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Who wears short shorts? Marcello Hernández jumps onto the booty shorts train

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Two-panel image. On the left, Marcello Hernandez smiles in front of a blue background. He has long black hair and brown eyes and is clean shaven. He wears a blue and white striped collared shirt and microphone in a moment from 'Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update. On the right, Hernandez stands flexing his arms and pointing down. He faces a wall, wearing a blue dress shirt and khaki booty shorts, flexing his butt in a different 'SNL' skit.

🎶 Who wears short shorts? 🎶

Marcello Hernández is one of the funniest comedians to join the Saturday Night Live cast in recent years.

But (or should we say “butt”) last week’s episode may have been his best appearance yet.

In a sketch –– featuring controversial host Shane Gillis –– Bowen Yang and Chloe Fineman try to lead a mandatory HR meeting about workplace relationships… only to get hopelessly derailed.

Spoiler alert: the employees all get the wrong takeaways. Especially Hernández’s character, who ends the sketch by turning around to show off his flexed butt peeking out of cutoffs.

“Booty khakis are OK,” he proclaims amidst cackles from the audience. (Even Bowen had trouble holding back the laughs.)

Watch.

The sketch is funny, but we can really only concentrate on one thing: Who knew Hernández was sitting on all that ass?!

Thankfully, good people on the internet clipped out the moment specifically.

For, uh, research purposes.

Understandably, the scene left Gay Twitter™️ shooketh, as users chimed in with both thirst and appreciation for the 26-year-old’s caked up appearance.

We are never missing another episode of SNL again!

As a number of ass appreciators called out, Hernández appears to have a lil “Game Stop booty.”

According to Urban Dictionary, the term is affectionately used to describe a gamer-looking dude who’s got a bit of a dump truck.

We cannot argue with the evidence.

To be fair, Hernández has been a part of several other iconic SNL sketches.

He played the son to Pedro Pascal‘s judging and hilarious Spanish mother –– and Aunt Bad Bunny‘s nephew –– back in October.

Additionally, the Cuban and Dominican comedian joined Colin Jost to preach on the sex appeal of being 5’7″ during “Short King Spring” last year.

(“For all my short kings watching at home, stay strong, live large, and be proud of the tiny lil’ person that you are,” he proclaimed.)

Still, it was about time he busted out some booty shorts on the topical sketch show.

After all, we are living through the “Dude Short Shorts Renaissance.”

Most notably, Paul Mescal has become a universal ambassador for thicc thighs, sporting five-inch inseams nearly anytime he gets a chance.

Additionally, Ricky Martin‘s ex-husband Jwan Yosef rocked a pair of Daisy Dukes for an epic photoshoot with aptly titled queer publication BUTT.

With an undone top button, white gym socks, and sneakers, Yosef made all our jock fantasies a reality in a single pic.

And more recently, Elite actor Omar Ayuso busted out red itsy-bitsy shorts to show off some thigh in a Behind the Blinds spread. Pun intended.

(Even Grindr‘s official Instagram account commented, “i need u so bad.” LOL.)

So, who’s winning the booty shorts competition? It’s too close to call right now.

We’re just happy to see a plethora of short seams, especially after Wall Street Journal reported that “men’s shorts are getting longer” last year.

(Resist the urge to embrace the manpris! Remember what Milo Ventimiglia ––and his thighs –– fought for back in 2021!)

For now, we can at least report that Hernández and his booty shorts are in good company.

And with summer just around the corner, we’re going to be seeing a LOT more!

Related:

Thighmasters: Our favorite male celebrity thighs ranked

Thigh’s the limit for these short shorts kings!

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