‘SNL’ Boots Shane Gillis After “Offensive, Hurtful and Unacceptable” Remarks

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“The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable,” said an S.N.L. spokesperson

Matt McCusker.

In the video, recorded last year, Gillis and McCusker discuss Chinatown—and Gillis says, among other things, “Why do the fucking ch*nks live there?” The two go on to denigrate Chinese people’s cuisine, accents, and English-speaking abilities. In another recent video surfaced byNBC did not comment publicly on the matter until it issued Monday’s statement confirming Gillis’s removal.

 

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snl you vet your new cast members or nah? SNL ShaneGillis

Any chance Ron_White could do Weekend Update?

Fascinating to see him openly defend his bigotry. Trumpism infects every area.

Good. You can take risks without being racist and homophobic. To call it ‘taking risks’ is to demonstrate his white male heterosexual privilege. I’m sure some of the cast of SNL weren’t happy to have him there either.

This guy sounds like a jerk. If that’s your shtick, you aren’t funny. If you have to use that racist language, you aren’t funny. So, hiding behind being a comedian doesn’t work because none of it is funny.

nbcsnl hasn't been funny since 1994

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So glad they did the right thing. It’s one thing to be edgy and a complete other to be ignorant.

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