re: MTV mainstay Ridiculousness axed after 14 years amid reports of star’s $32 million salary

I think the theme song alone was costing a million a year in royalties since the show played so much.

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Mark Mothersbaugh, the co-founder of Devo, earns approximately $1 million per year in royalties from the Ridiculousness theme song, a reworked version of Devo's 1978 track "Uncontrollable Urge"

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Ridiculousness axed after 14 years

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That stupid show with the useless ditzy blonde laughing at him went that long?

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32 million salary

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Who cares as long as the show made money. I couldn’t stand the show though

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To be fair, it was like 75% of MTV's weekly broadcast schedule.

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I was randomly looking at the guide on YouTubeTV probably a year ago. I came across MTV and Ridiculousness was the only show for like 72 hours.

Why dies that channel even exist?

It’s pretty well documented how he churns episodes like a science. They basically film like three or four episodes a day, and have the whole season filmed and produced in less than a month.

I have never heard of this show.

That shows how siloed we've become.

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I'm curious to see what MTV does now, since that show is basically all their ever have playing on the channel. Cable is dead anyhow.

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At this point they have so many episodes in the can, they can run the episodes in a loop for years depending on who own the distribution rights to the show. If it was owned, produced, and distributed by MTV they can run it into the ground with minimal cost with small royalties going to the stars.

The only thing I’ve seen of MTV in the last decade is commercial for trashy black women reality/cheating shows. I have no idea how that channel still exists.