Please Don’t Destroy’s stage comedy is very similar to what you’ll find online, but they have a little more freedom to expand the world of their sketches and to play different kinds of characters. (They can’t talk about either because of the strikes.) “It’s been really nice to go back to performing live and connecting with a live audience.” The trio had been busy with SNL and making a movie, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, which will stream soon on Peacock.
“We’ve been wanting to do a live tour for a while, and we just haven’t had time,” says Marshall. But the trio, who met at NYU, got their start performing together onstage and have been enjoying returning to their roots. If you’re familiar with Please Don’t Destroy, it’s probably because of their viral TikToks or SNL sketches-the “Three Sad Virgins” music video they starred in alongside Pete Davidson and Taylor Swift has 9.4 million views on YouTube. (Higgins, Herlihy, and Marshall are all WGA and SAG-AFTRA members.) “It was very weird and it was devastating,” he says. “They were striking, they weren’t making any money, but it was the best day of my life.” In May, he once again found himself on the picket lines with his dad. “I remember going to one of the pickets with dad and hanging out with Jorma Taccone from the Lonely Island,” Higgins says of the 2007-2008 work stoppage. Courtesy of Andrew Thomas.Īs the sons of respective SNL veterans Steve Higgins and Tim Herlihy, Higgins and Herlihy have some experience with writers strikes. “We just had some nice lady who thought that we would like it.”įrom left: John Higgins, Martin Herlihy, and Ben Marshall of Please Don't Destroy. Higgins, Marshall, and Please Don’t Destroy’s third member, Martin Herlihy, are Zooming with me the morning that Drake decided to pose with all the bras that have been flung at him during concerts. “I remember being like, This is so weird, this is not the environment for this.
“John screamed like a middle school girl,” says Ben Marshall. And there was the show where an audience member threw her bra onto the stage-but they didn’t exactly play it cool.
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Sure, they went to the casino a couple of times their bus driver even won big one night. “It was like, ‘Alright honey, let’s go to bed.’” Almost Famous this wasn’t: “It was really not rock star shit,” says troupe member John Higgins, whose fiancée, Emily Wilson, opened for them during the more than 25-show tour. This summer-as seemingly all of Hollywood took to the picket lines-the trio of sketch comedians collectively known as Please Don’t Destroy headed out on their first cross-country tour.
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