Shane Gillis Dropped From 'S.N.L.' Cast Amid Criticism of Racist Slurs

[Miles Archer]

Shane Gillis Dropped From ‘S.N.L.’ Cast Amid Criticism of Racist Slurs

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/arts/television/shane-gillis-snl.html

Shane Gillis, a comedian named last week to the “Saturday Night Live” cast before videos surfaced in which he used slurs and offensive language, will not be joining the show, the program announced on Monday.

“After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining ‘S.N.L.’” a spokesperson for the show said in a statement.

“We want ‘S.N.L.’ to 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 ‘S.N.L.’ 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.”

Gillis, 31, came under fire just a few hours after he and two new cast members — one of them the show’s first Chinese-American — were named for the coming season. A journalist unearthed a video of a podcast in which he used a slur in referring to Chinese people and mocked a caricature accent of a Chinese person speaking English.

[lunasun]

1. Finally! Thanks for the news this homophobic and racist ass is out !

In one of his rants he called Andrew Yang a “chink Jew “ What does that even mean ?
Plus he was just mean and boastful not funny or even edgy .
I thought maybe SNL was trying to balance against the trump sketches in the worst way

Adios not funny nasty dude

[Miles Archer]

3. From what I saw of this guy...

...he reminded me of the "funny" guys from Fox, Guttfeld and Watters. I have no idea what SNL saw in him or why they fumbled the ball on vetting, but they made the right decision and issued an appropriate statement. Adios, scum.

[uponit7771]

11. +1, they try to cover their racism with "I'm just joking" snark but they're on faux so that doesn't

.... work

[Keg Stand]

2. "Two clubs in Philadelphia, however, said they had stopped working with him

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because of jokes that were, as one of the clubs put it, “racist, misogynistic, xenophobic and homophobic.”

There's nothing funny about any of that shit and I'm glad that both SNL and those clubs gave him the ax.

[lunasun]

8. It wasn't even edgy stuff you could say "I was pushing the line for sensationalism " Boring & sad

If 2 comedy clubs in philly had disassociated with him you have to wonder what SNL saw in his work and none of it is old material that was being brought up
It’s all recent, plus I read it looked like he had scrubbed a lot of podcasts #s before the SNL announcement . Guessing the worst was not even discovered

His lame apology when confronted was typical Did I offend someone ?

[cwydro]

4. Racist and homophobic comments aside - this guy wasn't in the least funny that I could see.

Buh bye Shane.

[lpbk2713]

6. There's no humor in taking cheap shots.

It's lazy at best.

[cwydro]

10. Yes indeed.

Seems that’s all he was capable of.

[gratuitous]

5. "We were not aware of his prior remarks"

"We don't know how to use Google."

[Caliman73]

14. That's what I thought... you can't just go onto YouTube and type in "Shane Gillis, Asian people"...

Or some other combination, "Shane Gillis, Black people", "Latinos", etc... The good and bad of it is that If you put it on video, someone somewhere has a clip of it and it will be out there.

SNL didn't want to find anything. They are backpedaling because they got caught being careless.

[Paladin]

7. Good decision. (nt)

[BlueStater]

9. His "humor" sucked.

Saying chink and faggot isn't edgy or pushing any new ground. It's just trying to be shocking and offensive without an actual punchline. It's extremely lazy comedy.

Who the hell was responsible for vetting this guy?

[uponit7771]

12. +1

[Takket]

13. i don't know but that person should be fired if they have not been already

took all of 10 seconds on google for the public to expose this guy... did the people doing the betting not actually listen to his routines????

[egduj]

15. Does that mean they're not going to have Alec Baldwin on any longer?

[not_the_one]

16. when I grow up I want to be just as cool as you

judge

[egduj]

17. Another cool fact: the number one box office draw this week is about a clown that kills children.

But Lorne has made the world a better place today.

[ecstatic]

18. So I just googled him and Andrew Yang

is planning to meet with him?

Link to tweet

[Stinky The Clown]

19. I wonder if any apology to Nora Dunn will be forthcoming

She quit SNL over Andrew Dice Clay. "Him or me." They choose him. She quit.