Rob Dyrdek is wanting on the brilliant aspect of Ridiculousness coming to an finish after 46 seasons.
“I simply wish to say thanks to each single person who ever watched any of my reveals,” Dyrdek, 51, stated in a video uploaded via X on Monday, November 10. “19 years, 4 completely different reveals, 2034 episodes. I'm so grateful.”
Dyrdek expressed his gratitude to MTV and “all of the individuals who allowed [a] driving skateboard movies skit right into a tv present.” He additionally thanked his household and costars over time, together with the late Christopher “Huge Black” Boykin, former cohost Chanel West Coast and present cohosts Sterling “Steelo” Brim and Lauren “Lolo” Wooden. (Boykin died in Might 2017 at age 45 after struggling a coronary heart assault.)
“This was divine timing,” Dyrdek stated of MTV's resolution to finish Ridiculousness. “I had actually advanced over these previous few years and I used to be rising out of getting that ballcap and standing on the Ridiculousness stage and dancing.”
The previous skilled skateboarder realized lots about being “deeply environment friendly” whereas coming as much as “12” episodes of the clip present a day.
“It was as a result of I used to be so dedicated to this time mastery aim of mine, of understanding all of my time and optimizing all my time,” he mirrored. “And that's what actually led to the present being so environment friendly and my total high quality of life being superb”.
Whereas it's bittersweet to say goodbye, Dyrdek is able to transfer on to his subsequent undertaking, his new app Existence.
“That is the brand new studio that I'm buying and selling for the Ridiculousness studio,” he stated. “As a result of as destiny would have it, the week my present ends and my run on MTV ends is identical week that I launch what I think about my magnum opus, my time intelligence platform Existence.”
Based on the app's web site, Existence quantifies a consumer's time and helps analyze the information to enhance an individual's high quality of life.
Us Weekly confirmed final month that Ridiculousness was canceled after 46 seasons. Ridiculousness will proceed to air on MTV and can premiere beforehand recorded new episodes into 2026.
A supply conversant in the scenario advised Us on the time that MTV is working to “reimagine” the community. The choice to axe Ridiculousness got here as MTV is seeking to characteristic a extra “curated slate” going ahead to embrace its “experimental DNA.” New content material will discover “recent codecs, completely different artistic voices, and refreshed programming,” per the insider.
Dyrdek received his begin on MTV together with his and Boykin's actuality sequence Rob & Huge in 2006. Three years later, he starred on Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Manufacturing unit earlier than turning into the host of Ridiculousness in 2011.
“Rob & Huge aired [when] I used to be 32 years outdated,” he stated throughout an look on “Buying and selling Secrets and techniques” in 2021. “I used to be taking a look at it as a platform. I then noticed what I received from the platform. I knew how unhealthy they wished me to do a present.”
