Al Franken resignation: Seth Meyers, Trevor Noah, Jimmy Fallon try to get the last words

In his speech announcing his resignation from the U.S. Senate Thursday morning, former comedian Al Franken beat late-night hosts to the punchline:

"I, of all people, am aware that there is some irony in the fact that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for the Senate with the full support of his party."

But that didn't stop them from trying.

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

"Regardless of how you feel about Franken," Noah noted, "he has a point. The Democrats are draining their swamp while the Republicans are building a jungle gym in Roy Moore's office."

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

The Tonight Show host commented on Congressional reaction to Franken's resignation, noting, "Other senators said he seemed heartfelt, contrite and dignified and there's no place for someone like that in the U.S Senate."

He continued, "Actually Franken said he couldn't focus on his job while under investigation." Switching over to his Trump impersonation, he added, "That's when another guy said, 'That's why I blow off my job and focus on my investigation!"

Fallon noted, "Another senator is expected to resign tomorrow. I'm not basing that on any news — I'm just assuming there will be another senator who has to resign."

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Meyers, who did not go easy on Franken, noted that new allegations had been made as recently as a day before Franken announced his resignation, including one made by a journalist and former Democratic Congressional staffer who accused him of "grabbing a handful of flesh" while posing for a photo opp.

"Not only can you not do that to a woman you barely know," Meyers noted, "you can't do that to your own wife. Unless you're in the mood to pick up all your clothes from the front lawn."

Meyers also called out members of the Trump administration for "cynically trying to exploit the Franken scandal for political gain while simultaneously refusing to denounce the abusers in their own party." Including White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who tweeted an insinuation that Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of sat on the fence until Wednesday, when she joined the call for her colleague from Minnesota to resign.

"You work for a guy who's been accused by more than 12 women of sexual harassment and assault!" Meyers reminded her, adding "Kellyanne Conway has so little self-awareness that when she walks by a mirror, she thinks there's a stranger in her house."

He continued, "Trump and the GOP are backing an accused child molester (Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore) "just so they can ram through their fragile agenda — an agenda that grows more fragile by the day, as the Russia investigation intensifies. Just yesterday, the House Intelligence Committee interviewed the president's son, Don Jr., for nearly eight hours. He was in there for so long his hair gel gave out."

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