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Before Marcello Hernández became a huge star on 'Saturday Night Live,' he worked a whole lot of odd jobs along the way. In this episode of "How I Got Here," Marcello shares the outrageous, humbling, and downright ridiculous gigs that paved the way. From cleaning up vomit just to earn stage time in college, to hustling electricity like he was in 'The Wolf of Wall Street' (minus the millions), to the surprising way he prepared for his 'SNL' audition, Marcello tells it all with the sharp humor and heart fans know him for.   #MarcelloHernandez #SNL #SaturdayNightLive #HowIGotHere #MavericksofHollywood #Esquire

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00:00How many bedrooms do you like?

00:01Hmm, do you like in the bathroom?

00:03Look at the closet.

00:04Let me show you the closet.

00:05Come on, let's go to the closet.

00:06Do you want to buy a house from Marcelo Hernandez,

00:09formerly on SNL?

00:13Hello, I am Marcelo Hernandez,

00:15and I'm telling you the stories

00:17about why I got to hear where I am.

00:21Let's do it.

00:22Let's get into that.

00:23What was the first job you ever quit?

00:25I don't think I've ever...

00:26I did quit.

00:27Ooh, ooh, yeah.

00:30When I first came to New York,

00:32I got a job selling electricity.

00:35The way they taught you to sell it,

00:37they would tell you, they go,

00:38ask them for their energy bill.

00:41They have to show you the bill.

00:42I'm 19 years old,

00:44and I'm asking business owners to show me the bill.

00:46They don't want to show me the bill.

00:48They don't know who I am.

00:49And then apparently, when they give you the bill,

00:51you were going to get their...

00:52whatever they were paying for it,

00:53and you were going to draw a bunch of numbers around it,

00:55and then show them like a lower number.

00:57And be like,

00:58you can buy the energy from us.

01:00I walked around New York and Brooklyn

01:02and went to businesses

01:03and walked in there and said,

01:05show me your energy bill.

01:07And they were like, you're a child.

01:09And I go, I know,

01:09but you got to show me the bill.

01:12You got to see what I can do.

01:13When you give me the bill,

01:14I can do a lot of numbers and stuff.

01:16With the bill, you're going to like it.

01:18You're a promise.

01:18And they never gave it to me, the bill.

01:20And then after you don't sell anything,

01:22you go back to the office the next day,

01:24and the boss, he's like,

01:25if you're ready to get the bill, make some noise.

01:28And we'd be like,

01:29it was like Wolf of Wall Street,

01:32but for electricity.

01:33But no one was making any money.

01:35And was it legal?

01:36It had to be.

01:37But I did quit that,

01:38because the guy said he wouldn't pay me for a year.

01:40Of all the jobs you did prior to comedy,

01:45what was the worst?

01:46Ah, I used to sell medications to old people.

01:49Not the medications.

01:50I used to sell delivery.

01:51I would deliver it.

01:52I could get that medication to you, Susan,

01:56tomorrow.

01:57I can get it there.

01:58And my medication, it needs to be temperature.

02:01I got a temperature control package for you, Susan.

02:05There was this one woman named Jamila,

02:07and Jamila would sell like crazy.

02:09Jamila was making $100,000 a year

02:11selling home delivery medications.

02:13She's a savage.

02:14And I would listen to her calls,

02:15because I wanted my calls to sound like her.

02:17And I thought that she was on the phone like,

02:18hey, it's me, Jamila.

02:20Do you want us,

02:21do you want me to deliver?

02:22But at all, she was a robot.

02:23She had like figured it out

02:24in a way that it wasn't scary to them,

02:27because they felt like it was a standard call,

02:28the old people.

02:29But when I would be like,

02:30hey, Mr. Johnson, how are you doing today?

02:32They're like, are you trying to steal from me?

02:35You know?

02:36So the personality didn't help

02:38when I tried to use it for the medications.

02:42Okay.

02:43What's the most humbling thing

02:44you've ever done for stage time?

02:45In college, I interned for a comedy club,

02:47and I had to like run food.

02:48I had to take chicken tenders to people.

02:51I also had to clean vomit there.

02:52One guy, he threw up,

02:53and I was cleaning the vomit,

02:54and he looked at me like I was the problem.

02:56I'm like, you're vomiting.

02:58You did the vomit.

02:59You can't do the vomit,

03:01and then look at the cleaning guy of the vomit,

03:04and be like, what are you doing here?

03:06I go, what do you think I'm doing here?

03:07You did vomit.

03:08I did that for stage time.

03:10I also used to,

03:12in Ohio when I was in college,

03:13I used to go to this local taco shop called Barrio.

