Shane Gillis Out at 'Saturday Night Live' Following Racial, Homophobic Slurs in Podcast

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An SNL spokesperson: 'We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard.' Read the full statement:

castmembers announced Thursday, can be heard using a racial slur in a since-deleted video from 2018 on a YouTube channel called "Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast."

"Chinatown’s fucking nuts," Gillis says in a segment of the video dated on Sept. 26, 2018. "Let the fucking ch---s live there." The video also shows Gillis mimicking a Chinese accent and mocking Chinese restaurants. Additional audio from a separate 2018 episode of "Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast" shows Gillis and co-host Matt McCusker ranking how funny comedians are by race and using homophobic slurs. While referencing comedians like Judd Apatow, Gillis calls them "white faggot comics" and "fucking gayer than ISIS.""I'm a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes miss.

Gillis is the latest comedian to deal with backlash over past offensive comments. Trevor Noah was criticized ahead of replacing Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's

 

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Ending his statement with ‘I was always a mad tv guy anyway’.

it's so sad that comedians have to watch what they say today...u want an 'i don't give a shit' attitude in a comedian..George Carlin is rollin over in his grave.

Now he’s got more fame and who wants to bet he’s got a whole new act now and will attack everyone because he has nothing to lose now.

Yay!!

Good for Shane though got a huge pop from this. Fuck you people that can’t take a joke smh

He'll have a lot more free time to go 'take risks'

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Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.

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He’s a ... comedian...

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But who's going to play Haley Joel Osment?

He'd still have a job if he didn't make that god-awful 'apology'.

Strike up another death blow for political correctness.

lmao time to create a new pop culture

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