A few Saturday Night Live solid members had been greeted by sudden visitors forward of the season 50 premiere.
Ben Marshall — who makes up one-third of Please Don’t Destroy, together with Martin Herlihy and John Higgins — posted an Instagram video on Monday, Sept. 23, displaying off their new coworkers: a flock of pigeons.
Marshall, 29, opened the video by strolling by 30 Rockefeller Plaza, telling the digital camera, “I am excited for an excellent season. I am feeling actually good.”
The video then lower to a close-up shot of a pigeon sitting on one of many workplace chairs, with Evanescence‘s “Convey Me To Life” taking part in within the background. He shared extra clips of a number of pigeons of their workplace standing on their sofa, desks and chairs.
In one other clip, Higgins, 28, mimicked throwing one thing to get the birds to fly out of the workplace window, however they simply flapped across the workplace. Higgins shouted, “Oh my god! Oh s—!” In the meantime, Marshall calmly mentioned, “Fly. Get out.” Higgins shut the door closed, laughing in regards to the scenario.
They then apprehensively reopened the door and requested each other if the birds had been gone. With solely a second of aid, Higgins noticed the birds on their clothes rack.
The 2 then referred to as for backup, and safety got here to help. When Higgins requested if he ought to shut the workplace door so the birds do not escape, the safety guard replied, “You’re gonna go away me in right here with them?”
Marshall shared a collection of texts he bought from fellow SNL writers in a gaggle chat, together with one from co-head author Michael Che. “You hit a witch together with your automotive?” Che wrote.
Marshall additionally shared one other particular person’s direct message that learn, “That’s omen. Even variety of birds is nice. Odd is dangerous.”
He then added a screenshot of an web seek for what it means when pigeons arrive in areas, discovering a supply that declares it “a way of fine luck and fortune.”
He capped it off by writing on a black background, “We stay up for a bountiful harvest.”
The video ended with Higgins and the safety guard assessing the injury as soon as the birds lastly fled.
“Oh yeah, they s— on the couch,” the safety guard mentioned.
“Yeah they s— in every single place,” Higgins mentioned earlier than the safety guard mentioned the birds “had been nervous.”
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Saturday Evening Stay season 50 premieres on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 11:30 p.m. ET on NBC with Jean Smart internet hosting and Jelly Roll as musical visitor.