{"id":114088,"date":"2025-09-02T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114088\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T21:29:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:29:13","slug":"ben-marshall-veronika-slowikowska-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114088\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Marshall, Veronika Slowikowska and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe \u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d shake-up continues, as Ben Marshall<\/a> has been upped to the featured cast. Also joining as featured players are Veronika Slowikowska, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson and Tommy Brennan.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news is part of a larger roster refresh<\/a> at \u201cSNL,\u201d which this week saw the departure of Heidi Gardner<\/a> after eight seasons, Michael Longfellow<\/a> and Devon Walker after three seasons each, and Emil Wakim after one season.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeason 51 will be Marshall\u2019s fifth season on the NBC sketch show, having first joined as a member of comedy trio Please Don\u2019t Destroy. (Please Don\u2019t Destroy member John Higgins is leaving \u201cSNL,\u201d while Martin Herlihy remains on staff as a writer<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\n\tSlowikowska is best known for viral comedy sketches that she posts on Instagram, where she has 1 million followers. Her acting credits include Shane Gillis\u2019 Netflix comedy series \u201cTires\u201d as well as FX\u2019s \u201cWhat We Do in the Shadows.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCulhane is also prolific on social media, and appears regularly in Dropout TV programming as well as performing with the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\n\tPatterson, a stand-up comedian, is regularly featured on Tony Hinchcliffe\u2019s podcast \u201cKill Tony\u201d and will next be seen in Kevin Hart\u2019s Netflix film \u201c72 Hours.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBrennan was named to the Just for\u00a0Laughs New Face of Comedy list in 2023 and has performed stand-up comedy on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAfter three seasons, Walker\u00a0announced his departure<\/a>\u00a0from \u201cSNL\u201d on Instagram on Aug. 25, writing, \u201cMe and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell. But we did what we made the most of what it was, even amidst all of the dysfunction. We made a fucked up lil family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI won\u2019t be returning to SNL next year. It was a gut punch of a call to get but I\u2019m so grateful for my time there,\u201d Wakim wrote in\u00a0his announcement<\/a>. \u201cEvery time I scanned into the building I would think how insane it is to get to work there. It was the most terrifying, thrilling, and rewarding experience of my life and I will miss it dearly and all the brilliant people that work there that made it feel like a home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d Season 51 premieres on NBC on Oct. 4. The new season comes off the heels of a landmark 50th anniversary, which was feted with with several documentaries, a Radio City Music Hall concert special and a three-hour telecast with \u201cSNL\u201d legends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d shake-up continues, as Ben Marshall has been upped to the featured cast. Also joining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,81233,134,33892,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-114088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ben-marshall","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-saturday-night-live","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}