Bowen Yang Responded To The Claim That He Got Shane Gillis Fired From "SNL"

Back in 2019, Shane was set to join the SNL cast — but four days after his hiring was announced, NBC fired him for racist remarks he'd made on his podcast. "After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joining SNL," a spokesperson on behalf of SNL creator Lorne Michaels said. "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 a comedian and his impressive audition for SNL. We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days. 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."

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