The Showtime late-night discuss present “Desus and Mero” won’t be returning for a fifth season, the community introduced on Monday.
The present’s hosts, Desus Good (a.okay.a. Daniel Baker) and the Child Mero (a.okay.a. Joel Martinez), interviewed former President Barack Obama and collaborated on tasks together with podcasts and a e-book, however are actually “pursuing separate artistic endeavors shifting ahead,” a Showtime consultant stated in an emailed assertion.
“Desus Good and the Child Mero have made a reputation for themselves in comedy and within the late-night area as quick-witted cultural commentators,” the assertion stated.
After the announcement, Desus wrote on Twitter that he was “happy with the present my workers made each episode” and hinted he had extra tasks on the way in which.
Earlier than Showtime picked up “Desus and Mero” in 2018, the present aired on Viceland for 2 years. The pair, who each grew up within the Bronx, additionally hosted a long-running podcast, “Bodega Boys.”
The tv sequence upended the normal mannequin for late-night discuss reveals, with the hosts sitting in chairs subsequent to their company as a substitute of cloistered behind a desk. They swapped fastidiously crafted opening monologues for a looser dialog fashion the place they responded to information occasions and viral clips, constructing on one another’s jokes.
The present’s fourth season on Showtime premiered in March with an interview with Denzel Washington that spotlighted Desus and Mero’s capacity to drag candid, private insights from celebrities and politicians in interviews that felt extra like conversations. The 2 spoke with the Academy Award-winning actor, who grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y., about completely different stops on the No. 2 subway line and the rising worth of a pizza slice.
Earlier than Desus and Mero turned a comedic duo, every had constructed a following on Twitter, the place they might often work together whereas making jokes about their day jobs and the Bronx.
That they had attended the identical summer season college and have been conversant in one another, nevertheless it was a gathering they have been each invited to by an editor on the popular culture web site Advanced that formally introduced them collectively. That assembly led to a podcast known as “Desus vs. Mero,” that premiered in 2013, then an internet sequence.
After they left Advanced, they began the “Bodega Boys” podcast. In 2020, they printed an recommendation e-book, “God-Degree Information Darts: Life Classes From the Bronx.”
Followers, referred to as the “Bodega Hive,” had speculated that the top of the comedic partnership could possibly be close to after the podcast stopped posting new episodes; the final one went up in November. Responding to a series of tweets that appeared to substantiate the podcast had ended, Desus stated final week that their followers “deserved higher than this ending.”