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Pitching Taylor Swift on ‘Three Sad Virgins’ Was Like a Dream for ‘SNL’s Please Don’t Destroy

Somehow, making an SNL comedy pitch to Taylor Swift was even better than working with Paul Rudd, according to the guys in Please Don’t Destroy on a recent podcast appearance for The Wrap.

The three friends from NYU were stoked to show up for work at 30 Rock (“Taking the elevator and looking at the floor and seeing the peacock logo — that kind of thing still feels a little magical,” marveled Ben Marshall), but working with celebrities has been even more of an out-of-body experience. “Paul Rudd was really cool,” said Martin Herlihy of one of his comedy heroes. “It was cool to see someone who was such a pro and so nice and also talking to us as peers was just like, ‘Whoa!’”

Bill Maher and Howard Stern Deserve Each Other

The bromance is over — again. Howard Stern announced last week that he and Club Random host Bill Maher are donezo — again — after Maher cracked wise about Stern on his podcast. Talking smack about another celebrity as talk-show fodder? It’s a good thing that Stern would never participate in that kind of ratings-hungry assholery.

This isn’t the first time the two thin-skinned provocateurs have been on the outs. They were estranged for years until Stern appeared on Maher’s Real Time in 2019. “I had years when I didn’t talk to him when we were not friends,” professes Stern. “I did the show as a favor to him because we were repairing a relationship.” Coincidentally, that favor happened to fall neatly in line with his book tour to shill Howard Stern Comes Again. Amazing how reconciliation aligns with self-promotion.

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