{"id":392907,"date":"2025-09-02T21:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392907\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:40:11","slug":"john-exits-martin-remains-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392907\/","title":{"rendered":"John Exits, Martin Remains Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Please Don\u2019t Destroy boys are being split up on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ben-marshall\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ben-marshall\" data-tag=\"ben-marshall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Marshall<\/a>, who makes up one-third of the comedy trio responsible for several viral \u201cSNL\u201d digital shorts over the last four seasons, was one of <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/snl-new-cast-members-ben-marshall-veronika-slowikowska-1236501541\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five new additions to the featured cast announced on Tuesday<\/a>. Following the news of his promotion, Variety learned that while Martin Herlihy will remain on the writing staff, John Higgins has exited the series to pursue other projects as an actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tMarshall, Higgins and Herlihy are currently on tour together, and will continue working together on projects outside of \u201cSNL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d Please Don\u2019t Destroy was known for their off-beat, often self-deprecating digital shorts, following in the footsteps of the Lonely Island. They typically played themselves in the videos, which feature A-list celebrity hosts such as Taylor Swift, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, Dakota Johnson, Rami Malek and more. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe trio was formed in 2017 after Marshall, Higgins and Herlihy met and began collaborating as students at NYU. In addition to regular live performances in New York, they gained popularity for sketches they posted on social media in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, they were hired to join the 47th season of \u201cSNL\u201d as writers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSeparately from \u201cSNL,\u201d in 2023, they released the film \u201cPlease Don\u2019t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain\u201d on Peacock, with Judd Apatow serving as executive producer. Herlihy recently appeared in \u201cHappy Gilmore 2,\u201d with upcoming credits including the films \u201cRunning Man,\u201d \u201cRoommates\u201d and \u201cBreadwinner.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHerlihy is the son of Tim Herlihy, a longtime collaborator of Adam Sandler\u2019s who wrote on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d for seven seasons from 1994 to 1999, eventually becoming head writer. Higgins\u2019 father, Steve Higgins, has been an \u201cSNL\u201d writer-producer since 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Please Don\u2019t Destroy boys are being split up on \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d Ben Marshall, who makes up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[136008,4080,77,7167,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-392907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ben-marshall","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-saturday-night-live","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}