Saturday Night Live has added five new cast members ahead of Season 51.

The most headline grabbing name is that of Ben Marshall , one of the founders of comedy troupe Please Don’t Destroy, which regularly make digital videos for the show and appear in sketches.

Please Don’t Destroy consists of Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy, who all joined the show in 2021. Herlihy is thought to be staying as a writer with Higgins leaving.

Elsewhere, Tommy Brennan , Jeremy Culhane , Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska are joining the show.

It comes after Heidi Gardner, Devon Walker, Emil Wakim and Michael Longfellow left the show, not quite the exodus that many were expecting. It also means that unless any of the other current cast members leave, the cast will be big

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