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

Similar in premise to game-type shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the show pits two teams of comedians: the "Red Squad", which is traditionally led by Cannon and contains Katt Williams, and the "Black Squad" led by a celebrity guest, against each other in a series of improvisational comedy games. After three such games, the two teams square off against each other in the final round of the game called WildStyle, in which they must insult the other team member(s) within a freestyle rap in a style similar to 8 Mile. 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 WildStyle. Each episode also includes a musical performance, occasionally by the guest captain for the Black Squad.

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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 competing for a "Wild 'N Out" Championship belt which if the Black Squad wins, the team captain gets to take the belt 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 completely censored (like the TV show) and the musical performances are completely cut. 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 will premiere on August 10th on MTV.

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Games

The games in Wild 'N Out vary in each episode. Some games are judged by the audience, while others are judged by the in-house DJ, DJ D-Wrek. He signifies successful attempts with a bell and unsuccessful ones with a buzzer.

Each team is given a topic for a song the team has to make up and sing on the spot. The audience votes on which song is the funnier of the 2. (Example: The Black Team, with Marques Houston as team captain in this particular instance, made a song called "You Look Better With The Lights Low" when given the topic of ugly women.)

The team captains each sit in a chair facing each other, holding in a mouthful of water. Each team's members in turn must act as if they are voicing their captain's thoughts and crack a joke in order to make the opposing captain laugh and spit out his or her water, thusly causing a spit take (even if the amount of water released is a tiny dribble, it counts as a "spit out"). The opposing team is credited with a point, and the team whose captain spits the least wins. There has been one variant on this game in which instead of the team captains sitting in the chairs 2 Wild 'N Out Girls were in the chairs and each team (captain included) cracked jokes (see Trivia for this particular version).

Two members of each team look through the studio audience for members that bear a striking, passing or humorous resemblance to a celebrity. DJ D-Wrek judges how funny each comment is; the team with the most bells wins.

Two members of each team must come up with a call-and-answer joke. The first line must be completely innocent, while the response must contain a funny and nearly explicit double entendre. An example of this involved Method Man and Rob Hoffman when Method was the Black Squad team captain and Hoffman was on the team. Method said, "This painting is by Leonard Pasiff"(pronouncing the last name like "poo-seef"). Hoffman responded with "Ah, I always wanted to see Pasiff arts (pussy farts)".

This game is usually introduced before the first commercial. Each team is given the name of a movie before the commercial, and has about 60 seconds (hence the game's title) to come up with a fake trailer for a sequel to that movie.

Similar to the "Props" game in Whose Line, each team is given an odd item to use as a prop in as many ways as possible. DJ D-Wrek judges each use.

Similar to Whose Line's "Questions Only", one member of each team at a time must follow a particular situation suggestion while only speaking to each other in questions. Any hesitation or non-question by a player awards a bell to the other team.

The teams pick members from the audience to participate in a "fashion show". Once the participants are chosen, each team selects 2 members to provide commentary on the members they have chosen. (Originally in Season 1 the teams had to take turns delivering the commentaries on only the people that their team had chosen. In Season 2 the teams can let fly with jokes on every single audience member involved in the game at any time)

Each team captain acts as a club bouncer, while the team members act as various celebrities, which the "bouncer" must identify from their partner's acting and behaviors. The identity of the celebrity will be posted on a video screen behind the captain so that only the team player, the audience and the home viewer can see it. The most correct answers within 90 seconds wins the round for their team.

One member of the team (usually the captain) is placed in an isolation booth. That player will act as Lassie's owner; the audience comes up with a situation that Timmy (the character from Lassie) might be in and what happened to him. Once the situation is set, the captain is released and another member of their team must act like Lassie and act out what happened. The team captain that figures it out quicker wins the round for his or her team.

Set up similar to "That's My Dog", the team captain is again placed in an isolation booth. The audience comes up with a celebrity and a crime. The captain then comes out and is interrogated by two members of their team as if they are that celebrity and committed that crime; the captain must figure out who they are supposed to be and what crime they committed. The quickest team wins the round.

In this inverted version of the Dating Game, one "Bachelor" from each team is chosen while a female "contestant" (usually a celebrity visitor to the show's audience) asks questions to both bachelors. The "bachelors" must act as unlovable as possible, and the "bachelorette" must choose which of the two she would least want to go out on a date with.

Played in a style similar to "60-Second Sequel", each team is given a nursery rhyme, fable, or children's story before the commercial break and must come up with a skit based on that story. The audience reaction chooses the funnier skit, which wins the round for that team.

Teams must come up with funny jokes or captions to a series of celebrity pictures. DJ D-Wrek judges the jokes.

