Here's why Lights Out With David Spade isn't returning for a second season. David Spade started out as a stand-up comic before breaking out with Saturday Night Live in the 1990s. The series was a good showcase for Spade's sardonic persona, but he famously made an enemy of Eddie Murphy when he cracked a joke about the former SNL star during his "Hollywood Minute" segment; it would be nearly 20 years before Murphy appeared on the show again. David Spade later broke into movies with Tommy Boy and Black Sheep alongside the late Chris Farley.
Other David Spade movies include Joe Dirt, The Emperor's New Groove and the Grown-Ups movies. Spade regularly appears alongside fellow SNL alum Adam Sandler too, including Grown-Ups and 2016's The Do-Over. He's also a regular fixture on TV, with David Spade sitcoms including Just Shoot Me and Rules Of Engagement, which both lasted for seven seasons.
It was probably inevitable he would end up with his own chat show, which finally arrived in the form of Lights Out With David Spade in 2019. Comedy Central placed the series after The Daily Show, which has historically been a tricky spot for other shows to thrive in. Lights Out debuted in July 2019, with the format seeing Spade talk with a revolving trio of celebrity guests and comedians, including the likes of Bill Hader, Chelsea Peretti and Whitney Cummings. Both David Spade and Comedy Central wanted to focus to place much less of a focus on political discussions and create a lighter comedy series.
Lights Out With David Spade received good reviews during its run, but like most late-night TV shows, Comedy Central paused production in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The news soon came in April that Lights Out wouldn't be coming back into production, which may have been down to the show only managing to retain about half of The Daily Show's viewers. Following news of the cancelation, there was hope Lights Out With David Spade could live on elsewhere, as Comedy Central shopped it around and other platforms expressed interest in picking it up.
There haven't been any recent updates on Lights Out With David Spade being picked up for another season, however. The most recent David Spade Netflix movie outing was The Wrong Missy, which was a huge success on the platform despite receiving some harsh reviews. The ever-prolific comedian is next set to appear in an untitled comedy series for HBO, with the Diablo Cody created show focusing on Spade's Calvin Walsh, a recovering addict and grunge rocker.
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