lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAhQzrsLS-s
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 06:36 (three years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
fuck. sending healing vibes.
MY PALS. POPPING ON HERE TO LET YOU KNOW YOUR BOY GOT COVID. I’M DOING OK AND FOLLOWING ALL THE PROTOCOLS. BUT DEAD ASS STAY HOME, WEAR YOUR MASK, SOCIAL DISTANCE AND GET YOUR VACCINE IF YOURE ELIGIBLE. STAY SAFE FAM AND SEE YOU SOON 🙏🏽😷❤️— THE KID MERO 🇩🇴 (@THEKIDMERO) March 16, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 18:45 (three years ago) link
dammit
― rob, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 18:49 (three years ago) link
Aw man!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 19:19 (three years ago) link
the worst kinda news :(
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 March 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh1h1aisrUY
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 26 March 2021 18:00 (three years ago) link
he's beat up but he's funny!
Good that they're taking a two week break though! Let the man rest a bit more!
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 March 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
My boo when I'm with the homies: "Damn he's probably cheating" Meanwhile, me and the homies: pic.twitter.com/togvNr53zh— DESUS & MERO on SHOWTIME (@SHODesusAndMero) May 6, 2021
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Friday, 7 May 2021 18:58 (three years ago) link
I thought the first episode of Ziwe was pretty amazing. The Lebowitz interview had an "is this real or staged?" quality that was unlike any other examples of that sort of thing I could think of. Not all the sketches worked fully, but an impressive debut
― rob, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 13:11 (three years ago) link
Sketch comedy is pretty much always bad i have decided. Ziwe playing with fire, which is fun to watch, though I could do with a few less Office mugs to the camera. In general though, yeah, curious to see where this goes. I dig that Cole Escola looks to be a featured player/co-producer.
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
Haha I almost posted an identical take on sketch comedy in the, uh, Elon Musk thread the other day. One episode of I Think You Should Leave was one of the direst things I've ever watched; I couldn't even finish a single sketch from the Australian show people around here liked; etc. So yeah it was mostly about the two interviews for me, plus the Karen & Proud focus group, which had the same playing with un-reality vibe. Also I found it interesting as a ~pandemic show~, wonder if the quasi-homemade feel of some of it will continue or not
― rob, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 16:25 (three years ago) link
dumb question but whats the connection btw Ziwe & Desus/Mero?
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 17:32 (three years ago) link
She was a writer on their show, plus I first heard about her show when D&M interviewed her the other day. I thought about using one of the all-purpose streaming threads, but figured it was a little premature to start broadly endorsing the show. ftr, it's not much like D&M but worth checking out!
― rob, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 17:35 (three years ago) link
both on showtime as well
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
the Bobby Shmurda interview was my favorite thing they’ve done in a while, love how much they love each other like long lost family or something <3and the golf at the end is hilarioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCmgj6y1zVU
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 26 July 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSQmElnCTjI
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 20 August 2021 15:46 (three years ago) link
lmao so greatseeing mero without the hat tho O_O 🤯
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 August 2021 16:05 (three years ago) link
baldega boys
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 August 2021 17:27 (three years ago) link
the costumes are ~chef’s kiss~
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 August 2021 18:23 (three years ago) link
Replace the Tonight Show with Desus & Mero and give them a FCC waiver to say and air whatever they want IMO.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Saturday, 21 August 2021 19:29 (three years ago) link
OTFM
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 August 2021 20:39 (three years ago) link
they are in need of better skits, an audience and more nights on the air but are still the best guys on late night
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 21 August 2021 21:20 (three years ago) link
more skits like untitled goose game aka “mormon grand theft auto”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQza5GO1Oe0
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 21 August 2021 23:39 (three years ago) link
this is v funnyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WyaNJbotG4
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 October 2021 06:04 (two years ago) link
lol uncanny
i was in a dark place, fell in with the wrong ppl. https://t.co/p9kUZ1Hqre— Desus Nice (@desusnice) January 7, 2022
― rob, Friday, 7 January 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
haha O_o that is crazily uncanny
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 January 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:
ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:57 (two years ago) link
one show a week, boooooooooo
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2022 19:47 (two years ago) link
bummer, but I'll take it over being cancelled, weren't they supposed to be back in Feb?
― rob, Friday, 4 March 2022 19:49 (two years ago) link
i think they're still real popular? like they should be going nightly imo.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 March 2022 19:52 (two years ago) link
oh I have no idea really, I just love this show and got nervous when the hiatus went longer than I expected it to. nightly would be amazing!
― rob, Friday, 4 March 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link
sad the pod has stopped
― symsymsym, Saturday, 5 March 2022 02:46 (two years ago) link
if i were gonna guess, i'd imagine they have a movie or something in production and they need more time to focus on that.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 5 March 2022 07:24 (two years ago) link
say it ain't so!
