Nick Cannon Presents Wild 'n Out is a show on MTV starring Nick Cannon.

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Premise

Similar in premise to game-type shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway? , the show pits two teams of comedians: the "Red Squad", captained by Cannon and contained Katt Williams for the first 3 seasons, and the "Black Squad" led by a celebrity guest, against each other in a series of "improvisational" comedy games. The show is said to be improv-comedy, but sometimes you can see the comedians reading off of a prompt. After three such games, the two teams square off against each other in the final round of the game called Wild Style , in which they must insult the other team member(s) within a freestyle rap. The comedians "beef" with each other, however some are impersonal jokes. Although, similar to Whose Line , the "points don't matter", the teams score one point per round victory during the normal rounds, plus one point per favorably judged punchline during Wild Style. Each episode also includes a musical performance, occasionally by the guest captain for the Black Squad. At times, the musical guest comes out just before Wild Style as the judge for the beefs.

When ratings for the first season proved to be successful, MTV requested 10 more episodes for a second season which premiered on February 2, 2006. Major changes were implemented for the new season including shifting the show location to Hollywood and the teams now compete for a "Wild 'n Out" Championship belt which if the Black Squad wins, the team captain gets to take home.

The first season of the show was officially released as a 3 disc "uncensored" DVD box set on 7 March 2006. The episodes are only somewhat uncensored, but not as much as the MTV episodes. The musical performances are completely cut as well. The first 2 discs contain the 10 episodes of the entire season (Episodes 1-5 on Disc 1 and 6-10 on Disc 2) with the 3rd disc containing special features including extra unaired games and bloopers.

Wild 'n Out season 3 has finished airing on MTV. Seasons 1, 2, and 3 can be seen in repeats on both MTV and MTV2, usually for overnight fill-ins. Additionally, 2 episodes of the show were produced specifically for Spring Break in Cancún, Mexico. These episodes also air on MTV and MTV2. The fourth season premiered on June 7, 2007.

The show is broadcast along Cannon's other MTV program, Short Circuitz , as part of the Nick Cannon Power Hour.

Season 1

The first season contains a total of 10 episodes which were originally broadcast in the United States from July 28, 2005 to September 29, 2005.

