«Saturday Night Live» says comedian Shane Gillis will no longer be joining the show’s cast after videos of him making racist, sexist and homophobic jokes surfaced.
In a video from 2018, Gillis used racial slurs for Chinese people and also made fun of Asians who were trying to learn English.
A spokesperson for SNL creator Lorne Michaels said Monday that Gillis «will not be joining SNL» and added, «[w]e hired Shane on the strength of his talent as a comedian … We were not aware of his prior remarks … The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable».
The spokesperson went on to apologise that SNL didn’t see the clips earlier and that its «vetting process was not up to our standard».
Shane Gillis has published the following on Twitter :
https://twitter.com/Shanemgillis/status/1172340437752807424
— Shane Gillis (@Shanemgillis) September 16, 2019