The audience members supply DJ D-Wrek with a list of occupations, and the teams have to come up with their idea of who would be the worst person in the world to ever hold that job.

The game plays in a similar fashion to "I'm On the List". The team captain acts as the DJ of a particularly loud club, and each member must pantomime the title and/or artist of the song they're chosen to request. (An example of this: In Season 1, with Cannon acting as the Red Squad's DJ, his fellow team member Rasika Mathur had to act out the song "Bump and Grind" by R. Kelly. So to get him to guess the title (which he did unsuccessfully), Mathur began to dance suggestively up against Cannon which seemingly and distracted Cannon from the game task. Mathur joked that she just wanted to dance up against Cannon.) The team with the most correctly identified titles in 90 seconds wins.

Team members must come up with a new or modified version of audience-suggested dance moves. DJ D-Wrek judges each dance by signalling bell or buzzer and the team with the most bells wins the round A variant of this game is shown as a unaired game in the Christina Milian episode of the Season 1 DVD set (see "Trivia" for the variation).

Team members must come up with an amusing outgoing message for the celebrity named. DJ D-Wrek judges each message with bells and buzzers and the most bells wins the round for the team.

Each team takes a nursery rhyme or suggested by the audience and does a hip-hop remix. The winner is determined by the audience reaction.

Set-up similar to "I'm on the List" and "Deaf-Jam", each team captain acts as a couples counselor, while the team members act as various celebrity twosomes, which the "counselor" must identify. The most correct answers within 90 seconds wins the round for their team.

Each team must choose one member of their team to act as a "psychic" while another member goes into the audience and chooses random audience members to have ask the "psychic" to predict the future. DJ D-Wrek judges funny responses with bells and weak responses with a buzzer. The team with the most bells wins the round.

In this game each team is given a real life situation for which there is a seemingly negative reason (Example: President Bush needing to explain why the response to the victims of Hurricane Katrina was so mismanaged). The team must them choose one member to go and give a funny response as the reason the situation came to pass. Each response can begin with the phrase "What had happened was...", but it is not a set requirement. Good responses are awarded with a bell and bad ones with a buzzer. Most bells wins the round.

Each team has members use their best pick-up lines on a Wild 'N Out Girl. Funny pick-up lines are awarded with a bell, corny pick-up lines with a buzzer. (Example: Leonard Robinson: "Listen here baby, you ain't never had herpes like this."

The teams have to try to score points by bragging about their team captain. Funny brags score a bell while weak ones earn a buzzer (Example: Mikey Day: "My man Rev Run is so fly..."/Audience: "HOW FLY IS HE?"/Day: "He's so fly, he's got a 50,000 dollar limit... on his library card!"

This game is a modified gospel version of "R & Beef" and "Remix". Each team (dressed in church robes) is given a particular topic about an audience member and the team has to sing a song on the spot about it. DJ D-Wrek and a "Wild 'N Out" Girl judge by audience reaction which is the funnier of the 2.

This game is played similarly to "I'm On the List", "Deaf Jam" and "Couples Counseling". The team captain has to identify whose celebrity child (real or imagined) the team member is pretending to be. Team with the most correct in 90 seconds wins the round.

The game is a modified version of "What Had Happened Was..." In this game, the teams are asked to "accept" an "award" for a project that certain celebrities should not have been too proud to be part of (Example: Since Kelly Rowland was the Black Squad team captain, she found herself being the "winner" for her feature film debut in Freddy Vs. Jason. Rowland's response: "$50 million opening weekend. Thank you ladies and gentlemen." For that, she scored a point for Black Squad). Funny responses get a bell with weak responses getting buzzed.

In this game each squad is given a word from the dictionary and then one member of that squad has to use that word in a sentence with the only rule being that it has to be funny. Example: When the Black Squad was given the word "asinine", Corey Holcomb stepped up to the microphone and said, "Girl you better get back in the house. Your 'asinine' (ass is nine) months pregnant."

In this game the teams are given an event and they must act out what happened before said event happened and then what happened after the event. Funny responses earn a bell and weak ones get a buzzer.

This game is featured as an unaired game from the Season 1 DVD box set. Each team sends up one member and start a conversation based on a scenario DJ D-Wrek provides. The players go back and forth in conversation, but the rule is that the players must listen to the first letter of the FIRST word in the conversation. The other player must begin the first word in their statement with the letter that immediately follows it in the alphabet. A point is scored if: 1) a player hesitates, 2) the wrong letter is used, or 3) DJ D-Wrek calls for a stop to the conversation.

