This very debate-centric episode continued with a special segment on Weekend Update called “Winners and Losers.” The first loser, of course, is moderator Jim Lehrer. Host Seth Meyers describes Lehrer’s debate performance as akin to “stammering like Hugh Grant in a rom-com.” Additional losers include Michelle Obama — by default, really, since the rest of the episode made it clear that her husband was the night’s biggest loser. Winners include Downton Abbey, because, as Meyers notes, Romney wants to cut funding to PBS but goes after Big Bird instead of the melodrama with “the nicest house in England.” Big Bird, on the other hand, “has lived on the same city street for 43 years.”
The biggest winner though? America. Meyers asks, “Is there anything more exciting than Joe Biden thinking it’s up to him to get the lead back?”