Deus Nice takes his Bronx energy on the road. The media personality is working on a travel show for Amazon.
As spotted on Deadline, The New York native is reportedly shooting a pilot for the streaming platform. The industry magazine says the writer-comedian is working with Story Syndicate and Amazon MGM Studios on the project. If received, the series will air on Prime Video. On Wednesday (October 9), she took to Instagram and gave a nod to the project by writing 'New job alert'. While no other details about the show have been made available, the travel format should be familiar territory for Desus Nice. In 2014 he appeared in Unknown places and toured the late great Anthony Bourdain in the Bronx. The episode not only allowed him to shine a light on his hometown, but gave many their first introduction to Desus Nice.
The man born Daniel Baker rose to fame during his Bodega Boys The podcast runs with former collaborator The Kid Mero. From there Desus & Mero gained national popularity with their talk show on Viceland. In 2019, the series will move to the Showtime network, which meant a bigger production budget, but fans felt something was missing from the new iteration of the series. heyesus & Mero they would unfortunately split in July 2022. In an episode of 19:00 in Brooklyn Mero explained that an offer from the Draft Kings made him realize that their partnership was not in a good place.
You can watch Mero discuss their split below.