{"id":1993781,"date":"2025-09-03T00:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1993781"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:09:26","slug":"snl-loses-one-please-dont-destroy-member-adds-one-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/snl-loses-one-please-dont-destroy-member-adds-one-to-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL Loses One PLEASE DON\u2019T DESTROY Member, Adds One to Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NBC\u2019s comedy staple <em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/tags\/saturday-night-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Saturday Night Live;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> is about to go into its 51st season. That means roughly 400 billion cast members have come and gone through the hallowed halls of Studio 8H. The show is a star-maker, even if the given season or era isn\u2019t all that well regarded. That generally, however, means that when the show announces new cast members\u2014unless they\u2019re Kenan Thompson 100 years ago\u2014most of the viewers won\u2019t know them until they first appear on <em>SNL<\/em>. The one exception in the batch ahead of season 51 is a member of comedy troupe <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLS_gQd8UB-hKj8u3SsdIFJQj7nGJxr_tQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Please Don\u2019t Destroy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Please Don\u2019t Destroy<\/a>, who will join the main cast just as another PDD member leaves.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>NBC<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In recent weeks, several cast members either chose not to renew their contracts or did not receive an extension. The highest profile of these is veteran Heidi Gardner who ended her eight season run on the show. The second highest profile is probably John Higgins. Higgins, along with Ben Marshall and Martin Herlihy, are part of the comedy troupe Please Don\u2019t Destroy, all of whom joined <em>SNL<\/em> in 2021 as writers to make shorts for the show. This was an attempt to repeat the success of The Lonely Island\u2019s wildly popular <em>Digital Shorts<\/em> from a decade prior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But with Higgins leaving <em>SNL<\/em>, what of the other two members? Well it turns out Herlihy is sticking around as writer while Marshall is getting a bump-up to full cast member. This comes <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/snl-splits-please-dont-destroy-john-martin-1236501436\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Variety;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to <em>Variety<\/em><\/a>. Higgins is off to pursue other acting opportunities. The trio is currently on tour performing sketches on stages \u2018cross the naysh. So it definitely doesn\u2019t seem like Please Don\u2019t Destroy is breaking up, but it seems as though their brand of humor is assimilating into the main <em>SNL<\/em>. Though we can\u2019t imagine the digital shorts will stop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> will return October 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Kyle Anderson is the Senior Editor for Nerdist. He hosts the weekly pop culture deep-dive <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/laserfocus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:podcast Laser Focus;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">podcast Laser Focus<\/a>. You can find his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/tags\/kyle-anderson-review\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:film and TV reviews here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">film and TV reviews here<\/a>. Follow him on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/kyle_anderson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Letterboxd;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Letterboxd<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC\u2019s comedy staple Saturday Night Live is about to go into its 51st season. That means roughly 400 billion cast members have come and gone through the hallowed halls of Studio 8H. The show is a star-maker, even if the given season or era isn\u2019t all that well regarded. That generally, however, means that when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1993782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[360669,312076,355876,360806,360809,21890],"class_list":["post-1993781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ben-marshall","tag-cast-member","tag-cast-members","tag-john-higgins","tag-martin-herlihy","tag-saturday-night-live"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/SNL-Loses-One-PLEASE-DONT-DESTROY-Member-Adds-One-to.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}