Saturday Night Live announced their newest additions to the cast of SNL Season 51 on Wednesday, September 3rd. This year, Ben Marshall '17 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) has been promoted from a writer to a featured player. Marshall has been a writer on the show since 2021 when he first joined as a member of comedy trio "Please Don’t Destroy" with Martin Herlihy '19 (BFA, Kanbar Institute, Film & TV) and John Higgins '18 (CAS). The trio formed at NYU in 2017. On Wednesday, Marshall paid tribute to the trio on Instagram, saying this:
I love these boys so much. I couldn’t be more grateful to have gotten into this business with my two best friends. Getting to write for SNL together and make our own videos for the show was beyond our wildest dreams- and I’m so proud of everything we’ve made so far. This is a new chapter, but we’re not going to stop working together anytime soon.
Marshall joins the cast alongside Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska.