Colbert and some of his writers/producers on Twitter have said that he wants to keep bringing on those guys. My guess is that the top guest will be typical Hollywood celebrities, followed by either a B-list celebrity, a writer, scientist or intellectual (a la a typical Colbert Report guest).

I doubt it will be as good as The Colbert Report. It was just too brilliant. But I fully expect it to be the best of the traditional late night shows by a wide margin. And I don't think Colbert would've signed on with CBS if he would have to agree to dumbing himself down. I could be wrong, but that doesn't seem to be…

I don't get why everyone is so cynical. The videos he's been posting online have been full of the type of smart, absurd comedy we came to expect on The Colbert Report. Colbert seems liberated without the character. Plus, he has almost all of his writing staff back plus some writers from Clickhole and the more absurd…

He hasn't toned things down at all on his website. If anything, he's ramped it up. He's more absurd than ever, and the political/current events videos he's posted would fit right in on The Colbert Report in terms of its tone.

Most of the writers, producers and (from what I can tell) all of the correspondents/contributors are staying.

Even if Noah absolutely bombed in his first year, why would Comedy Central do that? You have to give late night hosts time to find their niche. Jon Stewart's 1999 Daily Show has almost no resemblance to the 2015 version beyond the Moment of Zen. It took Conan, despite his talent and a writing staff with several…

Eh, it's not like he's doing too much of that stuff. Or if he is, it typically involves some sort of weird, Conan-y twist to it. There are exceptions, of course. Conan still seems to avoid clickbait-y comedy in favor of what he sees as funny or interesting for the most part. As long as he can do a remote every couple…

He's mentioned in the past about how he always found punditry fascinating, even if it's inherently cynical. Considering the state of punditry and American politics, I'm not surprised it no longer holds his attention.

He's talked about that song in interviews before, so I'm sure you/I can find it online somewhere.

I'm glad that both Stewart and Colbert left/are leaving when they both realized they no longer had the passion for the jobs. It would've been a shame to see them just go through the motions for another 10 years, a la Letterman.

Yeah, but only rarely. He's got a ton of other acting obligations. He said he wasn't offered the job and didn't want it since he's happy where he is (acting with occasional Daily Show bits). He also defended Trevor Noah and said he still plans on being with the show when he takes over. Lewis Black, John Hodgman,…

As a fan of Conan's, they probably wouldn't do that because most of Conaco's TV shows have ranged from mediocre to terrible. Eagleheart is hilarious, though. And I've never seen Andy Barker, P.I., but it has a semi-cult status. But besides those, there's nothing to really write home about. Granted, Conan wasn't much…

I know he won't be as subversive as those guys were considering he'll be on at 11:30, but I really hope Colbert can channel those guys a bit and shake things up. He's just as brilliant as those guys, and The Colbert Report was every bit as subversive as Letterman's and Conan's Late Night shows and Ferguson's Late Late…

Jimmy Fallon ruined Late Night (despite The Roots), and Seth Meyers just turned it into a nightly SNL reunion party, with occasional attempts to be a Jon Stewart knockoff.

I respect Jon for leaving when he wanted, but he picked a bad time from Comedy Central's perspective. Two years ago, they could've picked between Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Larry Wilmore and Jessica Williams, just in house. Now Williams was the only big name left, and she didn't want it, understandably.

If she's smart, she'd stick around for a couple years under Trevor Noah and try to really take the reins as the "lead correspondent" role like Stephen Colbert and John Oliver before her. That could lead to great things for her, if those two are any indication.

I consoled myself with Colbert leaving by saying at least I have Stewart. Now that Stewart's going, I'm saying at least there' Oliver. I'm waiting for him to retire now, too.

I feel like it's been the opposite. The Nightly Show, for me, peaked in its early run about a month or so in. It was a very smart, thought-provoking show. Lately, it's been going for a lot of silliness and weird discussions that, while entertaining, aren't as interesting as the conversations before. I've stopped…

Comedy Central has basically offered to play him Letterman money for the past decade as a way to keep him from either replacing Letterman or jumping ship for another late night franchise. That was a real worry for them back in 2004 when The Daily Show had become a cultural juggernaut under Stewart and Letterman was…

That's probably because he knows he's only got 3-9 months left on the show. Seeing the finish line probably gave him the spark he had been missing for a couple years, if I had to guess.