[...] the easy-to-decipher bleeped words get the biggest laughs because MTV night at the improv is simply not that funny. Nick Cannon, who created the half-hour "Wild 'N Out" and is one of its six exec producers, fronts a team of comics trying to outdo a rival group led by a guest celebrity (Orlando Jones in the premiere). Randomly judged improvs include one round in which participants can speak only in questions, another where they dress down audience members' outfits and a train wreck of a segment in which the team captain plays a bouncer who must identify which celeb is being impersonated before allowing him or her into the club.

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