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Published February 25, 2024, 9:29 am ET
This comedian's firing was no joke.
Controversial comedian Shane Gillis responded to his firing from “Saturday Night Live” last night by telling viewers that he “probably shouldn't be up here.”
“Thank you very much. Yes, I'm here,” Gillis, 36, told the crowd during his controversial appearance at Studio 8H. “Most of you probably have no idea who I am. I was fired from this show a while ago. Please don't look that up. Please don't Google that. That's good.”
Controversial comedian Shane Gillis weighed in on his firing from “Saturday Night Live” last night, telling viewers that he “probably shouldn't be up here.” NBC/SNL
“Don’t worry about it,” Gillis continued. “I probably shouldn’t be up here, honestly. I should be home. I should be a high school football coach.”
Gillis' impressive eight-minute monologue included several parts of his “Anti-Woke” stand-up routine, including punchlines about his father as a girls' high school basketball coach and little boys as their mother's “best gay friends.”
The monologue also included a part in which Gillis said that he had “avoided” having Down syndrome like his niece.
“My family and I actually opened a coffee shop in my hometown where people with Down syndrome can work, and they say, ‘Don’t gossip!’” Gillis said. “It's going exactly as you imagine. Actually, it's still good… Not because there are a lot of people who get good service. Everyone gets apple juice. We don’t know how to fix this problem.”
Ahead of his debut on the legendary late-night show, Gillis reportedly spent the entire week working on his material at local comedy clubs in Manhattan.
“He’s going all in,” an insider told Page Six.
Ahead of his debut on the legendary late-night show, Gillis reportedly spent the entire week working on his material at local comedy clubs in Manhattan. NBC/SNL
Unfortunately for Gillis, none of his jokes seemed to go down well.
“Look, I don't have any material to show on TV, okay?” he complained desperately. “I'm doing my best. Plus, this place is extremely well lit. I can imagine that everyone isn't having fun. This is the most nervous I've ever experienced.”
Gillis' rocky return to the comedy show comes after he was fired from the cast in 2019 when he was heard making several racist and homophobic slurs on an episode of “Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast.”
Had he taken his place in the hallowed halls of “SNL,” Gillies would have appeared in the show's 45th season alongside funny man Bowen Yang, who became the show's first gay Asian cast member. NBC / SNL “Look, I don't have any material that can be shown on television, okay?” he griped desperately. “I'm doing my best. Plus, this place is extremely well lit. I can imagine everyone isn't having fun. This is the most nervous I've ever experienced.” NBC/SNL
According to Decider, the now-deleted video of Gillis also featured the Pennsylvania native's mocking Chinese accent.
“After speaking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL,” a spokesperson for the show said at the time. “We want SNL to represent diverse voices and viewpoints on the show, and we hired Shane for SNL because of his talent as a comedian and his impressive audition.”
“The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable,” the statement continued. “We are sorry that we did not see these clips sooner and that our review process did not meet our standards.”
Had he taken his place in the hallowed halls of “SNL,” Gillies would have appeared in the show's 45th season alongside funny man Bowen Yang, who became the show's first gay Asian cast member.
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