-Well, here's what people are talking about.
A huge, huge political story.
Last night, Doug Jones pulled off a shocking win
over Roy Moore to become Senator of Alabama.
[ Cheers and applause ]
And you know it's been a crazy year when an alleged pedophile
loses a Senate race, and we're like,
"Wow. What an upset!
I thought the pedophile was gonna win!"
What?
Yep, Roy Moore became the first Republican
to lose an Alabama Senate race in 25 years.
It was so embarrassing, his horse went home in an Uber.
"You Sassy the horse? Get in.
What kind of music you like?"
As the results came in, reporters said it was very quiet
at Moore's campaign headquarters.
But to be fair, it was a school night, so...
-Hey-oh! Ho. Ho. Ho!
-But you could tell things weren't going well.
One of Moore's spokesmen went on CNN to defend his belief
that Muslims can't run for office.
And he got some surprising information.
Watch his reaction.
-You don't actually have to swear on a Christian Bible.
You can swear on anything, really.
I don't know if you knew that. You can swear on a Jewish Bible.
-Oh, no. I swore on the Bible. I've done it three times.
-I'm sure you have. I'm sure you've picked a Bible.
But the law is not that you have to swear on a Christian Bible.
That is not the law.
You don't know that?
All right. Ted Crockett...
[ Laughter ]
-Blink twice for yes, Ted.
He looks like he just found out
he's been saying his wife's name wrong for 20 years.
She's like, "It's Less-lee, not Lez-lee."
But a lot of Republicans
are blaming Steve Bannon for the loss.
Today, Congressman Peter King went on CNN
and made some pretty interesting remarks about him.
Listen to this.
-This guy does not belong on the national stage.
He looks like some disheveled drunk
that wandered onto the political stage.
-Did you just call Steve Bannon a disheveled drunk?
-No, to be very precise, I said he looks like one.
[ Laughter ]
-Wait.
[ Laughter ]
-"I'm not saying he's ugly. I'm just saying he looks ugly.
That's all I'm saying.
I would never -- I would never say that."
And one of the big reasons for Doug Jones' victory
was because 98%
of African-American women supported him.
Joining me now to talk about it is "Tonight Show" correspondent
Yamaneika Saunders, everybody.
Yamaneika. Oh, no.
Oh, no. Oh, no!
Oh, no! What happened?! -Oh! Oh!
-Oh, what happened? -My back is hurting.
-Oh, no. Your back hurts?
-Yeah, every black woman's back is hurting
from carrying the election last night!
-Oh. Very good. [ Laughs ]
So you're excited about the results in Alabama?
-Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, a Democrat won in Alabama?
That's like Kanye West saying,
"No, not anymore about me. More about you."
-Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So you're feeling pretty good?
-Oh, yeah, I feel like Superman, you know, because
we both save the world and we both wear Spanx.
-Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Mm-hmm. Now, listen.
This is the perfect example of black-girl magic, okay?
After the 2016 election, we were like,
"You know what? Sit down. We got this."
-Really? -Yeah!
Black women get it done.
I mean, y'all seen "Hidden Figures."
Okay? We sent y'all asses to space.
-All right. That's -- [ Cheers and applause ]
That's a good point. You guys showed up.
You showed up. -Yeah, absolutely.
We showed up like we thought
Barack, Idris, and Denzel were gonna be there.
-Uh-huh. Yeah.
-I mean, Jimmy, this was our iPhone release line, you know?
Except, you know, we were waiting in line
for a guy named Doug.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. iPhone release line.
So do you think black women are celebrating in Alabama today?
-Oh, yeah. Well, we're super-excited, you know?
We're excited like Roy Moore would be
if they let him back into Limited Too.
-Oh, yeah. That's exciting. Yeah, yeah.
Before I let you go, what do you think Roy Moore should do next?
-Oh, what do I think? -Yeah.
-What do I think?
I think he need to get back on that horse
and saddle his ass up to "Westworld."
-All right, very good. Yamaneika Saunders, everybody.
-Michelle 2020! Michelle 2020!
-Yamaneika Saunders.
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Laughs ]
Listen to this, you guys.
Paul Ryan revealed that he hasn't eaten sweets in 10 years.
He said he'd rather eat grilled asparagus than a Snickers.
Americans were like,
"And we thought Roy Moore was a monster.
I mean, this guy is insane! What are you talking about?!"
"Happy Halloween. Here's a grilled asparagus.
It's a fun-size grilled asparagus."
Did you guys hear about this? Apparently George Clooney
once gave his 14 best friends $1 million each.
They were thrilled, while his 15th-best friend was like,
"What the hell, man? Like, are we cool?
Were you having a barbecue or something? Come on, man.
Remember when we had that thing that one time?
We're kind of buddies, right? Come on."
Finally, this is very cute.
The other day in Indiana, a little boy and little girl
were in the middle of a school wrestling match,
and the girl's younger brother didn't seem to like what he saw.
Check this out.
[ Indistinct shouting ]
-Yeah! There he -- Oh, there he goes.
[ Laughter ]
And I'm told that kid just signed with the WWE.
We have a great show tonight. Give it up for The Roots!