#	Team Captain	Writer	Performer/Guest	Original airdate	# in total
1	"Orlando Jones "	Nick Cannon	Cassidy/Biz Markie	July 28, 2005	1
	The first episode sets off the whole season. The start off the show by playing “The Questions Game” from where the black and red team can only ask each other questions. Orlando Jones comes up with a funny question, “Did Yo Mamma tell you”, and wins it for the Black Team. The second game they play is “Tore up from the Floor Up”. They bring people out of the audience that they think looks funny and make fun of them. They win that. The 3rd game is “I’m On the List!” game, the Black Team and the Red Team have to play out celebrities and the team captains have to figure it out and let them in the club. The Red Team wins the 3rd game. And the last game is called “Wild Style”. The cast has to go head to head freestyling each other and making punch lines. Who ever is the funniest wins the whole game. The Red Team Wins the whole thing! Cassidy comes through and plays "I'm A Hustla" from his album 'I'm A Hustla"
2	"Christina Milian "	Nick Cannon	Common	August 4, 2005	2
	Nick Cannon on the Red Team, goes against Christina Millian on the Black Team to see who can win. Christina Millian tries to take Nick Cannon's comedy crown. They play the "Interrogation Game", "R&Beef" and "Rap Off Competition" like they do at the end of the show every night. Nick Cannon's Red Team wins at the end of the show. Common Performs "Go" from his album BE and break dances on the floor with Affion Crockett, one of the stars off of "Nick Cannon Presents: Wild N' Out".
3	"Ying Yang Twins "	Nick Cannon	Ying Yang Twins	August 11, 2005	3
	In this episode the Ying Yang Twins are the captain of the Black Team. In the first game called “Got Props?” the team members get a prop and use them to do funny things. The Black Team wins that round. In the next round called “Star Sightings” the two teams have to go out in the audience and find people that look like celebrities, but do it in a funny way. The Red Team wins that round. Up next is funny game called “That's My Dog”, 1 person from each team has to be a dog, they only can bark and act out things, but they can’t speak. And the other person from each team has to find out what the dog is saying. The Black Team wins that game. In the last round called “Wild Style”, the teams go head to head and do funny punch lines. The Red team wins that round, so that means they win the whole thing. Afterwards the Ying Yang Twins perform their hit song “Wait (The Whisper Song)” from their CD USA (United States of Atlanta).
4	"Kanye West "	Nick Cannon	Kanye West/Tracee Ellis Ross	August 18, 2005	4
	This week's episode is with Kanye West, he is the captain of the Black Team. The first game is called “Tore up from the Floor Up”, the team mates go out into the audience and get people that they think looks funny and sends them on stage and make punch lines about them. The Black Team wins that round. Next up is a game called “The Hating Game”, it's like the dating game but the woman picks the guy that she hates the most by their lines. Tracee Ross plays the lady that pick between two guys that she hates the most. The Red Team wins that one. In this round they play a game called the “Unhappily Ever After” game, the audience comes up with a story that the cast comes up with that doesn’t end “Happily Ever After”. The Red Team wins that. In the “Wildstyle” round Kanye West and Nick Cannon's team goes against each other making punch lines as they go along. Kanye's Black Team wins the whole thing. At the end Kanye hypes the crowd with a song from his “Late Registration” album called “Diamonds of Sierra Leone”.
5	"Eva Pigford "	Nick Cannon	T.I. & P$C	August 25, 2005	5
