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Shane Gillis Fired – SNL Cast Member's Racist, Anti-Gay Comments – TVLine, Tvline.com

Shane Gillis Fired – SNL Cast Member's Racist, Anti-Gay Comments – TVLine, Tvline.com


Live from New York, it…won’tbeShane Gillis.The comedian, one of three new cast members recently announced forSaturday Night Live‘s upcoming 45 th season, has been fired over a series of racist and homophobic comments that resurfaced online.

“After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joiningSNL,” says a show spokesperson on behalf ofSNLboss Lorne Michaels. “We wantSNLto have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as comedian and his impressive audition for (SNL). We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days. The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable. We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard. ”

(UPDATE: Gillis has responds to his firing by taking a swing atSNLread his statement.)

Just a few hours afterGillis ’casting was announcedon Saturday 12, tweets began to circulate with clips from a particularly offensive episode ofMatt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, which Gillis co-hosted with fellow comic Matt McCusker in 2018. During a conversation about New York City’s Chinatown neighborhood, Gillis used a racist slur, asking, “Why do the f – ing ch – ks live there?”

Another episode found Gillis referring to Judd Apatow and Chris Gethard as “white f — got comics,” calling them “f — ing gayer than ISIS.” As if it wasn’t bad enough that Gillis made these racist and homophobic comments, one ofSNL‘s other new hires for Season 45is Bowen Yang, an openly gay Asian-American. The other addition is Groundlings performer Chloe Fineman.

In response to the backlash,Gillis released a statementon Thursday that, frankly, did him no favors . “I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries,” he tweeted. “I sometimes miss. If you go through my 10 years of comedy, most of it bad, you’re going to find a lot of bad misses. I’m happy to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said. My intention is never to hurt anyone but I am trying to be the best comedian I can be and sometimes that requires risks. ”

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