Guest host Tiffany Haddish will welcome the former Late Show with Stephen Colbert musical director to Kimmel’s stage for a live performance next Monday, August 18.

“I think it’s very, very sad,” the former Late Late Show host told The AP Tuesday, adding, “What a privilege to be part of such a thing and such a gang.”

Dawson, who guest hosted The Tonight Show 14 times (and was once seen as a contender to replace Johnny Carson), was gifted the inscribed blue velvet-lined cigratte box in 1979.