If you ever come to a taping of Wild ‘n Out, I run the show. THR: Did you learn anything from your experience leading the original show for so long that helped this time around?Ĭannon: Yeah. It doesn’t feel like work it’s a bunch of people having a great time. THR: So the most important thing was re-creating the feeling and environment?Ĭannon: Absolutely. When you watch any of the original shows, or any real successful show like this, you want the audience to say, “Man I wish I could be there or go to that - they look like they’re having so much fun,” and that’s what we had in the first four seasons, and we definitely accomplished that in the fifth season. THR: Were there elements you wanted to bring back from the old show?Ĭannon: Creating a destination.
PHOTOS: Life After the Finale: 17 TV Shows Brought Back From the Dead From the time I said I wanted to do it, we were shooting probably two months later. When I actually said, “I’m going to block this time out in my schedule, this is when we’ve got to shoot,” it rolled. I always tell people the show’s back by popular demand. THR: How much time passed from that initial moment to the show heading into production?Ĭannon: It was fairly quickly. I said, “We could do the same thing with Wild ‘n Out.” So I called everybody, called in favors and brought it all together and we made it happen. Nick Cannon: People have been in talks about it for a long time, and I just had to really buckle down and say, “OK, I’m going to take the time out to actually do it,” so it was probably around that same time when I was sitting with my friend, Kevin Hart, and he was talking about us doing Real Husbands of Hollywood - how much fun it was and how fast we did it. The Hollywood Reporter: At what point was the revival of Wild ‘n Out definitely going to happen?
Wild ‘n Out favorites will also return, with bold-faced names like Hart, Guy Code’s Lil DuVal, Amar’e Stoudemire, Mac Miller, 2Chainz, Machine Gun Kelly, A$AP Rocky and Joe Budden dropping by.Ĭannon talks to THR about bringing back the improv favorite, why it’s not back on MTV and what he learned from leading the original show for four seasons.
The DNA of the series remains the same, with Cannon still leading one team while a special guest captains the rival team in games ranging from freestyle rap battles to pure comedy. STORY: MTV2 Reviving Nick Cannon’s ‘Wild ‘n Out’ “People have been in talks about it for a long time, and I just had to really buckle down and say, “OK, I’m going to take the time out to actually do it,'” Cannon tells The Hollywood Reporter. The demand for a Wild ‘n Out resurrection was certainly there. Now, the producer-actor-host is bringing back a revitalized version of his series - this time, though, on MTV sister network MTV2.įor the America’s Got Talent host, the reality of reviving Wild ‘n Out came after a conversation with his good friend Kevin Hart, with whom he co-starred on BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood - a satirical comedy with Robin Thicke and Boris Kodjoe that came together quickly. Guests will include 24kGolden, Lost Boyz, Da Brat, Juvenile, Fatboy SSE, Rapsody, Trinidad James, Young Joc, Cuban Doll, Tyla Yaweh, the cast of Black Ink Crew: Compton, Headkrack, Ambjaay, MC Lyte, FABO, Big Tigger, OMB Peezy, Peter Corey Gunz, Queen Najia and Donnell Rawlings.ĭon't miss brand-new WNO episodes beginning on Tuesday, April 6 at 8/7c only on VH1! And for more on Wild 'N Out, be sure to follow us on social here: Wild 'N Out Instagram, Wildstyles Instagram, Wild 'N Out Twitter, Wild ‘N Out Facebook and Wild 'N Out YouTube.It’s been six years since Cannon’s improv comedy favorite, Nick Cannon Presents: Wild ‘n Out, left the air on MTV. The battles will bring both groups head-to-head in ridiculous comic throwdowns where the games escalate with each act, all gearing up toward the “Wildstyle battle” to decide who takes home the coveted WNO battle belt.
Cannon and a legendary special guest will lead the Old School team, while DC Young Fly pairs up with some of the newer cast members and a special guest to lead the New School squad. The teams will go against each other in some hilarious, entertaining and outrageous battles.