NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d will host The ESPYS when the show honoring the past year’s top athletes and moments in sports returns to its roots in New York.<\/p>\n
The show will air live July 15 on ABC from the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center.<\/p>\n
The first seven editions of the show were held in New York from 1993-99. After two years in Las Vegas, The ESPYS moved to Los Angeles for 22 of the next 24 years.<\/p>\n
Hern\u00e1ndez joins other \u201cSNL\u201d cast members who have hosted. Dennis Miller helmed the first two years at Madison Square Garden. Norm Macdonald hosted in 1998 at Radio City Music Hall. Tracy Morgan and Seth Meyers also took turns.<\/p>\n
Hern\u00e1ndez has been a breakout cast member on \u201cSNL,\u201d where he recently wrapped his fourth season.<\/p>\n
“I started doing comedy 10 years ago, in Cleveland, Ohio, and I would take the train 12 hours to New York to sell comedy tickets on the street in Greenwich Village in exchange for stage time,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is an honor, and frankly feels crazy to be hosting the ESPYS this year in New York. I\u2019m sure the energy is going to be great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez of \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d will host The ESPYS when the show honoring…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":839595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,344858,344857,2184,224,104359,405,403,5226,5225,200164,5228,5227,184754,184755,223492,299692,291900,184750,223490,339635,339634,329397,329398,15466,208076,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-842536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-dennis-miller","tag-espys-marcello-hernandez","tag-las-vegas","tag-los-angeles","tag-marcello-hernandez","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-norm-macdonald","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30083-ap-new-york-city-news-no-weather","tag-product-30085-ap-new-york-state-news-no-weather","tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-31388-premium-entertainment","tag-product-33328-ap-premium-entertainment-other","tag-product-40802-ap-new-york-city-sports-only","tag-product-40803-ap-new-york-state-sports-only","tag-seth-meyers","tag-tracy-morgan","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}