“Bodega Boys in the building!” That’s how Desus Nice and The Kid Mero started the first episode of their new half hour show on Showtime. The “Bodega Boys,” as Desus and Mero like to be called, took their comedic talents from Viceland and secured a slot for their talk show on the network. After airing on Thursday night, they posted the full episode on YouTube to give fans and a new live studio audience a look at what they have to offer.
The first episode of their new series did not disappoint. The two comedians represented their roots in the Bronx to the fullest by incorporating the class bodega backdrop as well as inviting none other than Bronx native, and United States Representative for New York, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as their first guest. The TV personalities greeted the politician with their now famous “yerrr” and managed to keep things light by bonding over the memes they receive from Twitter users while also managing to keep things serious as they talked about AOC’s come up.
In the debut of the show, Ocasio-Cortez made the trip back to the Bronx to chat with the former Guy Code cast members, but the “Bodega Boys” also made a trip down to the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C. During the trip to D.C. Desus and Mero presented the member of the Democratic Party with a flag of Puerto Rico, representing her roots, and they also were able to meet representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashan Tlaib of Minnesota and Michigan, respectively.
“Am I a gentrifier?” Ocasio-Cortez asked. “No! How are you a gentrifier? You moved from the Bronx to D.C.!” Mero responded.
Ocasio-Cortez’s presence on the show wasn’t the only highlight of the first episode. Desus and Mero have added a new element to their talk show, which are skits. The skit the two debuted on their talk show poked fun at the controversial Oscar-nominated film, Green Book. Before presenting the skit, Desus described the film as being, “basically just Friday with racism.”
The skit features Mero playing the role of the white driver, Tony Lip, while Desus plays the role of the Black pianist. Throughout the entirety of the skit, Desus and Mero show how they feel “Green Book” was made to make white people feel as if they weren’t racist in a time where racism was quite obviously prevalent.
“Wait, there’s another one of these movies? What is wrong with you people? Please leave us alone. It’s not our job to make white people feel better about race stuff,” was a fake quote about the movie included in the skit.
Catch DESUS & MERO on Showtime every Thursday night at 11! You won’t want to miss out.