Desus & Mero are grateful to have each other as an audience during the coronavirus pandemic

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"We have a soul connection," says The Kid Mero, one half of Showtime's Desus & Mero. "We could finish each other’s sentences. Like, if he’s on Mars and I’m on Jupiter, but we have a strong Wi-Fi connection, it doesn’t matter. The physical closeness helps with physical comedy, but like, jokes hit no matter what.” Desus adds: “It’s just like second nature, and also the other good part is, you know, it’s a built-in audience. I do a joke. Mero’s my audience. Mero does a joke, I’m his audience, and that works so well because shout out to Trevor Noah, shout out to John Oliver, shout out to Conan, everyone else that has a talk show. I watch their shows, and you can see there’s that quietness. They tell a joke on the air, and it’s like, you laugh at home, but they don’t get that feedback. They don’t get that response to their joke, and that’s a big part of comedy.” Desus & Mero are also psyched to now be on Sunday nights. “The network believes in us, and Sunday night, you know, that’s the night for the big shows,” says Desus. “Imagine it like a baseball lineup. You just want to have your best hitters right after each other, boom, boom, boom. You’ve got all the crème de la crème shows in one package on Sunday night, and it gives our show a chance to be in front of more eyes so more people could see it.”

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