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Marcello\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> became one of Saturday Night Live<\/a>\u2018s most talked-about cast members in recent years thanks to his charm and jokes about his upbringing. His mother, Isabel, has been a consistent presence in his comedy career so far, even being his inspiration for countless jokes and the famous \u201cProtective Mom\u201d SNL sketch.<\/p>\n Below, get to know Marcello\u2019s mom and dad, and learn more about his childhood before becoming one of comedy\u2019s biggest names!<\/p>\n No, Marcello\u2019s parents divorced when he was a child \u2014 specifically, after they moved to the United States. The comedian even said this during his viral 2022 Montreal \u201cJust for Laughs\u201d stand-up performance, joking that his mom being from Cuba and his dad from the Dominican Republic \u201cmeans that they are divorced.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt doesn\u2019t work out,\u201d Marcello said. \u201cThey came to America with the same idea, just a little bit different. My mom got here, and she was like, \u2018Oh my god, look at all of these opportunities.\u2019 And then, my dad got here and was like \u2018Oh my gosh, look at all of these opportunities. This is not a place to be married. This is the land of opportunities.’\u201d<\/p>\n Who Is Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s Mom?<\/p>\n As previously mentioned, Marcello\u2019s mother is Isabel. She fled Cuba when she was still a child and moved to Spain, then the Dominican Republic, before settling down in the U.S. She worked various jobs and went to college while still pregnant with her son.<\/p>\n Throughout nearly all of Marcello\u2019s stand-up acts, he\u2019s joked about his mother\u2019s parenting methods. In his Netflix special, American Boy, the Miami, Florida, native claimed that he wasn\u2019t allowed to be depressed or even have ADD (attention deficit disorder) per his mother.<\/p>\n Despite Marcello\u2019s jokes about her, Isabel has been by his side in the public eye, attending events with him and even appearing in a T-Mobile advertisement with him.<\/p>\n Who Is Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s Dad?<\/p>\n Marcello\u2019s father is from the Dominican Republic. While he\u2019s not as present in his son\u2019s life as much as Isabel is, Marcello\u2019s dad has supported his comedy career and even visited the SNL set.<\/p>\n During an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Marcello joked that his parents have \u201cdifferent levels of English.\u201d He then recalled how his father reacted to meeting the SNL writers.<\/p>\n \u201cI brought my dad to SNL recently, and all the writers were like, \u2018It\u2019s so nice to meet you,’\u201d Marcello said. \u201cAnd my dad\u2019s response was, \u2018Me too.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image Credit: GC Images Marcello\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez became one of Saturday Night Live\u2018s most talked-about cast members in recent years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-237603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Who](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MHSS_2025_Unit_01902R.jpeg\")
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\nAre Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s Parents Married?<\/p>\n