Charlamagne Tha God to Tell ‘Tha God’s Honest Truth’ on New Late-Night Show on Comedy Central

As the host of a new late-night show for Comedy Central, Charlamagne Tha God will tell Tha God’s Honest Truth.

The Breakfast Club host will star in executive producer Stephen Colbert’s Tha God’s Honest Truth With Lenard “Charlamagne” McKelvey. According to the official logline, the weekly half-hour series will premiere on Friday, Sept. 17. They will feature McKelvey’s “culturally fluent take on social issues in a variety of deep dives, sketches, and social experiments that deftly unpack the most pressing topics pervading politics and culture.” “Nothing is off-limits” in this redemptively humorous, refreshingly uncensored, and unashamedly Black film. The showrunner will be Rachael Edwards from Wild N Out.

Colbert returns to Comedy Central with Tha God’s Honest Truth, first placed into development last July after stints as a Daily Show reporter and host of the long-running Colbert Report, which ended in 2014. Colbert’s behind-the-scenes reunion was originally hinted at in a mysterious teaser released Monday. The teaser showed Late Show host driving down a rural road in his home state of South Carolina. Colbert and fellow Palmetto state resident McKelvey were featured in a second teaser published on Wednesday.

“For too long, the town of Moncks Corner, South Carolina has been underrepresented in late-night,” Colbert said in a statement. “I look forward to all the ways in which the fearless, peerless Charlamagne is going to change the game.”

Chris McCarthy, President and CEO of MTV Entertainment Group, said, “Charlamagne is one of the most culturally significant voices of our time. His thought-provoking and uninhibited observations both get under people’s skin and open their minds which is why we are thrilled to be doing this show with him and equally thrilled to welcome back the Dean of Late Night to Comedy Central, Mr. Stephen Colbert.”

McKelvey was a cast member on MTV2’s Guy Code and hosted Charlamagne & Friends and Uncommon Sense, both of which McCarthy greenlit when he ran MTV2. According to Comedy Central, McKelvey has appeared eight times on CBS‘ Late Show in the previous five years.

“This is one of those moments where I can show you better than I can tell you,” McKelvey said Wednesday. “This is the third talk show Chris McCarthy has done with me, and those shows prepared me for this opportunity. My South Carolina brethren Stephen Colbert is the ultimate cosign in the late-night space, and he wouldn’t cosign no bulls–t! We are going to win an Emmy next year for best lighting direction I can feel it!!!”