In a special live show, Jon Stewart minced no words about the results of an election “a handful of people have been waiting for.” The midterms, he said, were a “bloodbath” and a “Red Wedding” for the Democratic Party, with Republicans gaining control of the Senate and winning governorships in critical swing states.

He cycled through some of last night’s key races, including South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham’s win against Democratic opponent Brad Hutto and Democrat Corey Booker’s defeat of Jeff Bell in the New Jersey Senate race (“Booker wasn’t around to make a victory speech. He was pulling someone from a burning car—while tweeting”). As always, Stewart took particular delight in making fun of newly crowned Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, referring to him as a “small, small, moving reptilian figure.”

Though the Daily Show host acknowledged he was making light of a rather depressing outcome for progressives, he offered a pragmatic note of reassurance. “It’s not as though the Senate was a functioning body before tonight.”