Late-night comedians Stephen Colbert asked John Oliver about D. TRUMP

As the two late-night comedians sat across from each other onstage at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center here on Saturday night, Stephen Colbert asked John Oliver why he had not yet been given a commitment for four more seasons.

“There’s a clear road that you can put your foot out,” said Mr. Colbert, the host of “The Late Show” on CBS.

Mr. Oliver, anchor of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” replied brightly but fatalistically: “The kind of road that ‘Thelma & Louise’ drove off.”

Though they didn’t spell it out, the two were talking about the victory of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who, after a monthslong barrage of jokes from these and other hosts, is about to assume the highest office in the land.

This live conversation, which was booked several weeks ago and billed with the title “Wow, That Was Weird: A Post-Election Evening With Stephen Colbert and John Oliver,” was meant to be a kind of comic catharsis for the hosts and their audience, many of whom expected Hillary Clinton to win the presidency.

But the event played more like a group-therapy session than what it was, a benefit for the Montclair Film Festival, where Mr. Colbert’s wife, Evelyn, is president of its board.

The hosts traded jokes about their lives, careers and current events. But they did not mince words when it came to their anxiety about Mr. Trump’s election, urging audience members not to become complacent.

In recent days, Mr. Colbert said, there has been “a transformation going on in the emotional state of the audience” for his program.

“Now the story has teeth on a level that it didn’t have before,” he added.

Mr. Oliver said soberly, “Someone who’s always acted like the most powerful man in the world has now actually become the most powerful man in the world.”

His show, and Mr. Colbert’s show, will “need to work out what we become next,” Mr. Oliver said.

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