SNL's Shakeup Features TCU

"Did Saturday Night Live just fracture one of its most promising comedy trios—and why is a TCU alum suddenly in the spotlight?"In this laugh-packed and insight-rich episode of The Ben and Skin Show, hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive into the latest seismic shifts at Saturday Night Live. From surprise exits to unexpected promotions, the crew breaks down what’s happening behind Studio 8H’s iconic curtain—and what it means for the future of sketch comedy.KT’s “Weekday Update” takes center stage as the gang reacts to the departure of longtime cast member Heidi Gardner, the puzzling exit of Michael Longfellow, and the rise of breakout star Marcello Hernandez, who’s “TikTok big” and stealing scenes in Adam Sandler flicks.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Right, Yeah, so obviously, you know I care about SNL
quite a bit. They have let a few people go.
Heidi Gardner probably the most well known. She's been down
there for eight years.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I'm curious about this, Like, I thought she would just leave, so,
you know, we might, It's not clear. I think she
probably just left. Okay, I'm curious about who quote unquote
got booted and who was Like, Man, I've done my
eight years. I'm in every commercial and movie that's coming out.
I don't need SNL anymore. That's Heidi.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Now, the other guys did get booted, Devin Walker and
Michael Longfellow. I don't understand why they let Michael Longfellow go.
I think he was like a big part of the
future of the show.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
But the breakout star is that what's that Latin dude? Marcella?
He's badass's funny and he was really funny in the
Happy Gilmour movie.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, and he's huge and he's TikTok big.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
That's what is that? Looking at? Who's who? Who's popping
on YouTube?

Speaker 2 (01:09):
And okay, the Bowen Yang still bow Yang is still there,
and there's a chance he leaves. I think there's still
I think we'll find out this week if anyone else leaves.
But so far three out. Bowen is the gay Keenan Uh. Yeah,
Bowen hadn't been there that long though.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
How long has he been there?

Speaker 2 (01:25):
Dude?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Bowen's got the huge iHeart podcast too?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Is that right?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Culturistas, It's like he's he's in every sketch, so it
makes me think he's been there like five or six
years now. Yeah, he's been there probably five or six
years at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
So they've added five new people sort of first, do
you know who the police don't destroy?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Boys?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Are?

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Hilarious And two of those guys have dads who basically
have worked at S and L for many years.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
In fact, one of them, John Higgins, who is not returning.
Is that right? His dad is Steve Higgins, who is
Fallin's wing man. Yeah, which one is it? The redhead guy? No?
John Higgins is the little one. Looks like a little bear.
He's not coming back. He's not coming back.

Speaker 4 (02:07):
Like I'm with Skin, I want to know which of
these are their choice and which of these are they
got released?

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Very strange because you know, they've took it in the
shorts from being NEPO babies. The one who's not an
EPO baby, Ben Marshall has been added to the cast.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
The redhead. The redhead guy, all right, he's great, he was,
he was unhappy. Gillmore too well. The other No, the
other one's Martin Hurley. He's the kind of nerdy one
Glass I thought crazy hair.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
I thought he was redheaded. He I mean he might
be a brown brown red.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
He's staying on as a rider, but the group as
a threesome or not together anymore.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
So they're not making the digital shorts any who's making those.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Uh, they've had a new guy kind of making them,
but they're not digital shorts. They're like a whole different
category of it. It's called Midnight Mattinee. And the guy's
name is Dan Bulla. Now he's the guy who plays
piano for Adam Sandler and oh Man. He writes with
Sarah Sherman primarily my nephew, his homies with him. Yeah,
Dan bull is a beast and he's kind of got

(03:04):
in that lane a little bit. But the police don't
destroy sketches like last year. They only got like three
on the air, and there are a lot they put
on YouTube. They made like ten of them up on YouTube.
A three made ites of the air right now. They
were on tour and stuff. But so that group is fractured.
It seems like one guy staying on his rider. One
getting elevated to cast. The top story WFAA dot com.

(03:24):
Right now as they look, a TCU alum is joining
the cast of Saturday Night Live.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Huge our old remember, yeah, so good. It's not him.
He's got some volleyball he wants to talk about. Jeremy
cool Haynes is his name. He's thirty three years old.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
I watched some of his stuff on YouTube last night
and I was like, okay, I like this guy. I
did the homework on this last night. I like him
a lot. Not from here though. He's a California guy.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Just went to TCU though, But that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (03:53):
Was he on scholarship now, he was going to be
a philosophy major, so you kind of type of theater
thing there. And if he's not there on scholarship, he
rich wellc is like eighty grand a year. He's thirty
three now, so I mean it's a long time ago
when he's at TCU.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Hey old Rich.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Everybuddy Jesse, who is the Kimmel HR guy used to
be uh, apparently knows him.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
There's a new TCU guy here, yob okay, all right,
there you have it. There's a weekly weekday update.