IT pays to be a teenage wisenheimer – if you’ve got a TV show to fall back on, that is.

Ryan Pinkston, the 15-year-old smart-aleck featured on MTV’s “Punk’d,” now has an MTV development deal and will star in a new show for the network, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“Punk’d,” created by “That ’70s Show” star Ashton Kutcher, focuses on hidden-camera stunts pulled on Kutcher’s famous Hollywood friends.

Pinkston has posed as a celebrity interviewer asking rude questions and, in one instance, played a kid who accused “7th Heaven” star Jessica Biel of abuse.

Pinkston will also star in the big-screen movie “Soul Plane” as the son of the only white family aboard the maiden flight of an urban airline and is featured in the upcoming movie “Spy Kids 3.”