Who are the please dont destroy guys

So these three guys met at New York University in In the movie, three something guys, also named John, Martin and Ben, go in search of a treasure on, you guessed it, Foggy Mountain. So there. The trio chatted with The Times about their videos, their movie and their friendship.

In , the trio was hired as writers on Saturday Night Live SNL to produce prerecorded digital videos for the show's 47th season. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. American comedy troupe.

Who are the please dont destroy guys

Since its premiere in , Saturday Night Live has been the jumping-off point for dozens of extremely talented writers and performers. Those sketches are some of my favorite sketches of all time, and Rachel Dratch is so funny. So if that means like, we have to figure out some way where we're doing it with her, fine, but I just want to see Debbie Downer sketches again. I mean, there's so many, but Debbie Downer, I'm not ashamed to say is mine. The movie gives a really great origin story for the three of you, which I want to be true, but I know it's not, because I know you met in college. And I think we just realized that we had similar sensibilities and started really making each other laugh. I was a senior when Martin was a freshman, we met doing stand up and I just thought he was super funny, and we would go to open mics together and just kind of became friends and then started the show together. And it was just me and Martin at first, but then we asked John to join. Which we like to remind him of. And you started writing this movie before you got SNL. How much of it changed?

I meditated with monks in Tibet. Martin and I started doing stand-up together around the same time.

Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. The setup of this sketch is that the guys — Martin Herlihy , John Higgins , and Ben Marshall — are all watching Family Feud when an Anonymous-style hacker intercepts their TV feed and addresses them by name. They consider and film every possible variation on the opening segment like food scientists lab-testing a new variety of Twinkie: Should they lean forward when the hacker appears on TV or all fall back onto the couch? Should they play it like terror or just confusion? Their videos capture what it feels like to share all your space and time with weird roommates, in a way that manages to be comforting: They have the rapport and self-assured rhythm of friends who spent the pandemic making one another laugh. She first saw the group perform about two years ago, when she was invited to one of the weekly live sketch shows the guys were organizing at the time. I could watch this all night long.

That left producer Judd Apatow and director Paul Briganti to promote the film in their place. Lucky for them—and us—the strike is finally over, and Marshall, Higgins, and Herlihy can talk about the movie, which premieres Friday on Peacock. They play three guys in their 20s, each trying to prove himself in his own way, who resolve to find a legendary treasure believed to be lost on Foggy Mountain. Along the way, they meet a couple of wacky park rangers Meg Stalter and X Mayo , a cult led by Bowen Yang , and maybe even learn about the power of friendship. Plus, the whole thing is narrated by John Goodman. The A. John Higgins: Yeah, it was wild. Ben Marshall: We were also at work that whole time. And then the week we were doing everything, it happened. Just happy that they got a fair deal and that people are getting back to work.

Who are the please dont destroy guys

Since its premiere in , Saturday Night Live has been the jumping-off point for dozens of extremely talented writers and performers. Those sketches are some of my favorite sketches of all time, and Rachel Dratch is so funny. So if that means like, we have to figure out some way where we're doing it with her, fine, but I just want to see Debbie Downer sketches again. I mean, there's so many, but Debbie Downer, I'm not ashamed to say is mine. The movie gives a really great origin story for the three of you, which I want to be true, but I know it's not, because I know you met in college. And I think we just realized that we had similar sensibilities and started really making each other laugh.

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Explore Wikis Community Central. Martin, Ben, and John play high school versions of themselves, and find out that their best friend Tommy played by host Brendan Gleeson is a year-old Irish man. Loved him so much. Bad Bunny who was serving as the host and musical guest for this episode writes his own version of Shrek, with each of the boys playing their own character Ben as Puss in Boots, Martin as Donkey, and John as Michael Jackson. Ben Marshall: I was in an NYU-based sketch group called Hammerkatz with John, and I remember us just really clicking on this one trip to Brown, where we were doing a show. HERLIHY: The way that we work, we would have kept changing to expand whatever time, you know, like if it had shot a year later or whatever, it would have been a totally different movie then, too. Paul Rudd tests positive for the variant and passes it to Martin, Ben and John. Which we like to remind him of. Saturday Night Live. Andrew Dismukes appears as himself and threatens to kill Lizzo if her new songs are not good enough. Seeking an escape from the daily grind, the friends go into the woods on a treasure hunt. Filmed for Carmichael's episode but cut for time. Impersonations Joe Biden George H. Longtime cast member Pete Davidson creates a music video about three sad virgins Marshall, Higgins, Herlihy and is joined by special guest Taylor Swift.

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We spend too much time together as each other. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Tags: vulture section lede vulture homepage lede comedy please don't destroy sketch comedy twitter tiktok profile new york magazine extremely online martin herlihy john higgins ben marshall More. Not us, though. March 8, Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. But one thing that I really liked was the tent scene. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. I look at the walnut scene or the taser scene or the Conan and Ben office scene. Three white guys doing comedy and posting it online is a story as old as video-sharing itself — the Ur-white-boy comedic trio the Lonely Island is key to the story of how YouTube became YouTube.