History Creator / DesusAndMero

** A somewhat lighthearted recent one is Tucker Carlson of Creator/FoxNews. He insulted their friend Chris Hayes (with whom Desus has been friends since middle school) for not being masculine enough. Mero spent a whole week on Twitter insulting him “worm in a bow tie with a third grade haircut” and fighting with his fans calling them things like “COSTCO JUG OF KEN’S STEAKHOUSE MAYONNAISE”. The tweets total over 100 [[https://www-vulture-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.vulture.com/amp/2019/04/kid-mero-responds-tucker-carlson-chris-hayes-twitter.html?amp_js_v=0.1#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vulture.com%2F2019%2F04%2Fkid-mero-responds-tucker-carlson-chris-hayes-twitter.html]] and they dedicated a section of their show about it, even offering to challenge him in a celebrity boxing match for charity.

Comedy duo hailing from the Bronx made up of Desus Nice (Daniel Baker) and The Kid Mero (Joel Martinez). They first rose to prominence separately on Website/{{Twitter}} before getting a podcast and later, web series on Complex titled ''Desus vs Mero'' in 2013. They then moved on to Creator/{{MTV}} with roles on ''[[Series/GirlCode Guy Code]]'' , ''Uncommon Sense'', and ''Joking Off''. They then got their own TalkShow on Viceland, ''Desus and Mero'' in 2016, which ended after 2 seasons in 2018, after which they moved to Creator/{{Showtime}}. They also have been recording the ''Bodega Boys'' podcast (aka "The Art") since 2015. In 2020 they released a book, ''God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from the Bronx''. Showtime announced in 2022 that the show would come to a close and Desus and Mero will be pursuing separate creative endeavors.

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Comedy duo hailing from the Bronx made up of Desus Nice (Daniel Baker) and The Kid Mero (Joel Martinez). They first rose to prominence separately on Website/{{Twitter}} before getting a podcast and later, web series on Complex titled ''Desus vs Mero'' in 2013. They then moved on to Creator/{{MTV}} with roles on ''[[Series/GirlCode Guy Code]]'' , ''Uncommon Sense'', and ''Joking Off''. They then got their own TalkShow on Viceland, ''Desus and Mero'' in 2016, which ended after 2 seasons in 2018, after which they moved to Creator/{{Showtime}}. They also have been recording the ''Bodega Boys'' podcast (aka "The Art") since 2015. In 2020 they released a book, ''God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from the Bronx''.

* ''Desus & Mero'' (Showtime, 2019-present)

** Their love of New York and some of its particular sports teams (they rep especially hard for the Yankees and the Knicks) make them both especially harsh towards New York's biggest rivals in terms of sports prominence, most especially Boston-based teams like the Red Sox and the New England Patriots.

** Starting on the Viceland show and carrying through to Showtime, they often pitched themselves as the logical choices to play [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Timon and Pumbaa]] in Barry Jenkins' ''Lion King'' [[Film/TheLionKing2019 remake]], as the cast was already mostly-Black and they had the FatAndSkinny dynamic (their in-character riffing often involved offering to get Simba a chopped cheese). When they weren't cast, they made another running gag of being comically offended at being snubbed, and of course it was brought up to an apologetic Creator/SethRogen (the eventual voice of Pumbaa, to Creator/BillyEichner's Timon) when they interviewed him on Showtime.

** Starting on the Viceland show and carrying through to Showtime, they often pitched themselves as the logical choices to play [[Disney/TheLionKing Timon and Pumbaa]] in Barry Jenkins' ''Lion King'' remake, as the cast was already mostly-Black and they had the FatAndSkinny dynamic (their in-character riffing often involved offering to get Simba a chopped cheese). When they weren't cast, they made another running gag of being comically offended at being snubbed, and of course it was brought up to an apologetic Creator/SethRogen (the eventual voice of Pumbaa, to Creator/BillyEichner's Timon) when they interviewed him on Showtime.

* TheGhost: Prior to the remote episodes, Mero only used nicknames for his kids, and the sketch where the duo switch lives had child actors playing them. Besides one instances where a kid's face is blurred when he interrupts a shoot, he now prominently displays a picture of his whole family in his home studio and discusses each of his kids by name.

* EnsembleDarkhorse / GameMaster: Julia, who was involved as a writer on the Viceland series, then became both a writer and the regular moderator on the Showtime series. She holds her own with the dynamic duo pretty well (given that she's a comedian and comedy writer in her own right - her last appearance on the Viceland show had her proudly wearing a hoodie with the ''MTV's Wild'n' Out'' logo on it, a show she's a regular on), but is not above LampshadeHanging her whiteness and poking fun at the rumors that she's got a crush on Desus. (One purposefully-melodramatic promo for their Showtime show had her in a bridal gown, begging for Desus to tie the knot - "We're Julia and Desus - [[{{Portmanteau}} we're Jesus!]]").

* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Mero sometimes speaks Spanish on the podcast.

Comedy duo hailing from the Bronx made up of Desus Nice (Daniel Baker) and The Kid Mero (Joel Martinez). They first rose to prominence separately on Website/{{Twitter}} before getting a podcast and later, web series on Complex titled ''Desus vs Mero'' in 2013. They then moved on to Creator/{{MTV}} with roles on ''[[Series/GirlCode Guy Code]]'' , ''Uncommon Sense'', and ''Joking Off''. They then got their own TalkShow on Viceland, ''Desus and Mero'' in 2016, which ended after 2 seasons in 2018, after which they moved to Creator/{{Showtime}}. They also have been recording the ''Bodega Boys'' podcast (aka "The Art") since 2015.

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