democrats are keeping control of the Senate.

There you go.

Turns out that Red Wave was actually a blue splash, just as the MaxiPad commercials foretold.

Did you have that, sir?

The Democrats sealed the deal in Nevada where Catherine Cortez-Masto, David or her GOP opponent, of course, this is Nevada.

So Cortez-Masto can either take the win and walk away or go double or nothing.

Because, come on, wouldn't it be great to be both senators, Catherine?

Control of the Senate means the Democrats will be able to approve judges.

Block legislation from the potential GOP House and most crucially pick the theme of the Senate homecoming dance.

Bernie's pushing for Enchantment under the soup.

The Democrats, victory in Nevada means the Georgia runoff will no longer determine control of the Senate.

So, Georgians will have to come up with a new reason to vote for Herschel Walker.

For many of them, it'll be, he's my dad.

What are you gonna do?

Now, the Republicans failed to take back the Senate.

They're rolling up their sleeves and coming together to pick a scapegoat and hurl them down an elevator shaft.

Right now, knives are out for a Senate minority leader and clinically depressed putting Mitch McConnell and Florida Senator and newly discovered cavefish Rick Scott.

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