According to Variety, Showtime has granted a second season to Desus & Mero, it’s cult-hit-turned-regular-hit late-night talk show with the Bodega Boys—a.k.a. Desus Nice and The Kid Mero. The new season will premiere in February, with new episodes continuing to air on Mondays and Thursdays after that. Showtime’s presidents of entertainment (hell of a job title) Gary Levine and Jana Winograde released a statement confirming the announcement, saying that Desus and Mero “have been a fantastic addition to the Showtime family” and that their “hilarious commentary on current events, spirited conversations with major political figures and celebrities, and unique tours of their much-beloved New York City” have introduced “an entirely new perspective on late-night programming.”
In their first year on Showtime, Desus and Mero have pitched Jordan Peele on new movies, taken Anna Kendrick to a strip club, questioned everyone’s Joker-based obsession with that one big set of stairs, and tried to win the EGOT with Lin-Manuel Miranda—among many other things.
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The brand is strong!
P.S. Fuck DJ Akademiks.
Good. Best late night show since Conan.
Gat dammit! I was this close to dumping Showtime and now this….?Faaaaaaaaaaaaack!
So possibly dumb but honest question:Is Desus Nice (Jamaican ancestry) calling himself a bodega boy cultural appropriation of spanish culture or do spanish words entertaining mainstream usage not considered cultural appropriation in the way that words from black culture are?
I take it you’re not from anywhere near NYC?
Bodegas are so ubiquitous in New York, I honestly didn’t know it was a Spanish word for years.
I am.But that’s kinda what started my train of thought.At what point is something so ubiquitously a part of the “culture” that it stops being appropriation?Because it is a spanish word. And it is representative of spanish context.Bodega implies differently than if it was a corner grocery story owned by a different ethnicity or nationality which has its own slang. Where is the line?Is there a line?
Goddamn right. Their show in its two incarnations has been the one of the only late night shows I’ve consistently watched the past couple years, and with Busy and Robin Thede’s shows gone, the only one I watch now (I’ll check in on the Daily Show every now and then).