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 July 2022 23:04 (two years ago) link
the brand is strong gone
― johnny crunch, Monday, 18 July 2022 23:48 (two years ago) link
this sucks, wish 'em the best but it's hard to imagine their work working separately
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
wow rip and also wtf
― Clay, Tuesday, 19 July 2022 00:14 (two years ago) link
;_;
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 01:49 (two years ago) link
i felt like this was coming for a while but ugggghhhhhhhhh it sucks
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 19 July 2022 01:51 (two years ago) link
i mean...sometimes you can't get over person shit i get it, but it's been a real bummer to see the whole thing just evaporate. didn't seem like either one had really big plans in place when they killed the show, now Mero streams twitch (only 10K followers, just checked his last video had like 790 views), I know Desus subbed on Jimmy Kimmel but he mostly seems to be tweeting about the Knicks. I dunno, the whole thing should have gone much bigger than it did.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 March 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
Yeah, feels like a swathe of missed opportunities. I wonder if COVID retrospectively was killing a momentum even with their home broadcasts (which were fantastic/sanity helping).
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 March 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
i was thinking the same thing, re how thry just fizzled out they’re both great tv personalities
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 March 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
i saw that mero is hosting an F1 podcast for amazon w/ will arnett & idk... maybe it does well? i'm sure it pays ok. but it made me kinda sad. it feels like they don't really know how to mesh w/ the wider world of pop culture/entertainment when not doing their collective thing together
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 March 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
there seems to be some kinda hipster F1 thing happening so that could be more popular than I think but overall yeah it's not exactly mass culure
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 6 March 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
there is but that made it even worse! glomming onto some pop cultural trend
― J0rdan S., Monday, 6 March 2023 21:31 (one year ago) link
we are truly being robbed of great content with Desus & Mero not being on the air for the DJ Envy real estate scandal
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 October 2023 21:23 (ten months ago) link
Envy often promoted the project on the “Breakfast Club,” claiming they’ve “helped so many people.” And many of the spurned investors who spoke to NBC 4 said they got involved with the project because of Envy’s co-sign
victimless crime
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 23 October 2023 21:43 (ten months ago) link
desus guest hosted the Daily Show this week & delivered the goods (kinda?)(starts at 3:30)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P0_7SlLtLY
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 October 2023 04:25 (ten months ago) link
makes me miss the desus & mero audience though, that smattering of applause bummed me out lol
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 28 October 2023 04:28 (ten months ago) link
Mero talks about the breakup in detail on the new ep of his 7pm In Brooklyn show w Melo (guest Joe Budden)starts at around the 45 min mark iirchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TTfLoJd8Uw
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 February 2024 20:57 (seven months ago) link
cliffs notes bia reddit (tho the convo is worth a watch, really great, melo in like full therapist mode & goes on to reveal a lot abt George Karl)
EDIT: Cliff notes-Creative and (more importantly) business differences.-Mero mentions a $1.5M sponsorship opportunity from DraftKings (before the massive betting popularity) but Desus wanted to pass because of the “stigma”. -Mero’s money moves and motivation are done to support his family + kids, which isn’t a priority for Desus as he is in a different place in his life -Desus wanted to focus solely on linear (HBO, Showtime, etc) whereas Mero wanted to focus on both linear AND digital (bodega boys) -Mero notes he made more money on YT/podcasting while working at vice -Mentions there was potentially a Judd Apatow movie (!!!) that Desus didn’t want to do -Mero seemed to suggest that they are not on speaking terms. Seems like Desus truly went Hollywood but Mero didn’t want to do that as he wanted to preserve his authenticity and creative freedom.
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 15 February 2024 23:56 (seven months ago) link
Team Desus if he wanted to avoid a DraftKings ad.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 February 2024 00:32 (seven months ago) link
Yeah I was gonna say, no brainer there.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 February 2024 00:37 (seven months ago) link
yeah i thought the same thing. mero seems like he is a bees dick away from full blown gambling addict anyway
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 February 2024 04:05 (seven months ago) link
(based on what hes said in the past)
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 February 2024 04:06 (seven months ago) link
Which kinda makes that providing-for-family explanation a little...less than practical, say.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 February 2024 04:08 (seven months ago) link
both things can be true i guess
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 16 February 2024 04:11 (seven months ago) link
https://t.co/i4CS27KpzO pic.twitter.com/PLGA7khMY6— Desus MF Nice💯 (@desusnice) February 16, 2024
― Rich E. (Eric H.), Friday, 16 February 2024 13:59 (seven months ago) link
still such a bummer hate to see this
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 February 2024 14:19 (seven months ago) link