As Ben Marshall, one of the co-founders of comedy troupe Please Don’t Destroy, joins the full-time cast of Saturday Night Live, the move marks an end to one of the NBC’s shows most viral groups.

As Deadline reported with the cast additions, the trio are going separate ways when it comes to SNL; Martin Herlihy will stay on as a writer and John Higgins is going to focus on acting outside SNL.

But there were signs this was going to happen in some shape.

The trio radically reduced the amount of videos they produced for the show last year. Across 21 episodes they produced six, including ones featuring hosts such as Charli XCX, Jon Hamm and Mikey Madison. This was considerably down on the 10 they produced in Season 49 and the 11 they produced in Season 48. It was even lower than their first year on the show, where they got seven videos on.

“Are you sad the season’s over and you only did like two videos?” Scarlett Johansson mocked the trio in their last Please Don’t Destroy video at the end of Season 50.

“We did three at least,” replies Marshall, with Higgins adding it “doesn’t matter.”

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Deadline understands that Please Don’t Destroy aren’t breaking up and will focus on developing other projects, but they will not make any more videos for the long-running NBC sketch-comedy show.

Higgins posted a statement about his departure on Instagram. “I can’t believe how lucky I was to be a part of this show. It was my dream and I got to live it. And to do it with my two best friends and my dad was an unbelievable experience. Thank you to everyone who made my time there so special, it made this decision that much harder. But for now, I’m excited to pursue acting opportunities that I’ll announce soon but today I’m just grateful for everything we got to do. As that fat lil bear Winnie the Pooh once said, ‘How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard’.”

The trio kicked off strong in 2021; a month after their first appearance mocking the popularity of hard seltzers, they joined Pete Davidson in a music video where he and Taylor Swift called them “three sad virgins.” They also made a feature film, Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, which came out in 2023 on Peacock and was produced by Judd Apatow.

Two of the trio – Higgins and Herlihy – have strong family ties to the show. Higgins is the son of SNL producer and writer Steve Higgins, one of Lorne Michaels’ close confidantes. His uncle Chris Elliott was on SNL for one season in 1994-95, and his cousin Abby Elliott, one of the stars of The Bear, was on SNL between 2008-2012.

Herlihy is the son of Tim Herlihy, who has worked with Adam Sandler for many years including on Happy Gilmore and its recent sequel as well as being a writer and producer for SNL in the 1990s.

Please Don’t Destroy is currently on tour with upcoming dates in Portland, Baltimore and Red Bank, NJ.