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Should they play it like terror or just confusion?
At what point should their friend and todays cameraman Pete Christmannwhip the iPhone around to catch their reactions?
Yep, Marshall says.
Thats what comedy is!
(They signed off emails to me as The Boys.)
It was the cheapest one, like $300 or something) was definitely not Fauci approved.
I GOT VACCINATED!!!
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Heidi Gardner fromSNLwas one of the big names who shared a just Dont Destroy video early on.
And I was just like,Holy shit.
I could watch this all night long.I almost felt embarrassed of how much of a fan I quickly became.
Theyre less souvenirs, says Herlihy, and more us not wanting to clean up.
Herlihy and Higgins are both from the New York area, while Marshall is from Savannah.
At NYU, he and Higgins joined the student sketch group Hammerkatz.
Martin was really funny
And Ben was fine says Herlihy.
We were hosting in character, and it was so unnecessarily complicated.
We purely did character-based bits.
And then eventually
I begged to speak onstage with these guys, says Higgins.
This is something we were largely doing to keep ourselves sane during the pandemic, says Marshall.
Its something to work on and do every day to feel like youre creating something.
They are the brain masters behind the videos, Higgins says, pointing to the others.
Brain masters, Herlihy and Marshall repeat back at him.
The like Dont Destroy guys acknowledge that.
Its a caveat of this entire conversation, Marshall says.
We went to NYU and are not drowning in debt.
Were very privileged to have access to what weve had access to.
Martin was recently credited as Teenage Zombie in the filmHubie Halloween,which his father co-wrote with Sandler.
(Hope my star making turn as Teenage Zombie will be a HUGE part of the piece!!!
Herlihy writes to me when I email him to confirm the connection.)
So their pacing is incredible.
Everythings fast and loose and wild, but all the jokes are there.
Some of us havebeenthat person.
Patton Oswalt retweets some of our stuff, Marshall says.
He has been really nice.
What they really want to do next, though, is write a movie or a TV show.
I spy a corkboard tucked away in a corner with color-coded index cards on it.
Oh, that was an outline for a movie that were writing, Marshall says.
Were writing stuff to star in, says Higgins.
The dream, says Herlihy.
Just as the opening act goes on, it starts to pour.
These are capital-Rroutines, the kind that work best live.
The kind people used to buy Nichols and May records for.
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