Ben Marshall of comedy trio Please Don’t Destroy — memorably described as “a sad Ron Weasley” by Taylor Swift in a 2022 sketch — has been promoted to a featured player on Saturday Night Live for his fifth season on the show, according to an NBC press release. Previously, he and his Please Don’t Destroy co-founders, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy, were writers who made pre-recorded videos for the show. ( SNL has not yet confirmed the current status of Higgins and Herlihy.)

Four other performers will join the show as featured players, according to NBC: Tommy Brennan , Jeremy Culhane , Kam Patterson , and Veronika Slowikowska . Brennan, a Minnesota-born stand-up and actor who has performed on The Tonight Show , has described John Mulaney as his biggest hero, and was mento

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