Stand-up comedian Shane Gillis returns to host “Saturday Night Live” five years after he was infamously fired, and he doesn’t shy away from cracking jokes about taboo topics like canning, prompting viewers to “Google it.” Please don’t do it,” he warned.
The controversial funnyman, who was fired from the show before appearing on air, spent much of his monologue talking about his niece, who has Down syndrome.
“My family and I actually opened a coffee shop in our hometown for people with Down syndrome to work in, and that’s how it took off. Don’t Clap!” Gillis said.
“It’s going exactly the way you think it’s going. It’s actually still okay…not because there are a lot of people who are getting good service. Everyone drinks apple juice. We’re trying to solve that problem. I don’t know how to solve it.”
This performance was the first time Gillis, 36, appeared on the show.
Sources told Page Six this week that Gillis had been working on the material at a Big Apple comedy club in the days leading up to the hosting gig and was confident in executing Downs’ material. It is said that
“He is fully committed,” the source reported.
The “Beautiful Dogs” jokester was famously fired from SNL in 2019 for using a racial slur just five days after being hired by NBC.
Starr was canned after a 2018 podcast episode surfaced in which he and other comics used racial slurs against Chinese people. They were impersonating old-fashioned pre-war landowners when they used the phrase, but “SNL” boss Lorne Michaels still did him a favor.
He mentioned that infamous incident and told the audience, “You shouldn’t be here.”
“Most of you don’t know who I am. I was actually fired from this show a while ago, but if you know, please don’t look it up. Don’t Google it,” he said. .
“I’m supposed to be home. I’m supposed to be a high school football coach. That’s how I feel like God perfectly molded me to be a high school football coach, slash, 9th grade sex ed teacher.” ,” Gillis said.
