Marcello Hernández says he was placed in the baseball outfield as a child and was later moved out of the sport.
“I was playing baseball and the ball would never come to where I was, cause they had me in the outfield”
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Marcello Hernández says soccer became his favorite sport because the constant running tired him out.
“You get home, you are tired, and so soccer became my love.”
Marcello Hernández, who is half Cuban and half Dominican, says Cuban music is associated with salsa and Dominican music with merengue and bachata.
“Cuban is more salsa, and then, uh, Dominican Republic, they do merengue and bachata”
Marcello Hernández says his mother, who left Cuba, wanted to assimilate fully as an American.
“She was so like, um, sad and embarrassed of what happened in Cuba, that she wanted to be fully American.”
Marcello Hernández says John Carroll University in Ohio and Occidental College in California both wanted him to play college soccer, and he went to Ohio.
“the school in Ohio, John Carroll, and the school in California, Occidental. They both wanted me to play there”
Marcello Hernández says his high school drama teacher took him to Tampa to compete with a monologue, and that he won.
“I'll take you to Tampa and you'll compete in this thing. And I went and I won.”
Marcello Hernández started a scholarship at his college, the Bo and Tom scholarship, named for two Shakespeare performance teachers.
“let's start a scholarship, so I started a scholarship at my school, at the college I went to”
Marcello Hernández says he won an amateur stand-up competition whose prize was $500 and a chance to host at the Funny Stop Comedy Club in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
“500 bucks to host at the Funny Stop Comedy Club in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio”
Marcello Hernández says he did a six-minute set at the Just for Laughs festival (JFL), which led to his SNL audition.
“And then I get this thing for JFL, I go to JFL, it's my 6 min set.”
Marcello Hernández says he listened to Always Be My Baby on repeat while waiting for his SNL callback.
“I put headphones in and I listened to Always be my Baby by Mariah Carey”
Marcello Hernández says Ariana Grande sang badly on purpose in a popular SNL sketch, which was hard to do and helped the sketch work.
“And then her doing it bad is so hard to like, sing bad on purpose. And she does it so good, it's so funny.”
Marcello Hernández says he does stand-up in Spanish and that his family, girlfriend and father think he is better in Spanish.
“My family, my girlfriend, my my dad, they think that I'm better in Spanish”
Marcello Hernández describes Mexican stand-up comic Sofía Niño de Rivera as a titan of stand-up in Mexico who has broken barriers.
“She's a titan of standup in Mexico and she's a woman and she's like, broken a lot of barriers”
Marcello Hernández says older Spanish-language comedy used long stories with big punchlines or political impersonation, unlike punchy observational stand-up.
“they did like long stories with a big punchline, or there it was political, it was like SNL”
Marcello Hernández says Jodi, who runs the SNL hair department, is the only person his mother lets cut his hair.
“she cuts my hair, she's the only person my mom lets to cut my hair”
Marcello Hernández says his family nickname was Pulga, which means flea, because he was short.
“I was short, my nickname in the house was Pulga, which means flea, that's my name in my house.”
Marcello Hernández says he plans to take a sketch writing class because he came to SNL from stand-up and knows sketch less well.
“I'm probably gonna take a sketch writing class this summer”