“Saturday Night Live” breakout Marcello Hernández has set his first-ever stand-up comedy special at Netflix.
The hour, titled “American Boy,” will stream on Jan. 7. Filmed in front of a hometown crowd in Miami, the special sees Hernández musing on his experiences growing up as a first-generation American.
“American Boy” is directed by Nicholaus Goossen and executive produced by Hernández and Matthew Vaughan. It’s produced by Rotten Science.
Hernández, now 28, joined “SNL” in 2022 and quickly became one of the NBC sketch series’ rising stars. He’s perhaps best known for playing Domingo in the oft-repeated musical sketches about a bride-to-be’s forbidden love affair. He also recently impersonated Sebastian Maniscalco, earning props from the comedian himself, and he often plays characters nodding to his Cuban and Dominican heritage.
He played a Miami nightclub promoter showing the ropes to a dim-witted bouncer played by Jason Momoa. And he played the son to a protective mother played by a dolled up Pedro Pascal.
Hernández recently appeared in “Happy Gilmore 2” alongside Adam Sandler, as well as the Michelle Williams miniseries “Dying for Sex.” Next, he has voice roles in “Shrek 5” and “The Angry Birds Movie 3,” and he’ll appear in the Teyana Taylor and Kevin Hart comedy “72 Hours.”
In 2024, Hernández was one of Variety‘s Power of Young Hollywood cover stars. Listing inspirations Steve Harvey, Cedric the Entertainer, Kevin Hart and Bernie Mac, he said, “I want to be as successful as those guys, but I’m gonna be the Hispanic version.”
