WARNING: There are some gentle spoilers for The Working Man, which is now taking part in on the 2025 film schedule. Very gentle. Hardly any in any respect.
With Glen Powell internet hosting Saturday Night time Reside this weekend, now the right time to speak about one in all his co-stars in The Working Man, Martin Herlihy. Not solely is Herlihy a author on Saturday Night time Reside (and an occasional performer), he’s additionally the son of a legendary SNL author, Tim Herlihy. For those who don’t know Tim Herlihy by title, you actually know his work each on the present and together with his longtime collaborator, Adam Sandler.
The Working Man Wanted Some Comedian Reduction
It’s been an extended look ahead to director Edgar Wright’s adaptation of Stephen King’s The Working Man, and I’ve to say, he nailed it. Some folks could quibble with the ending (which is honest) or just a few different nitpicks, but it surely’s a lot nearer to the supply materials than the 1987 model starring Arnold Schwarzenegger (which I do secretly love) that it needs to be everybody’s watch listing this fall.
One of many many variations between the 1987 model and the 2025 model of the film is the tone. Whereas the Schwarzenegger film was about as campy as a film can get, replete with basic Arnold one-liners, the brand new one has a a lot darker vibe, like the unique Stephen King novel. Martin Herlihy’s character, Jansky, brings some much-appreciated comedian reduction to the movie. With out getting too spoiler-y, Herlihy performs a goofball contestant alongside Powell’s Ben Richards and Katy O’Brian’s Laughlin. He’s very humorous within the position.
Tim Herlihy Took A Winding Highway To Comedy
Whereas comedy could come naturally to Martin Herlihy, being the son of a comedy legend, for Tim, the highway to comedy success was stunning. Tim studied accounting at NYU and didn’t have plans to enter comedy. Nevertheless, his faculty roommate was none aside from Adam Sandler. He began collaborating with Sandler in faculty, and that partnership remained after faculty and into Sandler’s run on SNL.
Tim Herlihy ultimately went to legislation faculty, however he saved writing with the Sand Man, collaborating on the script for Billy Madison at evening, whereas working as a lawyer through the day. Earlier than that film got here out, Herlihy gave up working towards legislation and was employed as a author on SNL in 1994, ultimately changing into head write, and he is at the very least partly accountable for a few of the most enduring characters from the present within the ‘90s. He’s a legend in Studio 8H and has written a dozen films alongside Sandler, together with 2025’s Pleased Gilmore 2, and sometimes pops up in cameos and small roles in these films, like taking part in a priest in Grown Ups.
Like Father, Like Son
Martin Herlihy has adopted in his dad’s footsteps as a author and digital brief creator on SNL as a part of his comedy troupe Please Do not Destroy, together with Ben Marshall and John Higgins. They, like Sandler and Tim Herlihy, bought their begin at NYU. Please Don’t Destroy is now not producing digital shorts for SNL, however Herlihy has stayed on as a author.
It stays to be seen how profitable The Working Man might be in theaters, however there’s little doubt that we’ll be seeing and listening to much more from the youthful Herlihy sooner or later.
