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Lorne Michaels got angry when SNL fired Shane Gillis: NBC's decision

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Lorne Michaels got angry when SNL fired Shane Gillis: NBC's decision

Lorne Michaels told the Wall Street Journal he was “angry” when Shane Gillis was fired from “Saturday Night Live” in 2019 after offensive jokes he made on a podcast resurfaced online, including ones containing racial slurs about Asians. “He said something stupid, but it got blown up until the end of the world,” Michaels said. […]

“NBC has called for Shane Gillis to be fired from 'SNL,'” says Lorne Michaels

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“NBC has called for Shane Gillis to be fired from 'SNL,'” says Lorne Michaels

Lorne Michaels has spoken out again about the decision to fire Shane Gillis Saturday Night Live before he ever took the Studio 8H stage. Gillis was fired in September 2019 ahead of the long-running NBC show's 45th season. At the time it seemed to be a decision by creator Michaels, but in a new interview […]