	This time the Black Team captain is Eva Pigford. In the first game “Snap on the Shots”, the team members off of each team make jokes of pictures that come up on a screen, if it's funny they get a ding if it's not they get a buzzard. The Black Team wins that round. The 2nd game 1 person from each team has to sit in a chair and put water in his or hers mouth, one of the people from each team and has to say something funny so that the other person can spit the water out of their mouth and win a point. The Red Team takes that round. The 3rd game is “60 Second Sequel” where the audience screams out a movie so that the team members can make a sequel to it. If the audience screams loud for a team that team wins. The Red team wins that round. In the last round “Wildstyle” the two teams go head to head making punch lines; the Red Team wins the last round. At the end T.I. and P$C performs "Set It Out".
6	"Kenan Thompson "	Nick Cannon	Pussycat Dolls	September 1, 2005	6
	This episode Kenan Thompson comes through and is the captain of the Black Team. In the 1st game “World's Worst” the team members have to do a skit and make fun of things that a person can do the worst of. The Red Team wins that round. In the next game is called “Star Sightings”, the two teams go out and find people in the audience that look like stars. In the 3rd game called “Unhappily Ever After”, the team members make a skit of stories that end happily ever after, but the team has to make their ending unhappy and funny. The Red Team wins. In the last game “Wildstyle” they go against each other making funny punch lines. The Red Team wins it all. At the end the Pussycat Dolls perform their hit single “Don’t Cha”.
7	"Fonzworth Bentley "	Nick Cannon	Trillville/Vanessa Minnillo	September 8, 2005	7
	In this episode Farnsworth Bentley is the captain of the Black Team. In the first game called “Got Props?” the Wild N’ Out members have to do something funny with the props that are given to them. The Black Team takes that round. In the next game “Tore up from the Floor Up” the cast goes out and finds people they think is funny and send them on stage to make fun of them and how they are dressed. The Black Team wins that one. TRL’S host Vanessa Minnillo selects the Red Team as she plays the game “The Hating Game”, the Red Team wins that round. In the last round “Wildstyle” the Black Team wins overall. After the show Trillville plays a hit song from their album “Some Cut”.
8	"Omarion "	Nick Cannon	Lil' Wayne	September 15, 2005	8
	In the 8th episode Omarion is the captain of the Black Team. In the first game “World's Worst” the members do things that people can be the worst at, the Red Team wins the 1st round. In the 2nd round they play a game called “Do Dat Dance” DJ D-Wrek has to come up with a new dance move and the cast has to create it. The Red Team wins again. In the next game called “Deaf Jam” they have to play out a song without saying any words, and their team mate has to figure it out. The Red Team wins this round too. In the last game “Wildstyle” everyone pitches in and goes against others. The Black team wins overall. Lil’ Wayne performs Earthquake after the show.
9	"Kevin Hart "	Nick Cannon	David Banner	September 22, 2005	9
	Kevin Hart Joins his black team crew in a game called "That's My Dog". That's where one team mate has to be a dog and the other has to be a person who tries to figure out what the person is saying. The Black Team wins that round. The next round DJ D-Wrek explains "The Questions Game" where a Red Team Mate and a Black Team Mate has to keep asking questions, and if one team mate doesn't know a question to ask the other team wins the point. The Red Team Wins the round. In the Next Game "60 Second Sequel" Both of the teams are giving a movie to make a sequel to. The Black Team Wins that round. In the last round "WildStyle", At the end the black team wins. David Banner get the crowd hyped with a song.
10	"Method Man "	Nick Cannon	Lil' Scrappy	September 29, 2005	10
	Method Man comes through, captain of the Black Team. They start it off playing the game "You Can't Say That Shit" were you can say bad things but not make it obvious you are saying it. The Black Team wins that. The next game they play is called "Star Sighting" where the person has to find an audience member that looks like a celebrity. The Black Team wins. Next up is the "R&Beef Game", you have to sings songs that are really funny. The Black Team wins that one. At the end they play the "WildStyle" game, The Red Team wins the whole thing. Lil' Scrappy then performs No Problem .

