For 46 seasons, the MTV show Ridiculousness has been a staple in the network's lineup.
In fact, the show has been so dominant that it once occupied 113 of the network's 168 hours in its weekly lineup.
Now, MTV is canceling the show. But why?
According to Variety, Paramount and MTV want to move toward “a more curated slate of content” that “embraces its experimental DNA” while representing “different creative voices” and a “refreshed programming.”
The last press releases on the MTV website for Ridiculousness date to 2020 and 2018. In 2018, the network announced that "Host Rob Dyrdek returns with Chanel West Coast and Steelo Brim to dissect the internet’s most provocative and absurd viral videos."
According to Bloomberg, MTV paid Dyrdek at least $32 million per year. Dyrdek's recent posts on Instagram focus on his family. "You don’t need to achieve your goals in order to be happy, you just have to start pursuing them," he wrote recently.
According to Variety, 2026 episodes that were already filmed will air as planned, but then the series will end.
Fans responded with shock. "How can MTV have the audacity to cancel Ridiculousness? It was basically 80% of the shows on the channel.... Is anyone else wondering what they gonna replace it with?" wrote one person on X.
"Welp, might as well cancel MTV as a whole because that show was keeping the lights on at MTV," wrote another person.
"14 years?? That's like 100 years in internet time. Who even watched the last 30 seasons?" another person wrote.
"Fourteen years of people falling down. We have truly witnessed the peak of human artistic achievement," added another.
The YouTube page for the series has more than 1.5 million subscribers. "Unfortunately for the people in these Ridiculousness clips, their clueless moments were caught on camera and shared with the world," it reads.