This game is an unaired game featured on the Season 1 DVD set. In this game the audience suggests the names of famous people in history and the team must then act out a scene that alters the story to give it a more current pop culture reference to the person mentioned (Example: When Red Squad was given William Shakespeare as a topic the story was altered to have him be assisted in writing one of his classic plays, Romeo and Juliet, from Will Smith). The audience must choose the better of the 2 scenes.

This game is played as a 'bonus round' at the end of every contest. Each team to the beat of the music lays down a punchline, usually a dis at a member of the opposite team, and if it's funny, scores a point for their team. Since the score is usually 2-1, it's easy for either team to take the win.

Guest stars

Notable guest performers and Black Squad captains and special participants include:

Regular Cast Members

Trivia

-"You're our boss, you're a talented kid/ I saw Love Don't Cost A Thing, too bad nobody else did!"

-"I saw Underclassman this summer/That movie was sweet,son/ but I just have one question: Can I have a refund?"

- "Look at this guy, Nick Cannon/You make me sick!/I don't know what's smaller/Your album sales or your d--k!"

The celebrity captains can also get similar treatment, as when Orlando Jones was taunted by Mikey Day over his stint as a 7 Up spokesman:

- "You were 7 Up's b---h and that ain't right/No wonder they fired your ass, we're all drinking Sprite!" 

- "You think you're some hot-shot choreographer/But you bop around the stage like a drunk Cyndi Lauper/And, by the way, You Got Served is not a claim to fame/Your agent should be shot, killed, and maimed!"
In this modified version, 2 Wild 'N Out Girls were sitting in the chairs instead of the team captains and all members of each team took turns in trying to force the other girl to spit her water out. One hilarious moment occurred when Affion Crockett (on Red Squad in this episode) began to tell his joke by saying "Ah, yesss..." (sounding extremely feminine at the time since the game has the joke-teller voicing the sitter's thoughts) but never got to finish it as Black Squad's Girl cracked up and spewed her water all over Red Squad's Girl but then caught a dousing herself when Red Squad's Girl broke down and spat out her water at the same time. Over the final score of the contest was Black Squad winning by a score of 8-2.

- "Wow...look at Nick's moustache. It kinda looks like my Brazilian wax."

Eva laughed and forced a small stream out of her mouth, scoring a point for Nick and the Red Squad.

This would happen again in Season 2 in the Kelly Rowland episode, when Spanky Hayes (on Red Squad) voiced his thoughts by saying:

- "Um, um UM! Damn, Kelly is FINE! I wanna get at her but...I only like LEAD singers!"

Nick laughed and sprayed over the floor, scoring a point for Kelly and Black Squad. Additionally, Kelly decided to go after Spanky (with her mouth still full of water) to get him for his potshot.

Kelly also became the first Team Captain to score a point for her own team in Talkin' Spit. When Nick and Kelly went for a reload of water Kelly said to Nick:

" It's OK, Nick. Just swallow..."

The statement suddenly caused Nick to laugh and spray, thusly scoring a point for Kelly and Black Squad.

- "Here's why you'll never get this caboose/Your breath smells like someting Nyima (Funk) would douche!"

That part of the exchange was aired on the show when it was broadcast on MTV. However, in the Best of WildStyle segment on the Season 1 DVD set, the line set up a rather unique continuation of the situation:

Funk came up to the front and looked highly offended by Mathur's comment, so she in turn called out Mathur and responded by saying:

- "I heard the whole red squad had a chance to do you/ and your p---y goes 'do do do do do, do do do do do do do'".

But just when everyone thought the situation had been settled, Mikey Day called out Funk and delivered the exclamation point: "You say you're an actress/Don't make me sick/I know your real job/Here's a dollar, s--k my d--k!", which caused the audience to laugh hysterically and Funk to be shocked into an open-mouth expression.

- "You wanna fight? You wanna grapple?/Huh, you'd probably win, I think I see an Adam's apple" (point scored for Mathur)

Pigford took the comment in stride and responded back by saying to Mathur:

- "Little Indian girl, I'm not gonna diss, don't you worry/Um, I think they have sign-ups for America's Next Top Curry" (point scored for Pigford)

Mathur was sarcastically offended by the statement and called Pigford out again to deliver what would end up being the game-winning potshot:

- "Yes, I'm Indian, its true/But um, are you Black?/I got more ass than you!"

- "You know Mikey, you're just a poster child for MTV/You represent the millions suffering from A.D.D." (buzzed, no point for Mathur)

Day took to the stage and responded to Mathur:

- "You think I'm dorky? You think I'm twerpy?/Step off, bitch, and go make me a Slurpee!" (point scored for Day)

But just as Day left, Mathur called him back out and proceeded to deliver the nail in the coffin:

- "Hey Mikey, I got ya Slurpee right here, nice and quick/But how 'bout a small one to match the size of your D--K?!?!"

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