170. Please Don't Destroy Returns: The Journey of an SNL Sketch from Pitch to Air

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week PDD returns to the podcast a year and a half after originally coming on. Since then, Mike and the boys have started a monthly improv show called “Please Don’t Birbiglia” at UCB. The group talks about what it’s like to improvise together, the unsparing roasts PDD did of Mike when they opened for his show "The Good Life," and the creation of PDD’s Jon Hamm pizza sketch—from Monday’s pitch in Lorne’s office to airing live on SNL. Plus, the unlikely thing that shows up in more than one PDD member’s Instagram algorithm. Please consider donating to: https://www.housingworks.org/

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0:00.0	We crowdsourced my Instagram followers
0:03.1	Questions for you guys
0:04.5	And one of them was...
0:05.7	You have Instagram followers?
0:09.2	I'm surprised you figured out how to download the app.
0:13.9	Yeah!
0:15.7	Oh, come on.
0:16.8	I haven't seen a lot of your sketches on SNL lately.
0:19.3	What's going on about that?
0:21.3	They're there.
0:22.2	All right, cut this.
0:24.4	All right, cut this.
0:25.5	Cut this.
0:28.8	That is the voice of please don't destroy Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Hurley.
0:33.9	He, you may know their sketches from Saturday Night Live.
0:39.0	They are fantastic.
0:44.8	They're writer for SNL, and they are a sketch group that performs their own shorts on SNL that I love. This is sort of a success story of working it out in the sense that these guys
0:50.9	came on about a year ago, a year and a half ago.
1:00.2	And we were like, hey, we never met, got along well, similar sensibilities.
1:04.2	And we're like, let's do something together, which is the thing you often say to people.
1:05.3	And then nobody follows up.
1:09.0	And then we're like, why don't we do something that requires no preparation?
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