Season 2

The second season contains a total of 10 episodes which were originally broadcast in the United States from February 2, 2006 to April 6, 2006.

• Lil' Jon (Team Captain)
• Tyra Banks (Team Captain)
• Cedric the Entertainer (Team Captain)
• Marques Houston (Team Captain)
• Rev Run (Team Captain)
• Kelly Rowland (Team Captain)
• Mike Jones (Team Captain & Performer)
• Charlie Murphy (Team Captain)
• Wayne Brady (Team Captain)
• Mike Epps(Team Captain)
• Sean Paul (Performer and special referee for WildStyle)
• Three 6 Mafia (Performer)
• Dem Franchise Boyz with Jermaine Dupri & Da Brat (Performer)
• Young Jeezy with Akon (Performer)
• Rhymefest (Performer for WildStyle)
• Bobby Brown (Joined Red Squad for the game R & Beef in the Marques Houston episode)
• Joy Bryant (Bachelorette for The Hating Game in the Mike Epps episode)

Season 3

The third season contains a total of 8 episodes which were originally broadcast in the United States from August 10, 2006 to October 5, 2006. There were also 2 episodes that were broadcast between season 3 and season 4 called spring break.

• Big Boi (Team Captain & Performer)
• Fat Joe (Team Captain)
• Andy Milonakis (Team Captain)
• Warren Sapp (Team Captain)
• Jamie Kennedy (Team Captain)
• E-40 (Team Captain & performer)
• Ray J (Team Captain)
• Talib Kweli (Team Captain)
• Purple Ribbon All-Stars (Performers; member Killer Mike was a guest judge for WildStyle)
• Chamillionaire with Krayzie Bone (Performer)
• Method Man (Performer)
• Lupe Fiasco (Performer)
• Clipse and Pharrell (Performers)
• Yung Joc (Performer)
• Lil' Jon (Judge for Remix in the Big Boi episode)
• Nicole "Hoopz" Alexander (Judge for Let Me Holla in the E-40 episode)

Spring Break

• Lil' Jon (Team Captain)
• Three 6 Mafia (Team Captains)
• Rich Boy (Performer)
• Mims (Performer)
• Maria Menounos (Guest star for Talkin Spit during Spring Break edition)

Season 4

The fourth season contains a total of 18 episodes which were originally broadcast in the United States from May 12, 2007 to September 6, 2007.

