In the wake of Steve Kornacki’s energetic analysis on election night, Jimmy Fallon visited the MSNBC winner to deliver a thank you gift (a $ 5 Subway gift card and a bottle of airplane whiskey, to be exact), only to discover that Kornacki’s office, also at 30 Rock, is the physical manifestation of all the chaos that Steve Kornacki actively struggles with every day as a journalist. Although Marie Kondo cried with joy at the amount of dirt Steve collected, our boy deserves more, which is why Fallon stopped on Monday to clean up Steve Kornacki’s filthy office himself.
“We are in a khaki country now,” he reflects as he wanders around MSNBC’s empty offices. “It feels like I’m in a horror video game.” Of course, Steve Kornacki’s dirt is less dirty coffee mugs and pistachio shells and more pre-tied ties and an American National Election Studies data source book from 1952 to 1978. And if you thought he would be thrilled with the Fallon’s gesture, misunderstood the source of Steve Kornacki’s enthusiasm. “This is long overdue. It will probably last about a day or two, but it looks great now, ”Kornacki says in reaction when he gets the big reveal. “I feel like I had more stuff before.”