Five new players , including Please Don’t Destroy comedian Ben Marshall, will join the upcoming 51st season of “Saturday Night Live” amid the latest cast exodus .

NBC on Tuesday announced that Marshall, who came on board the sketch staple as a staff writer in 2021 and often appears in segments alongside comedy troupe members John Higgins and Martin Herlihy, has been promoted to a featured player.

He’ll be joined by stand-up comedians Tommy Brennan and Kam Patterson, as well as TikTokers Jeremy Culhane and Veronika Slowikowska , when the new season premieres on Oct. 4.

Brennan was named as a part of Just For Laughs’ “New Faces of Comedy Class of 2023” and has previously performed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.”

Patterson regularly appears on the comedy podcast “Kil

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