123. Please Don't Destroy: SNL’s Three Sad Virgins

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 26 February 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Mike welcomes Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy, aka Please Don’t Destroy, known for their wildly popular shorts on SNL. Mike is determined to get Martin to talk more than he did on Pete Holmes’s podcast. The group shares what they like and dislike about each other, and break down what it’s like to be both sketch writers and filmmakers on SNL. Plus, what it’s like to work with Bad Bunny in a Shrek costume and get roasted by Taylor Swift. Please Consider Donating To: https://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/

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0:00.0	Do you, the three of you have to pitch in the larger pitch writing meeting or are you a separate island?
0:06.0	We do everything with the show.
0:08.0	Yeah.
0:09.0	We write sketches for other cast.
0:11.0	Oh, you do.
0:12.0	Yeah, yeah. People will sometimes be like, oh, you guys play writers on S&L, right?
0:16.0	I'm like, no, we are writers on S&L.
0:19.0	Wow.
0:20.0	This sounds humble braggy, but there's a lot of times when somebody goes like you guys are the only thing on us and all that I like which is like not true, but they'll say that and then immediately you go like we write a lot of sketches.
0:33.2	Yeah, we are also the others.
0:35.6	Yeah.
0:36.6	Yeah.
0:37.6	Welcome back to working out. Those are the voices of Ben Marshall, John
0:47.1	Higgins, and Martin Hurlehi, also known as Please Don't Destroy. You might know
0:52.4	them from Saturday Night Live. This is such a cool
0:55.8	episode today. Unlike any episode we've done before. For example, we purchased more microphones for the episodes.
1:06.3	It's the first time we're on four microphones
1:10.1	and we have bought chairs.
1:12.0	We bought two new chairs, four chairs, four microphones.
1:15.0	We talk about all kinds of stuff.
1:18.0	I am having an awesome time on my tour right now.
1:22.0	I mentioned this last week because of personal things in my
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