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Desus Nice        

Late Night TV Host & Author; Former Host of "The Bodega Boys" & "Desus & Mero"

Desus Nice is an American television, YouTube, and Twitter personality. He rose to prominence with Complex TV's "Desus vs. Mero," which was a 46-episode podcast that was first released on December 18, 2013. He was the co-host of Viceland's "Desus & Mero" talk show alongside The Kid Mero until June 2018, and co-hosted "Desus & Mero" which premiered on February 21, 2019 on Showtime and ran until July, 2022 when the group broke up to pursue individual creative ventures.

With Mero, he released his first book in 2020, "God-Level Knowledge Darts: Life Lessons from the Bronx," which is a guide to what they have learned, after years in the Bronx streets, and subsequently conducted a successful Virtual Book Tour in the height of COVID. It was named one of the best books of the year by NPR and is a New York Times bestseller.

Prior to his massively successful show with Showtime, Desus co-starred on the Viceland series, “The Bodega Boys”, hosting a late-night show of the same name as their weekly podcast. Previously, he has appeared on MTV's “Joking Off.” Together, they have been featured in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, and New York Magazine. In 2015, Rolling Stone labeled them “Comedy’s Hottest Duo.”

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