Charlamagne Tha God lands talk show executive produced by Stephen Colbert

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The fashionable vigor big has landed a late-night speech amusement connected Comedy Central.

"Tha God's Honest Truth With Lenard 'Charlamagne' McKelvey" is simply a play half-hour amusement acceptable to premiere September 17.

    The amusement volition revolve astir Charlamagne's "culturally fluent instrumentality connected societal issues" and volition diagnostic sketches, interviews and "social experiments."

      An property announcement for the amusement described it arsenic "redemptively comedic, refreshingly unfiltered, and unapologetically Black" with thing "off limits."

      It besides marks a instrumentality to Comedy Central for the show's enforcement shaper Stephen Colbert, who began his speech amusement vocation connected the web arsenic a analogous connected "The Daily Show."

      Chris McCarthy, a longtime MTV enforcement who present oversees Comedy Central successful his relation arsenic president-CEO of MTV Entertainment Group, volition besides enactment connected the task which reunites him with Charlamagne.

      "This is 1 of those moments wherever I tin amusement you amended than I tin archer you," Charlamagne successful a statement. "This is the 3rd speech amusement Chris McCarthy has done with maine and those shows prepared maine for this opportunity."

      Charlamagne besides shouted retired "My South Carolina brethren Stephen Colbert" arsenic "the eventual cosign successful the precocious nighttime space" and declared "We are going to triumph an Emmy adjacent twelvemonth for champion lighting absorption I tin consciousness it!!!"

        "The Breakfast Club" co-host antecedently had gigs connected MTV drama crippled shows "Guy Court" and "Guy Code" and besides hosted the network's short-lived "Charlamagne & Friends" speech show.

        "Tha God's Honest Truth With Lenard 'Charlamagne' McKelvey" boasts a divers writers room. Showrunner Rachael Edward and "The Boondocks" creator Aaron McGruder volition besides service arsenic enforcement producers.

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