Last night’s Saturday Night Live offered a pretty clear picture of what the show would have been like if Shane Gillis hadn't gotten himself canned for being a loose-lipped bigot.
would be like if Shane Gillis hadn’t gotten himself preemptively canned for being a loose-lipped bigot back in 2019. You know, except that Shane Gillis was actually onin some capacity in 2024. Casting back from tonight’s tiresome outing, the best that could be said of the stand-up and podcaster is that he might have gotten one or two halfway decent sketches on as a featured player in a one-and-donecareer.
As to why Shane Gillis got the big redemption call years after Lorne called the comic’s on-the-record bigotry “offensive, hurtful and unacceptable,” I’ve got a few theories. For one thing, Lorne doesn’t enjoy being questioned. If Gillis, whose comedy Michaels has championed both before and since his abrupt firing, was good enough to be hired in the first place, then Lorne can reassert his authority by having him host.
Michael Longfellow does a passable Rob Lowe, which is good to know. The sketch based on the game show about that floor sees Gillis’ champ taking on a series of challengers whose varying capabilities are intermittently pretty funny. Bowen Yang’s confident contestant chokes upon being asked to identify a glass of milk , his sweaty guesses ranging from “liquid teeth” to the inexplicably hilarious “murk.
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