Opening Thursday’s edition of the divisive talk show, Dermot, 43, reflected on the capital city and its citizens for their resilience and ability to overcome the atrocity, during which five people lost their lives, with an emotional monologue.
Addressing the audience, he said: 'The terror attacks yesterday happened just a mile away from here. Tonight we're dedicating our show to London; to the people who live here, visit here and who work hard to keep us safe here.
People say London isn’t Britain, but to be honest I think it is. Being a Londoner has nothing to do with whether you’re born here, the colour of your skin or the faith you follow. It’s about acceptance, stoicism, tolerance and respect.
'It’s about millions of people being able to live side by side, day by day, in an exciting, vibrant, infuriating, beautiful city, and as awful as yesterday was we know that we’ll endure.
He added: 'In my – and it is my humble opinion – it will just make us stronger. We'll go on living, working, playing, moaning and queuing together. So from us here at The Nightly Show tonight, here's to London, and here's to home.'
Dermot's tribute echoed a similar speech offered by British host James Corden at the start of the Late Late Show on Wednesday night in recognition of the terror attack.
Corden, who is from the London borough of Hilingdon, began his show by saying how, 'watching the news today, I felt a really long, long way from home.
'And it's funny when something like that happens in your hometown, you don't have a feeling of being glad that you're so far away,' he continued.
'What you feel is that you wish you could be there with loved ones to stand alongside them.'
While we're filming this, it's still unknown what the motives [of the attackers] were,' Corden said at the start of his introduction.
'What we do know at this point is that people have lost their lives and many, many more have been injured.
'And I know a lot of people in England watch this show. There's a lot of people from Britain who work on this show, and of course, our thoughts go out to everyone who's been affected by this.'
He concluded: 'London is a diverse and proud and brilliant city, and one thing is for sure: If this act of terrorism was supposed to divide the people of London, I know for a fact that all something like this does is bring them closer together as one.
'Tonight we send our heartfelt thoughts to everybody in Britain. Stay safe everybody, please.'
he attack began at around 2.30pm in the heart of London on Westminster Bridge, which crosses from the south side of the Thames River over to the Houses of Parliament - the seat of British government - on the north.
The attacker, driving a Hyundai 4x4, mounted the sidewalk on the south end of the bridge and plowed into pedestrians.
He then continued up the bridge, striking more civilians, before crashing into the railings of the Houses of Parliament.
The assailant then burst through security and stabbed a police officer to death before being fatally shot three times by armed police.
As well as the assailant and police officer, three civilians died on the scene, 12 suffered serious injuries and a further eight suffered lesser injuries.
Injured victims included a group of French schoolchildren aged 15-16 and three police officers returning from a commendation ceremony.
The attacker, Birmingham based Khalid Masood, is believed to have been inspired by international terrorism.
There was speculation that there might have been more than one attacker, but police are currently operating on the basis that he acted alone.
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