An American politician connects the Saturday Night Live Shane Gillis controversy to the 2020 U.S. presidential election. We break down the basics.

On September 13th, Saturday Night Live came under fire when it was discovered that one of the new cast members, Shane Gillis, had a long history of making racist, homophobic, and sexist jokes. Gillis lasted less than a week before he was fired, and the major question became why he was hired in the first place beyond a lack of adequate vetting. But it turns out that showrunner Lorne Michaels wasn’t completely ignorant of what Gillis would bring to the table in terms of audience appeal. Sources tell Variety that SNL and “Lorne Michaels were actively looking to cast …

In light of Shane Gillis' firing from SNL for racist statements, several big names have voiced their support for the controversial comedian.

On the latest episode of The Sneider Cut, your esteemed host Jeff Sneider examines J.J. Abrams' mega-deal with WarnerMedia and the possibility that it could lead to him directing a new Superman movie for the studio, as well as Paramount's decision to reboot Face/Off and the curious case of racist comedian Shane Gillis, who was fired from Saturday Night Live on Monday morning. Later in the show, Jeff talks about Paul Feig's monster movie Dark Army and Margot Robbie's Tank Girl remake, as well as Hailee Steinfeld's casting as Kate Bishop in Marvel'…

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 …

NBC's Saturday Night Live parts ways with recently hired cast member Shane Gillis after past racist comments surfaced in the wake of his hiring.

Saturday Night Live's hiring of comedian Shane Gillis has generated controversy due to his recent history of racist and homophobic remarks.

Saturday Night Live announced a trio of new cast members yesterday, but what should have been a joyous event soon turned rather unsettling. Alongside Chloe Fineman and veteran SNL writer Bowen Yang, stand-up Shane Gillis was added to the SNL ensemble, but rather quickly videos of Gillis spouting racist and homophobic remarks started surfacing online. Unlike some “cancelled” comedians or personalities whose distant past comes back to haunt them, some of these clips aren’t even a year old. The first clips to surface came from Gillis’ podcast Matt and Shane’s Secret Podcast, in which Gillis and co-…

New Saturday Night Live cast member Shane Gillis responds to accusations of racism after videos surfaced of his past offensive language.