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LATE-NIGHT hosts pivoted from candidate Donald Trump to President-elect Trump, combining punchlines and audience group counseling after the billionaire’s defeat of Hillary Clinton.
“For years I’ve come out every night and asked how you’re doing, but I’ve never meant it. Tonight I actually mean it. Does anyone need a hug?” Conan O’Brien said in his monologue on TBS. Despite divisions among voters, he said, “the optimist in me chooses, today, to be happy that we have fair and free elections at all. It’s an amazing thing.”
And then there were the jokes. “The first thing I did this morning was call my old high school bully and congratulate him,” O’Brien said.
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel took viewers through the stages of grief, including denial (“No, the host of the ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ is not our president”) and bargaining (“Maybe he’ll only build the wall waist-high, to keep short people out”) and, finally, acceptance.
“No matter how you feel about it, Donald Trump is the president of the United States. Of America. So thank God we legalized marijuana yesterday,” Kimmel said, referring to pot-related measures passed by voters in several states.
Stephen Colbert also asked CBS’s “The Late Show” audience how they were doing, drawing cheers and applause.
“I’m glad. That’s better than I thought,” he said.
“This is what it feels like when America’s made great again. I was wondering, and I was really hoping it would feel better because this sucks,” he said, drawing out the last word. Noting anti-Trump protests in New York and other cities nationwide, Colbert advised viewers, “Don’t ever be cowed by what happens in the next four years.”
For parents struggling to explain Trump’s victory to their children, he suggested lying: “Tell them anything. Tell them the president is Elsa from ‘Frozen.’”
NBC’s “Tonight” host Jimmy Fallon focused on jokes rather than angst.
“Republicans hope he’ll keep his promise to build the wall, and Democrats hope he’ll keep his promise not to accept the election results,” he said. “And after the results came in, Donald Trump gave a big victory speech. Yep, he said he couldn’t have done it without the love of his life, his rock, his better half — FBI Director James Comey.”
CBS’s “Late Late Show” host James Corden, recalling the excitement of moving from England to America two years ago, said it was critical to remember the nation’s values.
“This country isn’t about one election result. This country is about the people who live here. It’s you. It’s how you treat one another, it’s the tone you set that will define who we are.”
Seth Meyers struck a philosophical tone in his “Late Night” show on NBC.
“We’re always better as a society when we have empathy for one another, so I would just say to those Trump voters, congratulations. I sincerely hope he addresses your concerns.”
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