Showtime’s late-night talk show “Desus and Mero” will not be back in the fifth season announced on Monday.
Show hosts, Desus Nice (aka Daniel Baker) and Kid Mero (aka Joel Martinez), Interview with former President Barack Obama Having collaborated on projects such as podcasts and books, we are now “pursuing individual creative efforts to move forward,” a Showtime representative said in an email statement.
“Desus Nice and Kid Mero have made a name for themselves as witty cultural commentators in comedy and late-night spaces,” the statement said.
After the announcement, Dessus wrote on Twitter, “I’m proud of the show where my staff made all the episodes,” implying that there are more projects along the way.
The show aired on Viceland for two years before Showtime featured “Desus and Mero” in 2018. Both grown up in Bronx, the pair also hosted the long-running podcast “Bodega Boys.”
The television series overturned the traditional model of a late-night talk show, with the host sitting in a chair next to the guest, rather than having a corridor behind the desk. They replaced the carefully crafted opening monologue with a looser conversational style, responding to news events and viral clips and based on each other’s jokes.
Fourth season of Showtime’s show premiered in March Interview with Denzel Washington Spotlighted Desas and Melo ability Get candid and personal insights from celebrities and politicians in interviews that feel like conversation. The two talked with an Academy Award-winning actor who grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, about various stops on Subway Line 2 and rising prices for pizza slices.
Before Desas and Melo became a comedy combination, each had more followers on Twitter. There, I occasionally interacted while joking about my daily work and Bronx.
They attended the same summer school and were familiar with each other, but it was a conference invited by the editors of the pop culture website Complex, which officially brought them together. The meeting was “Desas vs. Melo”Premiered in 2013 and then became a web series.
After leaving the Complex, they started the “Bodega Boys” podcast. In 2020, they published an advice book, God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from Bronx.
Fans known as “Bodega Hive” speculated that the end of the comedy partnership could be near after the podcast stopped posting new episodes. The last one went up in November.Correspondence to A series of tweets Seemingly confirming that the podcast was over, Desus said last week that their fans were “better worth than this end.”