Pandemonium wracks the comedy world as some comedians switch places with each other, and others disappear entirely. Stephen Colbert has left his prized Colbert Report to replace David Letterman as the host of The Late Show, and Jon Stewart retired from The Daily Show to spend more time with his family, leaving the young Trevor Noah to take over.

Stephen Colbert hosted his first Late Show on September 8th with George Clooney and Jeb Bush as guests. David Letterman had previously hosted The Late Show for twenty-two consecutive years. When Colbert was on his Report, he was known as “a right wing conservative.” Now, he is just playing himself for The Late Show.

Trevor Noah has big shoes to fill as he takes over Jon Stewart’s Daily Show. After sixteen beautiful years, Jon Stewart has given up his chair to the younger comedian, and has apologized for “hogging the screen” in his last episode. Noah is the first South African stand-up comedian to appear on an American late night show. He originally was a contributor on the Daily Show in 2014, and has promised that “a zebra shouldn’t change its stripes.” In comedian language that means that it’s still The Daily Show, despite the new host. Yet hours later, Noah was already talking about how he was going to change things around.

His changes seem innocent enough, but fans are still nervously excited about The Daily Show’s first “new” episode. Apparently there will be less bashing on Fox News (some is always customary for comedy, but Stewart excelled at it). In addition, the set is changing ever so slightly, and there might be more “mimicry,” as Noah is known for impersonating people and other accents in his stand up acts (he actually speaks 7 different languages!) He also promises to shift the perspective slightly, saying “…It’s just a different angle we’re looking at things from- and it’s my angle really.” He says it’s a lot of pressure being chosen by Stewart to run his show, and who can blame him?

The Daily Show comes back on September 28, advertising the transition as “Same chair, different a**”. It was a heartbreaking moment on August 6th, when Jon Stewart signed off The Daily Show. Stewart had been the host of The Daily Show for sixteen years. On January 11, 1999, Stewart made his debut as host, replacing Craig Kilborn. Throughout the sixteen years, many upstart comedians made appearances as contributors including a young Stephen Colbert and John Oliver. Many of them have gone on to have their own shows, such as Oliver’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. About a month before Stewart finished, Comedy Central put on the Month of Zen. It was a month in which every Stewart Daily Show was shown back to back. Of his best monologues, the night after 9/11 is a very memorable one, “The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center. And now it’s gone. And they attacked it, this symbol of American ingenuity and strength, and labor and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can’t beat that.”

In light of his retirement from The Daily Show, Stephen Colbert said (to Jon Stewart), “You said to me and many other people here years ago to never thank you because we owe you nothing. It is one of the few times I’ve known you to be dead wrong. We owe you. And not just what you did for our career by employing us to come on this tremendous show that you made. We owe you because we learned from you. We learned from you by example how to do a show with intention, how to work with clarity, how to treat people with respect…All of us who were lucky enough to work with you for 16 years are better at our jobs because we got to watch you do yours.”