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Shane Gillis was fired from Saturday Night LiveAfter he was fired five years ago.
In a vacuum, this decision from producers should not come as a surprise.
Gillis is a very successful stand-up comedian whose special on YouTube in 2021 has received over 23 million views.
Gillis also filmed a Netflix special entitled “Beautiful Dogs”, which cemented his place as a great comic talent.
And most recently he accepted a partnership with Bud Light for a stand-up tour.
Gillis is a fun guy and he did a solid job but here is the thing:
Shane Gillis fired from ‘Saturday Night Live’ 5 years before he was hosting performance
Shane Gillis was hired to be a role crew of Saturday Night Live in 2019. And then he was fired shortly later.
Like, days later.
At the forefront of season 45, leaders returned about Gillis’ employment after a clip of him using an anti-Asian slur on his podcast became viral on Twitter.
On part of his podcast with colleague Matt McCusker riffy the hosts about Chinatown, which got Gillis used the aforementioned slurry, while also mimicking a Chinese accent by using the word “noders” instead of noodles.
Gillis apologized and also said he was “comedian who pushes boundaries” who sometimes miss the brand, saying he can very much continue to make jokes, which some are considered to be inappropriate.
It may not have helped Shane’s case back then that the show had also just hired Bowen Yang, its first Asian-American role crew.
“We want SNL to have a number of voices and views in the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as a comedian and his impressive audition for SNL,” a spokesman for performer Lorne Michaels told NBC News In 2019.
“We were not aware of his previous comments that have emerged in the last few days.
“The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable.”
But not permanently, apparently.
Shane has been hosting ‘SNL’ twice … and it was all good
Gillis has hosted SNL not even, but twice since he was unconsciously removed from the show’s list.
And it seems that there was zero drama on set.
So we guess that any beef between the cartoon and the world’s most famous sketch show is officially … Dead from New York.