• Snoop Dogg (Team Captain & Performer)
• Ne-Yo (Team Captain & Performer)
• Lloyd (Team Captain & Performer)
• Steve-O (Team Captain)
• Fabolous (Team Captain & Performer)
• Brooke Hogan (Team Captain)
• Redman (Team Captain and Performer)
• Swizz Beatz (Team Captain & Performer)
• Tara Reid (Team Captain)
• Young Buck (Team Captain & Performer)
• Pauly Shore (Team Captain)
• Jim Jones (rapper) (Team Captain & Performer)
• Serena Williams (Team Captain)
• Common (Team Captain & Performer)
• Terry Crews (Team Captain)
• Paula DeAnda (Team Captain)
• Big Boy (radio host) (Team Captain)
• Sommore (Team Captain)
• Bruce Bruce (Team Captain)
• Katt Williams (Team Captain)
• Big Daddy Kane (Performer)
• Three Six Mafia (Performers)
• Izzy Battle (Performer)
• Nate Dogg (Performer)
• The Fixxers (Performers & Judges for Wildstyle in the Pauly Shore episode)
• Crime Mob (Performers)
• Pretty Ricky (Performer)
• Baby Boy (Performer & Judge for Wildstyle in the Paula DeAnda episode)
• DJ Unk (Performer)
• Mike Jones (Performer)
• Paul Wall (Performer)
• Huey (Performer)
• Lil Jon (Special Guest in the Common episode)
• Liz Hernandez (bachelorette for the Hating Game in the Big Boy episode)
• 50 Cent (Team Captain and Performer)

Wild 'n Out made 50 Cent on the set as team captain and performer on March 18, 2008 which was made as a late episode of Wild 'n Out's season 4. However, due to constant profanity and sexual activities by the participants, the episode was later banned in MTV and MTV2 leaving only the earlier episodes for season 4 of Wild 'n Out.

Cast list

Numbers indicate season appearance

• Affion Crockett (1-4) Appeared in Ray J Episode
• Alanna Ubach (1)
• Benji Brown (4) Appeared in Lloyd Episode
• Biz Markie (4) Appeared in Swizz Beats Episode
• Brandon T. Jackson (4) Appeared in Big and Common Episode
• Cameron Goodman (2-3) Appeared in Andy Milinokis Episode
• Cedric Calder (4)
• Christine Lakin (2) Appeared in Wayne Brady Episode
• Cipha Sounds (4)
• Corey Holcomb (2-4) Appeared in Fat Joe Episode
• Darrel Heath (1)
• Deon Cole (4)
• DeRay Davis (1-4) Appeared in Ne-yo Episode
• Dominique (2)
• Gene Hong (1) Appeared in Fonzworth Bentley Episode
• Guy Torry (4)
• Jackie Long (4) Appeared in Serena Williams Episode
• Jeffrey Ross (4)
• Jeffrey Thomas (4)
• John Brown (4)
• Joshua Funk (1,3) Appeared in Christina Millian Episode
• Katt Williams (1-3,4 as Team Captain/Special Guest)
• Kenny Stewart (4)
• Kevin Hart (4) Appeared in Young Buck Episode
• Leonard Robinson (1-4) Appeared in Pauly Shore Episode
• Lil' G (4)
• Loni Love (4)
• Luenell (4)
• Marques Ray (3-4) Appeared in Jamie Kennedy episode
• Mikey Day (1-4) Appeared in Omarion Episode
• Nic Nac (2) Appeared in Charlie Murphy Episode
• Nick Cannon (1-4) Appeared in Every Episode
• Nyima Funk (1-3) Appeared in E-40 Episode
• Porscha Coleman (4)
• Randall Park (3-4) Appeared in Warren Sapp Episode
• Rasika Mathur (1-4) Appeared in Eva Pigford Episode
• Rob Hoffman (1-4) Appeared in Lil Jon Episode
• Rodman (4)
• Scruncho (2) Appeared in Mike Epps Episode
• $hamrock(4) Appeared in Terry Crews episode
• Shawty (3-4) Appeared in Fabolous Episode
• Shenika Williams (2)
• Spanky Hayes (1-4)
• Taran Killam (3-4) Appeared in Jim Jones Episode
• T.K. Kirkland (4)
• Andre Dallas (4)
• Kevin Corpus (1-4) (5) Possibly

