Nick Cannon Talk Show Revived After Anti-Semitic Comments

Nick Cannon will make his debut on daytime television with his talk show’s revival after it was postponed last year due to his anti-Semitic comments.

The show titled “Nick Cannon” premieres in the fall of this year and will be distributed by Debmar-Mercury and Fox Television Stations. The syndicated show was initially set to premiere last September. However, after Cannon’s anti-Semitic comments on his podcast “Cannon’s Class,” it was pushed back.

During that controversial episode of “Cannon’s Class,” he sparked outrage when he said, “You can’t be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people when we are the same people who they want to be,” he said before adding that Black people were “the true Hebrews.”

Last year, Ira Bernstein and Mort Marcus, co-president of Lionsgate’s Debmar-Mercury, said that they would revive the show if Cannon genuinely work to understand how his words impacted the Jewish community, which is what he did. Following the backlash, Cannon apologized and spent 2020 meeting with rabbis and other prominent Jewish leaders to educate himself on the history of anti-Semitism.