{"id":19229,"date":"2022-07-19T15:08:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/desus-mero-late-night-show-ends-after-four-seasons\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T15:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:08:40","slug":"desus-mero-late-night-show-ends-after-four-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/desus-mero-late-night-show-ends-after-four-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Desus &#038; Mero&#8217; Late-Night Show Ends After Four Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Showtime late-night talk show \u201cDesus and Mero\u201d will not be returning for a fifth season, the network announced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The show&#8217;s hosts, Desus Nice (aka Daniel Baker) and the Kid Mero (aka Joel Martinez), interviewed former President Barack Obama and collaborated on projects including podcasts and a book, but are now \u201cpursuing separate creative endeavors moving forward,\u201d a Showtime representative said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDesus Nice and the Kid Mero have made a name for themselves in comedy and in the late-night space as quick-witted cultural commentators,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After the announcement, Desus wrote on Twitter that he was \u201cproud of the show my staff made every episode\u201d and hinted he had more projects on the way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before Showtime picked up \u201cDesus and Mero\u201d in 2018, the show aired on Viceland for two years.  The pair, who both grew up in the Bronx, also hosted a long-running podcast, \u201cBodega Boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The television series upended the traditional model for late-night talk shows, with the hosts sitting in chairs next to their guests instead of cloistered behind a desk.  They swapped carefully crafted opening monologues for a looser conversation style where they responded to news events and viral clips, building on each other&#8217;s jokes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The show&#8217;s fourth season on Showtime premiered in March with an interview with Denzel Washington that spotlighted Desus and Mero&#8217;s ability to pull candid, personal insights from celebrities and politicians in interviews that felt more like conversations.  The two spokes with the Academy Award-winning actor, who grew up in Mount Vernon, NY, about different stops on the No.  2 subway line and the rising price of a pizza slice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before Desus and Mero became a comedic duo, each had built a following on Twitter, where they would occasionally interact while making jokes about their day jobs and the Bronx.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They had attended the same summer school and were familiar with each other, but it was a meeting they were both invited to by an editor at the pop culture website Complex that formally brought them together.  That meeting led to a podcast called \u201cDesus vs.  Mero,\u201d that premiered in 2013, then a web series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After they left Complex, they started the \u201cBodega Boys\u201d podcast.  In 2020, they published an advice book, \u201cGod-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons From the Bronx.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Fans, known as the \u201cBodega Hive,\u201d had speculated that the end of the comedic partnership could be near after the podcast stopped posting new episodes;  the last one went up in November.  Responding to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/desusnice\/status\/1547971863589965837\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">a series of tweets<\/a> that appeared to confirm the podcast had ended, Desus said last week that their fans \u201cdeserved better than this ending.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Showtime late-night talk show \u201cDesus and Mero\u201d will not be returning for a fifth season, the network announced on Monday. The show&#8217;s hosts, Desus Nice (aka Daniel Baker) and the Kid Mero (aka Joel Martinez), interviewed former President Barack Obama and collaborated on projects including podcasts and a book, but are now \u201cpursuing separate &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/desus-mero-late-night-show-ends-after-four-seasons\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8216;Desus &#038; Mero&#8217; Late-Night Show Ends After Four Seasons<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18527,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/desus-and-mero-split-showtime-series-canceled-the-hollywood-reporter\/","url_meta":{"origin":19229,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Desus and Mero&#8217; Split, Showtime Series Canceled \u2013 The Hollywood Reporter","date":"July 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Desus & Mero is no more at Showtime. 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