Maeve McDermott

USATODAY

While the rest of his late-night peersvoiced their opinions on Donald Trump's presidential win the evening after the election, John Oliver's fans have to wait for his take in Last Week Tonight, which doesn't air until Sunday.

But at Wednesday night's Natural Resources Defense Council's annual Night of Comedy, a Seth Meyers-hosted benefit conveniently scheduled for the night after the election, Oliver delivered his first post-election jokes about Trump's win, offering words of encouragement to the audience as only he can.

“I was trying to think of a way to tell you everything’s going to be okay - I’m not sure, practically, how I can do that. That depends who you are, and what your definition of ‘okay’ is. Looking out, most of you [will be] fine," he said, lampooning the one-percenters in the audience.

"But that’s not the point. The point is, will America be okay? That’s a difficult question to answer," he continued. "I will say this — you are a defiant nation. This is the most defiant nation on the planet Earth."

"The fact that some of you are probably sitting there going ‘No, we’re not’ proves my point. You are defiant in the face of everything, from a threat to a fact — you do not let those things push you around."

As proof of our country's resilience, he reminded listeners of the late-aughts recession, where even in the face of hardship, Americans came together to spend millions on animal Halloween costumes.

"Just think back to 2009, the worst economic crisis in our lifetime. It's October 2009. And in October of that year, the American people spent $310 million on Halloween costumes for your pets. For your pets! You can't issue a stronger '(expletive) you' to a recession than that."

Then, Oliver moved on to telling his own story about the perseverance of New Yorkers, starring one crazy man who jet-skied to the Statue of Liberty during Hurricane Sandy.

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