Domingo is so back. Marcello Hernández‘s breakout character quickly returned in a sequel sketch this weekend on Saturday Night Live’s Charli XCX-hosted episode—and that’s not the only place he showed up in the past couple days.
On Sunday, Hernández stepped into Domingo’s shoes at a Sabrina Carpenter show, whose “Espresso” inspired the first Domingo sketch.
During a recurring part of her tour in which Carpenter “arrests” a fan, Hernández made a surprise appearance bantering back and forth with the singer from the audience at the second of her three Los Angeles-area shows. Carpenter appeared as the musical guest in May’s SNL season finale, but this was her first time getting involved with the character her song helped birth.
When Carpenter asked Hernández/Domingo where he hails from, the SNL character was quick to reply: “I’m from Miami, baby.”
Domingo was first seen in the sketch “Bridesmaids” with host Ariana Grande. The sketch starred Grande and three SNLers as bridesmaids who forgo a wedding speech to sing about their bachelorette party, to the tune of “Espresso.” As it turns out, the song reveals that the bride in question (Chloe Fineman) cheated on her husband (Andrew Dismukes) with Domingo.
The sketch took off on TikTok, earning upwards of 150 million views across SNL’s social platforms. Domingo only joins for the last 30 seconds of the sketch, but his lines went viral on the platform as an audio meme, prompting numerous videos featuring performances mimed “direct from Domingo.”
The sequel finds Fineman and Dismukes still together after their wedding, for better or for worse, now celebrating their baby-to-be at a baby shower. Fineman’s friends once again perform a song—this time to the tune of recent musical guest Chappell Roan’s “HOT TO GO!”—in which they reveal she had an affair with Domingo, again, on her babymoon.
“Babymoon” has already pulled in more than 20 million views on TikTok, and nearly 1.5 million on YouTube.
The popularity of the original sketch has also already pushed Hernández to perform his portion of the song during a recent standup show, bowing to the demand of the crowd. “We do it one time and then we put our phones down and you let me tell you the jokes that I wrote for you,” he told the eager audience.
While it remains to be seen if “Babymoon” reaches the same heights as “Bridesmaids,” SNL and Hernández’s embrace of the original sketch’s success speaks to their embrace of a relatively new phenomenon for the 50 year-old show: the power of TikTok.
