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Pop CultureRob DyrdekOct 31, 2025

Rob Dyrdek Used to Shoot 252 Episodes of ‘Ridiculousness’ a Year

And now, after 46 seasons, MTV is canceling the show. 

By Lucas Wisenthal
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Ridiculousness, Rob Dyrdek’s long-running MTV show, has cut to its last smartphone video montage.

MTV canceled the series this week, after 14 years and 46 seasons, TMZ reports. Ridiculousness “went dark” in July and was meant to return in January. But now, episodes that were already shot will run through 2026. No more will be made.

The end of the show comes amid news that MTV is shutting down five music channels in the UK this year and Paramount’s decision to simulcast last August’s VMAs on CBS. Stateside, Ridiculousness took up the bulk of the post-music MTV’s schedule.

Ridiculousness—whose cast over the years, in addition to Dyrdek, included Chanel West Coast, Steelo Brim, and a sprawling list of guests from all rungs of the entertainment world—began in August 2011. Before that, Dyrdek starred in Rob Dyrdek’s Fantasy Factory and Rob & Big, which was an extension of a skit from Dyrdek’s run as a pro skater.

By 2022, Dyrdek had “optimized” his life to the point that he could shoot 252 episodes of Ridiculousness a year.

“It used to take me, you know, four hours to shoot one episode,” he told The Nine Club, a skate podcast. “I shoot one episode now in 25 minutes.”

Ridiculousness was inspired by America’s Funniest Home Videos, which Dyrdek had learned “was a $500 million syndication business.”

“And that’s when I was like, ‘OK, I’m gonna make the cool version of America’s Funniest Home Videos.'”

Dyrdek had originally planned to call that show Money Shot. 

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