Comedian Shane Gillis Addresses 'SNL' Firing: 'I Shouldn't Be Up Here' | JJ9W0O8 | 2024-02-27 13:08:01
Comedian Shane Gillis returned to Saturday Night Live on Saturday, February 24, for the first time in almost 5 years.
"Thank you very much. Yeah, I'm here," Gillis, 36, began his SNL monologue. "Most of you in all probability do not know who I'm. I used to be fired from this show some time in the past. Don't look that up, please. Please don't Google that. It's high-quality. Don't even worry about it."
He continued, "I in all probability shouldn't be up here truthfully. I must be at house. I ought to be a highschool soccer coach."
Gillis was hired as a featured participant on SNL in 2019 however was fired four days later after racist and homophobic comments from his podcast resurfaced on-line. SNL noted on the time that they have been unaware of his "offensive" remarks. Gillis additionally launched a press release but did not apologize for his comments.
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"I was all the time a Mad TV man anyway," Gillis quipped in his 2019 statement, referring to the competing sketch comedy program.
On Saturday, Gillis introduced his trademark sense of humor to the Studio 8H stage even when it wasn't camera-ready.
"Look, I don't have any material that may be on TV, alright?" he added in his monologue. "I'm making an attempt my greatest. Also, this place is extraordinarily well-lit. I can see everyone not having fun with it. That is probably the most nervous I've ever been."
Gillis' monologue featured jokes about "being homosexual," his niece with Down syndrome — main him to make use of the R-word — and extra.
"I don't know when you might tell this about me, however I do have relations with Down syndrome," he stated on Saturday. "It virtually obtained me. I dodged it, however it nicked me."
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Gillis then interrupted his personal monologue when it turned clear that his jokes weren't touchdown as meant, but he didn't need applause out of pity. (Gillis thought his joke about how people who have Down syndrome "aren't frightened" concerning the 2024 presidential election would "get a much bigger snigger" than it did.)
"Don't clap now, shut up," he advised audience members. "No, I brought up Down syndrome and also you all the time tell who's by no means been round Down syndrome whenever you deliver it up. … People who have by no means been around it are like, 'Oh,' like, it's the top of the world. 'Are they doing OK?' Like, they're doing higher than everyone I know."
Gillis was joined on Saturday by musical visitor 21 Savage, who performed songs "Ought to've Wore a Bonnet/ Show It" and "Redrum."
Saturday Night time Reside airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.
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