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    What's key to the absurdly funny 'SNL' clips, and movie, from Please Don't Destroy? Friendship

    by Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times Dec 05, 2023 7 minutes
    From left, Martin Herlihy, Ben Marshall and John Higgins in "Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain."

    So these three guys met at New York University in 2016. Fueled by a shared love of films like "Wet Hot American Summer," "School of Rock" and "Napoleon Dynamite," as well as chicken tenders in a Brooklyn basement, a three-headed monster baby known as the comedy trio Please Don't Destroy was born.

    Or something like that.

    And now the monster baby's videos have become a regular highlight of "Saturday Night Live."

    It helps that two of the guys — John Higgins, 27, and Martin Herlihy, 25 — have showbiz lineages as the sons of, respectively, Steve Higgins (a writer and producer on "SNL" since 1995) and Tim Herlihy (another "SNL" figure best known as an Adam Sandler collaborator of nearly 30 years). And now it seems the third member, Ben Marshall, 28, is the son of — at least, the version of him in the trio's first feature film, "," that's now streaming on Peacock. In the movie, three 20-something guys, also named John, Martin and Ben, go in search of a treasure on, you guessed it, Foggy Mountain. Which, truthfully, isn't particularly foggy.

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