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Ridiculousness Canceled After 14 Years/46 Seasons Amid MTV Changes

With MTV expected to undergo a major overhaul, Ridiculousness will be ending its run on the network after 14 years and 46 seasons.

Published Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:32:03 -0500

by Ray Flook

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As Paramount's new owners decide what to do with its lineup of cable network channels, there have been rumblings that MTV would be undergoing a serious overhaul – but Ridiculousness won't be along for the ride. Kicking off in 2011 with Rob Dyrdek, Chanel West Coast, and Steelo Brim, the video clip comedy series would go on to run for 14 years and 46 seasons (clocking in at more than 1,700 episodes). Recently, Lauren "Lolo" Wood was brought aboard as a co-host after Chanel West Coast departed to pursue other projects and her recording career. With the show's end first reported earlier today by TMZ and Variety, viewers will still have new episodes to enjoy into 2026, though Season 46 will be the final season.

The news comes shortly after another long-running series was cancelled, with Catfish joining Ridiculousness as two of the longest-running shows in MTV's history. While some will be sorry to see both shows leave their screens, others view them as symbols of the programming dumping ground that cable television has become – and they have a point. If you look back over MTV's programming schedule from the past 12 months, you get a much better sense of how marathons of Catfish and Ridiculousness dominated the network's 24-hour cycle.

With Paramount's new owners already cutting budgets and rolling out layoffs, the cost of the series may have also been a factor. A recent Bloomberg report claims that MTV was paying Dyrdek a minimum of $32.5 million per year, based on court documents reviewed by the report's author. The reporting added that Dyrdek's salary included bonuses, a $21,000-per-episode executive producer fee, and a $61,000-per-episode on-camera fee. While that might not seem like much on the surface, you have to remember that the show filmed a lot of episodes in a given year – averaging three seasons per year over the course of the show's 14-year run.

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