Desus and Mero on Late-Night TV, AOC and Taylor Swift

The Last Laugh

The Daily Beast

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Desus Nice and The Kid Mero—who officially announced this week that they will be “pursuing separate creative endeavors moving forward”—join The Last Laugh podcast to talk about launching their Showtime late-night series Desus & Mero. We get into their close relationship with fellow Bronx-native Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, why they viewed their show as an “escape” from the “dumpster fire that is America,” their unlikely Twitter feud with Taylor Swift fans and a lot more.

This episode was originally published on August 27th, 2019.

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0:00.0	This is the Last Laugh.
0:07.1	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and this week saw the end of an era when Deezus Nice and the Kid Mero announced that they would be, quote, pursuing separate creative endeavors moving forward, ending both their popular Bodega Boys podcast
0:22.2	and their Showtime series, Deezis and Mero.
0:26.0	The official breakup follows weeks of speculation about a falling out between the longtime
0:30.8	friends and co-hosts, who met on Twitter and did more to disrupt the late-night TV
0:35.5	landscape over the last few years than pretty much anyone else.
0:39.7	So I thought we might as well flashback to happier times
0:43.2	and repost the interview I did with Visas and Mero in our LA studio back in the summer of 2019
0:49.3	when they were just a few months into hosting their show on Showtime.
0:54.3	This was a really fun and sprawling episode that touched on everything from their origin story,
1:00.5	to their unique takes on politics, to that time they got death threats for supposedly body shaming Taylor Swift.
1:07.5	So let's go to that conversation now.
1:10.7	Here's me with Deezis Nice and the Kid Mero.
1:14.1	Welcome to L.A.
1:15.1	Yeah.
1:16.3	How are you enjoying it so far?
1:17.7	When did you get in?
1:18.7	We got in on Friday night.
1:20.1	Friday night.
1:21.0	It's been very chill, very chill, you know.
1:23.1	Everything's a blur, man.
1:24.3	Yeah, a couple of deer antler shots, shoplifting, airwine.
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