Comedian Al Franken FINALLY won his battle for the Minnesota senate seat, and he’s now been a senator for all of five days. He made his big debut today at the confirmation hearing for SCOTUS judge Sonia Sotomayor … by making stupid jokes about Perry Mason. I hope he gets a whole lot funnier in the coming months — I was expecting better, yo!

I was reading this article on my Treo this morning at brunch, and I looked up at my friends and said, “Hey, looks like Al Franken’s gonna win the Minnesota Senate race!” and they were like “That thing is seriously still going on?” and then promptly returned to more important matters, like drinking mimosas and spoon-feeding coffee to their one-year-old daughter, which actually happened.

But, yeah, they’re still counting votes in the Minnesota Senate race, and now it looks like former SNL-er Al Franken won the race by 225 votes. A state election board on Monday will announce his victory on Monday. His opponent, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman, plans to challenge the findings on the grounds that hundreds of absentee ballots were improperly rejected, but it’s probably a lost cause. Al Franken will almost certainly be the new Minnesota senator.

Interestingly, the initial count of votes had Coleman winning by 215 votes, but Franken came out on top in the recount.

So here’s the point, kids: No, your vote doesn’t really count in the Presidential election, especially if you don’t live in a swing state, but it does count in matters like these. A Senate seat in Minnesota just changed parties because of a couple hundred votes. That is a huuuuge fucking deal.

Your. Vote. Counts.

Here’s a group of Hollywood celebs — albeit Z-listers — urging Minnesotans to vote against former SNL-er Al Franken, who’s running for Senate in that state (and who, based on recent polls, may actually win the damn thing).

Among them is another ex-SNL-er, Victoria Jackson, best known for going totally off the deep end with insane religious fervor in the past decade or so. Honestly, whomever you support in this election, the political musings on Victoria’s personal website are fucking insane. Some choice quotes:

“I hope that America realizes that Obama is a communist before it’s too late.”

“Thank you God above for giving us George W. Bush, and for giving us John McCain and Sarah Palin.”

“I don’t want a political label, but Obama bears traits that resemble the anti-Christ and I’m scared to death that un-educated people will ignorantly vote him into office.”

“I wouldn’t want to be Obama on Judgement Day, but I especially don’t want him to be the leader of my country.”

“Come On America! Wake Up! How stupid can you people be?! One of the leading Islamic Extremist organizations, Hamas, endorsed Obama! HELLO!”

Crazy, crazy, crazy bitch.

Amidst all the Presidential election news, the mainstream media hasn’t paid much attention to the fact that former Saturday Night Live mainstay, Harvard graduate, and Emmy-award-winning writer Al Franken is running for Senate in his home state of Minnesota. And I would guess the 57-year-old Mr. Franken has his long-term goals focused squarely on the Presidency — maybe not four years from now, but perhaps in eight.

One of his trout-tastic campaign ads is above.

What’s the vibe like in Minnesota, guys?