Category: Shane Gillis
“Saturday Night Live” Apparently Had A Plan To Win Over Conservatives With Shane Gillis
Variety says that Saturday Night Live had a plan but it sort of completely went wrong. Yes, I’m talking about the mess that was Shane Gillis. As you know, Shane was hired to be white guy number 7 of the cast, but his life exploded when the internet brought out a podcast episode from last year of him and his friend/co-host Matt McCusker referring to Chinese people as “chinks” and lamenting their desire to learn English while in public, etc. Well, it turns out that SNL actually wanted a guy like Shane because they wanted to bring in the conservatives.
“Saturday Night Live’s” Newest Cast Member, Shane Gillis, Put Out A Non-Apology After Racist Comments Come Out
Welp, this guy managed to enjoy like, an afternoon of amazing news? Yesterday Saturday Night Live announced three new cast members for the upcoming season–among them was their first Asian cast member, Bowen Yang and a woman, Chloe Fineman. They had to round that shit off because too much diversity at once can be alarming to some Americans, and so they also hired another white dude, Shane Gillis.
Shane’s enjoyment was cut very short when a few hours after the announcement, a video clip of a podcast recording began circling. In the clip, Shane says some insanely racist things. Among them are highly specific racist comments against Asians–which sort of overshadowed the “first Asian cast member” thing to Hell. But hey, NBC tried it.