Nick Cannon has lived many different lives, and if you ask him he’s won them all.
In this new episode, Steven sits down with TV host, actor, rapper, and comedian, Nick Cannon.
At 16 years old, Nick began performing stand-up comedy, a year after this he appeared on the Nickelodeon sketch series, ‘All That’, as a writer for the show, at 17 years old, he became the youngest writer in TV history. Nick made the move into film in 2002, appearing in ‘Drumline’, and in 2005, he created, produced and hosted the MTV improv comedy series ‘Wild ’N Out’. From 2009 to 2016, Nick was the host of ‘America’s Got Talent’.
In this conversation, Nick and Steven discuss a variety of topics the power of optimism in his life, starting to do stand-up comedy at 11 years old, Jaime Foxx, Will Smith, the success of Wild ‘n’ Out, and more.
Nick Cannon: Nick Cannon is an American TV host, actor, director, comedian and musician. He rose to fame at the age of 17 as a staff writer for the Nickelodeon comedy sketch series All That (1994), becoming the youngest writer in TV history. Cannon went on to direct and star on Nickelodeon’s The Nick Cannon Show in 2002, before launching the MTV improv series Nick Cannon Presents Wild ‘N Out in 2005.
He has hosted America’s Got Talent, The Masked Singer and his now-defunct daytime talk show Nick Cannon. Cannon made his big-screen debut in Drumline (2002) and starred in Love Don’t Cost a Thing (2003), Shall We Dance (2004), Roll Bounce (2005), Bobby (2006) and Chi-Raq (2015). In 2007, he earned a Screen Actors Guild nomination for outstanding performance by a cast for Bobby. He also became the first African-American awarded breakthrough actor of the year at the Cannes Film Festival.
In December 2015, Cannon was named “Chief Creative Officer” of RadioShack in hopes of catering to a younger crowd. According to the company this role involved “creating RadioShack-exclusive products and curating the in-store experience.” They launched the NCredible line of consumer audio electronics the following February, starting with the Ncredible1 Wireless Headphones.
