On GoodOnePodcast, SHODesusAndMero head writer joshgondelman discussed how working on the show changed how he thought about his comedy (and comedy in general) and shared some of his favorite behind-the-scenes memories
Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photo by Mindy Tucker When Desus and Mero were really cooking, they were unstoppable. They were a comedic juggernaut: always moving forward, expanding outward in unexpected directions. On the four seasons of their Showtime show, Desus & Mero, the staff’s job was not to tell them what to say or do but to carve their locked-in riff gold into a TV-show-shaped sculpture.
Good One A podcast about jokes. Each week, a comedian will play one of their jokes, then break it down with Vulture senior editor Jesse David Fox. Something you’ll often see — and this is, like, no slight against any current or former show — is people trying to do radically new things within the late-night format. Sometimes they work well and are cool and inventive, and sometimes it’s just harder to pull off. People are always trying to figure out how to make the format the host’s own, and I think Desus and Mero did that in such a cool, organic way. It was almost the opposite of inventing.
You can be wrong about stuff. Not morally wrong, but a mistake about a little thing like saying the wrong actor’s name, and it’s still funny. It was fun to do work on a show that was freed from the constraints of everything being thoroughly research-vetted, because it’s just fun improvisation. They’re as good as it gets — this isn’t a skill that can be cultivated; it’s not a thing that everyone can do — and seeing them set the bar has informed what kind of things are even possible to me.
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