Horatio Sanz

Horatio Sanz Biography

Horacio Sanz (born June 4, 1969), better known by his stage name Horatio Sanz, is a Chilean-born American actor and comedian, best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998-2006.

Early life and career

Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in Santiago, Chile, to Sylvia and Carlos Sanz. He is the younger brother of actor Carlos Sanz. He grew up in the North-Pulaski area of the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.

Sanz performed at various theaters in Chicago, including The Court Theater and The Second City, where he was a member of their Chicago ETC theater. While in Chicago, Sanz was also one of the founding members of the Upright Citizens Brigade (UCB) sketch comedy and improv troupe. Sanz can still be seen regularly performing with the sketch troupe at their long-running hit improv show "ASSSSCAT 3000", at both of the UCB's popular comedy theaters located in New York City and Los Angeles.

Sanz was part of the cast of the short-lived ABC sitcom In The Motherhood in 2009, playing the role of Horatio the "manny" (male nanny). In 2010, Sanz and his former SNL castmate Chris Parnell starred together on Big Lake, a Comedy Central sitcom from executive producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. From 2010 to 2011, Sanz was a writer and producer on the Comedy Central sketch series Nick Swardson's Pretend Time.

In November 2008, Sanz made his first public appearance in almost a year, after having lost . "I've been eating better,"? he admitted. Sanz quipped, "I've been trying to come up with a joke about how I've lost weight and I was going to say, 'I stopped putting nuts in my sundaes.'" He also says, "I never weighed myself when I was at my fattest, because I was scared I might die'." Sanz says he has been working out, too. In June 2009, he appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and claimed that much of his weight loss was because he had stopped drinking alcoholic beverages.

In 2015, he started his own podcast called The Hooray Show, which features comedy sketches and interviews with his friends in comedy.

Saturday Night Live

Sanz joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in September 1998. At the beginning of Saturday Night Live's 31st season, he was the temporary replacement for Tina Fey as Amy Poehler's Weekend Update co-anchor while Fey was on maternity leave until she resumed her duties on October 22, 2005. On September 20, 2006, Saturday Night Live announced that Sanz would not be returning due to massive budget cuts that called for Lorne Michaels to either cut back on show production or get rid of long-standing or poor-performing cast members.

Sanz returned to SNL as a guest on February 3, 2007, appearing as Elton John, and again on November 3, as presidential candidate Bill Richardson and yet again on the December 17, 2011 Christmas show as himself in a musical number ("I Wish It Was Christmas Today") and as a member of Beethoven's orchestra ("Beethoven: Meet The Band").

Characters on SNL

Aaron Neville as a courtroom judge on City Court. He sang and over used cocoa butter.
Gobi, co-host of Jarret's Room
Jasper Hahn, a cartoonist whose creations always start out as raunchy drawings of genitals.
Rick, stepfather of Kaitlin (played by Amy Poehler)
Jeffrey's Clothing Store customer
Carol, a cheerful and crass woman
Ferey Mhtar, host of "The Ferey Mhtar Talk Show"
Manuel Pantalones, bandleader on "Showbiz Grande Explosion"
Frankie Hilbert, from the Boston Teens
Vasquez-Gomez-Vasquez
One of the Telemundo actors from "Besos Y Lagrimas"
Sammo Hung
Matt LeBlanc as his character Joey Tribbiani from the TV show Friends.
Elton John
Billy Joel
Rosie O'Donnell

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1994	Miracle on 34th Street	Orderly
2000	Road Trip	French Toast Guy
2001	Tomcats	Steve
2002	The New Guy	Dance Instructor
2003	Boat Trip	Nick Ragoni
2003	National Lampoon's Barely Legal	Vic Ramalot
2005	Rebound	Mr. Newirth
2005	The Man	Santos	Uncredited
2006	School for Scoundrels	Diego
2007	Lucky You	Ready Eddie
2008	Step Brothers	Lead Singer
2009	Me Time	Sam	Short film
2009	Year One	Enmebaragesi
2009	May the Best Man Win	The Mayor
2010	Freak Dance	Barrio's Brother
2011	Hollywood & Wine	Tony	Video
2011	High Road	Doctor
2012	Bachelorette	Barely Attractive Guy
2012	The Dictator	Aide on Balcony
2012	Wreck-It Ralph	Duncan (voice)
2013	G.B.F.	Principal Crowe
2014	Search Party	Cabana Man
2017	Zeroville	Francis Ford Coppola	Completed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1998-2000	Upright Citizens Brigade	Various	3 episodes
1998-2006	Saturday Night Live	Various	158 episodes
2001-2004	Fillmore!	Jr. Commissioner 'Dutch' Vallejo (voice)	24 episodes
2002	Ed	DJ Desmond Peyton	Episode: "The Divorce"
2009	In The Motherhood	Horatio	7 episodes
2010	30 Rock	Maynard	Episode: "Anna Howard Shaw Day"
2010	Players	Dirk	Episode: "Cumdog Millionaire"
2010	Big Lake	Glenn Cordoba	10 episodes
2010	Nick Swardson's Pretend Time	Future Man	Episode: "Mudslide Junction"
2012	Are We There Yet?	Mr. Peterson	5 episodes
2012	The Life & Times of Tim	Eduardo (voice)	Episode: "Super Gay Eduardo/The Pros and Cons of Killing Tim"
2012	Girls	Terry Lavoyt	Episode: "Hannah's Diary"
2012	Gravity Falls	Additional voices	2 episodes
2013	House of Lies	Photographer	Episode: "Til Death Do Us Part"
2013	The Greatest Event in Television History	Max	Episode: "Hart to Hart"
2013	Murder Police	Donel (voice)	13 episodes
2013	NTSF:SD:SUV	Mr. Barbato	Episode: "Comic Con-Air"
2013-2015	Drunk History	Various	2 episodes
2013-2016	Comedy Bang! Bang!	Various	5 episodes
2014	The Hotwives of Orlando	Tito	Episode: "Pimps and Hoo-Ha's"
2014	BoJack Horseman	Latin Kings Gang Leader (voice)	Episode: "Our A-Story Is a 'D' Story"
2014	Friends with Better Lives	Craig	Episode: "No More Mr. Nice Guy"
2014	Bad Judge	Mr. Thorpe	Episode: "Pilot"
2014	The Birthday Boys	Boss	Episode: "Getting Preachy"
2015	Parks and Recreation	Himself	Episode: "One Last Ride"
2015	Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt	Hector	Episode: "Kimmy Gets a Job!"
2015	Modern Family	Armando	Episode: "American Skyper"
2015	Long Live the Royals	Allistair / Knight #1 (voice)	4 episodes
2016	Scorpion	Heywood Morris	4 episodes
2016	Animals.	Julio (voice)	Episode: "Pigeons."
2016	Bajillion Dollar Propertie$	Dr. Horowitz	Episode: "Inside Joke"
2016	Son of Zorn	Uber Driver	Episode: "Defender of Teen Love"
2017	Love	Jeff	2 episodes
2017-present	Great News	Justin	10 episodes

Awards and honors

Sanz, a perceived proponent of cannabis, received "high" honors at High Times magazine's 2003 Stony Awards, collecting the "Stoner of the Year" award.

In popular culture

Sanz was parodied on the show Celebrity Deathmatch, in which he was shown as losing a fight to Chris Farley.