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Saturday Night Live‘s Marcello Hernández will big nan The 2026 ESPYs, nan awards show celebrating achievements successful sports.
This year’s ESPYs return to New York City, wherever nan show will aerial unrecorded from nan David H. Koch Theater astatine Lincoln Center connected Wednesday, July 15, astatine 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT connected ABC.
The show will besides watercourse connected ESPN+ connected nan ESPN App successful shape pinch ABC airings crossed clip zones and beryllium disposable to watercourse adjacent time connected Hulu, nan ESPN App and ABC Video connected Demand.
Said Hernández successful a statement, “I started doing drama 10 years agone successful Cleveland, Ohio, and I would return nan train 12 hours to New York to waste drama tickets connected nan thoroughfare successful Greenwich Village successful speech for shape time. It is an honor, and frankly feels crazy to beryllium hosting The ESPYs this twelvemonth successful New York. I’m judge nan power is going to beryllium great.”
“Marcello is 1 of nan astir electric, young comedians today,” said Craig Lazarus, ESPN vice president and The ESPYs executive producer. “His genuine enthusiasm for sports and his ties to New York City make him a earthy fresh to big this year’s ESPYs. We are excited to partner pinch him to observe nan champion moments successful sports and look guardant to nan caller return he’ll bring to nan show.”
Hernández’s domiciled arsenic big follows his debut drama typical Marcello Hernández: American Boy, which premiered successful January and was a Top 10 Netflix world hit. In 2025, he was recognized by Time arsenic 1 of nan year’s Latino Leaders.
Previous hosts of nan ESPYs see Jimmy Kimmel, John Cena, LeBron James, Peyton Manning, Russell Wilson, Samuel L. Jackson, Serena Williams, Shane Gillis, Stephen Curry, Sue Bird and Tracy Morgan.
The show is co-produced by ESPN, Full Day Productions, nan unrecorded accumulation limb of Words + Pictures, and Fanatics Studios, a Fanatics and OBB company. The show is executive produced by Connor Schell, Dave Chamberlin and Jennifer Aiello for Full Day and Michael D. Ratner, Kfir Goldberg and Camille Maratchi for Fanatics Studios.