Trivia

• Besides Nick Cannon, the only cast members who appeared in all 4 seasons are Affion Crockett, Leonard Robinson, Mikey Day, Spanky Hayes, Rasika Mathur, DeRay Davis and Rob Hoffman. Katt Williams departed after season 3, but will return as a special guest captain for season 4. Nyima Funk left after the Spring Break edition.
• After the first 19 episodes of Season 4, Cannon's combined win-loss record on the show is 26-21 (he finished Season 1 with a 6-3 record, finished Season 2 with a 7-3 record, finished Season 3 with a 4-4 record, and as of episode 19, has a Season 4 record of 9-10.)
• Broken down further, Cannon has had a better track record against the female celebrities that have appeared on the show than against male celebs. Cannon's record against male Black Squad team captains is 21-17 (or a .480 average) while he has a 5-4 record (or a .571 average) against female Black Squad team captains (Won against Christina Milian and Eva Pigford in Season 1, Kelly Rowland and Tyra Banks in Season 2 and lost to Brooke Hogan, Tara Reid, Serena Williams and Sommore and won against Paula DeAnda in Season 4). Additionally so far, Milian, Pigford, Hogan, Reid, Williams, DeAnda and Sommore are the only female Black Squad captains to score individual points in the WildStyle game.

• Additionally, Cannon has now lost all of the following 3 Season Premieres to, respectively: Lil Jon, Big Boi from OutKast, and Snoop Dogg.
• The longest win streak in the series for Cannon and the Red Squad is 5 matches set in Season 2. After a 2-3 start to the season, Cannon and the Red Squad won the 5 remaining episodes of Season 2. The Black Squad team captain in those matches were, in episode order : Kelly Rowland, Mike Jones, Charlie Murphy, Wayne Brady and Mike Epps. The Black Squad had last won in the episode with Rev Run as the team captain. The streak was snapped in the Season 3 premiere with Big Boi from OutKast as the captain of the Black Squad. The longest win streak for the Black Squad is 7 matches, winning in the season 3 finale and the first 6 episodes of season 4. The Black Squad team captains during that streak were, in episode order: Talib Kweli, Snoop Dogg, Ne-Yo, Lloyd, Steve-O, Fabolous and Brooke Hogan. The Red Team won the next episode with Redman as the Black Squad team captain.
• The Championship Belt that became part of Season 2, which some could compare to a championship belt in professional wrestling, was similar in every episode with the exception of the Rev Run episode. In that episode, the belt looked like one that would normally be awarded in a boxing match (with a feather-like look to it; similar to the Rocky series). For the 4th Season, the belt has a new "spinner" faceplate (similar to the current WWE Championship belt design).
• Warren Sapp is the first Black Squad captain to give the Comedy Championship Belt back after winning it in WildStyle.
• So far, Andy Milonakis, Jamie Kennedy, Steve-O, Brooke Hogan, Pauly Shore and Tara Reid are the only white Black Squad captains. Andy Milonakis was the first to appear, and Jamie Kennedy was the first to win WildStyle and the entire game.
• The single highest individual point scorer in a round of WildStyle is Talib Kweli, who by himself scored 8 of his team's total points for the game in the WildStyle round. (Before WildStyle, Kweli's team was down 2-1). Kanye West came in second by scoring 6 points for his team in season 1. (The Black Team ended up winning the game 6-9). On the DVD release of the show, on the bonus disc, there is an extended version of the WildStyle battle in which West actually scores more, edited for time. Additionally, West was the first WildStyle participant to score multiple points in one turn when he first delivered a verse that scored against Cannon, Rasika Mathur and Katt Williams in succession, then followed it up by scoring 3 more points against Leonard Robinson, Affion Crockett, and the entire Red Squad on a second turn to close the game. In the original extended version of the game (on the Best of WildStyle) West's 1st verse actually was directed towards Cannon, Mathur, Robinson and Williams in succession but the edit removed the comment directed at Robinson. Biz Markie is the first Red Squad cast member to get multi-points. He successfully scored against Swizz Beatz, Mikey Day & Taran Killam (simultaneously), and Rasika Mathur, but couldn't get a punchline towards Corey Holcomb.
• Snoop Dogg, Lloyd and Fabulous are the most recent Black Squad team captains to score at least 4 consecutive points against Red Squad in WildStyle, but only Fabulous did so by overcoming a deficit to win (Fabulous was down 5-2, but scored on Nick Cannon, Spanky Hayes, Shawty, and Affion Crockett in that order, coming back to win 6-5.)
• The only cast members to appear in every episode of the series so far are Nick Cannon, Mikey Day, and Leonard Robinson.
• Katt Williams was on the Red Squad on every episode he appeared on in seasons 1-2 but this changed when he made his first Black team appearance in the Andy Milonakis episode of season 3 and will be the captain of the Black Squad in Season 4.
• The only cast members consistently on a certain team are Nick Cannon, Rasika Mathur and Shawty on the Red Squad. That changed when Mathur finally made an appearance on the Black Squad in the Swizz Beatz episode and Shawty made his Black Squad debut in the Serena Williams episode.
• Mikey Day was on the Black Squad in every episode of Season 3.
• Season 4 will have 20 episodes, the highest number of episodes ever for the show.
• Season 4 will also have five female Black Squad team captains, the highest number out of any season (Season 1: 2; Season 2: 2; Season 3: none).
• During the series' run, a number of the cast members appeared in every episode of the season.
• * Season 1: Affion Crockett, Mikey Day, Nyima Funk, Spanky Hayes, Darrel Heath, Rob Hoffman, Leonard Robinson
• * Season 2: Mikey Day, Corey Holcomb, Leonard Robinson
• * Season 3: Affion Crockett, Mikey Day, Nyima Funk, Spanky Hayes, Leonard Robinson
• * Season 4: Affion Crockett, Mikey Day, Spanky Hayes, Corey Holcomb, Leonard Robinson
• Omarion's appearance on the show in the first season was the first occurrence where the Black Squad won after being down 3-0. (The black team would win 6-5.). Fabulous would do it in Season 4 after being down 5-2.
• The only TV show that had Method Man perform a song from his under-promoted album, 4:21...The Day After and cousin Redman did the same in season four with his album Red Gone Wild.
• Paula DeAnda is the second teenaged team captain in the show, as well as the youngest being 17 at the time. Brooke Hogan is the second, being 19 at the time
• Charlie Murphy is currently the oldest special guest to be on the show (he is currently 49 years old).
• In the Omarion/Lil Wayne episode each team member on each team wore the same type of shoes (Adidas and this became apparent during the game Do Dat Dance)
• Common was the first Black team captain to not participate in any challenges.
• When Common prepares for his performance Biz Markie took over as temporary captain for the Black Squad.
• Nick Cannon recently did a sweepstakes and selected Kole Trigg from Washington Court House, Ohio to be a special judge in the wildstyle battle and he gets a free personalized T-Shirt and his own Comedy Championship Belt. This is an example of one of Nick Cannon's "Special Surprises" he talked about on the first episode of Season 4

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