Comedian Shane Gillis to Host ‘SNL’ After 2019 Firing For Racist Comments

Shane Gillis is lastly going to take the “Saturday Night Live” stage … 4 years after he was fired for racist feedback earlier than his first episode.

The controversial comic will host the present on February 24 alongside musical visitor 21 Savage — just a little over 4 years after he was fired from this system after jokes that includes racist and homophobic slurs got here to gentle.

As we beforehand reported … SG was employed again in 2019 before a comment he made on “Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast” the earlier 12 months. You may watch the clip above … it is fairly demeaning language.

Clearly, this remark prompted a firestorm … with an ‘SNL’ spokesperson saying Lorne Michaels and different execs had sat down with Shane and determined he wasn’t the proper match for the present.

Shane responded on the time with the assertion, “I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries. I sometimes miss. If you go through my 10 years of comedy, most of it bad, you’re going to find a lot of bad misses.” He additionally mentioned he’d personally apologize to anybody who was offended.

Bowen Yang — the distinguished Asian American forged member of the enduring sketch present, who was employed the identical 12 months as Shane and continues to be on the present — mentioned he was going to take a seat down with Shane after the choice was made.

Yang will nearly actually seem alongside Gillis within the episode … unclear if their convo ever went down or how he feels concerning the embattled comic.

FWIW … Gillis hasn’t stopped saying controversial jokes over time — although maybe they are not as inflammatory as his 2018 feedback.

Nevertheless, he is nonetheless obtained followers up in arms over his internet hosting gig … with many taking to social media to blast the NBC staple for permitting Shane the platform.

We’ll have to attend and see if Shane addresses his firing on the present in just a few weeks.