03:17It's Barrio.

03:18It's a neighborhood in Spanish,

03:19but everybody said Barrio.

03:21Are you going to go to Barrio tonight?

03:23Have some tacos at Barrio.

03:24So I would go to Barrio,

03:25and they would do a show there on Monday nights at 10 p.m.,

03:28which is a horrible time to do a show,

03:30but in Ohio, there's not a lot to do,

03:31so there was a lot of people in there.

03:32I used to set up the speakers,

03:34like plug them in and put them on top of the stands

03:36and set it up all the time.

03:37What else did I do for stage time?

03:39Oh, baby.

03:40I actively posted on Facebook.

03:43That's a humbling thing to do for stage time,

03:45is to be active on Facebook.

03:47Yeah, I did that.

03:48Where is the strangest place you've ever performed stand-up?

03:52I did a lot of horrible places.

03:53I did it at coffee shops in Ohio.

03:55People are working.

03:57People are working.

03:59And I'm like, when I was little,

04:01it's like, oh, I used to perform at a place called Bounce.

04:06It was a drag show place.

04:08We would do comedy after the drag show.

04:10There'd be a drag show full of people,

04:14and then they all leave,

04:16and then I go up and do stand-up.

04:19I did like one of those Chipotle-type places,

04:21you know, where you order chicken and stuff,

04:23and you do it in like a line,

04:24and you have to do it verbally,

04:26and I'm over here doing stand-up,

04:27while people are like,

04:29can I get more, though?

04:30Yeah, I can get more chicken, though.

04:32And I'm like,

04:33what was your backup plan if comedy didn't work out?

04:40I still have a backup plan.

04:42I think I would go into real estate in Miami, you know.

04:44I think I've done enough.

04:45I've done enough so far

04:46that if this all comes crashing down,

04:49I can go like this.

04:50I can go,

04:51do you want to buy a house

04:52from Marcelo Hernandez,

04:54formerly on SNL?

04:58How many bedrooms do you like?

04:59Do you want,

05:00how many do you want in the bedrooms, huh?

05:02Hmm, do you like in the bathroom?

05:05Huh?

05:05Do you like the space in the bathroom?

05:08Look at the closet.

05:09Let me show you the closet.

05:10Come on, let's go to the closet.

05:11Come on, look at that.

05:13Jackets, shoes,

05:14you can put everything in here.

05:15And this place is actually very well-priced.

05:17A lot of people don't realize

05:18to get this backyard

05:19and this bathroom

05:20and this closet,

05:21it's very expensive.

05:22But me,

05:23when you do it with me,

05:24it's less.

05:27Good work.

05:29Since becoming famous,

05:30what's been your most expensive habit?

05:32I give my sister and my mom nice stuff.

05:34Stuff that I could never buy them

05:35when I was cleaning vomit.

05:37What part of your SNL audition

05:39do you think landed the job?

05:41None of it.

05:42I swear to God.

05:43They don't laugh at you in the audition

05:44because they've seen everybody.

05:46They've seen Will Ferrell

05:47and Adam Sandler

05:48and all these people

05:48and they didn't laugh at them.

05:49So imagine you're up there

05:50and you're burying your soul

05:51and they're just quiet.

05:52Thank you for having me.

05:53I'm excited to be here.

05:56Okay.

05:57And then sometimes

05:58you get out of your audition.

05:59Oh, I don't know, sometimes.

06:00I've only done it once.

06:01But you go,

06:02how did it go for you

06:02to someone else?

06:03And they didn't laugh for me.

06:06But I go,

06:06did they laugh for you?

06:07And they go, yeah.

06:11Okay.

06:13I hope that's okay.

06:15Answer in one sentence.

06:16How did you get here?

06:17Cleaning vomit.

06:19Thank you, Esquire,

06:21for your help

06:22in letting people know

06:23the questions that are from you

06:25for us,

06:26for you,

06:27and also you're welcome.

06:29And please,

06:30because you never know.

06:31And sometimes you're going to read it

06:32and you're going to be like,

06:33what?

06:34But you just keep going, right?

06:35Because that book's not over yet.

06:37There's more pages.

06:38And is the dog going to bark?

06:39Who knows?

06:40It's a dog.

06:41Sometimes they do,

06:42sometimes they don't.

06:42Depends on their mood.

06:43Did he eat today?

06:44Does he have to poop?

06:45You'll never know.

06:46It's a dog.

06:47Grab life by the horns

06:48and let everyone know

06:50who you are

06:50for what did I get here?

06:52What do I have here?

06:54Who do we have here?

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