The Miz Exclusive Interview: 'Cannonball', Reality TV Roots, WWE Without Crowds & More

How has hosting 'Cannonball' been different to other projects you've hosted over the course of your career, including 'Miz TV' in WWE?

Miz: Let's take the first one: WWE with 'Miz TV'. There's no teleprompter. That's all in my head and it's live. Well, it used to be live in front of 20,000 people, now we have virtual fans out there in the ThunderDome in Orlando, but that's the difference. Whenever you have 20,000 people and you have hecklers heckling at you the entire time, which we encourage and allow our WWE Universe to be involved with everything that we do, so if I say something they don't like, you can hear them cheer. You can hear them boo if I say something they don't like.

With Cannonball, I don't have that. I have a teleprompter and we tell people the rules and what's going on. Honestly, they give me freedom to do whatever I want. Rocsi and I, we're really good playing off one another. The idea is to entertain and make people laugh and literally I never thought I would be singing on a nationally televised show, but here I am making up country songs on the spot.

The biggest compliment I think I've ever gotten in my life was when a producer called me before the show was going to air and said, "Hey, real quick, man, so sorry to bother you but that country song you sang, who was it? Because we have to get the rights to it and sign off on it." And I said, "Uh, I appreciate you thinking that is a real professional singer or writer that wrote that, but that was off the top of my head." He goes, "Really?" and I said, "Yeah." He said, "Wow, okay, I wasn't sure." I said, "Wow, just the fact you weren't sure whether that was a professional writer or me going off the top of my head is a huge compliment on my shoulders and I appreciate that."