President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s regime has attempted to break with the repressive legacy of Robert Mugabe by, among other things, re-writing Zimbabwe as a new nation born through the rupture of the coup of November 2017. This narrative has been promoted through official catch phrases, slogans and empty signifiers such as “Second Republic”, “New Dispensation”, and “New Zimbabwe” among others. In this chapter, I examine how Kapfupi’s and Marabha’s comedies subvert official narratives of newness and change through once-scene performances that portray Zimbabwe as a country is a state of limbo. According to these comedians, the only change that Zimbabwe has experienced after Mugabe is the rhetoric of change pedaled by the political elite. Images of a stationary motorbike that drives at full speed yet going nowhere and a building that changes its functions without itself changing are symbolic representations of a country in a state of paralysis. Kapfupi and Marabha’s comedies show that elements of Mugabeism persist in the “new dispensation” despite attempts by the Mnangagwa regime to re-narrate Zimbabwe as a new nation.