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Lorne Michaels reflects on Shane Gillis
Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels thinks everyone made too big a deal over Shane Gillis' controversial past. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the producer-turned-mogul reflected ...
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Lorne Michaels maintains that Shane Gillis would have been good for Saturday Night Live
It’s been a big week for Shane Gillis, and he didn’t even have to lift a finger for it. Earlier this week, he was featured as a supporting player in The New Yorker‘s profile of Bowen Yang ...
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Bud Light smartly tapped Shane Gillis for ads — the latest brand doing post-DEI damage control
After being hired and quickly fired by “Saturday Night Live” in 2019, Shane Gillis was tapped to host it this past February. Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images It’s also poignant that Gillis ...
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Bowen Yang Says Shane Gillis Called To Apologize For Past Offensive Jokes Right Before He Was Fired From ‘SNL’
where he found himself making headlines alongside the likes of Dave Chappelle and Shane Gillis. Yang and Gillis joined the cast of SNL at the same time in 2019, but Gillis was abruptly fired ...
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Lorne Michaels reflects on Shane Gillis “SNL” casting backlash: 'The overreaction to it was so stunning'
"We had a bad time when I added Shane Gillis to the cast [in 2019]," Michaels said. "He got beat up for things that he’d done years earlier [racist and homophobic jokes] and the overreaction to ...