Wild 'n Out is an American sketch comedy and battle rap improv game show television series created and hosted by musician and comedian Nick Cannon currently airing on VH1.

[2] Each episode also includes a musical performance, occasionally by the guest captain for the Black/Platinum Squad (Nick Cannon performed with Migos in Season 6 in the episode featuring Chanel Iman).

[3][4] The fifth season premiered on MTV2 to 1.1 million total viewers, making it the highest-rated telecast in the network's history.

[5] On June 9, 2016, Wild 'N Out was renewed for an eighth season, which would mark the series' return to MTV.

[7] On June 19, 2019, it was announced that Wild 'N Out would expand to VH1, with a special Summer season premiering on July 7, 2019.

The tenth season contains 16 episodes which were broadcast from November 30, 2017, to March 1, 2018, on MTV.

The rest of the season began airing on VH1 starting on January 7, 2020, and ended on April 14, 2020.

The sixteenth season was filmed in San Bernardino, California from June 8 to 17, 2021.

The eighteenth season was filmed in Covington, Georgia from March 29 to April 9, 2022.

[11] Cannon endorsed conspiracies about Jewish control of finance, claimed that Jews had stolen the identity of "black people as the 'true Hebrews'" and cited Louis Farrakhan, who is labeled as an anti-semite by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League.

[12][13] Cannon called white people "savages" who were "closer to animals", claiming the "only way that they can act is evil",[14][15] citing the pseudoscientific melanin theory.

A statement from ViacomCBS noted that the company's relationship with Cannon was terminated due to his promotion of "hateful speech and ... anti-Semitic conspiracy theories".

[16] Two days later, Cannon released an apology for his remarks regarding anti-Semitism: "I want to assure my Jewish friends, new and old, that this is only the beginning of my education.

[18] Upon being made aware of his comments on the podcast, Fox consulted Cannon and accepted his public apology, allowing him to remain host of The Masked Singer.