Watch: Here’s How Late Night TV Hosts Responded To Las Vegas Shooting

After the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday, which took the lives of 59 people, late-night talk show hosts decided to start their Monday night shows on more of a somber note.

These hosts, who normally infuse their entire broadcasts with humor, opened with solemn thoughts on the shooting, the state of the country and what needs to happen next.

On CBS’ “Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” Stephen Colbert began by speaking directly to President Donald Trump about the recent event and the issues it once again brings to light.

“President Trump, you said you wanted to be a transformative president who doesn’t care about the way things have always been done in Washington D.C. This is your chance to prove it,” Colbert said. “I mean this sincerely, you do not owe the Republicans anything. You know the Republicans tried to stop you from being president. Well, screw em. You want to make America great again? Do something the last two presidents haven’t been able to do. Pass any kind of common sense gun control legislation that the vast majority of Americans want.”

Seth Meyers of “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” on the other hand, used his stage as an opportunity to address congress about gun violence.

“We’ve talked about gun violence on this show before, and I’m not sure what else I can say,” Meyers said. “I also know nothing I say will make any difference at all. But to Congress I would just like to say, are there no steps we can take as a nation to prevent gun violence? Or is this just how it is and how it’s going to continue to be? Because when you say — which you always say — now is not the time to talk about it, what you really mean is there is never a time to talk about it. And it would be so much more honest if you would just admit that your plan is to never talk about it and never take any action.”

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” host Jimmy Kimmel’s opening monologue about the shooting was extra emotional because Las Vegas is his hometown, making this experience feel even more personal for him.

“Here we are again in the aftermath of another terrible, inexplicable, shocking and painful tragedy. This time in Las Vegas, which happens to be my hometown,” Kimmel said. “We have children without parents and fathers without sons, mothers without daughters. It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to throw up or give up.”

He continued: “When someone with a beard attacks us, we tap phones, we invoke travel bans, we build walls. We take every possible precaution to make sure it doesn’t happen again, but when an American buys a gun and kills other Americans then there’s nothing we can do about that [because] the second amendment, I guess. Our forefathers wanted us to have AK-47s is the argument, I assume.”

While Kimmel pondered why the United States government feels like there’s nothing it can do about these shootings, Conan O’Brien, host of “Conan,” brings back up the same thought he had after the Orlando shooting in 2016.

“Now, I am not the most political of our comics. I never have been. But I will repeat what I said not long ago after Orlando,” Conan started his show. “I don’t think it should be so easy for one demented person to kill so many people so quickly. The sounds of those automatic weapons last night are grotesquely out of place in a civilized society. It makes no sense to me as a reasonable human being and a father... Something needs to change. It really does.

Trevor Noah began “The Daily Show” by giving his perspective and thoughts on the shooting, as someone who’s from South Africa and has only been living in New York for a short while.

“You know what blew my mind this morning? When I realize I’ve lived in the U.S., in New York, for two years now, and in that time there have been 20 mass shootings,” he said.

James Corden of “The Late Late Show with James Corden” also explained his point-of-view on the tragic event as someone from another country.

“I come from a place where we don’t have shootings at this frequency so it’s hard for me to fathom,” he said. “But it should be hard for everyone to fathom. Gun violence should not be a staple of American life. Some say it’s too early to talk about gun control. For those victims last night, it’s far too late.”

“The Tonight Show” lead Jimmy Fallon decided to take a bit of a different approach from the other late-night hosts. He gave a brief opening statement before letting a musical performance of Dido’s “No Freefom” by Miley Cyrus and Adam Sandler do the talking.

“This morning, we woke up to the news of another senseless shooting, this time in Las Vegas,” Fallon said. “In the face of tragedies and acts of terror, we need to remember that good still exists in this world. We’re here to entertain you tonight, and that’s what we’re going to do.”

After the performance, Cyrus took to Instagram to share her thoughts on why this song was so meaningful to perform.

“No Love without Freedom ... No Freedom without LOVE,” she wrote. “Thank you so much to Adam Sandler for joining me tonight in remembering all those lost, and singing lyrics that I believe are so important at this time.... #LandOfTheFree #StopTheViolence #GivePeaceAChance.”

Aside from “No Freedom,” Cyrus also sang one of her own songs, a song she hasn’t sung in years, but felt it was an important song to sing at a time like this: “The Climb.”

“We started this week off with a song I haven’t performed in years ... #TheClimb,” she wrote on another Instagram post. “These words mean more now to me than ever ... ‘Keep The Faith’ ..... Sending love to ALL!”