After days of silence on the matter, Saturday Night Live has officially fired Shane Gillis from the season 45 cast after racist, misogynist, and homophobic comments made by the comedian as recently as 2018 surfaced mere hours after he was announced as a new cast member. SNL's decision to fire Gillis comes after his resurfaced comments spread like wildfire across social media, sparking outrage from people of color — especially the Asian and Asian-American community, who were Gillis' primary targets — on the dangerous precedent his hiring would set in he was allowed to remain in the cast and thus …