Drake Bell has claimed he had "no residuals" from Drake and Josh.

The 40-year-old actor, who starred in the Nickelodeon sitcom alongside Josh Peck, 39, from 2004 to 2007, has alleged that his contract meant he was paid a weekly amount, rather than ongoing compensation for reruns beyond the original release.

Appearing in a video with YouTuber N3on, he said: "You get a weekly check, and that's it. That's it.

"Unfortunately, no residuals and all that kind of stuff."

N3on wondered if that was "normal", and Drake insisted it wasn't, before being asked "why" that happened.

He quipped: "Because Nickelodeon sucks. Oh, can I not say that?"

He noted that residual payments come down to the contracts, and a younger actor might feel rushed to sign a deal when they're starting out.

He said: "[If] you don't sign the contract, well, the next kid that gets off the Greyhound bus from Wichita, Kansas, he'll take the job.

"There's good and bad from it. It's like, well, I have the opportunity to now do things that I love to do, and [it] opens doors, and I have fans."

Drake, who also appeared on Nickelodeon's The Amanda Show before Drake and Josh, previously blasted the network for allegedly not paying child stars residuals.

In July 2025, he told The Unplanned Podcast: "It's a lot of evil, corrupt people. That's the only thing, that is the answer. There's no other answer.

"Do everything that they do to us mentally and emotionally, and then throw us to the wolves. And we're like, okay, cool. I got rent this month.

"There are three channels doing marathons. Netflix just bought it, it's top 10 on Netflix, and I gotta figure out how to pay my rent this month."

He compared the studio's approach to the situation to "child labour", while addressing the lack of control young performers have.

He added: "People don't understand how the business works, the business side of this. They just see what the perception is on Instagram and social media and all the glitz and the glamour of Hollywood.

"We're putting in all of this work. This corporation is making billions with a 'B' off of us, and we're being compensated for the week of work, cool, but that's it.

"And forever, in perpetuity, it literally says in the contract, across universes and galaxies and planets."

Meanwhile, Josh has also spoken out about the issue and supported Drake's claims.

Earlier this year, he told the Financial Tea with Mrs. Dow Jones podcast: "By the time we finished Drake and Josh, so that was, like, 60 episodes total for the whole show.

"The median rate, the average rate per episode, was about $15,000. So over four years, we wound up making about 900 grand.

"But between agent, manager and taxes, we cleared half of that. We were making about $125,000 a year.

"[There were] no residuals on kids' TV from back then at least… so the final episode, we were done."