Fans Are Calling Lorne Michaels the Yoko Ono to Please Don’t Destroy
People are genuinely devastated that Please Don’t Destroy has been destroyed. The comedy trio, made up of Martin Herlihy, Ben Marshall and John Higgins, has helmed digital shorts at Saturday Night Live in recent years. Now though, the group has been splintered into three separate endeavors, with only two of the three remaining at SNL.
Marshall has been moved to the cast, while Herlihy is going to remain on the show as a writer. Higgins will be leaving the show, and says he will be pursuing acting opportunities. “Thank you to everyone who made my time there so special, it made this decision that much harder,” Higgins wrote on Instagram. “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.”
It all is seeming to work out for the trio, despite the break-up. All three appear to have worthy opportunities on the horizon, and two of them won’t be leaving SNL at all, which means we’re likely to see even more of that specific vein of humor on the show. But if you take a look around online there is some despair that the three men won’t be working together as Please Don’t Destroy any longer.
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One fan went so far as to write, “Lorne Michaels is their Yoko.”
For those not familiar with the reference (do those people exist?), Yoko Ono is often wrongfully accused of breaking up The Beatles. She didn’t break up The Beatles, despite all the vitriolic racism and sexism directed her way. Instead, The Beatles broke up due to myriad reasons, including but not limited to arguments over management, artistic differences and financial issues. Yet Ono is still blamed as a catalyst, despite this information.
Michaels, however, might really be who the public thinks Yoko Ono is. Michaels clearly has no qualms about breaking up a beloved boy group, no matter how many fans they have. Michaels also has a track record of holding the fate of young comedians in his hands and is also known to foster a toxic work environment per several former cast members.
And like the unfairly maligned Ono, Michaels is now being smeared by the public for whatever role he had in bringing Please Don’t Destroy to an end. Here are a few more impassioned fan reactions:
For those keeping track, Michaels has been called a killer and a terrorist for breaking up PPD and some of his other recent casting decisions (like getting rid of Michael Longfellow, Devon Walker and Emil Wakim). It’s the kind of public pile-on typically reserved for women. Maybe this is the long game for Michaels. Maybe, through a series of controversial decisions, he’s trying to generate the same kind of hate women are subjected to in the name of equality.
