Hector Marcano
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Hector Marcano is a comedian, producer, and game show host in Puerto Rico. Marcano's career took off after Luis Vigoreaux's death. He started hosting A Millon with Sonia Noemi Gonzalez and other hosts.
In 1987, as host, (alongside El Gangster) of Super Siete's show La Hora de Oro, Marcano and Jose Ortiz were the objects of two of Puerto Rico's most publicized paternal suits. In Marcano's case, he was proven not to be the father of the child he had been accused of fathering; nevertheless, he felt sorry for the boy and ended up adopting him. Later that year, his wedding with Sandra Rivera was one of the most publicized weddings in Puerto Rican entertainment history, being shown live on Puerto Rican television and with a gossip magazine, Vea, producing a wedding album about it for the public.
In 1996 after Luisito Vigoreaux's exit from WAPA TV, Marcano started a game show titled Vale Mas in substitute of Vigoreaux's show called Eso Vale. In 1998 he started a variety show called Super Show and it was on air until the network switch of 2000 where Super Show changed from WAPA to Tele Once. In that same year Marcano created a program with the same format that Vale Mas had and called it Que Suerte Que es Domingo. In 2002 the name was changed to Que Suerte Tienes Tu, although it is now known simply as Que Suerte.
[edit] Marcano, el Show
In 1990 Marcano moved to Telemundo to start a new show Marcano, el Show. The show although popular (it was one the highest rated show at that time), it was even more controversial because it was a direct copy of many shows from U.S networks. The set was an almost exact replica of the Arsenio Hall Show down to the Dog Pound and a female keyboard player. Also he was introduced the same way as Arsenio ("Damas y Caballeros... Hectoooooooooooor Marcano"). The comedy sketches were taken from various popular 90's shows that included : In Living Color, David Letterman, Saturday Night Live, Totally Hidden Video/Candid Camera, and again Arsenio Hall Show. For those reasons people watched the show. People who did not have Cable TV nor watched U.S network programs found the show very innovative. People who did watch U.S. network shows would watch the show to identify how many shows Marcano had copied. It was cancelled in the mid 90's.
