Shane Gillis, who was fired from SNL in 2019 after racist, homophobic, & sexist comments on his podcast resurfaced, will be hosting next week
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Later that day, however, several clips of a 2018 episode of Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, which have since been removed from YouTube, resurfaced, in which Gillis made jokes that mocked Asian accents and complained about Chinatown’s population of “fucking chinks”, an ethnic slur for Chinese people. In other clips, Gillis and co-host Matt McCusker ranked comedians by race, gender, and sexual orientation, which included the use of gay slurs. Later that night, Gillis posted a tweet saying that “I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries” and that “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.” Four days later, a spokesperson for Lorne Michaels, a co-creator of the show, announced that Gillis had been removed from the cast.
Afterwards, Gillis maintained that while the clips looked bad, they were taken out of context and he was misquoted in the majority of articles reporting the story. Gillis also stated that he immediately regretted using the “I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries” statement, blaming it on having “literally 5 minutes of being pressured to write anything”, acknowledging the statement was “corny” and that he officially retracted the statement.
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