Nick Cannon appeared on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” yesterday, sitting down to talk to Howard Stern and co-host Robin Quivers live from the SiriusXM studios in Los Angeles.
Nick Cannon saying how he has poured an incredible amount of time and energy into following in Howard’s footsteps so he can become, as he put it, one of the new kings of all media.
“I’ve learned so much from you. I’ve watched what you’ve done … and now I’m doing this every day,” Cannon told his friend and former “America’s Got Talent” co-star during his return to “The Howard Stern Show”.
Throughout the interview Cannon spoke about his large family during the sit down, using it as an opportunity to dispel bizarre rumors — “I’m having kids because I love my kids”— and confirm a news report about the time he considered getting a vasectomy.
“I was looking around … [but] that’s a scary thing,” he told Howard.
“I felt the world was trying to make me get a vasectomy. I don’t operate well under pressure,” he added before sharing a relevant anecdote. “You ever know what it’s like to be walking down the street and just a random stranger is like, ‘Man, you need to go get snipped’? I’m like, ‘I don’t even know you, dude’.”

Nick Cannon on if he is done having children:
“Are you done [having children]?” Howard asked.
“Every time I answer this question – I can never answer it correctly because I don’t know,” Nick admitted with a laugh. “I’m happy currently with the [children] that I got,” he continued, adding that if he were to have another kid the mother would have to be some kind of woman. “She’d have to be cold. She’d have to be amazing.”
Howard wondered if Taylor Swift was amazing enough for him.
“Absolutely, I’m in — let’s go … That’s the one!” Nick laughed before praising the pop superstar’s songwriting abilities and willingness to be vulnerable in her music, just like he was.
“Me and Taylor’s numbers are very similar when we’re talking about being in these streets. So, I think she would relate to me very well,” Cannon concluded. “We probably would really understand each other.”
Co-host Robin Quivers pointing out that Taylor is currently single.
“She’s free and single,” Robin said.
“My Spidey-Sense is tingling,” Nick laughed. “I think that would be amazing.”
Nick Cannon on being single and focusing on himself:
“I’m not out there like that,” he explained. “I’m really trying to focus on myself and my children … my bandwidth doesn’t even allow me to kind of be in that space.”
“It sounds wild, but my main focus is either my children or work,” he said. “It’s a healthy balance … one therapist told me I should be celibate — that didn’t work, I had like more kids after that.”
When pressed, Nick explained his period of celibacy lasted nine months.
As a result, the actor seemed to have provocative thoughts in his sleep.
“People were saying I was sleep-fucking,” he revealed. “People would see me, and I’d be, like, gyrating … I guess I was having some dreams.”
Nick Cannon on Kevin Hart and “Celebrity Prank Wars”:
“It pissed so many people off,” Nick said, explaining the prank even led to one media outlet chastising him with the argument “human life is not a game show.”
Hart also once gifted his friend a vending machine filled with condoms.
“I don’t even know where I’m going to put this thing. It’s just sitting in my garage right now, full of condoms,” Nick told Howard with a chuckle.
Nick Cannon on Being Mentored by Will Smith and the Oscars Slap:
“Our first meeting I was rapping, telling jokes … I pitched him a pilot right when I met him and he’s like, ‘I’m in.’ He gave me a TV deal, a record deal, put me in ‘Men in Black II’.”
“He was truly a mentor when I was 16 – always was a great example … just a solid dude,” Nick said.
Cannon was shocked after learning about the Oscars slap.
“At first, we all thought [it was] like a skit or something,” he said before telling Howard why he empathized with the actor.
“Will’s done everything right his entire career,” he said. “He’s been chasing that Oscar gold for a while and now, you know, it’s going to be an asterisk because of that moment.”
“It was heartbreaking … My heart just felt for the both of them,” Cannon continued before noting the “unfortunate” event offered viewers a glimpse into the Black male experience. “Vulnerability has never been something that we sit well within our community, and you saw two vulnerable men and, when it gets like that, usually [it erupts] at some point.”
Nick Cannon on His Friendship With Pete Davidson and Introducing Kim Kardashian to Kanye West:
Comedian and Stern Show guest Pete Davidson was Nick’s protégé long before making it onto “Saturday Night Live”.
“I taught him everything he knows,” Nick laughed.
“I used to host a comedy night at Gotham in the city. There was this kid that would call my morning show every single week [saying] ‘Yo, I’m funnier than you—put me on the show’, … and he came down [to the comedy show] at 15 years old and ripped it. From then, I took him on the road with me, we worked on all my standup specials together … put him in his first movie [called] ‘School Dance’,” Cannon continued. “He played this character who didn’t have one line, but his name was Stink Finger … and Stink Finger turned into Pete Davidson.”
Pete didn’t just follow in Nick’s comedic footsteps.
He also famously dated Kim Kardashian well over a decade after she had first dated Nick.
Nick confirmed he also became close friends with Kanye West.
“That was a weird dichotomy,” Nick said, adding, “During that time, I felt for all of them, man.”
Howard was fascinated by the famous foursome’s love quadrilateral and hoped Nick might bring Pete, Kim, and Kanye onto “The Daily Cannon” to discuss it.
“I think an interview with me and Kim would be more intriguing,” Nick countered. “She’s the one who had us all wrapped around her finger. She’s the one. If you want to talk about who’s the most fascinating, that’s the billionaire woman making all these men go crazy.”
Nick Cannon’s “The Daily Cannon” premieres Monday, April 24, at 9 a.m. ET on Amazon AMP.
“The Howard Stern Show”, which airs on SiriusXM channel Howard 100, is broadcast live Mondays through Wednesdays starting at 7:00 am ET.
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Nick Cannon on His Friendship With Pete Davidson and Introducing Kim Kardashian to Kanye West:
Nick Cannon Got Pranked by Kevin Hart With a Condom Vending Machine:
Did Nick Cannon Consider Getting a Vasectomy?
Nick Cannon on Being Mentored by Will Smith and the Oscars Slap:
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Nick Cannon Went 9 Months Without Sex: