"The Daily Show With Trevor Noah"

Noah, still getting used to his seat post-Jon Stewart, jumped right into the fray and devoted nearly eight minutes to the shooting. "I have to talk about Saturday night's devastating attack," he told the audience. "I couldn't be more sad and sickened by the events."

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In typical "Daily Show" style, Noah talked between news clips, one of which showed President Obama's address from Sunday. "I wonder if President Obama ever thought to himself that mass shooting speeches would be such a big part of his job," Noah said. "Because, you know, at this point he's hosted 12 state dinners, but he's had to give 16 mass shooting addresses."

"The president — he made a powerful point. America has to decide if this is the kind of country that it wants to be. Every time this happens, it feels like America has already decided, this is exactly the kind of country it wants to be," Noah continued. "Because we know how this always plays out. We're shocked, we mourn, we change our profile pics and then we move on. It's become normal. But I'm sorry, maybe it's because I'm new, but it's not normal."

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Noah, unlike the other hosts, tempered some of his harsh words with some quick jokes: "We shouldn't allow this to be normal. It's not a normal thing. It's like milk from almonds or sushi from Walgreens. It's not normal, people."

He also showed clips from talking heads on cable TV, featuring pundits saying the Orlando tragedy is about terrorism, not guns. "I understand that America loves guns, but this love comes at a cost," Noah added. "America needs to ask itself the question: Do you want to be a country that takes reasonable measures to protect its citizens, or should we tell the president to prepare speech number 17?"

"The Late Show With Stephen Colbert"

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Colbert didn't bother with an opening sequence, as the show opened with him sitting at his desk. He also emphasized the grief over realizing how many times this terror has happened.

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"We each ask ourselves what can you possibly say in the face of this horror? But then sadly you realize, you know what to say, because it has been said too many times before," Colbert said. "You have a pretty good idea of what most people are gonna say. You know what a president, whoever it is, will probably say. You know what both sides of the political aisle will say. You know what gun manufacturers will say. Even me, with a silly show like this, you have some idea what I will say because even I have talked about this when it has happened before."

"It's as if there's a national script that we have learned, and I think by accepting the script, we tacitly accept that the script will end the same way every time, with nothing changing. Except for the loved ones and the families of the victims, for whom nothing will ever be the same."

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"These people in Orlando were apparently targeted because of who they love," Colbert added of the shooting at Pulse, a gay nightclub. "And there have been outpourings of love throughout the country and around the world … love allows us to change the script. So love your country, love your family, love the families and the victims and the people of Orlando."

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He then welcomed his guest, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly (who was booked as Monday's guest a month ago), to discuss further.

"The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon"

Fallon ditched the main title sequence and addressed the audience directly, focusing his comments on diversity:

This country was built on the idea that we do not all agree on everything, that we are a tolerant free nation that encourages debate, free thinking, believing, or not, in what you choose. I as a new father am thinking, 'What do I tell my kids?' What do I — what do I tell them about this? What can we learn from this? What if my kids are gay? What do I tell them? Maybe there's a lesson from all this. A lesson in tolerance. We need to support each other's differences and worry less about our own opinions. Get back to debate and away from believing or supporting the idea that if someone doesn't live the way you want them to live, you just buy a gun and kill them, just bomb them up. That is not okay. We need to get back to being brave enough to accept that we have different opinions and that's okay. Because that's what America is built on. The idea that we can stand up and speak our minds and live our lives and not be punished for that. Or mocked on the Internet. Or killed by someone you don't know. This was just one bad guy here. Forty nine good people and one bad guy. And there will always be more good than evil.

"Full Frontal With Samantha Bee"

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On TBS, Bee expressed barely suppressed rage:

"Well, here we are. Now, after a massacre, the standard operating procedure is that you stand on stage and deliver some well-meaning words about how we will get through this together, how love wins, how love conquers hate," she said. "And that is great. That is beautiful. But you know what? F— it. I am too angry for that! Love does not win, unless we start loving each other enough to fix our f—ing problems."

Samantha Bee: "Love does not win unless we start loving each other enough to fix our f***ing problems." pic.twitter.com/lD4v6wATRY — Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) June 14, 2016

"Late Night With Seth Meyers"

Meyers also scrapped his monologue and showed footage of the people waiting in lines to give blood in Florida, as well as strangers helping each other — then he turned the conversation to gun control.

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"This was an attack on LGBT people fueled by bigotry and hatred. And the shooter was apparently inspired by ISIS. But we're gonna talk about guns," Meyers said. "Because whether the shooter was a homophobe, mentally ill, a terrorist inspired by ISIS or all three, what allowed him to kill so many people on Sunday was his gun. And that means we're likely about to enter yet another contentious national debate about gun control." Later, he added, "When given a chance, Congress consistently chooses nothing as a course of action."

Meyers also went after Donald Trump, who tweeted (among other things) "Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism."

"Appreciate the congrats?" Meyers said with faux-confusion. "I don't know who's been congratulating Donald Trump, but you may want to redirect your congratulations to first responders or those waiting in line to give blood. They're the ones who deserve congrats and they're not asking for it."