Nick Cannon seems to be everywhere.
The actor/comedian/ musician/TV personality is currently starring in the second season of “Real Husbands of Hollywood” (BET). His second Showtime stand-up comedy special premieres this Saturday. “Wild N’ Out,” his sketch comedy/improv show was renewed for a second season on MTV2 to tape in early 2014. And next summer he’ll return to host “America’s Got Talent” (NBC).
On Sunday he adds one more project to that list — hosting the fifth annual “TeenNick HALO Awards” (8 p.m. on Nick at Nite) honoring teens for service to their communities.
This year’s HALO Awards (which stands for “Helping and Leading Others”) spotlights four teens making a difference and will feature musical performances by Fall Out Boy and Austin Mahone, and appearances by Josh Hutcherson (“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”), Queen Latifah, Los Angeles Clipper Chris Paul and Shay Mitchell (“Pretty Little Liars”). In a first, the awards show will also air live, allowing for real-time interaction on Twitter and Instagram.
“You have live performances, the energy in the room is unpredictable, so you never know what could happen,” Cannon tells The Post. “It’s just going to bring everybody’s enthusiasm to another level.”
Cannon is also creator and executive producer of the awards, and says he wanted to make a show that celebrated youth empowerment.
“A lot of other awards shows focus on celebrities and their accolades, but we wanted to focus on young people in our world that are making their communities and the rest of the world a better place,” he says.
Cannon’s current list of charitable involvements rivals the length of his resume. He says he learned the value of volunteering through his grandmother, who was a foster mother for more than three decades.
“Even though we came from a low-income environment, she still was helping people however she could,” Cannon says.
On the other end of the spectrum is his Showtime special “F#ck Nick Cannon,” where Cannon responds to his haters, talks about being a father (to twins Monroe and Moroccan — mom is Cannon’s wife, Mariah Carey) and his 2012 health scare, when he was hospitalized for kidney problems and blood clots that led to an autoimmune disease diagnosis. You get the raw unapologetic me saying what’s on my mind,” he says.
Despite Cannon’s long list of projects — he also starts shooting his “Soul Train” revival for NBC in January — he doesn’t mind balancing the demands of his multi-hyphenate career. “Everyone in the industry’s always working on multiple different things. I might be a little more than most,” Cannon admits. “Mine happen to always be going on at the same time.”