Posted on 09/16/2019 1:50:53 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
NBC's "Saturday Night Live" has decided not to hire Shane Gillis after offensive remarks from the comedian resurfaced.
"After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL," a spokesperson on behalf of SNL creator Lorne Michaels told BuzzFeed News on Monday "We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as comedian and his impressive audition for SNL."
"We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days," the spokesperson added. "The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable. We are sorry that we did not see these clips earlier, and that our vetting process was not up to our standard."
SNIP
No pepsi, coke. No fries, cheeps!
“We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, except for Shane’s voice and point of view, which violates our policy of maintaining a variety of voices and points of view.”
Maybe he can open for Chappelle and/or Burr.
Colonel Angus?
Yes. Why did the passive, meek American people allow the lie "phobia" to replace the accurate truth of hatred or animosity toward the gays? It has never been fear.
SNL is trash.
Maybe Little Ireland was right next to Chinatown in the old days.
Look at Jimmy Fallon.
They had virtue signaling in the NYT crossword puzzle last week. I don’t know how much longer Will Shortz can keep his job.
i guessing that Dave Chappelle won’t ever be invited back ...
“Lorne Michaels told BuzzFeed News on Monday “We want SNL to have a variety of voices and points of view within the show,”
whatever happened to wanting SNL to be funny? Oh yeah, SNL hasn’t been funny for at least 30 years now: it’s been a leftist political talk show since then ...
PC considerations pretty much guarantee that a genuinely funny person cannot get a job.
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